{"product_id":"guido-argentini-eros","title":"Guido Argentini: Eros","description":"The work of Guido Argentini has been evolving from his very first book, Silvereye, through the following four books until this latest project:  Eros. From the abstract  bodies coated with silver paint to the eroticism of Private Rooms and Reflections, the need of telling stories has become more and more urgent for Argentini. The images  of  Eros are only suggesting stories to the viewers. The use of the diptych, two images paired together, an image of a woman and a photograph of a landscape or a still life  helps to create a narrative. \n\nThese stories are still and silent; they have no voice and no  soundtrack. The stories are only told by the emotions of their characters. Each woman is  dreaming and, at the same time, we, the viewers are dreaming of each woman depicted  in the book. Imaginary women, imaginary places combined together with the magic of color that become, in this last project, a major creative tool for Argentini. \n\nFlipping  through the pages, we jump from antique palaces in Italy, to urban landscapes in Japan, to the desert of California. A Japanese lady is standing in a garage in Tokyo, screaming  on the phone to her lover that is lying in bed in his flat in a building overlooking the Chao Phraya River in the night of Bangkok; A girl wearing a curly vintage wig inside an abandoned motor home in the California desert is holding a barbie doll that someone left behind a long time ago. A brunette with blue eyes is looking out of a car window  thinking of her loved one that just left on a plane. An old Italian theatre with empty red  velvet chairs on the left and a young girl wearing a red dress lying in an empty pool at  night in the Arizona desert on the right side. \n\nAs it always happens for a still photograph,  it can only suggest a story. It is only a single frame from a movie. Every viewer will make  his own film, will make up his own soundtrack and will choose a different beginning and  a different end, creating his own story.","brand":"Damiani","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39655373439061,"sku":"9788862086325N","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/a652df0d-6600-46c0-8786-c9851d609113.jpg?v=1644280175","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/guido-argentini-eros","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}