It was born in the summer of 2024 with the purpose of publishing books that are not necessary, but essential. Essential to express that uneasiness that represents the paradigm of Western society. All the social, emotional, spiritual, sentimental and artistic tensions we live originate from the principle of non-contradiction, a fundamental cornerstone of Western thought. It is around this concept that the existence we experience revolves. Concepts like identity and difference could not exist without that opening of meaning that, since the time of the Greeks, the Pre-Socratics, distinguishes the free thought of rational language. Language that manifests itself in the dual form of explanatory and evocative: it identifies and alludes, compels and frees, describes and creates.
This theme finds multiple expressive forms in Western culture, our ambition is to explore them in some of the most important facets, focusing our editorial activity on art and poetry, declining photography, comics and illustration.
Our name dialogues with the chosen logo to unfold a conceptual journey: every past, every antiquity, is living and vibrant current content of contemporary actions. So that from the beating of the heart, which is a metaphor for life in its beating the time of the present, a forest is born that is timeless presence. In front of the tree, the sensitivity of the human being kneels; every tree surpasses the years more than any of us can hope to do.
Our proposal
Our editorial proposal is in harmony with these concepts, with volumes that combine typographic care in the choice of fonts, paper and layout with the artistic ingenuity of the author. We want to create books that can challenge time, bearing witness to the present in a future that will transmute current time into past time, without thereby losing expressive or evocative power.
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Void
by Attilio Solzi
A special edition of 120 copies, hand-numbered, with three different cover designs.
Produced to mark Attilio Solzi’s photographic installation *VOID*, curated by Alessio de’ Navasques. In Milan, from 8 July throughout August 2026, at the Project Room at 10 Corso Como.
85,00 €
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Dialogue Mystique avec le Docteur Faust – 2nd edition
by Cirkus Vogler
Cirkus Vogler tells with intensity her vision, capturing in her shots the tragedy of the human condition, between temptation and despair.
The second edition features a hardcover made in black Bukram, which gives particular shine and body to the book. The volume is enhanced by black thread-sewn binding and red edge coloring, to reaffirm the drama represented.
For customers outside EU: please contact us at info@anticamentepresente.it when interested to purchase this volume.
40,00 €
Photography by Rossana Battisti
Photography by Rossana Battisti
The contemporary world is characterized by a massive offer of editorial productions, not only virtual but, paradoxically, also conveyed by the concreteness of paper vectors. Despite all the possibilities offered by the digital medium, having a book or magazine in hand, or even just possessing it, remains an irreplaceable hedonistic pleasure: it has to do with the senses, with the body, with the reality of existing.
The appropriate ecological objections therefore negotiate with the ontological structure of the human being, who is not exhausted in the hunger for information but is also nourished by the metamessages that the material object carries with it. In addition to sight, therefore, touch, smell, hearing and for fetishist souls also taste.