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FACE IT!

Andrea Ponsi, Metilene edizioni, San Francisco, 2015

For over twenty years, while sitting on the phone in his architecture studio, Andrea Ponsi has been drawing on Post-it notes faces of characters born from his prolific imagination.

Thousands of portraits, sometimes in a meticulous style reminiscent of Honoré Daumier or Francisco Goya, other times sketched like the caricatures of Al Hirschfeld or Ralph Steadman. They are the faces of a human comedy that he observes around him and that settle on these small yellow squares.

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“Architect, designer, painter, writer, Andrea Ponsi has always considered drawing his favorite activity. Perhaps because he is Italian, he finds it difficult to talk without gesturing, or at least keeping his hands moving, even when on the telephone while working at his desk. As if driven by an irresistible force, he then takes a pen or pencil, reaches for a pad of Post-its, and begins to draw faces, each one different, each one invented on the spot. This book shows the results of this harmless obsession: about twenty-five hundred faces selected from more than twenty thousand drawn on yellow Post-its over the course of the past twenty years.”