Art catalogues
  • Mario Merz

    text by Adriana Rosenberg, Danilo Eccher, Giorgio Guglielmino, Lucas Fragasso, Hugo Petruschansky
    pages: 120
    format: 23 x 27 cm
    date of publication: October 2002
    images: 101
    binding: softbound
    language: Italian/English/Spanish
    isbn 9788877571624



    €28,00

    The volume is the catalogue of the Mario Merz. Opere storiche – installazioni exhibition presented at the Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires from 19 October 2002 to 10 January 2003. The exhibition, curated by Danilo Eccher, for the first time presented the work of Mario Merz in Latin America. The catalogue includes a conversation between the curator and the artist, texts by Giorgio Guglielmino, Lucas Fragass and Hugo Petruschansky and an extensive photographic documentation.

  • Bernd & Hilla Becher, Robert Smithson. Field trips

    edited by James Lingwood
    pages: 167
    format: 16,5 x 23 cm
    date of publication: July 2002
    images: 67
    binding: hardback
    language: Portuguese/English/Italian
    isbn 9788877571465



    €41,50

    This volume is the catalogue of the exhibition of Bernd & Hilla Becher and Robert Smithson at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, from 30 November 2001 to 3 March 2002. The exhibition, curated by James Lingwood, brought together specific groups of works by Robert Smithson and Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose starting point is the visit they made together to Oberhausen, in the Ruhr area of Germany, in 1968. Robert Smithson and the Bechers are among the most significant names in the history of art of the second half of the twentieth century. Co-curated by James Lingwood, a longtime associate of the Bechers and organiser of the first major retrospective exhibition of Smithson’s work in Europe, this new exhibition presents selected works by Smithson and the Bechers from the brief period between the publication of Smithson’s seminal photo essay A Tour of The Monuments of Passaic in December 1967 and the publication of the Bechers’ first book, Anonyme Sculpturen, in 1970.

  • Tobias Rehberger. Deaddies

    Avvistamenti | Sightings

    texts by Magrit Brehm, Alessandra Pace, Tobias Rehberger
    pages: 112
    format: 21 x 28 h cm
    date of publication: June 2002
    images: 90 col.
    binding: paperback
    language: Italian/English
    isbn 9788877571540



    €14,46

    The tenth catalogue of the Avvistamenti | Sightings series is dedicated to German artist Tobias Rehberger and published in occasion of his solo exhibition at GAM, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, from May 4th to June 30th 2002. 

    The monograph opens up with the photographic documentation of the exhibit, to then narrate through the images Rehberger’s artistic career, from 1994 onwards, and ending with the photographs from the latest exhibit by the artist in Karlsruhe, Germany. 

    The volume also presents an essay by Magrit Brehm, curator of the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden and interview of Alessandra Pace with the artist. 

     

    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.

  • Alfredo Romano

    texts by Elio Cappuccio, Francesco Gallo, Agnes Kohlmeyer, Salvatore Lacagnina, Enrico Pedrini
    pages: 92
    format: 21 x 28 cm
    date of publication: April 2002
    images: 42 b/w, 40 col.
    binding: paperback
    language: Italian/English
    isbn 9788877571557



    €15,49

    Monographic catalogue of the sicilian artist published for the exhibition held at Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea in Siracusa. The book includes also a Compact Disk with music composed by Giuseppe Gavazza for sonorizing some of the artist’s works.
    Alfredo Romano’s work gathers the transitoriness of becoming in forms and objects that express the ambivalence of reality and the human condition. This symbolic size becomes a concrete reality because of the use of ordinary materials for a new interpretation: wax, wood, marble, iron and fabric are used together and they refer to the lightness and at once to the heaviness of everyday life.
    The bowls that compose ‘La stanza sorda’ (Deaf Room) refer to a popular culture, the pliers used for ‘Feritoie’ (Loops-holes) evoke the brutality and violence of our society and the plaits, the grills, the chairs, the bowls, the scythe “are not”, as the artist says, “objects. They are the sense of existence”.
    The inner speech of Romano’s works meets the musical speech of Giuseppe Gavazza, an italian composer from Turin, to create the sounding installations called ‘N-Odi’. They express Alfredo Romano’s wish, when he says: “I would like my work to be like a song”.

  • Kcho. La Jungla

    AVVISTAMENTI/SIGHTINGS
    texts by Gianfranco Maraniello, José Manuel Noceda Fernández, Corina Matamoros Tuma
    pages 112
    format 21 x 28 cm
    published March 2002
    binding softbound
    images 49
    language Italian/English
    isbn 9788877571533



    €14,46

    The catalogue of the solo exhibition that GAM in Turin dedicated to the work of Kcho, a young Cuban artist, from 9 February to 7 April 2002, is the ninth in the AVVISTAMENTI 1999-2001 series. Ten exhibitions of contemporary art, curated by Alessandra Pace, with critical contributions by Gianfranco Maraniello, José Manuel Noceda Fernández and Corina Matamoros Tuma. The book includes a rich iconographic repertoire and includes images of the installation, designed and supervised directly by the artist.

  • Nari Ward. Attractive nuisance

    AVVISTAMENTI/SIGHTINGS
    texts by Beth Coleman, Olukemi Ilesanmi
    pages 112
    format 21 x 28 cm
    published July 2001
    binding softbound
    images 35
    language italiano/inglese
    isbn 9788877571274



    €14,46

    The book is the catalogue of the eighth solo exhibition of the AVVISTAMENTI 1999-2001 cycle. Ten exhibitions of contemporary art, curated by Alessandra Pace, dedicated to the Jamaican-born artist Nari Ward, running from 6 July to 9 September 2001. The book presents many images of the exhibition at the GAM in Turin, as well as extensive documentation of the artist’s historical works and large-scale installations, and is completed by critical texts by Beth Coleman and Olukemi Ilesanmi.