Arte Povera

Conceived to open up a critical reading of Salvo's work to an international audience, this comprehensive publication includes new critical contributions by an international array of writers and art critics, as well as a visual itinerary through the artist's main themes and series.

A complete documentation of a site-specific project conceived by Francesco Arena, allowing to get more into the heart of the artist's creative process.

Retrospective monograph.

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.

This volume outlines the multiple trajectories that led to one of Mario Merz's most significant bodies of work: the igloos. Essays by Germano Celant, Lisa Le Feuvre, Pietro Rigolo, and Mariano Boggia complement a lavish array of illustrations and hitherto unpublished documents, including a 1974 interview with Merz conducted by Harald Szeemann, and a photographic reconstruction of the Igloos exhibition at the Pirelli HangarBicocca.

The first study dedicated to Fabio Mauri's performative work.

A companion to his previous book, Colour in Contextual Play, Joseph Kosuth's Neon in Contextual Play continues the artist's investigation of the interplay between language and reality, words and objects, color and light. Within these pairings, early neon works by Kosuth interact with those by Arte Povera artists who also used the industrial medium.

This publication documents a site-specific work by Giovanni Anselmo at the Carlo Scarpa space of the Querini Stampalia Foundation, in the framework of the Venice Biennale.The project takes the form of a route of trajectories and directions, weights and energies which represent five moments in which a meaning is implied: the visitors become participants. It is a work in progress because it is lived and lives through the viewer.

In this new book time and space, which are fundamental aspects of Arena's work, are encapsulated in six horizons, six roads and ten landscapes. Essays by Mario Fortunato and Andrea Viliani, together with statements written by Arena himself on each work here published, examine in depth the practice of one of the most interesting artists in the Italian and International artistic scenes.

Paperback tribute guide to the work of Italian artist Salvatore Mangione (Salvo).

New monograph, with thirty emblematic paintings, a text by the artist, and an essay by Francesco Manacorda.

A review of voluntary bareness and simplicity practices in art.

A reference book, the first in French dedicated to the work of Pino Pascali, a central figure of Arte Povera and art of the 1960s.

Reference monograph, featuring Francesco Arena's works collection and his most important shows from 2004 to 2014, with texts by Marcella Beccaria, Lorenzo Benedetti, Florence Derieux and Ara H. Merjian.

A complete documentation on Francesco Arena's installation for the Italian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.

Artist's book: a pamphlet designed as a DIY guide on making works with foam rubber.

Artist's book: a pamphlet designed as a DIY guide on making works with foam rubber.

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

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

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

A polyphonic self-portrait.

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

Mapping Boetti's work.

Pistoletto's theater and performances.

The photographer of Arte Povera.

Between critical writing and visual art practice.

A journey through mythology, antique civilizations and cities which are cradles and of Jannis Kounellis's own artistic reflection.

A journey through mythology, antique civilizations and cities which are cradles and of Jannis Kounellis's own artistic reflection. The book is accompanied by a puddle of lead, an original and unique work for each copy, signed by the artist.

Monograph.

This publication assembles twenty years worth of social, aesthetic and philosophical reflexions that essentially place the individual within the contemporary community.

This "book of hours" is a first time assemblage of a large number of project drawings.

Catalogue dedicated to the exhibition held by the pionneer of Arte Povera at Le Magasin in 1986 in France. With a text by Franz Kaiser.

Catalogue of the last solo exhibition of Ettore Spalletti (1940-2019).

This catalogue embodies the entire creative career of Marisa Merz (1926-2019), the only female artist from Arte Povera. Commissioned texts and selection of her most iconic works accentuate a recurrent theme in the artist's work: the exploration of the face and the human figure.

A collection of visual incursions by Italian artist Emilio Prini in dozens of exhibition catalogues and print publications over the course of five decades. Meticulously researched, and yet necessarily incomplete, this book is a glimpse into the subtlety with which Prini turned each engagement with the world of ideas into a joust for mastery over space, time, and form.

A reference monograph resulting of a 10-year research on Italian sculptor and conceptual artist Paolo Icaro.

Devoted to the graphic practice of the artist, Giorgio Griffa – Works on Paper points up the singularity and importance of drawing in Griffa's creative process while introducing a rare selection of drawings and watercolours.

This monograph aims to highlight the very diverse features and extraordinary richness of Arte Povera painter Giorgio Griffa. With a selection of the artist's writings and comprehensive chronology.

This catalogue investigates the multi-faceted work of one of Italy's greatest artists of the interwar and postwar periods. The book is illustrated by a large selection of archival documents, some of which never seen before.

Susan Hiller's postcard alphabet.

Artists' book: the materialization of John dewey's conceptual system.

The first English language monograph on Lo Savio.

An interview between the philosopher René Denizot and the artist Giulio Paolini.