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== Domitilla Sartogo ==
== Domitilla Sartogo ==

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Domitilla Sartogo graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the [[Cooper Union]] School of Art, New York. She has been the executive director of Drago since 2004. She previously worked as a graphic designer for the [[Richard Avedon]] Studio, as a talent scout and director of photography for [[Fabrica research centre|Fabrica]], the [[Benetton Group]] Center of Communications, as a professor of editorial design at the [[Parsons School of Design]] and as communications director for Borbonese, an Italian fashion brand where she also curated its fashion shows. She has acted as the executive director of the Florence Biennale of Fashion and Cinema, with seven exhibitions focusing on the relationship between film and fashion that brought together set, costume, and fashion designers from around the world.
Domitilla Sartogo graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the [[Cooper Union]] School of Art, New York. She has been the executive director of Drago since 2004. She previously worked as a graphic designer for the [[Richard Avedon]] Studio, as a talent scout and director of photography for [[Fabrica research centre|Fabrica]], the [[Benetton Group]] Center of Communications, as a professor of editorial design at the [[Parsons School of Design]] and as communications director for Borbonese, an Italian fashion brand where she also curated its fashion shows. She has acted as the executive director of the Florence Biennale of Fashion and Cinema, with seven exhibitions focusing on the relationship between film and fashion that brought together set, costume, and fashion designers from around the world.




== Selected books ==
== Selected books ==

Revision as of 16:49, 4 July 2019

DRAGO
Founded2001
FounderPaulo von Vacano
Country of originItaly
Headquarters locationRome
DistributionMessaggerie Italiane SPA (Italy)
Ingram Publisher Services (North America)
Vice Versa Art Books (Germany)
Interart (France)
Turnaround Publisher Services (UK)[1]
Publication typesBooks
Nonfiction topicsArt
Official websitewww.dragopublisher.com

Drago (stylised as DRAGO) is an independent international publishing house of contemporary art based in Rome, Italy.[2][3][4] The company specialises in street and urban art[5] and has published the works of street photographers, street artists and graffiti writers from around the world. It is frequently involved in exhibitions of contemporary art and acts as the official publisher for various galleries, museums and institutions.[2]

Overview

Drago was founded in 2001 by Paulo Lucas von Vacano as publisher,[3][4] following years working as an Italian-German journalist and president of the Castelvecchi Publishing Company, Posse of Antonio Negri and Aspenia Magazine of The Aspen Institute.[6] He was joined by Domitilla Sartogo as executive director[5] and Nicola Veccia Scavalli as art director.

In the same year, the company published its first book, Brice Marden's Brice Marden: Opere Su Carta 1964-2001[7][8] which was followed by the publication of Ed Templeton's The Golden Age of Neglect in 2002. As well as selling out quickly,[9] this title became the professional skateboarder's best-known book.[10] More recently, Drago's books have included Miss Van's Wild at Heart; Estevan Oriol's LA Woman[11][12] and Boogie's Ah Wah do Dem, a book that received a score of 9.6/10 in a recent Street Hunters review.[13] Among other notable books is Letizia Battaglia’s Anthology, which has been mentioned on CNN,[14] BBC News,[15] The Wall Street Journal[16] and The Daily Beast.[17]

Drago has worked alongside many exhibitors of contemporary art. As the publisher of The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, it has been in charge of all publications for exhibitions and artists-in-residence[2] and published many books with its director and art historian, Eric de Chassey.[18] Elsewhere, the company has collaborated with the Outdoor Festival in Rome to produce a five-year catalogue of their exhibitions[19] and the Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome to create a trilogy of books documenting over three years of exhibitions dedicated to the Lowbrow art movement.[20][21] Among other clients are Nike, The L'Orèal Group, Danesi, The City of Rome, 55DSL, Alcatel and Bulgari.

Drago's most recent project has been an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. Curated by Paulo Lucas von Vacano and Christian Omodeo, Cross the Streets recounts 40 years of street art and graffiti writing in Rome and beyond. It hosts 200 artworks from a number of artists ranging from Shepard Fairey to DAIM including some that came to the museum specifically to produce artwork for the exhibition.[22]

Drago has published 112 titles, of which 12 have sold out.

Paulo von Vacano

Paulo Lucas von Vacano is an Italian-German publisher based in Rome who founded Drago in 2002. A former journalist, he contributed to several international magazines and newspapers. He then served as president of the Castelvecchi Publishing Company where he produced 500 books and several magazines, including Toni Negri’s Posse and Aspenia Magazine (of The Aspen Institute).[2][3]

As founder of Drago Publishing, he has curated several exhibitions, including “Cross The Streets” at the MACRO in 2017, which exhibited artists such as Shepard Fairey aka Obey the Giant, Estevan Oriol, Invader, Evol, Boogie, WK Interact, Lee Quinones, and Fab 5 Freddy.[23]

Other exhibitions he has curated include "Angel of Decay" by Ed Templeton, "Via Crucis" by the artist Andrès Serrano "Kennedy: the family, values, history", the biggest European exhibition on the Kennedy family at the Temple of Hadrian (Rome).[2] [3]

Since 2014 Paulo Lucas von Vacano has been a share-holder of the Audaces Foundation, an international non-profit organization that provides educational platforms and on-site interventions to provide innovative solutions to global societal and environmental challenges[2].

Domitilla Sartogo

Domitilla Sartogo graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Cooper Union School of Art, New York. She has been the executive director of Drago since 2004. She previously worked as a graphic designer for the Richard Avedon Studio, as a talent scout and director of photography for Fabrica, the Benetton Group Center of Communications, as a professor of editorial design at the Parsons School of Design and as communications director for Borbonese, an Italian fashion brand where she also curated its fashion shows. She has acted as the executive director of the Florence Biennale of Fashion and Cinema, with seven exhibitions focusing on the relationship between film and fashion that brought together set, costume, and fashion designers from around the world.

Selected books

Book series

2007: 36 Chambers. Inspired by the film The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, the series features 17 books from a diverse range of contemporary artists including Nick Walker, Mike Giant and Ivory Serra.[24][25] For many of these artists, including Nick Walker, their contribution to the series was their first ever book.[26]

