Nero

Nero is a publishing house specialized in the production of artist's books, editions, and catalogues commissioned by museums, foundations and private collections. Based in Rome, Nero also works in curating, art direction and consulting for cultural projects and contemporary art.
 
Colorescenze - Artiste, Toscana, Futuro
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
forthcoming
A publication about twelve women artists in Tuscany and their alternative ways of making art, departing from dominant, male-centered models to embrace regenerative practices and transformative imaginaries.
Fiamma Montezemolo - Hidden in Plain Sight
2024
English edition
forthcoming
A publication tracing the itinerary of Fiamma Montezemolo's anthropological and artistic research, across Italy, Mexico, and the United States.
Visible – Art as Policies for Care - Socially Engaged Art (2010-Ongoing)
2024
English edition
Comprehensive documentation on 43 outstanding socially committed artistic projects over the past twenty years.
Re-Materialization of Language - 1978-2022
2024
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
The first attempt at a philological reconstruction of the seminal exhibition Materializzazione del linguaggio, curated in 1978 by Mirella Bentivoglio within an edition of the Biennale di Venezia, and dedicated to the verbo-visual explorations of eighty international women artists.
Jacopo Pagin - The Sniper In The Brain
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Over 200 drawings and paintings to explore the visionary, obsessive, and hypnotic qualities of Jacopo Pagin's work.
Micol Roubini - La montagna magica
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
An extensive investigation on the ecosystem of Europe's largest asbestos quarry in Balangero (TO) and the dense network of relations between human and land.
Towards the Realm of Materiality - Designing Philip K. Dick\'s Non-Existing Technologies
2024
English edition
A multidisciplinary exploration of the technological devices, the machines, and the objects conceived by the brilliant mind of Philip K. Dick.
Giovanna Silva - Saudiscapes
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The trip to Saudi Arabia by photographer Giovanna Silva and curator Emilia Giorgi.
Angelo Plessas - The House of All Beings (box set)
2024
English edition
A board game and a communal ritual conceived by artist Angelo Plessas to explore self-made sacred spaces and inter-species connections.
The Glover Group - A Los Angeles Story
2024
English edition
A portrait of the cohesive community of women artists in Frogtown, Los Angeles, including Ruby Neri, Hilary Pecis, Megan Reed, Lily Stockman, and Austyn Weiner.
Museums at the Ecological Turn
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A reflection on the relation between art, museum institutions and climate activism.
Lucia Palladino - To enter the forest
2024
English edition
currently out of stock
A collection of walking and writing exercises to put our perspective about self and what is other to self, as well as the relations between things, even beyond the human, into question.
Valentina Tanni - Exit Reality - Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold
2024
English edition
The first attempt to map that ensemble of subcultures, popular narratives, and visual and auditory languages we now recognize as "internet aesthetics".
Forgotten Architecture - An Archive of Overshadowed Projects
2024
English edition
A "minor" and alternative history of architecture.
Julien Carreyn - Voyage à Kastelorizo
2024
English edition
An island photographic wandering (a series of photographs taken on a small island in the Aegean Sea, Kastelorizo, focusing on its hollow spaces and silent atmospheres).
Simone Forti - New Book
2024
English edition
A new poem composed by the legendary dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti.
MUdec United - Exposure
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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.
Valentina Tanni - Memesthetics - The Eternal September of Art
2024
English edition
The first book to draw a comprehensive cartography of the relationship between visual arts and digital culture since the early 2000s, tracing the history of memes "from Duchamp to TikTok."
Renato Leotta - Ondina (vinyl LP + booklet)
2024
An archive of sounds for interspecies communication, stemming from Renato Leotta's research on Posidonia Oceanica, an underwater plant endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.
Alex Cecchetti - Sentiero
2024
English edition
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.
Nicolas Cilins - Stills From Seven Works
2024
texts in English, German, French
A monograph dedicated to Nicolas Cilins’ films between 2011 and 2020.
Landscape with(out) Locus
2023
English edition
(last copies available!)
