"Who goes there? Is there perhaps a knight hidden under the circles and squares? Nothing is taken for granted when Gianpaolo Pagni draws inspiration from Italo Calvino's novel, “The Nonexistent Knight”. The designer paid homage to a series of lithographs equestrian figures from the Émile Hermès collection – but from this engraving from the Imagerie de Nancy he kept only the horse and, with geometrically shaped stamps, recreated the riders with cubist silhouettes.
This meeting between the Renaissance and surrealism is a colorful and graphic homage to the beginnings of abstractionism.