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 collects 19 drawings in a double version, with lightness and darkness view.

Gilberto Zorio exhibited in a number of the defining group shows of Arte Povera in 1967.He has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States. Retrospective exhibitions of Zorio’s work have been presented at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1979; the Kunstverein in Stuttgart in 1985; the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris 1986; the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno in Valencia 1991; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato 1992; Documenta inKassel 1992; Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea in Trento 1996; Dia Center for the Arts 2001 and Sonnabend Gallery in New York 2004.

An illustrated overview of the architectural development of the Fondazione Merz, this is the book of the building. With beautiful photography it describes the finished building, the ideas behind it and the way in which it was designed and built. This visual narrative includes views of the construction and the Fondazione completed and in use.

The Fondazione’s site, a former heating plant for the Lancia factory, is a 1930s industrial building owned by the City of Turin and given in concession to the Fondazione Merz. It is located in Borgo San Paolo, an area now undergoing the urban and cultural revitalisation and refurbishment affecting much of Turin in recent years.

The refurbishment and restoration, supported by both private and public funds (City of Turin and the Regione Piemonte), has affected the whole building, defining the interior spaces and taking into account the cultural purposes the Fondazione intends pursuing. The building has an overall area of 3,200 m2, of which 1,400 for an exhibition area over three floors and including an external area.

The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Drawing Marble organized by Comune di Carrara and held at the Academy of Fine Arts from October 23rd 2004 to February 26th 2005.

The purpose was to bring together forty artists – sculptors, architects, designers, photographers and painters – to test the possibility to make this traditionally “cold” material a great author of modernity. The book collects works of art characterized by linguistic and stylistic elements which can be translated on marble.

The artists in the book are: Stephen Antonakos, Rinaldo Bigi, Enrica Borghi, Andrea Branzi, Gao Brothers, Simon Callery, Bruno Ceccobelli, Mario Ceroli, Joan Fontcuberta, Omar Galliani, Marco Gastini, Susy Gomez, Franco Guerzoni, Joseph Kosuth, Nicolas Leiva, Luigi Mainolfi, Javier Marín, Eliseo Mattiacci, Nino Migliori, Aldo Mondino, Gian Marco Montesano, Giordano Montorsi, Max Neuhaus, Nunzio, Perino & Vele, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Carol Rama, Nicola Salvatore, Denis Santachiara, Alberto Terrile, Ivan Theimer, Enzo Tinarelli, Grazia Toderi, Vito Tongiani, David Tremlett, Antonio Trotta, Luisa Valentini, Fabio Viale, Bernd Zimmer, Gilberto Zorio.

The volume was published on the occasion of the Filippo Scroppo. Un artista tra pittura e critica exhibition organized by the Accademia Albertina, with the support of the City of Turin and the Piedmont Region, and hosted at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino from 1 December 2004 to 30 January 2005.

The goal of this volume is to recall some of the most significant moments in Filippo Scroppo’s artistic career, both through images of his works and through the testimony of his autograph writings and critical essays that deepen not only our knowledge of the artist but also his activity as a critic and curator.

“In the paintings produced between 1946 and 1948, the juxtaposition with Cézanne and Matisse, already recognizable in the canvases of the late 1930s, gives way to a more intense confrontation with the Cubist tradition. [...] Without crossing the analytical and self-reflective frontiers of the New Painting of the 1970s, he was a secret interpreter of the manner, and in the title of a painting of 1978 – Infiorescenza mentale – he perhaps wished to propose a poetic but also subtly ironic definition of the ruins and challenges into which artistic research was venturing”. (Maria Teresa Roberto) 

The catalogue reproduces about eighty works on display in the Turin exhibition and includes critical texts by Pino Mantovani, Maria Teresa Roberto and an extensive anthology edited by Ivana Multaro.

The series of catalogues published by hopefulmonster for GAM, Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Torino, reserved for artists of the new generation, continues with a monograph dedicated to Vedovamazzei for the exhibition held at GAM from October 6 2004 to January 6 2005.
Founded in 1990 Vedovamazzei is the working name of Italian artists Stella Scala and Simeone Crispino. The book includes also two essays, one by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and the other by Charlotte Laubard.
“Most of their works evince a familiarity with reality and at first exude a certain seductiveness, mixing humor with a sense for melodrama, they seem to wish to escape from interpretation at whatever the cost. Luminous and rash, heroic and impudent, the oeuvre of Vedovamazzei confronts the violence of the visible with eyes wide open. Their gaze fears neither sun nor death.” (Charlotte Laubard)