BOLO Paper
BOLO Paper is an independent publishing house based in Milan, Italy. They often work with designers and artists to produce high-quality objects, artist's books, magazines, fanzines, and limited-edition prints, free from market forces and common sense.
The main field of investigation is the vast world of images and the visual, often with a vintage, trashy, sarcastic aftertaste, and a high iconic value .
The visual trick often employed by BOLO Paper is the contemporary reinterpretation of images already present in our visual background, often drawn from the 1980s and 1990s. These are updated in a new context, often removed from the original, with the aim of creating a brief short circuit in the viewer's eyes. Other recurring themes are those of chance and error , seen as allies for successful publication and not as limits to creativity.
BOLO Paper highlights and mocks the short circuits of political correctness and the paradoxes of the society we live in in a provocative and cheeky way, inviting the viewer to reconsider the yardstick of right and wrong, replacing it with the sensible and the senseless .
BOLO Magazine is BOLO Paper 's flagship publication and the one with which the project was born, but it was soon followed by many others; to date, they have published more than 300 titles distributed internationally .