UNFOLDED WAYS

Unfolded Ways. Rome as Never Read Before

Unfolded Ways. Rome as Never Read Before is a contemporary art volume curated by Valentino Catricalà, offering a fresh and multifaceted perspective on Rome.

A visual and literary journey in 25 stages, where photography, literature, and contemporary art converge to reveal a new image of the Eternal City—suspended between memory and vision.

Presented in an elegant coffee table edition, the book combines curated content with striking visual impact, designed to be browsed, shared, and experienced as both a piece of design and a narrative masterpiece.

Curated by Valentino Catricalà, Unfolded Ways. Rome as Never Read Before is a contemporary art volume and a visual-literary journey in 25 stages, where photography, literature, and contemporary art converge to present a new vision of Rome.

Each stage of the book is marked by a work created by 25 international artists — Franco Angeli, José Angelino, Matteo Basilé, Elisabetta Benassi, Silvia Camporesi, Paolo Canevari, Gea Casolaro, Christo, Iginio De Luca, Rä di Martino, Tano Festa, Bill Fontana, Nancy Genn, Auriea Harvey, Anaïs Horn, H.H. Lim, Renato Mambor, Vincenzo Marsiglia, Mimmo Paladino, Vettor Pisani, Quayola, Marinella Senatore, Federico Solmi, Mauro Staccioli, Helen Tóth — each offering a unique and unexpected visual interpretation of the city.

Guiding the reader is a selection of literary texts spanning eras and cultures, creating a compelling dialogue between image and written word.

The volume also features the original project by the artist collective Squary Eyes, who created the Red Theatre: a sculptural installation made of 25 paper theatres, each reproducing at a 1:100 scale the stage dimensions of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Fragments of this work are embedded in the book, animating it with a surreal, pop-inflected paper world where the city transforms into an urban fairytale.

Unfolded Ways is an immersive experience—a book to read, to view, and to journey through with the imagination.

Presented in an elegant coffee table book edition alongside the numbered art version, Unfolded Ways celebrates the 25th anniversary of D’ORO Collection, reaffirming the maison’s role as a benchmark in fine Italian publishing.

Unfolded Ways is an invitation to rediscover the Eternal City with fresh eyes, page after page. A book that, like Rome itself, is never truly finished, but rewrites itself with every reading.