Text & Figures: nerosunero (Mario Sughi)
Graphic project: Amanda Cestaro
1st Edition: June 2025
Printed in May 2025 by Tipografia Cimer, Rome
Pages 168 / Lang. Italian / ISBN 9788831485357 / € 25
Publication date: 10/06/2025
Available now on Hoppipolla, in bookstores and online
Graphic project: Amanda Cestaro
1st Edition: June 2025
Printed in May 2025 by Tipografia Cimer, Rome
Pages 168 / Lang. Italian / ISBN 9788831485357 / € 25
Publication date: 10/06/2025
Available now on Hoppipolla, in bookstores and online
Un intreccio di vite che si sfifiorano, si cercano, si smarriscono in un
continuo gioco di vicinanze e distanze.
Oscillazione è un romanzo in tre atti, tre novelle brevi che sembrano
seguire strade distinte, ma puntualmente si sovrappongono, si intrecciano,
si richiamano, si rispondono. Il fragile equilibrio tra caso e destino, tra incontri fortuiti e scelte irreversibili, si dispiega in una narrazione circolare che lascia spazio al non detto, alle assenze, ai ricordi che affiffiorano e si dissolvono. Ciò che non è
detto, ciò che resta vago, assume forza e signifificato nello spazio lasciato al lettore.
La visione dell’autore, insieme leggera e ambigua, accompagna i personaggi sul confifine tra sogno e realtà, tra consapevolezza e incertezza.
Le illustrazioni, parte integrante del racconto, traducono il tempo sospeso e
le tensioni interiori in immagini tra realismo e astrazione.
Oscillazione è un viaggio sorprendente nell’incertezza del vivere, dove
ogni passo avanti può essere un ritorno, ogni incontro una possibilità di smarrimento o salvezza.
Hoppippola Edizioni, 2025
continuo gioco di vicinanze e distanze.
Oscillazione è un romanzo in tre atti, tre novelle brevi che sembrano
seguire strade distinte, ma puntualmente si sovrappongono, si intrecciano,
si richiamano, si rispondono. Il fragile equilibrio tra caso e destino, tra incontri fortuiti e scelte irreversibili, si dispiega in una narrazione circolare che lascia spazio al non detto, alle assenze, ai ricordi che affiffiorano e si dissolvono. Ciò che non è
detto, ciò che resta vago, assume forza e signifificato nello spazio lasciato al lettore.
La visione dell’autore, insieme leggera e ambigua, accompagna i personaggi sul confifine tra sogno e realtà, tra consapevolezza e incertezza.
Le illustrazioni, parte integrante del racconto, traducono il tempo sospeso e
le tensioni interiori in immagini tra realismo e astrazione.
Oscillazione è un viaggio sorprendente nell’incertezza del vivere, dove
ogni passo avanti può essere un ritorno, ogni incontro una possibilità di smarrimento o salvezza.
Hoppippola Edizioni, 2025
A weave of lives that brush against each other, seek one another, and lose themselves in a continuous play of closeness and distance. Oscillation explores the fragile balance between chance and destiny, between fortuitous encounters and irreversible choices, in a fragmented and circular narrative that leaves space for the unspoken, for absences, for memories that surface and dissolve.
Relationships form and unravel with the lightness of a moment: a coincidence alters the course of a life, an absence becomes the focal point of an entire story, a farewell makes way for a new possibility. The characters move along the blurred boundary between reality and dream, awareness and unawareness, navigating moments of uncertainty and longing, until they find themselves, perhaps, in the unexpected embrace of a final encounter.
The illustrations amplify the sense of suspension and fragmentation within the novel. With a style suspended between realism and abstraction, the images capture moments of solitude, desire, and restlessness, visually reflecting the precarious balance of existence. Oscillation is a journey into the uncertainty of living, where every step forward may be a return, every encounter a possibility for loss or salvation.
