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MUdec United - Exposure
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
forthcoming
MUdec United, the publication of the MUDEC – Museo delle Culture di Milano, one of the Italian leading institutions, is a book-zine dedicated to interdisciplinary research on world cultures. The second issue questions the quintessential symbolic device of the museum machine: the showcase—a tool of preservation, mummification, and desire, with many stories to tell.
Lo Spazio di Via Lazzaro Palazzi - Ovvero: tirar correndo
2024
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
forthcoming
The facsimile of a never-before-published catalogue, documenting a Milanese exhibition banned by the police in 1992, renders the productions and stances of a group of Italian artists in the artistic context of the time.
Skank Bloc Bologna - Alternative Art Spaces
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
The history of nonprofit and alternative exhibition spaces in Bologna from 1977 up to the present.
Enzo Mari - 25 façons de planter un clou
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
Roma, a portrait - Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
forthcoming
Catalogue of the first edition of a project that turns Palazzo Esposizioni on an annual basis into a primary observatory for exploring the visions and the research go those foreign scholars and artists who spend a period of residency in Rome every year, a guests of the Academies and Cultural Institutes that have been part of a city's life since the seventeenth century.
Giulia Andreani - L\'improduttiva / The Unproductive One
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
New monograph, featuring a cohesive body of new work, with large-scale paintings and watercolours.
 Ganko - Glasraum
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
forthcoming
The result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography, Glasraum explores the deliberate ambiguities embedded in a seemingly aloof approach to the construction of both space and image.
Giuseppe Ielasi - Rhetorical Islands (vinyl LP)
2024
Faitiche
forthcoming
First vinyl edition of the album Rhetorical Islands, originally released by Giuseppe Ielasi in 2012 as a limited-edition CD on his Senufo Editions label, with recordings made in 2011 as a commission by Jérôme Noetinger for l'Audible Festival, Paris.
Binta Diaw - Toolu Xeer
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
forthcoming
First monograph devoted to the work of the Italian-Senegalese artist Binta Diaw.
The Tilt of Time
2024
English edition
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
An exploration of the multifaceted nature of time through the artworks of seven artists, encompassing different artistic approaches and investigations, ranging from the transformation of objects and their meanings over time and history, to the current role of artificial intelligence in the creation of images and its relationship with the visual arts, as well as the geopolitical tensions of the present day.
Massimiliano Locatelli - Editions
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An anthology that gathers a selection of furniture and lamps designed over the years by the Italian architect Massimiliano Locatelli.
Renato Leotta - Ondina (vinyl LP + booklet)
2024
Nero
An archive of sounds for interspecies communication, stemming from Renato Leotta's research on Posidonia Oceanica, an underwater plant endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.
Christina Kubisch - Zenger Station (vinyl LP)
2024
Edition Telemark
New electromagnetic recordings by Christina Kubisch: a suite of pieces focusing on the electromagnetic sound qualities of trams, buses and related infrastructure.
Aldo Clementi - Collage (vinyl LP)
2024
Alga Marghen
Two previously unreleased collages for magnetic tape, both realized at the Studio di Fonologia Muisicale RAI in Milan. These pieces are precious testimonials to Aldo Clementi's intense and ongoing interest in electronic music in the 1960s.
Neural - Negociating Values
2024
English edition
Neural
Co-editor: Matteo Marangoni; interviews with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Kexin Hao, Pei-Ying Lin, Vivian Caccuri; articles: Accessing the Fiduciary Transactions of the Intellect and Imagination, Folding the Past into the Present; reports: Transmediale 2023, KIKK Festival...
Alex Cecchetti - Sentiero
2024
English edition
Nero
The documentation of a mountain path designed by artist Alex Cecchetti in Val Gardena (Bolzano, Italy) and a journey into more-than-human presences and ecologies.
Rebecca Moccia - Ministry of Loneliness
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
An artistic reflection on the political and social structures that shape the emotional state of loneliness and its perception in contemporary society.
Louis De Belle - Crowd
2024
English edition
Bruno
A shift in perspective on passive tourism in Italy
Gianpaolo Pagni - Album - Contemporary artists top 100 world 2020
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
The top 100 contemporary artists in the playful and regressive form of a sticker album, modeled on the Panini albums.
Leone Contini - Human Pelvis, Bitter Radish
2024
English edition
Reliable Copy
This publication features a project by Leone Contini looking into the canned food available during the war of Caporetto in 1917 and especially its iconography. It brings together an essay by the artist along with reproductions of a selection of his drawings.
Out of the Grid - Italian Zine 1978-2006
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.
Giovanna Silva - Napoli
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A photographic exploration of the architecture, history and people of Naples at the time of the fervent Scudetto celebrations.
Sandro Penna - Sleepless Traveler
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
The English translation of Il viaggiatore insonne, poet legend Sandro Penna's final collection, coupled with illustrations by the American artist Louis Fratino.
