This book, supported by the Fondazione Guido and Ettore De Fornaris, is a wide-ranging study focusing on twentieth-century photography, and opens with an introductory text by Marina Miraglia, divided into two parts, the first of which covers the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to the 1940s, and the second covering the early 1950s to the most recent examples.
The iconographic section recounts the experience in Turin, from shots taken by Mario Gabinio and Stefano Bricarelli in the 1920s and 1930s to the artistic photographs of Carlo Mollino, the photographic report portraying the city after the war and during the most significant events of the 1960s, the anthropological photographs of Ando Gilardi and Paola Agosti, the shots of Paolo Pellion documenting the artistic events of the 1970s, and the photo-works of Paolo Mussat.
The book concludes by focusing on some of the most significant contemporary work, with the photographs of young artists, amongst whom Maura Banfo, Botto & Bruno, Luisa Rabbia and Giulia Caira, who use photography as a means of expressing their art.

The seventh catalogue of the series Avvistamenti | Sightings is dedicated to the english artist Cornelia Parker, on the occasion of the exhibition at GAM, Torino, opening from April 28th to June 17th, 2001.

The huge amount of images makes perfectly understand Cornelia Parker's creative process, thanks also to the two essays, figuring out the use and meaning of objects making and giving life to her installations. The artist creates surroundings often similar to dramatic performances in which the objects-protagonists, most of them unusual, familiar and belonged to well known people, have been phisically transformed and modified in how they appear and in what they represent.

The book opens with the photographic documentation of the exhibition, collecting about 50 works produced in the last 5 years, to then go back through the artist's work with images of installations, drawings and photographs, from 1980 up to the present day, and closing with an updated bio/bibliography.

Avvistamenti | Sightings is a project by GAM, Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Torino, supervised by Alessandra Pace. It expects ten personal exhibitions by international artists and ten catalogues, published by hopefulmonster, containing the artworks' photographic documentation, critical essays by important
museum's supervisors and art historians, an interview to the artist and a complete bio/bibliography.

The Dignitaries of Destiny get together to decide a birth: a new life will be soon assigned to a woman who wishes to be a mother. But the decision is taking too long, and the person who's going to be born decides to ask whether to choose their destiny. Here begins the exciting adventure of their birth, full of hopes and expectations, but also of unexpected events that run the risk to prejudice the Call to Life. But finally the miracle is made and what they have just imagined becomes true... From the synergy between Miguel Angel Mendo's words and Chen Zhen's images, a tender and fun fable telling children the mystery of birth through a simple and poetic language, that goes with the colours and shapes of Art.

Chen Zhen (Shangai, 1955 - Paris, 2000). His artistic style had as its basis the encounter between Western and Chinese culture. The artist drew from Taoism, as well as Buddhist religion and philosophy, re-elaborating their meanings, and using them to represent an alternative to the negative influence exercised by the consumer society. The artistic value of his sculptures and installations lies in his constant striving for harmony between body and spirit, which leads to the enriching of one’s inner life.

Miguel Angel Mendo (Madrid, 1949). A graduate in psychology, he began working as a psychotherapist in close contact with the world of children and alternative pedagogy. He has written books for children, but also for the theatre, and in the past has been a teacher of cinema, a contributor to various periodicals and an editor for television and radio programmes. The following have been translated into Italian by Edizioni Piemme Junior: Per un maledetto spot which won the Lazarillo Award in 1989, one of Spain's most prestigious prizes for books for the young, and also Un museo sinistro e Che i morti stiano zitti!

The sixth catalogue of the Avvistamenti | Sightings series is dedicated to Mario Airò, artist of the space, both physical and mental, who shapes the air through sound with his work and contains it building architecture. 

The catalogue, that narrates throughoutfully the artistic personality of Airò, both through his work and the biographical writings that accompany some of it, opens with the images of his work created for the GAM exposition The room where Marsilio would dream to sleep in inspired by the De vita coelitus comparanda by Marsilio Ficino, which consists of an imaginary room with a bed, a writing desk and seven pillars where the sky would rest upon. 

Among the other works in the catalogue, those accompanied by the artist’s writings, starting from the work inspired by a screenplay of the movie “Soigne ta droite” by Jean Luc Godard (1986), called Quel pomeriggio qui sulla terra (1998), Ninna-Nanna per barriques e archi (1999), a project fully centered on sound, the work Aurora (1999), introduced by the speech to Chile by Salvador Allende, Springadela (2000), which appears together with the artist’s text on the work of Giordano Bruno, and Raise up the roof beam, carpenters, work of 1999, which is called like a short story by author J.D. Salinger. 

The monographic catalogue, already published in the italian/french edition for the exhibition at Carré d'Art Musée d'Art Contemporain of Nîmes, is now published in the german/english edition on the occasion of the exhibition's setup at Museum Kurhaus Kleve in Germany from January 28th to April 1st 2001.

The catalogue collects 70 unpublished drawings by the artist, showed at the exhibition, sheets of drawing and tracing paper on which marks and colours sketch igloos, cones, animals, various shapes that animate Mario Merz imaginary universe.

The monographic catalogue is published on the occasion of the huge exhibition dedicated to the austrian artist, setup at Galleria d’Arte Moderna of Bologna from January 25th to April 1st 2001.

The retrospective exhibition collects about 200 works by Rainer, of which 140 in the catalogue, from the drawings of the Fifties, to the Übermalung, to the photographic works Automatenphotos of 1960, to the religious themes, to angels, leaves’ paintings, to the Schleierbild and actors’ portraits, all made from 1990, up to the recent years, to which belongs the series of Traumland.

The monography has been organized on the chronological order of the images, that follow one other assembled in groups, each of them underlined by the autograph texts, that tell Rainer’s work from the Fifties up to the present day.