Returning from a trip, photographs help us to keep an impression of the places we have visited. The details help us to remember that particular street or the seagull on the seafront, a more difficult challenge is to tell the story of our surroundings with small two-coloured felt-tip pen illustrations, the path chosen by illustrator Laura Simonati for her Piccoli Posti series.
Carousels, newsstands, neighbourhood shops, bathing establishments, flat interiors and landscapes are some of the subjects depicted by the illustrator du recycled paper, works that will be on show from 10 November at Libreria Corraini 121+, via Savona 17/5 in Milan.

The idea of illustrating these intimate places was born in 2020 together with the Instagram profile @piccoliposti, and after the volume Viaggio in Italia (Corraini 2022) now for the first time Simonati offers the original drawings, for a total of 141 works.
Visitors will be able to interact in person by creating their own Piccoli Posti del cuore postcards, which will lead the artist to create new works unveiled on the gallery’s social channels. The exhibition will be divided into the thematic sections “Con la cabina vai dove vuoi”, “Viaggio in Italia”, a special “mute” map of Italy, and a final section entitled “Rimini Rimini”, dedicated to the capital of Romagna.