Presale price: Aurelio Paviato – Studies in Deception (Hardback + Lecture)

The Book
“Aurelio Paviato is a master of his craft. He takes classic effects and gives them a 21st century spin. Solid practical methods are concealed by a relaxed style, easy manner, and a keen eye for detail. This is superb material from the repertoire of one of Italy’s leading professionals.” – David Britland

“Wow, what a delightful book. After reading the book it is obvious why Aurelio Paviato was the First place winner in close-up at FISM. Not only does he completely describe his FISM-winning act, i.e., the “how” but also the “why.” That’s just the start, the rest of the book goes into his working repertoire from the past 40 years of performing close up, sleight-of-hand card and coin magic. Although the writing is excellent, there must be 500 photos to complement every detail to the routines and move.” – Charlie Randall

“This wonderful book is a profound study of magic. It is a road map of masterly technique and presentation. Finished with a great update and treatment of the secrets of the 1982 Fism award winning act. A superb work of Aurelio Paviato and Stephen Minch. Bravo caballeros…” – Marcelo Insúa – Mr. Tango

Learn the secrets of a FISM Champion!

Aurelio Paviato is one of Italy’s greatest magical thinkers & performers. In his decades-long career, Aurelio has not only taken home the top prize at FISM, but he has created & refined many sleights and routines.

A close friend of Arturo de Ascaio, Aurelio shares his magical thinking in the realms of card and coin magic with detailed information about a variety of passes, palms, sleeving, switches, steals, and beyond.

He also teaches the complete FISM routine that won him First Place in Close-Up Magic at the 1982 competition in Lausanne, Switzerland. Of course, he brings refinements that have been made to the routine over the years.

All of the details of a lifetime of magic are explored in over 240 pages of text, accompanied by copious photographs for clear learning.

Hardcover
9 x 8″ Trim Size
242 pages

From Richard Hatch:

In reading Aurelio Paviato’s Studies in Deception, I was reminded of what Ottokar Fischer had written more than 100 years ago in his own book on the card magic of Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser:

“This work is not intended for dilettantes. But it will bring joy to experienced performers.”

Like Hofzinser, Aurelio Paviato melds intelligent presentations with superb sleight of hand.

40 years ago, in 1982, the FISM in Lausanne, Switzerland made history by having the first American Grand Prix winner, Lance Burton, with his outstanding card, candle and dove act and the first American first place in close up to Michael Ammar. Both Burton and Ammar used these historic victories as springboards to successful careers, for Burton in Las Vegas, and for Ammar internationally as a performer and teacher of sleight of hand. But what is often forgotten is that Michael did not win first place in close up outright. In fact, the competition ended in a rare tie, with two first place winners. The other one was Aurelio Paviato, the author of this book, who performed a superb close-up routine with coins. Aurelio went home to Milan and his job in a bank, but seven years later embraced his true calling as a magician and became and remains a successful full time professional performer in his native Italy, with regular appearances on television, a busy schedule of corporate engagements, and a one-man theater show. This book showcases what he has been doing for the last forty years: pieces from his professional repertoire with all the details and finesses that are the fruit of repeated performances. This is commercial, classical magic perfected by a professional.

Most of the routines are stand up card magic, but he also updates his first place FISM act, incorporating 40 years of thinking to make it more practical and magical. Originally it was designed to be performed as an opening routine. With his improvements, he now often closes his intimate performances with it.

Because the book was edited by Stephen Minch, it has a clarity of expression and historical credits that make it a pleasure to study.

“This work is not intended for dilettantes. But it will bring joy to experienced performers.”

The Lecture

The effect recalls the antique Hofzinzer’s Everywhere and Nowhere and allows the application of three different passes:
• A Covered Hermann Pass
• A standard Le Paul Pass.
• An Hermann Pass using a personal approach

Chosen Card Production

A personal take on the classic Dai Vernon Hand Washing Acquitment.

Fism Award Winning Coin Routine

Highlights of the routine:
• The sleeving technique performed with economy of movements and subtleties in the arm and wrist movements which allow you to launch the coin into the sleeve with a minimum effort.
• An analysis on the exploitation of the Sleeving comparing the “magicians vs. laymen perception” of a coin vanish.
• The coin production from below the four aces, discussed with richness of details on handling and misdirection in search of the best possible naturalness.
• Coins across: a new handling using the Fred Kaps Click Pass that allows a straightforward passage of the coins from hand to hand.
• Three Coins Vanish: a strighforward application of sleeving to Al Schnider’s “Dynamic Coin Routine”.
• Reverse Matrix: inspired to Paul Gertner “Reverse Assembly” performed without faked coins.

Six Card Repeat

• A personal take on an old classic as performed in my professional show for laymen, discussing the reasons that make this an excellent professional opener for such performances.

Cards Up The Sleeve

• The classic Dr. Daley routine from Stars of magic allow to discuss a personal handling for the vanish of the tenth card!

One Coin Turnover Switch

• A coin is switched in plain sight while apparently just turning it over to show one signature on it. A smooth coin handling to get an unsuspected switch.

Letter From Japan

• A card is forced after the spectator himself riffle shuffles twice the deck: an astonishing professional self working item.

The Cardano’s Card Trick

• Simply put, the magician names every card the spectator freely chooses.

Who is he?
The winning of the first prize at the Lausanne World Congress, frequent participation at Good Sunday, Maurizio Costanzo Show and subsequent television appearances as well as membership of the prestigious Escuela Magica de Madrid (EMM) have been, in many years of career, an important basis on which Paviato has built up a concrete and solid competence in its business.

This competence was brought to the shows offered in the context of Business Conventions, Road Show and similar events, as well as in his play “Stories of an Artisan of Illusions”.

He began to be interested in prestige at age 15. Born in 1958 in Vigevano, the world-renowned city for Ducal’s Piazza, Lucio Mastronardi’s shoes and novels, in 1973 he began to search for books and schools that could begin the noble “art of illusion”.

Just in one of the two Vigevano’s libraries you come across a text titled “Complete Guide of Prestigious Games”. A happy and lucky choice that marks the destiny of a passionate boy of this discipline. Paviato will discover that he had come across the clandestine edition of a milestone of prestigious art: “The Fine Art of Magic”.

The author, George Kaplan, was active in New York in the 1930s and a student of Sam Leo Horowitz who, in turn, was part of a small and exclusive group of prestigious guides led by one of the greatest artists of this century, Dai Vernon” The Professor “, which revolutionized the art of the so-called” Close-up magic ”

With the term “Close-up” borrowed from the field of photography and cinema and which, as many know, means “close-up” , they are defined as games played very close to viewers using small daily objects such as cards, brooches, coins, knifes, and so on.

Though it was this specialty to open the streets of television (with Good Sunday before and the Maurizio Costanzo Show shortly afterwards), its professional growth has now led to the development of an excellent stage show that is also appears in foreign language and is suitable for cabarets, theaters, business conventions, and events such as road shows.

Paviato has always brought together the classical texts of illusionism, passion for philosophy, rhetoric and psychology. In this latter branch he is particularly interested in sensory processes, the psychology of perception and illusion. He also has a deep interest in the history of his art and in 2007 published an article on “The Speaking Cards” by Pietro Aretino in the magazine Gibeciere, specialized in prestigious history and edited by the Conjuring Arts Research Center in New York.