Aristocratica: A New Domestic Landscape.

Il paesaggio domestico tra video, progetto e immagine negli anni Ottanta.

Authors

  • Veronica Bassini Università di Genova

Keywords:

Landscape, Italian Design, Videoart, Eighties, Postmodernity

Abstract

The following contribution aims to analyze the construction of the domestic landscape through the case study of the music video Aristocratica by Matia Bazar. The video brings together the creative inputs of Studio Alchimia (set design), Metamorfosi (video and computer graphics), and Occhiomagico (cover design and art direction).
The analogy between landscape and domestic space draws upon the seminal exhibition Italy: The New Domestic Landscape (MoMA, New York, 1972), as well as Contemporary Landscape (Tokyo, 1985), where Alessandro Mendini presented the same Mobili Infiniti featured in the video.
Through the visual experimentation of Metamorfosi, the domestic landscape becomes a site of reflection on the relationship between body and environment, interior and exterior, nature and artificiality.

Author Biography

Veronica Bassini, Università di Genova

Veronica Bassini is a typographer, fine-art printer, and art historian. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Milan and a diploma in fine-art printing from the Scuola Civica del Castello Sforzesco in Milan. She is the founder of Anonima Impressori, a workshop devoted to traditional letterpress printing and the preservation of Italian typographic heritage.She is a PhD candidate in Contemporary Art History at the University of Genoa, where she teaches History of Graphic Design and History of Art as an adjunct lecturer. Her research focuses on, print culture, and the material history of publishing, with particular attention to editorial materials produced by private art galleries between 1960 and 1980. Her publications include the monograph Qui non c’è niente da leggere. Libri d’artista dagli archivi genovesi (2023). She has also curated exhibitions on the relationship between art and publishing, including The Artist and the Book: From Rodin to Picasso (2024) and In the Studio of Pipein Gamba: Images of Fin-de-Siècle Genoa (2025).

Published

15-12-2025

How to Cite

Bassini, V. (2025). Aristocratica: A New Domestic Landscape. : Il paesaggio domestico tra video, progetto e immagine negli anni Ottanta . Elephant & Castle, (36), 63–73. Retrieved from https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/586

Issue

No. 36 (2026): Raccontare il paesaggio

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Articoli

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