Tonini Editore
Autobiography
Autobiography is a series by Tonini Editore, published periodically. Each volume is dedicated to an artist, who is free to carry out the topic of the autobiography by means of text or visual supports. Belonging to a series, each book has the same size and maximum amount of pages (64). The selection of the artists participating to the series is coordinated by a scientific committee made up of six renown personalities in the world of the art research and collection: Pedro Barbosa (collector and founder of the Coleção Moraes - Barbosa), Alex Bacon (art historian), Claudio Guenzani (gallery owner in Milan, owner of the Studio Guenzani),
Michele Lombardelli (artist, composer, typographer and consultant for several publishing houses), Shwetal Ashvin Patel (writer and researcher, founding member of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale), Christoph Schifferli (collector and scholar), and Valentino Tonini (director of the homonymous publishing house).
2025
English edition
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Peter Downsbrough's “autobiography”, conceived and "written" in 2023, his last artist's book ever.
2025
English edition
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John Armleder delivers a series of drawings for his “autobiography”.
2024
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Stefano Arienti's photographic "autobiography" (artist's book).
2023
English edition
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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.
2023
English edition
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(last copies available!)
Stefan Marx uses different media in his "Autobiography". Sketches, paintings, photographs and some texts, all carried out through the iconic style that made him a legend.
2023
English edition
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Maurizio Nannucci's "auto(biblio)biography" (artist's book).
2023
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Claudia Comte's "autobiography" (artist's book).
2022
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Autobiography by Ignasi Aballí is made up of 64 "años" (years), one for each of the 64 pages. Casually, the artist was born in 1958, it means that he has 64 years old at the time of the publication of the book.
2022
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Autobiography by Thomas Hirschhorn is a visual autobiography that through some selected images, narrates the story of the life and career of the artist.
2022
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Autobiography by Micah Lexier is apparently just a blank pages book, but it is not. Each page is pierced, and at the back is printed the same colophon. That's because you can rip off every page of it and fix it everywhere. Micah Lexier identifies the holes as one of the main themes of his practice.
2022
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Autobiography by Claude Closky is a question about identity and social media. On a dark mode theme colored background, tens of "Claude" of different genres and identities are displayed in sequence. What is the real "Autobiography"?
2022
English edition
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Autobiography by Jacopo Benassi is a series of self portraits taken during the night, during the lenght of a dream, described by the artist in the first page.
2022
English edition
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Autobiography by Patrick Tuttofuoco is a visual consideration through the artist's eye about his autobiographical exhibition "like they were eternal" held in Milan at Schiavo Zoppelli Gallery. The collages and the images in the book were created by the artist starting from his installations in the space. The text by Umberto Sebastiano is a metephoric interpretation of the show.
2022
English edition
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Autobiography by Jonathan Monk is the first attempt of display of the artist's collection of "Crackers" copies by Ed Ruscha.
2022
English edition
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Autobiography by Alessandro Pessoli is a mix of drawings and written words created specifically for the publication. The handwritten texts belong from some of the songs the artist is used to listen while at work.
2021
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Autobiography by Koo Jeong A is a collection of images chosen by the artist via Periscope. Each of them represents a work created by Koo Jeong A during her career.
2021
English edition
Tonini Editore
sold out
Autobiography by Nathalie Du Pasquier is a collection of materials that often return during her art practice, "materials constantly reused in different ways."
