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    Aldo Gigli

    Aldo Gigli · Co-founder of the Mirano Continental · set designer and graphic artist

    “Aldo au Mirano”, the Notebook

    “Aldo au Mirano, Conversations avec Aldo Gigli & Paul Sterck” is a stapled notebook with yellow, turquoise and fuchsia pages, published by afterclub.be. It is the first volume of a series of tributes to artists and designers chosen for their contribution to Belgian nightlife.

    In it, Aldo Gigli is heard in conversation: the night-time circuits of old Brussels, clubs full by eleven, glasses washed at Les Gémeaux, then Le Canotier and the Mirano. An object of memory, printed like his posters: direct, colourful, unpolished.

    The notebook is on sale in the afterclub.be shop.

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    Photo album: the “Aldo au Mirano” notebook, published by afterclub.be. Click the picture to browse the album.

    “Aldo au Mirano”, yellow spread
    Sunny yellow spread of the notebook, open at “Les Bacchanales romaines” at the Casino Continental: the Grand-Place, glasses to wash and the Belgometaire. The Mirano's memory reads like a folded leaflet, the fanned pages letting the turquoise and pink of the next chapters show through.
    “Aldo au Mirano”, the notebook in flight
    Photographed mid-swing, the notebook strikes a pose like an arch: yellow pages cantilevered, edges in pink, turquoise and green. A paper object that kept its subject's sense of showmanship.
    “Aldo au Mirano”, fanned pages
    The notebook's pages fan open like stage curtains: yellow, turquoise, magenta. In it you read the story of the early days, the glasses, the side jobs, the night taking hold. A small notebook unfolding a big story.
    “Aldo au Mirano”, the object from the edge
    Seen from the edge, the notebook reads like a stack of layered posters: yellow, turquoise, magenta, bound with staples. Colour as a table of contents, the night as a programme.
    “Aldo au Mirano”, publisher's photograph
    Publisher's photograph: the notebook open in mid-movement, yellow pages blurred by the gesture, turquoise and magenta edges resting underneath. Image from the afterclub.be product page, where the notebook sells for 10 euros.
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