Art catalogues
  • NON TOCCARE LA DONNA BIANCA

    text by Francesco Bonami
    biobibliography and technical cards edited by Ilaria Bonacossa
    pages: 150
    format: 9,5 x 21 cm
    date of publication: September 2004
    binding: paperback
    images: 61 col., 27 b/w
    languages: Italian/English
    isbn 9788877571878



    €25,00

    The catalogue was published on the occasion of the Non toccare la donna bianca. La liberazione delle diversità exhibition held at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin from 17 September 2004 to 8 January 2005. The exhibition at Fondazione Sandretto, curated by Francesco Bonami, is a reflection on the artistic role of women in a society shaped by male identity. The book, which constitutes the exhibition catalogue, aims to investigate this reality through the creative language of nineteen women artists whose works include installations, drawings, videos and photographs, mixing heterogeneous languages used to interpret the theme of women artists’ freedom in contemporary culture.

    The book has been produced maintaining the creative layout specially conceived by the artists who have interpreted the pages dedicated to them in an autonomous and original way: a series of images follow one another without interruption, in a lively alternation that sees the works of well-known artists such as Shirin Neshat juxtaposed with those of emerging ones such as Maja Bajevic.

    Accompanied by a text by the exhibition’s curator Francesco Bonami and by the entries for each work files and including a biographical and bibliographical appendix, the catalogue offers an original interpretation of the selected works of Micol Assaël, Maja Bajevic, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Marlene Dumas, Ellen Gallagher, Carmit Gil, Fernanda Gomes, Lyudmila Gorlova, Mona Hatoum, Michal Helfman, Emily Jacir, Koo Jeong-a, Daniela Kostova, Senga Nengudi, Shirin Neshat, Shirana Shahbazi, Valeska Soares, Nobuko Tsuchiya and Shen Yuan.

  • Mario Merz. Domenico Bianchi

    curated by Costantino D’Orazio
    text by Ludovico Pratesi
    pages: 48
    format: 24,5 x 16,5 cm
    date of publication: July 2004
    images: 40 col e b/n
    binding: hardback
    language: Italian/English
    isbn 9788877571861



    €15,00

    The book was published on the occasion of the Domenico Bianchi Mario Merz exhibition dedicated to the two artists as part of the Art&Maggio event, held at the Castello Svevo in Bari from 1 May to 30 June 2004.
    The catalogue collects the photographic documentation of the exhibition and opens with the images of Mario Merz’s artistic project set up in the inner courtyard of the Angevin castle: it is a large igloo built in 1998 to be exhibited in the park of the Fundaçao Serralves in Porto and presented in the Bari exhibition as a tribute to the recently deceased artist. The iron structure of the igloo is surmounted by a deer that symbolically underlines the spiritual dimension of the work.
    The second part of the catalogue is dedicated to the creations conceived by Domenico Bianchi and arranged in the castle’s Sala Angioina: eleven large paintings made using materials such as wood, wax, palladium and fibreglass.
    The last part of the book uses images to illustrate some of Bianchi’s most significant experiences in exhibitions for indoor spaces and Merz’s works for outdoor spaces.

  • Piero Martina. Percorsi di pittura dagli anni trenta agli anni settanta

    texts by  Maria Teresa Roberto, Marco Vallora, Sara Abram
    pages: 128
    format: 21 x 28 cm
    date of publication: December 2003
    binding: paperback
    images: 58 col. 60 b/n
    language: Italian
    isbn 9788877571793



    €25,00

    The catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition held from 12 December 2003 to 1 February 2004, with the contribution of the City of Turin and the Piedmont Region, at the Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti in Turin.

    This volume aims to illustrate some of the most significant moments in Piero Martina’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 acquaintance with poets, critics and men of letters, which from the early 1930s extended over a period of forty years.

    The photographic documentation of Martina’s work is divided into chronological and thematic sections: it opens with an oil on canvas entitled C.so San Maurizio and continues with Interno del Caffè Nazionale, paintings that show the artist’s pictorial exploration of her everyday environment, the Turin of the late 1930s.

