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Since 2020, Villa Medici’s art history department has been collaborating with Éditions Macula to co-publish the art history journal Studiolo. As part of this partnership, the publishing house was invited to Rome to present its work.
Founded in 1980, Éditions Macula specializes in the anthropology of images, publishing both the great classics of the discipline and the work of contemporary French and foreign researchers. Since 2010, the company has been run by Véronique Yersin , who, along with the collection directors, has opened up the catalog to literature, photography, fine books and cinema. The visual identity and graphic design of the books are provided by the Geneva office Schaffter Sahli.
Éditions Macula
Thursday, November 24, 2022
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Salle Michel Piccoli, Villa Médicis
Free event. Advance booking required
Véronique Yersin
Véronique Yersin trained as an art historian. A specialist in Albert Skira’s Minotaure magazine, she worked at the Cabinet des Estampes in Geneva for ten years. Since 2010, she has been managing director of the Macula publishing house.
Philippe-Alain Michaud
Philosopher and art historian Philippe-Alain Michaud is particularly interested in the relationship between film and art history. Curator in charge of the film department at the Centre Georges Pompidou, he is also professor at the École de recherche graphique (ERG – École Supérieure des Arts) in Brussels. His publications include Aby Warburg et l’Image en mouvement (Paris, Macula, 1998); Le Peuple des images (Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2002); Filme: Por Uma Teoria Expandida do Cinema (Rio, Contraponto, 2014).
→ Books to discover from Éditions Macula:
– Philippe-Alain Michaud, Georges Didi-Huberman, Aby Warburg, Aby Warburg and the Moving Image
– Philippe-Alain Michaud, On film
– Philippe-Alain Michaud, Âmes primitives, Figures of film, plush and paperJoanna Schaffter and Vincent Sahli
Joanna Schaffter and Vincent Sahli founded their Geneva-based design studio in 2005, specializing in visual identity and book design. They collaborate notably with HEAD (Haute École d’Art et de Design de Genève) and Macula Editions, dedicated to books on theory and visual art. In 2017, for The Anti-Museum. An anthology by Mathieu Copeland and Balthazar Lovay that the studio won an award in the Most Beautiful Swiss Books competition.
Nathalie Koble
Nathalie Koble is a lecturer at the École normale supérieure (Paris) and the École polytechnique (Palaiseau), where she teaches French language and literature of the Middle Ages. Her work focuses on the inventive memory of medieval literature (poetry and fiction), and on the translation and practice of poetry. Recent publications include Drôles de Valentines. The poetic tradition of Valentine’s Day Geneva, Héros-Limite, 2016; with Mireille Séguy, Lais bretons. Marie de France and her contemporaries , Paris, Champion, 2018 and Jacques Roubaud médiéviste (dir.), Paris, Champion, 2018 ; Donner suite. Les Suites du Merlin en prose: readers’ novels Paris, Champion, 2020.→ Éditions Macula:
– Nathalie Koble, Tiphaine Samoyault, Get out of here!Hugues Reip
Born in 1964, Hugues Reip lives and works in Paris. A versatile artist, graphic designer, video maker, photographer and sculptor, he strives to bring out unusual and surprising aspects of an object, place or situation.
→ Books to discover from Éditions Macula:
Hugues Reip, Rodolphe Burger, Vinciane Despret, Wonderama
