Professor Bad Trip Collection – Volume 2

Professor Bad Trip Collection – Volume 2 – Prof. Bad Trip

The collection includes:

• n.1 Red cotton shoulder bag, 32 x 44 cm, handmade and hand screen-printed on both sides with the project logo and those of its promoters;
• n.6 Original black and white screen prints, 30 x 42 cm, by Professor Bad Trip;
• n.1 Original red and white screen print, 30 x 42 cm, by Professor Bad Trip.

Edition curated by La Luce Rossa, Organic Mutation Institute, Tabularasa Edizioni, Tekè Gallery.
Entirely hand screen-printed by La Luce Rossa.
The screen-printed project text was conceived by Simone Lucciola and handwritten by Valerio Lazzaretti.

The project originated from an idea by Gianluca Lerici and the commitment of the authors Jenamarie Filaccio, Vittore Baroni, Juan Allende, and Stefano Dazzi Dvořák to carry it through.
We decided to return to good old self-publishing, reprinting in screen print a selection of drawings created by Gianluca Lerici throughout his career, compiling them in a collection of which this is the second volume. Before his passing, Gianluca had already designed the anthropomorphic logo found on the packaging of the “Professor Bad Trip Collection.” It was retrieved in its original form from his chaotic archive by the intrepid Good Jena Omi.
In the early 1990s, Gianluca and Jena moved the headquarters of the Organic Mutation Institute—their studio—to the small mountain village of Castelpoggio, a few minutes from Carrara. There, a small, low-ceilinged room—code name “Cuban prison”—was converted into a screen printing lab for producing T-shirts, posters, stickers, and more at home.
We followed the (non-)instructions to the letter, recreating a screen printing workshop inside Tekè Gallery in Carrara, inspired by the original “Cuban prison”: La Luce Rossa, where the Collection was created.

“If we aren’t vaporized in the coming weeks by an intergalactic disintegration ray, perhaps it means we didn’t screw up. And if a world growing ever more hopelessly dystopian is still waiting for us—between a pandemic and an ecocatastrophe—we’ll surely be back for Volume 3.”

Vittore Baroni, Jenamarie Filaccio, Simone Lucciola, Valerio Lazzaretti, Marcello Di Vita, Ruan Allende, Stefano Dazzi Dvorak