"Piero Gilardi (born 1942) looms large in the annals of the European postwar avant-garde. A pioneer of Arte Povera and a promoter of Richard Long and Jan Dibbets, who also introduced American artists such as Bruce Nauman or Eva Hesse to a European audience, Gilardi is also a political activist. This retrospective monograph surveys his many activities."
Piero Gilardi The Little Manual of Expression with Foam Rubber द्वारा AndreaBellini, Piero Gilardi Paperback, 24 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2013 द्वारा Jrp | Ringier ISBN-13: 978-3-03764-326-6, ISBN: 3-03764-326-9
"In this artist’s book, Turin-based Piero Gilardi (born 1942) reveals his working methods and techniques. Gilardi explains how to create sculptures like his signature “tappeti-natura” (nature carpets)--floor installations and wall reliefs made of painted polyurethane foam--that he has been making since the 1960s."
"Since the early 1970s, Luigi Ontani (born 1943) has been building a corpus of works exploring ideas of the sacred and the profane, Occidental and Oriental, kitsch and high art. This volume provides an overview of his diverse activities, including his photographic portraits in which he impersonates Leonardo, Dante, Pinocchio or San Sebastian, ceramic and papier-mâché sculptures, paintings and video works."
"The Cape Town–born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Robin Rhode (born 1976) engages photography, performance, drawing and sculpture to create arrestingly beautiful narratives that are brought to life using materials such as soap, charcoal, chalk and paint. Coming of age in a newly post-apartheid South Africa, Rhode was exposed to new forms of creative expression motivated by the spirit of the individual rather than dictated by a p ..."
"A founding member of Arte Povera, Gianni Piacentino (born 1945) has pursued a path that has taken him from early Minimalist structures to sculptures influenced by modern industrial design, celebrating the dynamism of motorcycles, automobiles and planes. This book spans his career from 1966 to the present."
"The archives of Italian photographer Paolo Mussat Sartor date back to the early days of Arte Povera, when, as a friend to that movement's protagonists, he was able to capture the intimate working lives of artists such as Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero e Boetti, Giulio Paolini, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio, and to convey the atmosphere in which their work was create ..."
"This is the first catalogue to gather into a single volume a collection of works-- from the earliest to the most recent--by this prominent contemporary artist, and it provides an overview of the entire spectrum of Cuoghi's rich and complex ..."
"The architectural interventions of London-based artist Pablo Bronstein (born 1977) explore the relationship between classical architecture and contemporary urbanism. "A Is Building, B is Architecture" presents a retrospective of Bronstein's work as well as the first survey of his architectural drawings."
"The first complete catalog on John McCracken’s work, including critical essays, an interview with the artist, and a chronology detailing his long career. This catalog presents fifty historic works beginning from the 1960s which have rarely been shown in public. McCracken was an internationally famous American artist, known for his unusual and visionary approach to trends in the Minimalism and Finish Fetish art movements which developed ..."
"For the collector of contemporary art, the acquisition of new work is an aesthetic and intellectual adventure that records a personal journey and cuts a unique cross-section through the culture. Consequently every collector has a different story to tell about art and the art market today. The world of the collector overlaps with that of the artist but is also a realm of stratospheric prices, occasional plunges in value and gestures of b ..."
"Dusseldorf-based artist Thomas Schutte (born 1954) is one of the most idiosyncratic of present-day artists, venturing to deploy techniques, genres and themes long thought passe--such as the sculpturally formed female figure--in permanent materials such as bronze, aluminum and steel. Schutte began his "Frauen" series toward the end of the 1990s and, while his first reclining nudes can be understood within the language of Classicism, his ..."
"Valentin Carron's sculptures mark a three-dimensional renewal of appropriationism, through the re-employment of vernacular forms that are neither authentic nor kitsch. His objects play with the ambiguities of fake wood, concrete and bronze, and with the iconography of power and authority in public sculptures or commemorative monuments. This volume offers an overview."
"Georgian artist Andro Wekua (born 1977) merges images found in magazines or old photo albums with painting to create multilayered, kaleidoscopic collages. The design for this three-volume catalogue is based on American horror and science-fiction magazines, reflecting recent themes developing in the artist's video and installation work."
"Swiss artist Alfredo Aceto (born 1991) works in painting, sculpture, drawing and sound, mixing personal anecdotes and art-historical references. His obsessional relationship with French artist Sophie Calle, for instance, ended with her signature tattooed on his arm; his projects often deal with obsession, identity and death. This first monograph follows his residence at the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva."
"Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition itinérante au Castello di Rivoli, Turin, au Consortium, Dijon, et à la Kunsthalle Bern en 2012.00Monographie de référence couvrant l'ensemble de l'œuvre singulière et poétique d'un artiste ..."
Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement 2018 the sound of screens imploding : catalogo della mostra (Ginevra, 8 novembre 2019-3 febbraio 2019) द्वारा AndreaBellini, Andrea Lissoni प्रकाशित 2019 द्वारा Corraini, Mantova ISBN-13: 978-88-7570-810-8, ISBN: 88-7570-810-X
"Published on the occasion of the exhibitions Gianni Piacentino: Works 1965-2006, 23 April - 20 June 2015 at Michael Werner Gallery, London and Gianni Piacentino: Works 1965-2013, 10 Setpember - 31 October at Michael Werner Gallery, New York. Softcover in mylar wrap, text in English, 80 pages with 32 illustrations (including four fold-outs)."
"Dusseldorf-based artist Thomas Schutte (born 1954) first came to prominence in the 1980s with his drawings, watercolors, stage sets and architectural models. In the 1990s, he produced ceramic figures and monumental sculptures of bronze and steel. Schutte's first forays into imaginary or utopian architecture were scale models of rooms in which one might live and work: ateliers for artistic activity, and bunkers to which one might retreat ..."
"The color photographs of Luigi Ghirri (born 1943) revolutionized Italian photography in the 1970s with their gentle humor and appearance of compositional ease. Often compared with the snapshot compositions of Lee Friedlander or William Eggleston, Ghirri's photographs, often verging on the surreal with their imaginative framing devices and visual puns, placed him in a category all his own. In the early 1980s, Ghirri began to use a medium ..."