This new book by Giacomo Costa is his second published by Damiani and it follows the same format as 'The chronicles of time' published in 2009. 'A helpful guide to nowhere' has pictures of his work from the last decade. Costa's mastery of digital software shows up in every picture though I prefer his failed cities rather than the forty pages called Landscape and Timescape.
The deserted cities art displays huge apartment blocks which look incredibly real because of the detail, like air-con units, service pipes at roof level and especially round sat-dishes everywhere which help break up the straight lines of the buildings. The 'Postnatural' series has some amazing art showing nature taking over crumbling structures, some of these might have been inspired by photos of the real thing, nature is slowly taking over the small city of Chernobyl, deserted after the nuclear accident in 1986. 'Waterfail', with nine pictures has cities under water with gigantic submarine objects tethered to the ground.
The book is very up to date with art from 2019. The two hundred pictures in twelve sections (oddly there is no contents page) are printed with a two hundred screen on a thick matt art paper which is excellent for revealing the masses of detail in Costa's art.
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