The catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition S.N.O.W. (Sculpture in Non-Objective Way) held at Galleria Tucci Russo in Torre Pellice (Torino) from October 8th 2005 to January 22nd 2006.

The intention of the show is to investigate on some of the aspects of contemporary sculptural exploration, concentrating on non-objective and abstract languages. Despite their disparate historical and artistic backgrounds and contexts, the works of the artists in the show (Gianni Caravaggio, Björn Dalem, Francesco Gennari, Paolo Piscitelli, Robin Rhode, Conrad Shawcross) revolve around the same object; their attitude toward science is anecdotal, metaphoric, literary, and symbolic. The materials employed are often natural – wood, marble, sugar, foam – and avoid optical or retinal effects or references to the realm of mass media. References to the quotidian, to the object, to recognizable elements – even manipulated or presented in a decorative form – are avoided in favor of a more complex and visionary concept of form.

The book, curated by Andrea Bellini (art historian, critic and independent curator), provides documentation of the exhibition at Tucci Russo Art Gallery together with a selection of recent works by the artists.

Artists: Gianni Caravaggio, Björn Dalem, Francesco Gennari, Paolo Piscitelli, Robin Rhode, Conrad Shawcross

The monograph is published on the occasion of the solo exhibition organized by the Galleria Giorgio Persano in Turin.

The book offers a complete overview on the artist to tell then through the images the art of Luisa Rabbia showing a large number of illustrations: the artist works with various materials, though she prefers those that best narrate the passage of time, the crumbling of things and their disintegration. “I like to consider time itself a material,” Luisa Rabbia says, “the main material that everything else may relate to.”

In her art, Luisa Rabbia explores the perception of the body as border between the outside and the inside world of an individual: the relationship between a human and his environment, including his spiritual journey, his thoughts, memory and the passing of time. In Luisa Rabbia drawings, patterns mirror the world, while the forms the textiles take create not only an outside world, but also hide an inside, which remains an enigma to the viewer.

The catalogue also includes the critical essay by Achille Bonito Oliva and an up-to-date biobibliography.

This book documents the experience of the food4thought project, its development, the exhibitions and performances which have accompanied it, the thoughts and experiences of its creators and of the experts, artists, cooks and protagonists of the world of art and culture that helped make it happen.

Four chefs of international acclaim and five of the most fascinating artists on the contemporary scene take visitors on a unique discovery of the complex rituals connected to food, including nourishment, taste, instincts and consumption. There are four leading concepts around which the exploration revolves: food/future, food/substance, food/environment and food/exchange.

Artists: Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Francesco Jodice, Dunja Scannavini, Sissel Tolaas, Ben Vautier

Cooks: Burkhard Bacher, Herbert Hintner, Thomas Mayr, Davide Scabin

The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Estorick Collection in London from September 14th to December 18th 2005.

From Futurism to Arte Povera: Works from the Marcello Levi Collection exhibition brings to London for the first time over fifty paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations from the collection of Marcello Levi, one of the leading collectors of contemporary art in Italy. Levi began collecting Futurist drawings and masters such as Klee and Man Ray, before becoming one of the earliest collectors of Arte Povera. His incredible foresight enabled him to gather together a remarkable body of work that has rarely been shown in public before.

Levi was active during the same years as Eric Estorick, but tended to favour abstract rather than figurative art. The exhibitions selection, installation and display of key works reveals fascinating parallels and differences in their approaches to collecting, making this a particularly stimulating and insightful venture for the Estorick Collection.

The book includes two essays by Robert Lumley (Professor of Italian Cultural History at University College in London) and by Francesco Manacorda, art critic and curator of the Levi collection, plus a conversation curated by Maria Centonze.

The catalogue is published on the occasion of the solo exhibition held at the Institut Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt (Germany) from July 23rd to September 4th 2005.

This monograph, which documents several works, including paintings, sculpture, installations and drawings, is the most updated and complete examination of the artist. It is a rich iconographic recognition of the artist’s activity and an updated monograph that contains four selected essays. The works reproduced here represent Zorio entire artistic carreer. This catalogue raisonné presents the complete oeuvre of this important artist: his works from the 60s, Sedia (Chair), Tenda (Tent) and Senza titolo (Untitled), up to the latest series of Stella (Star) and Canoa (Canoe). This catalogue provides new insight into the many aspects of this extraordinary artist.

Gilberto Zorio’s artistic activity began through his involvment in the Arte Povera movement which developed in Italy at the end of the Sixties, as part of a more general tendency toward anti-form, anti-geometry. The interest in space and form was replaced by a focus on human activity and desire for organic harmony between art, culture and nature. Zorio uses primary material (metals, glass, rubber, wood, animal hide, alcohol, acids and minerals, water, fire and light), he concentrates on energy processes and is concerned with language as a medium and processes of linguistic communication.

The book includes a chronology with numerous photos and documents and an updated biobibliography.

This book is published on the occasion of the solo exhibition held at Institut Malthildenhöhe in Darmstadt from July 23rd to September 4th 2005. It collects 70 drawings by the artist and his text concerning some reflections over the contemporary painting role.

“These notes are for those who think my paintings are a more or less elegant exercise in decorative aestheticism. I would like to tell them that I believe and trust in the lyrical value of color and signs, but I do not think of painting, and art in general, as an escape from reality, a free zone. Just the opposite: I believe art continues to be a tool of awareness and therefore of immersion in reality.” (Giorgio Griffa)

Giorgio Griffa was born in Turin in 1936. Since 1968 he has held about one hundred solo shows in public and private spaces, including the 39th Venice Biennial in 1980, and the GAM in Turin in 2001-02. He has published the following texts: Non c’è rosa senza spine (Ed. Martano, Turin 1975); Cani sciolti antichisti (Martano and Samanedizioni, Genoa 1980); Drugstore Parnassus (Martano and Ottenhausen Verlag, Aachen 1981); In nascita di Cibera (Studio Noacco, Chieri 1989); 434-442-443-... (Ed. Franco Masoero, Turin 1992); Il principio di indeterminazione (Ed. Maestri Incisori, Milan 1994); Di segno in segno (with Martina Corgnati - Ed. Stefano Fumagalli, Bergamo 1995); Come un dialogo (Lorenzelli Arte, Milan 1997); Approdo a Gilania (Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin 1998); Intelligenza della materia (Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin 2000); 60 schizzi da opere 1968/2000 e un testo (Ed. Franco Masoero, Turin 2000); Nelle orme dei Cantos (Libri Scheiwiller, Milan 2001).