The exhibition "Manual de Zoologia Fantastica" by Carla Tolomeo brings to light the artist's research on how animals have become the bridge between earth and sky, and how the legends and allegories they contain have led human beings to question themselves about the origin of the whole world.  Carla Tolomeo has always had a passion for Jorge Luis Borges’ books, ever since she read "The Gold of the Tigers" up to the Book of Imaginary Beings. Exactly as Borges did with his Book, Carla Tolomeo puts us in touch with our most primitive side, made of handed down stories, traditions, dreams that connect us all as if we were a single being, a single tribe.  The enchanted world of Carla Tolomeo is an eclectic and cultured imagination, of creations suspended in a fascinating territory poised between art and design, using literary echoes of books full of visions. Nothing happens by chance on this earth, especially the encounter between human being and animal, and this exhibition is about encounters.  Carla Tolomeo met Borges at the end of the 1970s and she was so struck by his words that she defined him as an "Argentinean Homer". Tolomeo was greatly influenced by the writer and every time she can, she tries even if only with the imagination of her works, to return to the city of Borges – Buenos Aires. All this, combined with the Japanese and metaphysical style of her early education and her admiration for Gaudi's Catalan modernism, found fertile ground in the artist's childhood memories, making her a fantasist of allegory, just as Dante did in his time. The result is an art form that translates into the refinement of the fabrics of her famous chairs, true works of art that unite nature and human being in search of a totemic spirituality in the midst of animals and symbols.  The creative process begins with the recovery of an antique chair, or with the creation of a new form on whose structure, the "blank canvas", develops the phase of research and choice of modules and fabrics, like a selection of colors in a painting. The modules are designed, cut out and assembled in order to create the sculptural forms that characterize her creativity. Enriched and personalized by velvets with exclusive designs, brocades, trimmings and lampas, Tolomeo's chairs are no longer just furnishing objects, but true hymns to life. The collection affirms itself as an unicum on the panorama of contemporary art, whose small armchairs with infinite chromatic variations bring to mind a possible fairy-tale zoology, testifying to the creative force of its unstoppable eclecticism.