Issue of "Senzacornice è una rivista online di arte contemporanea e critica" magazine

Senzacornice is a digital journal of contemporary art and criticism (ISSN 2281-3330) aimed at academic update and the online circulation of research carried out
mostly by young scholars working at universities in Italy and abroad. The journal was first published in November 2011; the issues are thematic and are published every four months.

The next issue's topic of is “symbol”.

From the Latin symbolum, from the Greek sýmbolon (‘juxtaposition’, ‘sign of recognition’), word composed of sýn and bállo, which in composition means ‘put together’. In ancient times the tessera hospitalitatis was defined as a symbol, that was the ring, or other mark, which was broken into two parts, which, kept by two families, served to prove the hospitality given and received and the mutual friendship. Today it means: element representative of an abstract entity, conventional graphic expression, mark, abbreviation. In particular, its figurative sense indicates any element capable of arousing in the mind an idea different from that offered by its immediate sensitive aspect, but capable of evoking it through some of the aspects that characterize the element itself.