The catalogue documents Mario Merz’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. The exhibition, curated by Danilo Eccher, was planned as a travelling event and was presented in the spaces of the Pinacoteca do Estado in São Paulo, the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro and the Museu de Arte Moderna in Salvador di Bahia, after having been hosted in the spaces of the Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires. The exhibition included works and large-scale installations that the book documents through a large number of photographs.

The catalogue was published for the anthological exhibition held from 26 February to 4 May 2003, with the contribution of the City of Turin and the Piedmont Region, at the Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti in Turin, which sought to present to the public the production of one of the most important artists in the Piedmontese art scene. The book is a tribute to Gino Gorza and his creative and professional career, which made an important contribution to the cultural growth of Turin.
Introduced by in-depth critical essays by Pino Mantovani, Marco Rosci and Francesco De Bartolomeis, the catalogue reproduces about one hundred works, accompanied by detailed biographical notes written by Anna Maglioni, and provides an exhaustive account of Gorza’s artistic personality, both through his works and through the autograph writings reproduced in their entirety.
The photographic documentation of Gorza’s work opens with the Ritratto del modello of 1949 and continues with the figure-signs of the Icone of the 1950s and the iconographic memories of the Panoplies, before lingering over the centrality of the experience of the Anamorfi and Bivalvi of the 1960s. Passing from the extreme essentiality of the Atti visivi and the aesthetic interpretation of silk in Artemis, we arrive at the musical trend of the Avverbi which constitute his last production together with the Interpunzioni and Alpha. Finally, a large section is dedicated to drawings: among others, the refined series on Nepalese paper.
The catalogue closes with an updated and complete biography and bibliography.

The series of catalogues made by hopefulmonster for GAM, Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, opens with a monograph dedicated to artist Eva Marisaldi in occasion of her exhibit at GAM from November 15th 2002 to January 15th 2003. 

The catalogue, that narrates the artistic personality of Eva Marisaldi, both through her works and thanks her biographical writings of 1994 and here published for the first time, opens up with her work up until 2002 (date of publication, NdR), made of installations, videos and numerous drawings. 

Through her drawings, that for Eva Marisaldi represent a mean of narrating many stories suspended in space and time, one reaches the sound works all centered on the mind, on thoughts, that get colored by emotion and desire. 

Two critical writings, one by Elena Volpato, curator of the exhibition, the other by Rosalba Paiano, accompany the images to deepen the themes of Marisaldi’s art, and analyze her work, taking on their meaning and poetry. 

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.

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.

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.