Luca Missoni

Published in a run of 15 copies, this collector’s edition includes the book Moon Atlas and a digital archival print, printed on Harman paper in semi-matte finish laminated on an aluminum sheet. The print is titled Moonshadow 005/V (2019); it measures 12.5 x 15.7 inches, and is signed and numbered by Luca Missoni.

Artistic director of the Missoni Archive, Luca Missoni (born 1956) has always cultivated a great passion for the moon. His interest in this celestial body originated in childhood when he began to explore the surface with a small telescope, back in the 1960s when space programs made the first lunar explorations possible. Subsequently, this passion led him to photograph the ever-changing appearance of the moon in a rigorous, almost scientific fashion, while, over the years, also pursuing his own artistic project.

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Luca Missoni (born 1956), artistic director of the Missoni Archive, has been infatuated with the moon since childhood, observing it through a telescope and collecting maps and books about the moon, and, over the past 20 years, incorporating it into his artistic research as a photographer.

Moon Atlas is structured in two sections: a photographic study of the moon in each of its phases, followed by playful renderings of the moon in various colors and compositions, highlighting the tension between the bright visible face and the hidden dark side.

The result is Missoni's personal interpretation of our closest heavenly body, a journey through his lifelong appreciation of Earth's satellite and a beautiful book capturing the obsession of artists throughout history from the perspective of a seasoned eye.