My playbill, designed for the exhibition dedicated to the restoration of the original plaster cast of Cupid and Psyche, is inspired by Giambattista Bodoni’s typographic construction, being constructed with enormous rigor, linking every piece of information between it thus allowing not only a continuous top-down reading but also a visual reading between the linked elements. The typographic construction prevails over the playbill, leaving room for only one decoration. In fact, behind the lettering we find the sculpture of Cupid and Psyche, which appears pure, shrouded in a light mist, as if appearing to us in a dream, thus not taking away importance or legibility from the text but complementing it. In the center, the typographic aesthetic opens up, leaving room for the symbolic kiss between Cupid and Psyche. A golden railing encloses, and embellishes, the whole.
The whole subsequently was constructed and typeset for printing.
- Alessandro Arese Visconti