FRANCESCO DIPIERRO —— Basketball Hoops

Basketball Hoops

Ball don't lie.

Art direction, editorial design and photography
Self published, vienna, 2023

Volume 1

Edition of 150

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"A freshly cut lawn, cars sleep on the driveways. Sometimes a quiet street, other times the noise of a narrow hood. Hedges hide houses and gardens, wooden fences separate the space into clusters. Metal gates protect the land, trees draw stretched shadows on the ground. What is private, what is public? Blocks of concrete, white bags with sand, asphalt painted on with lines of chalk. Cotton nets are neat, sometimes colourful. Metal ones sound better. Backboards with no rim, bent rims with no net. A black plastic box hangs from a wood panel, a tire is pinned to a tree, a white ring is screwed into a brick wall." (BBH, prologue, page 3)

(from BBH, prologue, page 3)

The basketball hoop represents the pivot around which this romantic research revolves. Like an atlas, the book presents a collection of photographs from places around the world, taken directly on-site by the artist or his friends, and with the help of Google Earth Pro. With the obsessive repetition of the subject, the aim is to recreate a space where feelings of joy, freedom, and belonging were experienced while playing basketball. Like an echoing voice that slowly dissolves, the image of the basketball hoop repeats itself until it transcends its recreational function and becomes an idealised space of our imagination.

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Pics:
Nicholas Allio, Francesco Dipierro, Cristopher Ghioldi, Nicola Lorini, Claudia Murer, Amelie Schlemmer, Camilla Soldati, Andreas Umdash, Michael Wittman, Márton Zalka + GEP (Google Earth Pro)

Print:
Offset and digital print
Edition of 150
@0816—Vienna

font in use:

Zaklad by Szymon Sznajder

Editorial New by Mathieu Desjardins (via Pangram Pangram)

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