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.

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.

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.