     

  • Piero Fogliati il poeta della luce

    edited by Marisa Vescovo
    texts by Piero Bianucci, Jasia Reichardt, Marisa Vescovo, Lara-Vinca Masini
    entries edited by Alessandro Trabucco
    apparatus edited by Paolo Fogliati
    pages: 180
    format: 21 x 28 cm
    date of publication: November 2003
    images: 166 col. and b/w
    binding: paperback
    language: Italian/English
    isbn 9788877571786



    €25,00

    The monograph has been published in occasion of the exhibit Piero Fogliati, Poeta della Luca, set up at Tendoni di Ponte Mosca in Turin from November 6th 2003 to January 11th 2004. 

    The volume collects the photographic documentation of Piero Fogliati’s work through his artistic career, divided in three main chapters: light, sound and drawings, with the contributions of in-depth critical essays by Piero Bianucci, Josia Reichardt, Marisa Vescovo and Lara-Vinca Masini. 

    About one hundred works have been reproduces, with detailed biographical descriptions edited by Alessandro Trabucco. 

    Piero Fogliati (Turin 1930-2016), in his artistic research he used unaware perception processes. He works in the invisible with sound and light. Piero Fogliati’s art uses scientific principles in all of his sculptures and installations and studies physiological and psychological phenomenons of perception. 

  • Sol Lewitt Mimmo Paladino

    texts by Marilena Bonomo, Tullio Degennaro, Lia De Venere, Angela Paltera, Ludovico Pratesi, Adachiara Zevi
    pages: 48
    format: 24,5 x 16,5 cm
    date of publication: ottobre 2003
    images: 12 col e 33 b/n
    binding: hardback
    language: Italian
    isbn 9788877571779



    €15,00

    The volume was published for the Operae exhibition dedicated to Sol LeWitt and Mimmo Paladino by the Associazione Culturale Futuro and held in Bari from 7 June to 24 August 2003.
    The catalogue collects the photographic documentation of the exhibition and opens with images of Mimmo Paladino’s artistic project, articulated in a series of works set up in the medieval fortress overlooking the sea. Above the bastions of the fortress, the artist placed nine polychrome aluminium flags watching over the old port like ancient banners, while a large metal helmet presides over the entrance to the fortress, inside which lie the terracotta figures of the Dormienti, accompanied by music composed by Brian Eno.
    The second part of the catalogue is dedicated to LeWitt’s work: All bands is a large wall-painting made up of rectangular tiles combining horizontal and circular lines in bright, brilliant, “Mediterranean” colours, in a sort of homage to Bari’s seafaring vocation, a synthesis of the angular geometries of Western architecture and the circular symbolism of the East. The pages of the book also illustrate all the stages in the creation of the work, from the initial preparation to the final installation.

  • Per Barclay

    pages: 130
    format: 23 x 27 cm
    date of publication: October 2003
    images: 60
    binding: paperback
    language: Spanish/Italian/English
    isbn 9788877571618



    €30,00

    This volume, which constitutes the catalogue of the exhibition of the Norwegian artist held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía from 18 September 2003 to 16 February 2004, presents not only images of the installation at the Palacio de Cristal but a vast excursus on the artist’s work, through photographs of works and texts by various authors. Among them are Giulietta Speranza, Mariano Navarro and Frédéric Bonnet.

    Born in 1955, he lives and works between Turin and Oslo.
    In 1990 he participated in the Nordic Pavilion at the XLIV Venice Biennale. His works have been exhibited in prestigious national and international museums, including: Henie-Onstad Art Centre in Oslo Museet for Samtidskunst in Oslo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, CAC Málaga Centro De Arte Contemporáneo in Málaga.
    Among his most recent exhibitions, in 2014 he took part in the second edition of 'Icastica', in Arezzo, creating an oil installation in the Church of San Domenico, under the Cimabue crucifix. In the same year, he exhibited in São Paulo, Brazil, in 'Made by Brazilians...Creative Invasion'. In 2015, he was invited to participate in 'L'albero della cuccagna', an event conceived by Achille Bonito Oliva, creating an oil chamber at Ca' Pesaro, Venice. In 2017, he presented one of his large installations at the opening of the Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré in Tours, France. In 2018 he participated in Manifesta 12, Palermo, with an oil room at the Cavallerizza of Palazzo Mazzarino, and in 2019 he created an oil room at the Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbon.