The monographic catalogue, already published in the italian/french edition for the exhibition at Carré d'Art Musée d'Art Contemporain of Nîmes, is now published in the german/english edition on the occasion of the exhibition's setup at Museum Kurhaus Kleve in Germany from January 28th to April 1st 2001.

The catalogue collects 70 unpublished drawings by the artist, showed at the exhibition, sheets of drawing and tracing paper on which marks and colours sketch igloos, cones, animals, various shapes that animate Mario Merz imaginary universe.

The monographic catalogue is published on the occasion of the huge exhibition dedicated to the austrian artist, setup at Galleria d’Arte Moderna of Bologna from January 25th to April 1st 2001.

The retrospective exhibition collects about 200 works by Rainer, of which 140 in the catalogue, from the drawings of the Fifties, to the Übermalung, to the photographic works Automatenphotos of 1960, to the religious themes, to angels, leaves’ paintings, to the Schleierbild and actors’ portraits, all made from 1990, up to the recent years, to which belongs the series of Traumland.

The monography has been organized on the chronological order of the images, that follow one other assembled in groups, each of them underlined by the autograph texts, that tell Rainer’s work from the Fifties up to the present day.

The book is the unusual catalogue of the exhibition, curated by Dede Auregli and Peter Weiermair, held at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna from 26 January to 18 March 2001. The exhibition included the works of eight young artists presented by eight critics, interpreting the rooms of the Villa delle Rose and allowing each work a significant presence. Eight agile booklets make up the whole catalogue, placed in a box that holds and collates them. The pairs of artists/critics involved in the project are: Davide Bertocchi and Claudia Zanfi, Piero Cattani and Fabriano Fabbri, Andrea Chiesi and Valeria Tassinari, Flavio Favelli and Stefano Gualdi, Stefania Galegati and Serena Simoni, Luca Piovaccari and Sabina Ghinassi, Stefano Scheda and Alice Rubbini, Italo Zuffi and Silvia Grandi. Each volume includes images, a list of works and a detailed biography.

The monographic catalogue is published for the exhibition at Carré d'Art Musée d'Art Contemporain of Nîmes from July 13th to September 24th 2000.

The catalogue collects 70 unpublished drawings by the artist, showed at the exhibition, sheets of drawing and tracing paper on which marks and colours sketch igloos, cones, animals, various shapes that animate Mario Merz imaginary universe.

Founded in Turin in 1963, Sperone Gallery hosted extreme and different art forms: Pop Art, Arte Povera, New Dada, Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Transavanguard, have found in this space a sure landmark that have let artists and critics cross national boundaries. The book, made up of 2 tomes, describes Sperone Gallery’s history through a large documentation of photographs of the exhibitions of more than 150 artists, hosted in Turin, Rome and New York. The first tome, centred around the activity at the gallery in Turin from 1963 to 1972, includes the texts by the authors; the opening of the new spaces in Rome and New York marks the beginning of the second tome, that speaks about art exhibitions organized from 1972 to 1999, and ends with a chronological and geographical list of all the exhibitions and of all the artists. The pages, in chronological sequence, tell Sperone Gallery's history, draw the route and its most important stages, through views of the fittings of the exhibitions, photographs of the artworks, invitations, texts taken from the original catalogues and from newspapers articles. All the archive material is the result of a deep research made by the authors Anna Minola, Maria Cristina Mundici, Francesco Poli and Maria Teresa Roberto, each of them studying in depht with an essay an important period of the Gallery’s activity, that gives the book the charactheristic of being both critical and historical.

The book offers an interesting interpretation of contemporary art history, here rivisited through unpublished and unusual images that let fully understand the fervour and enthusiasm that always go with the artistic choises of this historical gallery.

The book is published with the contribute of Regione Piemonte.

This volume is the catalogue of the exhibition of the artist Per Barclay held at the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea in Trento, from 22 January to 12 March 2000.
The volume is edited by Vittoria Coen and contains texts by Vittoria Coen, Micheal Vincent Tarantino, Karin Hellandsjø and Lars O. Ericsson.

Per Barclay (Oslo, 1955) is a Norwegian art historian and sculptor who lives and works between Turin and Oslo.
In line with the assumptions of the conceptual reinterpreted through Arte Povera, Barclay uses different media such as photography, installation, object sculpture and later sound to develop his work around a single experience, that of space. His art develops along four fundamental lines of work that coexist over time: interiors, installations, works embedded in nature and finally bodies. Going beyond the usual coordinates linked to different expressive media, the artist seeks a dialogue between architectural space and the human interior, where each element flows into the work in a psychological balance constantly calibrated on the edge of disquiet. For Barclay, like a stage director, he works in real space and transforms it into a fictitious place, telling another story. The room becomes a scene, a scene at the disposal of the artist/director, who uses it to create the work. The reflection and duplication of the image, the ambiguity cleverly conferred on the liquid elements (oil, water, blood) are essential components of the work.