Hoppippola Edizioni, 2025
Relationships form and unravel with the lightness of a moment: a coincidence alters the course of a life, an absence becomes the focal point of an entire story, a farewell makes way for a new possibility. The characters move along the blurred boundary between reality and dream, awareness and unawareness, navigating moments of uncertainty and longing, until they find themselves, perhaps, in the unexpected embrace of a final encounter.
The illustrations amplify the sense of suspension and fragmentation within the novel. With a style suspended between realism and abstraction, the images capture moments of solitude, desire, and restlessness, visually reflecting the precarious balance of existence. Oscillation is a journey into the uncertainty of living, where every step forward may be a return, every encounter a possibility for loss or salvation.
Hoppippola Edizioni, 2025
Mario Sughi
Text & Figures: nerosunero (Mario Sughi)
Graphic project: Amanda Cestaro
1st Edition: June 2025
Printed in May 2025 by Tipografia Cimer, Rome
Pages 168 / Lang. Italian / ISBN 9788831485357 / € 25
Publication date: 10/06/2025
Available now on Hoppipolla, in bookstores and online
Graphic project: Amanda Cestaro
1st Edition: June 2025
Printed in May 2025 by Tipografia Cimer, Rome
Pages 168 / Lang. Italian / ISBN 9788831485357 / € 25
Publication date: 10/06/2025
Available now on Hoppipolla, in bookstores and online
Features & Reviews
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Previews
Features & Reviews
Then I had in my hands Oscillazione by Mario Sughi, three minimal and minimal stories that breathe in an imagery that comes out forcefully in the illustrations of the same author who lives in Dublin and signs his works nerosunero
Michele Marziani, Con l’autunno in arrivo (Rima, Val Sesia, October, 2025)
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We’re excited to share that our Premium artist Mario Sughi has released a new book, Oscillation, published by Hoppipolla Edizioni. Blending his signature wit, vibrant colour palette, and keen observation of contemporary life, Oscillation captures the modern existence through Mario’s unmistakable visual language.
This new volume offers a deeper look into his practice, showcasing works that are playful yet thought-provoking, humorous yet poignant — a true reflection of his distinctive style.
This new volume offers a deeper look into his practice, showcasing works that are playful yet thought-provoking, humorous yet poignant — a true reflection of his distinctive style.
Bridgeman Images, London, October 2025
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Mario Sughi's writing maintains the characteristics of the illustrations: bright and vibrant colors that blend and come to life on a flat surface. Elegance, volume, and depth of intent and meaning.
Irma Loredana Galgano (LUCIA Libri, September 2025)
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The novel takes on a form that becomes an imaginative, dreamlike substance while exploring, in a lyrical but never rhetorical tone, the fragility of relationships, the passing of time and its relentless flow, and the persistence of memory — a legacy sometimes welcome, at times unbearably painful. Not to be missed.
Gabriele Ottaviani (Convenzionali, August 2025)
Gabriele Ottaviani (Convenzionali, August 2025)
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The characters, especially the female ones, occupy a predominant space. They stand out vividly beyond the pages of the text, animated by an almost tangible presence. Women on bicycles, mothers seeking their own individuality, girls who like themselves on the outside but not on the inside. The author’s illustrations are not a mere accessory to the narrative, but true performers in their own right, amplifying the emotions and silences between one word and the next.
Carlotta Lini (Critica Letteraria, July 2025)
Carlotta Lini (Critica Letteraria, July 2025)
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Mario Sughi’s great gift is his ability to breathe life into words rich with meaning, descriptions laden with pain and surprise, joy and movement, and to set words and images in dialogue.
Giulia Siena (Chronica Libri, July 2025)
Giulia Siena (Chronica Libri, July 2025)
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Sughi also revisits the theme — through loves, friendships, and first encounters — of relationships, and it is no coincidence that the name of this Italian author based in Dublin is linked with that of Sally Rooney, a writer with a keen interest in this very subject and for whom he illustrated the cover of the novel Normal People. Once again we find light, almost surreal atmospheres in their attention to detail; the importance of chance, of what is left unsaid, of what is hidden between the lines and within the images.
Elisa Vuaran (Let's Book, July 2025)
