The catalogue documents the exhibition held to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Francesco Menzio’s birth at the Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti in Turin from 17 December 1999 to 13 February 2000. The exhibition, curated by Rolando Bellini, traced the entire life and work of one of the major protagonists of the group of the “six painters of Turin”, starting with a selection made by the curators in agreement with the artist’s children of self-portraits the artist painted throughout his life. In addition to a rich iconographic documentation, the volume includes texts, a critical biography and a focus on Menzio’s activity as a teacher at the Academy.

A leading figure on the contemporary art scene, Giulio Paolini has since the beginning of the 1960s undertaken constant and unceasing research into the complex interweaving of relationships that take place in the sphere of visual experience and pictorial practice, between image and gaze, artist and spectator, past and present, time and space. The exhibition that this catalogue accompanies presents the figures and imaginative territories most assiduously frequented by the artist through forty years of work. In addition to a rich set of images, the catalogue includes a critical text by Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, an essay by Daniel Soutif, texts and projects by the artist, an essay by Maddalena Disch, another by Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco, a photographic essay by Paolo Mussat Sartor, a biographical note by Daniela Lancioni and biographical and bibliographical apparatus by Maddalena Disch.

This volume is the catalogue of the first solo exhibition dedicated to Calzolari by Bologna, the artist’s hometown, in a public space, from 14 March to 2 May 1999. Edited by Bruno Corà, with texts by the curator, by Mario Bertoni and Calzolari himself, the book documents the historical phases of the artist’s work and the installation at the Villa delle Rose, consisting largely of works specially conceived for the space. The book is completed by an extensive biography and bibliography.

Published by the Fondazione Guido ed Ettore De Fornaris on the occasion of the “Costruire una collezione. Nuove Acquisizioni 1994-1998” (Building a collection. New Acquisitions 1994-1998) exhibition, the volume constitutes the catalogue of the acquisitions of the previous five years and bears witness to the workcarried out by the Foundation in conformity with the cultural guidelines provided by the Artistic Commission. The book, edited by Riccardo Passoni, is the third catalogue produced so far: with the two previous ones, published in 1986 and 1993, almost twenty years of De Fornaris’ activity are thus summed up. This activity has enabled the more than one thousand works acquired by the Foundation to enrich the holdings of the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino.

The book refers to the exhibition resulting from the project, curated by Rudi Fuchs and Cristina Mundici, for a major urban art intervention on the new boulevard created by the covering of Turin’s Passante Ferroviario (a new tunnel where previously the railway ran on the surface). The project brings together eleven of the best-known and internationally recognised Italian and foreign artists, who have been asked to interpret the theme of public commissions, offering not only the imprint of their own creativity but also a different configuration of the urban intervention: from fountain to door, from monument to practicable sculpture. The exhibition, held at the GAM in Turin from 19 March to 25 April 1998, is documented in this volume with images of the installation and the projects conceived by the artists.

Catalogue of the artist’s solo exhibition at the Pecci Museum in Prato, curated by Bruno Corà, from 31 October 1997 to 25 January 1998, the volume – which comprehensively documents Salvadori’s artistic career from the 1970s to the 1998 – opens with an essay by Bruno Corà and is followed by critical contributions by Bettina della Casa, Giuseppe Leonelli, Giorgio Maragliano, Pierluigi Tazzi and Tommaso Trini, among others, a poem by Barouh Benvensite and completed by the biographical and bibliographical apparatus edited by Sally Benjamin Salvadori.