The book is a restitution of the Electryone project, which was presented at the Design Biennale Zurich 2023. Electryone is a solar cooking device for gatherings that invites to engage with energy production. (It rotates alongside the sun path, stays beneath it, harnesses the sunrays, reflects them concentrated onto a focal point and converts the rays to heat.) In collaboration with the project participants, we developed a visual narrative that gradually unveils the construction process and its functioning, elucidated through texts and images within the fold-out poster.
Authors of the project:
ALIAS, Arnaud Bostelmann, COMTE/MEUWLY, Lewis Horkulak, Kitchuan, Nicolas König, Pierre Marmy, Ansgar Stadler
Project developed in the context of the 2023 Design Biennale Zurich, with performative cooking events by Kitchuan, exhibited at Modern Animals gallery Zurich
Texts:
Electryone, by Marine de Dardel
A simple instrument to capture the energy of the Sun, by Dr. Baptiste J. Frei (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany)
Images:
Arnaud Bostelmann, Pierre Marmy, authors of the project
Editing:
Altana, Arnaud Bostelmann, Pierre Marmy
Book and graphic design:
Altana
14,6 x 29,2 cm, 64 pages, Spiral binding with fold-out poster
Printed in 200 copies
ISBN 979-12-210-4801-8
Altana was born in 2018 in Venice after the encounter between Francesco Paleari, Elia Pinna and Francesco Villa. It’s meant to be a place for conversations and exchange around photography, genuinely dedicated to authorial research and care for editorial projects. Altana refuses to be labeled but rather prefers the dynamism of an evolving hybrid studio.
Altana is not a publisher, it is not a physical place and either a concept. Altana is a flying carpet made of wood from which you can enjoy a new perspective through photography.
You can find our publications here: Micamera, Milano / Marsèll Paradise, Milano / Choisi, Lugano / Leporello, Roma / Tenoha, Milano / Tipi, Brussels / Corraini 121+, Milano / Studio Faganel, Gorizia