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”.

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.

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.

This book, supported by the Fondazione Guido and Ettore De Fornaris, is a wide-ranging study focusing on twentieth-century photography, and opens with an introductory text by Marina Miraglia, divided into two parts, the first of which covers the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to the 1940s, and the second covering the early 1950s to the most recent examples.
The iconographic section recounts the experience in Turin, from shots taken by Mario Gabinio and Stefano Bricarelli in the 1920s and 1930s to the artistic photographs of Carlo Mollino, the photographic report portraying the city after the war and during the most significant events of the 1960s, the anthropological photographs of Ando Gilardi and Paola Agosti, the shots of Paolo Pellion documenting the artistic events of the 1970s, and the photo-works of Paolo Mussat.
The book concludes by focusing on some of the most significant contemporary work, with the photographs of young artists, amongst whom Maura Banfo, Botto & Bruno, Luisa Rabbia and Giulia Caira, who use photography as a means of expressing their art.

The seventh catalogue of the series Avvistamenti | Sightings is dedicated to the english artist Cornelia Parker, on the occasion of the exhibition at GAM, Torino, opening from April 28th to June 17th, 2001.

The huge amount of images makes perfectly understand Cornelia Parker's creative process, thanks also to the two essays, figuring out the use and meaning of objects making and giving life to her installations. The artist creates surroundings often similar to dramatic performances in which the objects-protagonists, most of them unusual, familiar and belonged to well known people, have been phisically transformed and modified in how they appear and in what they represent.

The book opens with the photographic documentation of the exhibition, collecting about 50 works produced in the last 5 years, to then go back through the artist's work with images of installations, drawings and photographs, from 1980 up to the present day, and closing with an updated bio/bibliography.

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.

The sixth catalogue of the Avvistamenti | Sightings series is dedicated to Mario Airò, artist of the space, both physical and mental, who shapes the air through sound with his work and contains it building architecture. 

The catalogue, that narrates throughoutfully the artistic personality of Airò, both through his work and the biographical writings that accompany some of it, opens with the images of his work created for the GAM exposition The room where Marsilio would dream to sleep in inspired by the De vita coelitus comparanda by Marsilio Ficino, which consists of an imaginary room with a bed, a writing desk and seven pillars where the sky would rest upon. 

Among the other works in the catalogue, those accompanied by the artist’s writings, starting from the work inspired by a screenplay of the movie “Soigne ta droite” by Jean Luc Godard (1986), called Quel pomeriggio qui sulla terra (1998), Ninna-Nanna per barriques e archi (1999), a project fully centered on sound, the work Aurora (1999), introduced by the speech to Chile by Salvador Allende, Springadela (2000), which appears together with the artist’s text on the work of Giordano Bruno, and Raise up the roof beam, carpenters, work of 1999, which is called like a short story by author J.D. Salinger.