Werner Durand - Clearing (vinyl LP)
2023
Aguirre Records
The first published recording by Amelia Cuni, Werner Durand (fusing her Indian Raga singing in the Dhrupad style with his minimalist and experimental approach) and Uli Hohmann (joining them in a range of hand drums from the Middle East and North Africa, plus a dulcimer-sounding hammered guitar).
Francesco Simeti - Come un limone lunare
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Carla Cerati - Milano 1963/1973
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Photographer and writer Carla Cerati (1926-2016) captures the architectural, social and political upheavals of 1960-70s Milan.
Studio Marconi 1966–1980 - An Anthology
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of Studio Marconi's publishing activities since the 1960s, tracing the studio's history.
Gae Aulenti - Cina 1974
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
A series of astonishing photographs by the Italian architect and designer, discovering China at the end of the Cultural Revolution, between millenary traditions, openness to the world and forced modernization.
Margaret de Asbaje - Court traité-poème de métaphysique moniste
2023
French edition
Mix
A mysterious hybrid manuscript ("rediscovered", edited and presented by Alessandro De Francesco) whose prose, oscillating between poetry, philosophy and conceptual art, ingenuously explores the great unresolved questions of humanity and nature.
Diego Marcon - Music for Diego Marcon\'s works - Written by Federico Chiari (vinyl LP)
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
The music composed by Federico Chiari for various film and video works by the artist Diego Marcon.
 Eva & Franco Mattes - Fukushima Texture Pack
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
This artist's book reflects Eva & Franco Mattes' continued interest in the condition of displacement to be sensed in Fukushima. Borrowing the format of wrapping-paper catalogs, it contains twenty large pre-perforated sheets, each of which features a photographic texture—a seamlessly repeating motif captured by the camera amid the radioactive ruins of the contaminated towns and countryside.
Diego Marcon - Glassa
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
A polyphonic examination of the Italian artist's project for the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, the largest display of the artist Diego Marcon artworks in an Italian institution, reviewing some of the central themes of Diego Marcon’s research.
Neural - Machine Transparency
2023
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Vivian Xu, Abi Liu, Stephen Cornford, Timo Toots, Egor Kraft; reports: xCoAx 2022, Ars Electronica 2022...
Enzo Mari - Singing Enzo Mari The Function of Esthetic Research (vinyl LP)
2023
various
A musical version of legendary Italian designer and artist Enzo Mari's rare book The Function of Esthetic Research (1970), singed by a computer-aided software.
Alice Guareschi - Je m\'appelle Olympia
2023
no text
Nero
A series of 16 photographs documenting an action for house lights performed by Alice Guareschi at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris (leporello).
Elisa Filomena - Endeavour
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The Drawer - Books
Elisa Filomena's women.
 Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) - Symphony No. 107 - The Bard (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
A previously unheard archival recording of the legendary improvising ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva (Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum), captured in concert at Bard College, New York in 2012.
Strata - Italian Art since 2000 – The Words of the Artists
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Lenz Press
An interdisciplinary perspective upon Italian visual culture through the words of 37 artists active from 2000 to today.
Christina Kubisch - Inaudible, invisible - Exploring the Works of Christina Kubisch
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Espace multimedia Gantner
An incursion into a major field of work by Christina Kubisch, a pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of electromagnetic fields generated by our urban and technological environment since the 1970s.
Luca Monterastelli - Pardon Façade
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
Pardon Façade documents the artistic output of Luca Monterastelli, showcasing almost all of the sculptures and installations that he produced between 2011 and 2022.
Carmelo Bene - L\'esthétique du déplaisir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.
 Salvo - Io sono Salvo - Works and Writings 1961-2015
2023
English edition
Nero
A monograph conceived as a self-portrait: the story of the artist's career through works and writings from 1961 to 2015, collected in chronological order to illustrate the ever-evolving, organic nature of Salvo's activities, which constantly interacted with the history of art.
MUdec United - Rainbow
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
MUdec United, the new publication of the MUDEC – Museo delle Culture di Milano, one of the Italian leading institutions, is a book-zine dedicated to interdisciplinary research on world cultures. The first issue addresses the themes explored with an exhibition project composed of different stories related to the rainbow as a natural, cultural, spiritual and human phenomenon.
 Fosbury Architecture - Spaziale - Everyone belongs to everyone else / Ognuno appartiene a tutti gli altri
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The volume "Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else" brings together the voices of all the protagonists involved in the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Luigi Coppola - Ex Situ - Compatible with life – Plants for a word waiting to germinate
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
A long-term project by the Italian artist and agroecologist on rethinking the relationship with the earth, both from the point of view of humans and plants.
Giuseppe Ielasi - Down On Darkened Meetings (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
Giuseppe Ielasi's first album released on Oren Ambarchi's Black Truffle label continues the renewed exploration of the guitar that marks much of his solo work over the last few years: a major new work from a quiet master of contemporary experimental music
Andrea Salvino - Autobiography
2023
English edition
Tonini Editore
In his "Autobiography", Andrea Salvino uses different visual elements that characterized his production through the years: movie stills, details of master paintings, images of celebrities and many others.
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