Description
Fine art print of illustration “A Incrível Viagem das Plantas 01” part of the book “A Incrível Viagem das Plantas”, by Mariana Zanetti, partnership with Stefano Mancuso
The work is sent inside a rigid folder handcrafted specifically for it.
Dimensions: 42 x 24 cm
Series of 20
About the book
In this brief and entertaining book, award-winning Italian neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso – author of Revolução das Plantas (Ubu Editora, 2019) and A Planta do Mundo (Ubu Editora, 2021), and guest at Flip 2021 – brings together a series of surprising stories about something that we do not usually, mistakenly, associate with plants: movement.
Just like human beings, plants also migrate around the world, and often for the same reasons as we do: to ensure their survival or to discover new forms of life, to transform themselves or to transform other beings, or simply to inhabit other spaces, mobilized by chance and “curiosity”.
In a unique hybrid writing style between science and literature, Mancuso presents narratives about plants that convince animals to carry them from one place to another; plants that, instead of depending on other beings, have learned to roll down hillsides, fly with the wind or even swim in rivers and seas; plants that have withstood atomic disasters and the ravages of time; plants that have developed incredibly versatile fruits.
Whatever the story, the reader of The Incredible Journey of Plants will be taken to a reality in which plants and human beings are revealed to be similar and complementary – our own reality, through the eyes of the excellent Stefano Mancuso.
Publisher/seal: Ubu
exhibition Sem Palavras
The documentary series “Sem Palavras”, which premiered on Canal Arte 1 in March 2025, brings together 13 of the most prominent artists in Brazilian illustrated books. On the occasion of this premiere, we held an event at the gallery, when we began to exhibit and sell works by all these illustrators.
About the artist
MARIANA ZANETTI is an illustrator with a degree in architecture and urban planning from the University of São Paulo. Her work includes illustration and writing aimed at children, posters, mural painting, and editorial work for newspapers and magazines. She has also done illustrations for animations and card games on a more specific basis. Some of the publishers she has worked with include Ubu, VR editora, Companhia das Letrinhas, FTD, and the now-defunct Cosac Naify. Her mural paintings have been featured on the walls of SESC and the Coruchéus Library in Lisbon. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Jabuti award, and her works have been exhibited at international fairs, such as Fumetto [Lucerne, Switzerland] and the Bratislava Biennial [Slovakia], and in group exhibitions, including Contemporary Brazilian Illustrators, at the Struwwelpeter-Museum [Frankfurt am Main, Germany]. Her book The Lion and the Star received the "Highly Recommended" seal from the National Foundation for Children's and Young Adult Literature and her books have been included in the Bologna Catalogue several times.
At the beginning of her career, she was a member and producer of the illustration collective Charivari and participated in ten publications with them, until moving to Berlin in 2013, where she lived for seven years. She currently lives and works in São Paulo.
About Fine Art Printing
These are those created with techniques and materials that use the most rigorous criteria today to achieve an impression with museum longevity.
The papers are 100% cotton. The inks, which are made of mineral pigments, are not soluble in water, therefore they do not fade. And the color fidelity, by using RGB, is much greater than common printing.
A work printed in fine art, therefore, deserves to be signed and numbered, and can last a lifetime.