Exhibitions

Drago exhibitions

Exhibition catalogues

References

  1. ^ "Contacts | DRAGO - International publishing house of contemporary art". Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Linford, Sarah (2015). ""S.AGE" – Dionysiac Creativity in the Age of Decadence Paulo Lucas Von Vacano Drago". ABA International Lecture Series. Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma.
  3. ^ a b c d Hammond, Drew (2011). "The King of Kool: Why Paulo von Vacano, founder of the art publishing house, Drago, thinks that street art already is the next big thang". Vol. 1, no. 8. The Art Economist. pp. 46–50.
  4. ^ a b Salmeron, François. "Paulo Lucas von Vacano, La Street Photography Ouvre Les Portes de la Perception". Fisheye Magazine.
  5. ^ a b "Notes" (PDF). atCooper. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. 2011. Domitilla Sartogo (A'90) is the Executive Director and Cofounder of Drago, an independent art publishing house based in Rome, Italy, that focuses on contemporary and urban art and produces exhibition catalogues and artist monographs
  6. ^ "Paulo von Vacano - Audaces Impact". Audaces Impact. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  7. ^ Pratesi, Ludovico (December 14, 2001). "Brice Marden 40 anni d' arte Usa in settanta disegni". la Repubblica. (catalogo Drago)
  8. ^ "Brice Marden, a cura di Mario Codognato". Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. 2001. Catalogo prodotto da Trolley e pubblicato in Italia da Drago
  9. ^ Craig, Jonnie. "Books You Should Own". HUH. Magazine. If you want this book you should get yourself a copy on Amazon right now as it's becoming scarcer by the minute.
  10. ^ Fordham, Michael (April 10, 2016). "Long Read: Ed Templeton's Suburban Scenes". Huck Magazine. That book, Golden Age of Neglect, remains his best-known, besides the biographical Deformer of 2008.
  11. ^ Recinos, Erwin (November 18, 2013). "L.A. Taco Interview with Estevan Oriol". L.A. Taco. my publisher was blown away by the fan base buying up all the copies. We ended up selling out and tripped and said lets do the next book.
  12. ^ "BIO". Estevan Oriol. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  13. ^ Sweigart, Andrew (2016-06-08). "Boogie's 'A Wah Do Dem'". Street Hunters. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
  14. ^ CNN, Barbie Latza Nadeau, for. "Italy's bloody battle with the Mafia". CNN. Retrieved 2017-01-26. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ "In pictures: Framing the Mafia". BBC News. 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  16. ^ 'Anthology', John Hooper | Photos by Letizia Battaglia Captions from the Book (2016-11-18). "Mafia Mayhem at a Museum". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  17. ^ Nadeau, Barbie Latza (2016-09-24). "One Woman Took on the Mafia with just a Camera". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  18. ^ Hammond, Drew (2011). "The Art Economist Interview: Éric de Chassey". Vol. 1, no. 8. The Art Economist. p. 50. As the author of many other books and exhibition catalogues, and the curator of numerous exhibitions, he also frequently has published with Drago.
  19. ^ ""Outdoor Urban Art Festival". Street artist internazionali e musica a Roma". La Gazzetta dello Sport - Tutto il rosa della vita (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  20. ^ "Events of Dorothy Circus Gallery during Rome Art Week". Rome Art Week. Dorothy Circus Gallery publishes many catalogues of its shows. Some of them edited by Drago Publishing and distributed all over the world.
  21. ^ "Gallery Spotlight: Interview with Alexandra Mazzanti of Dorothy Circus Gallery". Hi-Fructose Magazine. 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  22. ^ a b widewalls. "Cross the Streets - MACRO Museum Rome Salutes the Street Art Movement". WideWalls. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  23. ^ "'Cross the Streets' al Macro di Roma, per storicizzare Writing e Street Art". Adnkronos. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  24. ^ "Nick Walker "A Sequence of Events" at Black Rat (London) : Brooklyn Street Art". www.brooklynstreetart.com. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  25. ^ "Sulla coda del drago di Francesca Bonazzoli su Urban". 1995-2015.undo.net (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  26. ^ "Nick Walker "A Sequence of Events"". Highsnobiety. 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  27. ^ "La foto 'sacre' di Andres Serrano il Caravaggio dei tempi moderni Milano fino al 19 novembre 2011". professione-fotografia.blogspot.it. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  28. ^ "La mostra "Angel of decay"". www.architettiroma.it. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  29. ^ "Paulo Lucas von Vacano – Drago | RomaProvinciaCreativa". www.romaprovinciacreativa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  30. ^ "The Collection - Museum The Kennedys". www.thekennedys.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  31. ^ "ozmo - Ozmo web site". www.ozmo.it. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  32. ^ "Roma: City Slang - The Street Comes To The Gallery". www.lasciailsegno.it. 2007-09-06. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
  33. ^ "Dalek + Mike Giant Galerie Magda Danysz Paris". 1995-2015.undo.net (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  34. ^ http://www.exibart.com. "fino al 6.VI.2010 - I Mutanti - Roma, Villa Medici". Exibart. Retrieved 2017-01-20. catalogo drago {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  35. ^ "A Villa Medici Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Ellsworth Kelly". Il Faro Online. 2010-06-30. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  36. ^ Biasi, Vittoria. "Inside The Europunk Exhibition. The Punk Cultural Vision In Europe During The Year 1976-80 | French Academy In Rome, Villa Medici". 1F Media Project. The exhibition EUROPUNK will be accompanied by a catalogue published in three languages (French, Italian and English) by Drago, with essays by Éric de Chassey, Jon Savage, and Jerry Goossens, complemented by facsimiles of fanzines and hundreds of images.
  37. ^ "Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Lo sguardo non mente: "E tu, sei felice?"". www.vanityfair.it. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
  38. ^ "Vandalog – A Viral Art and Street Art Blog  » "Wild At Heart" a Miss Van solo show". blog.vandalog.com. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  39. ^ "Jean-Marc Bustamante a Villa Medici". Provincia di Roma. Sarà accompagnata da un catalogo edito dalla DRAGO con testi di Éric de Chassey e di Jean-Marc Bustamante.
  40. ^ "Israel now [reinventing the future] |". www.glocalproject.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-01-19.
  41. ^ Corp., absolutearts.com, World Wide Arts Resources,. "June 22nd "Les Bains, artists residency" Exhibition + Book - absolutearts.com". www.absolutearts.com. Retrieved 2017-01-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  42. ^ "Magda Danysz : Les Bains – Résidence d'Artistes". Thomas Canto (in French). 2013-06-25. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
  43. ^ "Sean Scully: Change & Horizontals" (PDF). Embassy of the United States of America.
  44. ^ "Europunk alla Cité de la Musique". www.villamedici.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-01-19. La mostra è accompagnata da un catalogo edito dalla casa editrice Drago.
  45. ^ "Hantai Imprevisible". Air France Magazine. April 2014. p. 42.
  46. ^ Napoli, Comune di. "Comune di Napoli - Shepard Fairey. #OBEY". www.comune.napoli.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  47. ^ "Japanese tradition and digital art on show at the Dorothy Circus Gallery - Rome Central Magazine, city on the web". www.romecentral.com. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  48. ^ Sweigart, Andrew (23 December 2016). "Press release: Letizia Battaglia's 'Just for passion'". Street Hunter. StreetHunter. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  49. ^ "Letizia Battaglia. Just for passion". MAXXI. Fondazione MAXXI. Retrieved 16 January 2017.

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