The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Fragments from a chromatic discussion 1990-2005 held at Archivio di Stato in Turin from March 24th to May 3rd, 2006.

The show collects 80 paintings created by the artist from 1990 to 2005 and reproduced in this book. This tells deeply about the artistic personality of Renata Rampazzi through her works in which the tracks of the brush, charged with diluted colour, combine, lose themselves in each other, and belong only to their growth in intensity, opening up to symbiosis, to mutations like all vital and natural events, when they enter into the generational dimension that appears between matter and spirit. We find ourselves before a thin, vaporous painting betraying the pressure exercised on its “skin” by effects of sensible currents of energy, which lays bare vaguely libidinous flashes of memory and is sublimed by phosphorescences of hidden lights.

The book, curated by Marisa Vescovo, also includes a text by the Italian writer Lidia Ravera.

“Night. Not a single star in the sky…" In the darkness and silence of a city of tall, blackened buildings, Evelina dreams of opening a thousand-star hotel, the most luxurious and brightest ever built. And in her dream, Evelina imagines colourful and wonderful rooms. The meeting of Dario Voltolini’s words with Nicola De Maria’s pictorial language gives birth to a marvellous dream that exhorts to life so that “... we know that anger is also needed to give a beautiful colour to a world that otherwise dies”.

Thanks to the synergy between the art of writing and the art of images, La favola dell’arte offers children a fabulous way to enter the world of contemporary art, a useful means of entertainment and knowledge at the same time.

Nicola De Maria was born in Foglianise in 1954. “Since the mid-1970s the artist has been experimenting with an original language in which abstraction is charged with poetic figurative allusions, archetypal expressions of nature, joy and passion. His painting thrives on simple forms and pure colours”. (Achille Bonito Oliva)

Dario Voltolini was born in Turin in 1959. He has published Una intuizione metropolitana (Bollati Boringhieri, 1990), Rincorse (Einaudi, 1994), Forme d’onda (Feltrinelli, 1996), 10 (Feltrinelli, 2000), Primaverile (Feltrinelli, 2001), I confini di Torino (Quiritta, 2003) and Il tempo della luce (Effigie, 2005). With Giulio Mozzi he has published Sotto i cieli d’Italia (Sironi, 2004) and with Antonio Moresco he edited the collective volume Scrivere sul fronte occidentale (Feltrinelli, 2002). He also works as a librettist with composer Nicola Campogrande.

The catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition S.N.O.W. (Sculpture in Non-Objective Way) held at Galleria Tucci Russo in Torre Pellice (Torino) from October 8th 2005 to January 22nd 2006.

The intention of the show is to investigate on some of the aspects of contemporary sculptural exploration, concentrating on non-objective and abstract languages. Despite their disparate historical and artistic backgrounds and contexts, the works of the artists in the show (Gianni Caravaggio, Björn Dalem, Francesco Gennari, Paolo Piscitelli, Robin Rhode, Conrad Shawcross) revolve around the same object; their attitude toward science is anecdotal, metaphoric, literary, and symbolic. The materials employed are often natural – wood, marble, sugar, foam – and avoid optical or retinal effects or references to the realm of mass media. References to the quotidian, to the object, to recognizable elements – even manipulated or presented in a decorative form – are avoided in favor of a more complex and visionary concept of form.

The book, curated by Andrea Bellini (art historian, critic and independent curator), provides documentation of the exhibition at Tucci Russo Art Gallery together with a selection of recent works by the artists.

Artists: Gianni Caravaggio, Björn Dalem, Francesco Gennari, Paolo Piscitelli, Robin Rhode, Conrad Shawcross

The monograph is published on the occasion of the solo exhibition organized by the Galleria Giorgio Persano in Turin.

The book offers a complete overview on the artist to tell then through the images the art of Luisa Rabbia showing a large number of illustrations: the artist works with various materials, though she prefers those that best narrate the passage of time, the crumbling of things and their disintegration. “I like to consider time itself a material,” Luisa Rabbia says, “the main material that everything else may relate to.”

In her art, Luisa Rabbia explores the perception of the body as border between the outside and the inside world of an individual: the relationship between a human and his environment, including his spiritual journey, his thoughts, memory and the passing of time. In Luisa Rabbia drawings, patterns mirror the world, while the forms the textiles take create not only an outside world, but also hide an inside, which remains an enigma to the viewer.

The catalogue also includes the critical essay by Achille Bonito Oliva and an up-to-date biobibliography.

This book documents the experience of the food4thought project, its development, the exhibitions and performances which have accompanied it, the thoughts and experiences of its creators and of the experts, artists, cooks and protagonists of the world of art and culture that helped make it happen.

Four chefs of international acclaim and five of the most fascinating artists on the contemporary scene take visitors on a unique discovery of the complex rituals connected to food, including nourishment, taste, instincts and consumption. There are four leading concepts around which the exploration revolves: food/future, food/substance, food/environment and food/exchange.

Artists: Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Francesco Jodice, Dunja Scannavini, Sissel Tolaas, Ben Vautier

Cooks: Burkhard Bacher, Herbert Hintner, Thomas Mayr, Davide Scabin

The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Estorick Collection in London from September 14th to December 18th 2005.

From Futurism to Arte Povera: Works from the Marcello Levi Collection exhibition brings to London for the first time over fifty paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations from the collection of Marcello Levi, one of the leading collectors of contemporary art in Italy. Levi began collecting Futurist drawings and masters such as Klee and Man Ray, before becoming one of the earliest collectors of Arte Povera. His incredible foresight enabled him to gather together a remarkable body of work that has rarely been shown in public before.

Levi was active during the same years as Eric Estorick, but tended to favour abstract rather than figurative art. The exhibitions selection, installation and display of key works reveals fascinating parallels and differences in their approaches to collecting, making this a particularly stimulating and insightful venture for the Estorick Collection.

The book includes two essays by Robert Lumley (Professor of Italian Cultural History at University College in London) and by Francesco Manacorda, art critic and curator of the Levi collection, plus a conversation curated by Maria Centonze.