Italia

A complete documentation on Roman Signer's first permanent public commission.

Summer issue, highlighting Andra Ursuta, Shanzhai Biennial, Sergei Tcherepnin, Yngve Holen and Petrit Halilaj; investigating an updated notion of materiality; exploring the curatorial practice of Massimiliano Gioni; featuring regulars, tips, and three special inserts.

The catalogue of the Italian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (works by Francesco Arena, Massimo Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Elisabetta Benassi, Flavio Favelli, Luigi Ghirri, Piero Golia, Francesca Grilli, Marcello Maloberti, Fabio Mauri, Giulio Paolini, Marco Tirelli, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa).

A tribute to Gianni Piacentino's art and to his sense of independence with works spanning 1966 to the present.

A summer of art.

Lorenzo Benedetti on Lucy R. Lippard, Vincent Honoré and Krist Gruijthuijsen, Jean-Max Colard, Stefan Brüggemann, Raimar Stange on Poul Gernes, Will Rogan, Sean Edwards, Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Niels Trannois et Alexis Vaillant, Sara Barker, Gabriele De Santis, G. Küng...

New monograph.

After three years of waiting, perhaps the most beautiful issue of Le Dictateur, with twenty series of specially commissioned works by international artists and some astonishing features: an editorial tour de force, between artists' magazine, book-object and paper sculpture.

The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.

The contemporary arts magazine focusing on emerging artists and curators, in the inaugural issue of its new formula (with Oliver Osborne, Alexander Dorner, James Langdon, Anthony Huberman, Eszter Steierhoffer / Candida Höfer, Luca Francesconi, Bettina Buck, Mark Barrow, Aurélien Froment & Julien Fronsacq, Laura Reeves, Roger Van Voorhees...).

An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.

An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.

An image of collective thought concerning the place in which we live.

A chamber music project on LP by the Italian composer, sound artist and performer, inspired by an African divination ritual.

The legendary life of Maurizio Cattelan: a fictional biography of which the artist himself is the biographer.

The legendary life of Maurizio Cattelan: a fictional biography of which the artist himself is the biographer.

A polyphonic self-portrait.

Poems by Bei Dao / iPad Drawings by Francesco Clemente, created exclusively for this book.

Drawings by Enzo Cucchi, created exclusively for this book / poems by 10 Italian authors (Dino Garrone, Lucio Piccolo, Sandro Penna, Giorgio Caproni, Antonio Delfini, Umberto Saba, Clemente Rebora, Tano Festa, Dino Campana, Giovanni Comisso).

A narrative book which tells about personal events through a collage of texts and images.

A set of photographs and texts / a large original photograph.

The political chronicle of the world held by Franco Berardi, by e-mail, on social networking and online publication platforms, from 2009 to 2012.

Daniel Gustav Cramer, Alfred H. Barr Jr., Christian Bernard / Mamco, Sophie Calle, Anna Barham, Marie Lund, Isabelle Cornaro, Babak Ghazi, Erik Van Der Wejde, Iris Touliatou...

The large catalogue of the series of exhibitions curated by Le Dictateur at Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni's Family Business, Chelsea (hand numbered limited edition). Works by Roberto Cuoghi, Jacopo Benassi, Ari Marcopoulos, Liz Magic Laser, Federico Pepe, Nico Vascellari, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Julius Von Bismarck...

The first comprehensive monograph on the pioneer of Arte Povera, inventor of a “relational aesthetics” in the 1960s, political activist, and advocate of an ecologically concerned undertaking in the visual arts

Artist's book based on four recent bodies of sculptures by Federico Pepe.

Adrien Missika, Arnold Bode, Emily Pethick, On the Work and Role Play of Graphic Designers, Asier Mendizábal, Mark Manders, Dina Danish, Jamie Shovlin, Caroline Achaintre, Anna Franceschini, Invernomuto, Fashion Curating – Valerie Steele, Avital Geva...

Reference monograph.

Will Benedict, Alexandra Bachzetsis, 155 Freeman, the resurgence of R&B, Sanya Kantarovsky, preliminary materials for a theory of a new male, Cathy Wilkes...

Retrospective of Maurizio Cattelan's exhibition at the Guggenheim New York in an extraordinary box set (photos by Pierpaolo Ferrari).

Exploring the socialist ruins.

Ian Tweedy, Seth Siegelaub, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Olaf Metzel, Cabello/Carceller, Abdul-Hay Mosallam Zarara, Walid Raad, Giulio Delvè, Martin Soto Climent, Iza Tarasewicz, Raphaël Zarka, Benny Chirco, Amy Feneck, Kaat Debo...

For the Winter 2011/12, editor-in-chief Alessio Ascari presents the first issue of Kaleidoscope magazine under the art direction of the prominent London-based design studio OK-RM.

Two works by the Italian avant-garde composer of classical music Luigi Nono and the composer, sound artist and musicologist Hans van Eck.

Artist's book (contributions by Adam Carr, Daria Irincheeva, Jacopo Miliani, Maria Loboda, Marie Lund, Rebecca Digne, Tenzing Barshee, Stefano Raimondi, Ruth Proctor, Lucy Woodhouse, Thomas Kratz, Antonia Alampi, Meriç Algün Ringborg, and Elisabetta Benassi).

Artist's book: about 180 plates, portrays a collectivity, gathered in its different human manifestations, in the infinite variety of the characters and typologies that only apparently seem fantastical characters.

An artist's book inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, which explores the relationship between text and image, addressing the literary and visual culture of Italy.

A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.

Special issue: five new projects by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Federico Pepe, Luigi Presicce, and Nico Vascellari (limited edition).

The second cahier of Dora García's Mad Marginal project, presented as the publication for the Spanish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011.

A photographic dialogue (artists' book).

A droony ambient join venture between Le Dictateur and artist/musician/fashion designer Canedicoda (ultra-limited edition).

Italian-German artist Ezramo (Alessandra Eramo) recorded the sounds of larvae during their transformation into flies. Trough rough, sub-real field recordings, she explores, interprets and lyrically re-invents the concept of metamorphosis.

When contemporary fiction meets art.

Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art.