Ground art and culture was founded in New York on February 2000 by Filippo Fossati and Maurizio Pellegrin.

It is a 16- page black and white monographic publication, that comes out non-periodically in an estimated number of six issues per year. Each issue is dedicated to a single artist and is uniterrupted by advertising.
The paper hosts different personalities from different cultures.
Each of them has the freedom to do anything he or she wants in the physical and visual limits of the paper itself.

This publication is intended as a space with white pages instead of walls, like a gallery on paper; it's the space of a museum, a studio, a book, a room, the space of a space and that of time, the real one, the unmesurable or maybe just a connection-space that invites different intellects to put in question the presuppositions of existing canons and of institutional languages.
Ground art and culture is published independently by its authors and Esso Gallery Press in an effort to create a different angle of vision, to reassess a perspective and analyze a range of cultural and artistic practices, always considering their peculiar position at their particular juncture in history.
Our task is one of necessity. The urgency of talking and listening about our contemporaneity, about our art and culture, to reduce the fast pace of this era and focus on earth, on the ground. We are aware of the gap between the project and the realization, but we also have come to understand that a free-space for the imagination will always exist. (Tommaso Campanella docet)
The purpose of GROUND is to participate in building the tools to look at and read at art and culture in a new, not yet established way.
This is our small tribute and response to the perseverance of the people of this socially problematic time.