A collective reflection on the landscape as an ever-changing social, economic, and ecological construct, addressing questions of power, identity, and natural resources (contributions by T. J. Demos, Tiago Torres-Campos, Tiffany Kaewen Dang, Hagit Keysar and Ariel Caine, Teresa Mendes Flores, Chris Malcolm, Irmgard Emmelhainz...)
Charles Bernstein - Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End - Poems of Artificial Intelligence 
2023
English edition
A collection of poems generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus.
Sandro Penna - Sleepless Traveler
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The English translation of Il viaggiatore insonne, poet legend Sandro Penna's final collection, coupled with illustrations by the American artist Louis Fratino.
Estelle Hoy - Jus d\'Orange
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A dialogue between Camille Henrot's images and Estelle Hoy's texts, a visual and verbal exploration of melancholy, failure, injustice, and hope.
Artists\' Survival Kit
2023
English edition
A collection of essays and a critical attempt to rethink and improve the relationship between artists and art institutions and to give visibility to the precarious, complex, and very often existential reality of the art workers.
Honza Zamojski - Rise and Fall of the Middlemen
2023
English edition
Artist book: a visual and poetic investigation of the enigmatic figure of the "Middleman", combining short punchlines and full-page illustrations, which are wryly reminiscent of Kafka's fictional world. The publication comes with a cardboard puppet, to be screwed and assembled.
Alice Guareschi - Je m\'appelle Olympia
2023
no text
A series of 16 photographs documenting an action for house lights performed by Alice Guareschi at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris (leporello).
The Rainbow Book
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
The reprint of a cult book of post-1968 psychedelic culture:, an encyclopedia of the cultural and artistic manifestations of the rainbow first published in 1975 in Berkeley, California, on the occasion of The Rainbow Show exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
 Salvo - Io sono Salvo - Works and Writings 1961-2015
2023
English edition
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)
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.
Abbas Zahedi - “ ”
2023
English edition
A conversation between Eva Wilson and the 2022 Frieze Artist Award Abbas Zahedi, around the core concepts of "translation and transplantation".
Lina Pallotta - Porpora
2023
English edition
A photographic portrait of Porpora Marcasciano, human rights activist, writer, sociologist and honorary president of MIT (the Italian Transgender Identity Movement).
The Mediterranean - A Round Sea
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
A body of essays and artworks, edited by Marina Folkidis, about artistic production in the Mediterranean terroir.
Philippe Malouin - Steel Works
2023
English edition
An overview of the Canadian designer's creative process.
Luca Trevisani - Walking loaves
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
An artist book by Luca Trevisani, overwriting in the mode of a palimpsest Piero Camporesi's Bread of Dreams, an Italian cult classic of "food" anthropology.
Massimo Bartolini - Hagoromo
2023
English edition
The most complete publication ever dedicated to the Tuscan artist.
Simone Forti - Oh, Tongue
2023
English edition
A new revised version of the notebook of the legendary American dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world.
Diego Perrone - Run-up - Grasso
2023
English edition
An artist book celebrating the first five issues of Grasso magazine.
Paolo Cirio - Monitoring Control
2022
English edition
Combining art and activism, semiotics and capitalism, art and finance, control and subversion, Monitoring Control by Paolo Cirio represents a critique of the social manipulation imposed by new technologies, while examining the counter-control that individuals can implement to dismantle these forces, sabotage them, and protect themselves.
 Destroyers/Builders - Rooted Flows
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
This book is dedicated to the work of Destroyers/Builders (Linde Freya Tangelder), as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.
Kostas Lambridis - Rooted Flows
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
This book is dedicated to the spectacular and baroque work of Kostas Lambridis, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.
Mario Rizzi - Bayt / بيت
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A complete overview of the vast cinematographic project of the Italian artist and director around the "Arab Spring".
Zineb Sedira - Les rêves n\'ont pas de titres
2022
French edition
The three issues of the periodical charting the artistic journey of Zineb Sedira in the run up to her presentation for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), gathered in a box set.
Pierre Bal-Blanc - The Continuum Was Performed in the Following Manner - Notes on documenta 14
2022
English edition
An in-depth ex-post reflection on Documenta 14 by one of its curators, Pierre Bal Blanc, with the contribution of Adam Szymczyk.
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