LastStraw – Mostra e Live Acustico

Curated by Leonardo Maltese and acoustic live performance by angelosulserio

Last Straw it combines graphics and music to tell contemporary stories through posters and playlists, involving artists and authors from all over Italy. It is a project conceived and curated by the Sicilian graphic designer Leonardo Malteseevery year a new theme becomes the starting point for exploring intimate and universal themes, through a open call aimed at designers, visual artists and creatives. This year's keyword: break every limit, an invitation to overcome barriers, to get rid of inner blocks and give voice to one's vision.

Friday 26th September from 19:30 onwards we look forward to seeing you at Abadir for the exhibition of the 40 selected posters, a series of posters that recount gestures of rebellion, liberation and creation; and for the live performance by the singer-songwriter angelosulserio with original and unreleased tracks, and for the presentation of the Issue #03 of Last Straw, the independent publishing project that gathers and showcases the contributions of each edition.

To enrich the evening there will also be three signature drink Signed Circus.

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Selected designers

Samuele Agrusa ∙ Gabriele Aliotta ∙ Stefano Ardemagni ∙ Nora Arnone ∙ Federica Bistoletti ∙ Marco Bitto ∙ Marica Bombace ∙ Marika Campanella ∙ Sara Cardone ∙ Emanuel Chiarandà ∙ Arianna Cittadini ∙ Melissa Cogliati ∙ Paolo Costanza ∙ Marco Crimi ∙ Mariapaola D’Alì ∙ Emanuele Dallera ∙ Eva De Cao and Asia Vignozzi ∙ Antonella Depalma ∙ Maria Paola Di Bella ∙ Camilla Di Nardo ∙ Angela Ferrotti ∙ Maurizio Giordano ∙ Federico Grasso ∙ Alberto Lauria ∙ Chiara Lombardo ∙ Massimo Macchi ∙ Alessandra Mastroeni ∙ Mr. Peppe Occhipinti, Michela Padula, Gabriel Pisano, Simona Pulino, Gabriele Ragusa, Gaia Raniolo, Chiara Riva ∙ Asia Sabatelli ∙ Fabio Scap ∙ Giacomo Taccola ∙ Roberta Trapani ∙ Emiliano Zingale ∙ Marica Zappalà

Unpublished projects

After Studio ∙ Katania Studio ∙ Paradigma ∙ Studio Fare ∙ Studio Glart ∙ Studio Magla ∙ Studio Selvatico ∙ The Ragusaner ∙ The Wave

LEONARDO MALTESE

Leonardo Maltese (Ragusa, 1996) is a visual designer who has found in graphic design and visual communication the tools to tell the story of everyday emotions and suggestions. His research moves between paper and digital, where forms and symbols become traces of shared memories and experiences.

Last Straw it is a direct manifestation of this approach: a project that weaves together music and design to transform every track into a small fragment of life. A collective and constantly evolving journey, built with simplicity and curiosity, which seeks new connections between people through images and sounds.

ANGELOSULSERIO

Angelo Sciuto was born in Catania in 1995 and grew up partly here and partly in Milan, where he lost himself in philosophical studies and delved into the indispensable art of mise en place. The music moves to the second, third, fourth and fifth floor, creating a quite remarkable building of priorities and duties where an inordinate amount of passions and drawers full of dreams coexist, at least 7 for each floor for a total of 35 drawers and a “y” quantity of passions.

To this day he is proud to teach, naturally as a supply teacher, in a primary school where he encounters one of the finest jobs one can do to scrape a living: the “story-teacher”. Not a single album released, no dematerialised trace here and there, just a small pile of songs to tell his story when the context allows and 35 drawers with “x” dreams inside. 35(x-1) since he achieved the one of teaching 6-year-old children to read and write.