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Pino Pascali
Bachi Da Setola Ed Altri Lavori In Corso Di Pino Pascali, L’attico 1968

1968, Italian
Softcover, 16 pages, 30 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Galleria L'Attico / Rome

$350.00 - Out of stock

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Extremely rare catalogue of Pino Pascali, published to accompany his solo exhibition at the legendary Galleria L'Attico in Rome, March 1968, only months before his death at the age of thirty-two following a tragic motorcycle accident in Rome. This exhibition at Fabio Sargentini's Galleria L'Attico was the very first exhibition of Pascali's iconic "Bristleworms", sculptures in the shape of large caterpillars made with industrial acrylic brushes supported by an iron structure and positioned to invade the gallery space. Beautifully illustrated throughout with many full-bleed b/w and colour illustrations of Pascali's work (Bristleworms and other works in progress) and the artist himself. Photography by Ugo Mulas. Very little text, in Italian. A stunning and historical publication.

Pino Pascali (1935—1968) was born in Bari, Italy in 1935 and moved to Rome in 1955 to learn scene painting and set design at the Academy of Art. Whilst working as an advertisement illustrator and designer Pascali met fellow Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis, which lead to his first solo exhibition in 1965 of his "fake sculptures," a series of shaped-canvases that first appear to be solid sculptures but are actually paintings that present abstract forms suggesting animals, plants and landscapes. Soon after, Pascali created his "weapon series," which is perhaps his most famous group of works. Assembled from found materials and painted olive-green, it faithfully recreates every detail of the weapon it mimics. However, as the weapon cannot fire or kill, it becomes an innocent, oversized toy. Opposite to the "weapon series" in appearance, Pascali presented organic forms in a dream-like universe that, like the "fake sculptures," play on the relationship between illusion and reality. During his brief activity as a sculptor during the flourishing years of Pop, Concept, and Environmental Art, Pascali produced 149 works, many of which are true icons of twentieth-century Italian art and helped lay the foundations of the Arte Povera movement. The day of his untimely death at the age of 32, following a tragic motorcycle accident on 11 September 1968, coincided with the moment of his greatest public recognition (his presentation at the Venice Biennale and the posthumous awarding of the Sculpture Grand Prix). His short, enigmatic career has served as an important, almost mythological, contribution to post-war European art.

L'Attico was an Italian contemporary art gallery founded in 1957 by Bruno Sargentini and his son Fabio devoted to Italian and international Art Informel. Throughout the late 1950s and 1960s L'Attico exhibited the likes of Lucio Fontana, Jean Fautrier, Vasco Bendini, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Roberto Matta, and many others, but it was with the success of the late 1960s exhibitions by Pino Pascali and Jannis Kounellis that distinguished L'Attico as a true avant-garde gallery, laying the foundations for what would later become Arte Povera. First located in Piazza di Spagna 20, L'Attico moved in 1969 to a garage in Via Beccarla where Jannis Kounellis created the exhibition with twelve live horses, defined by Sargentini himself as "the most famous exhibition in a private gallery of the twentieth century". Sargentini was instrumental in forging a strong bond between New York and Rome in the late 1960s, and presented American artists such as Terry Riley, Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, La Monte Young, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Charlemagne Palestine, Joan La Barbera, Vito Acconci, Sol LeWitt and Robert Smithson, alongside European artists such as Jean Tinguely, Joseph Beuys, Mario and Marisa Merz, Gino De Dominicis, and many more. From 1972, L'Attico was based in a large apartment in via del Paradiso, near Campo de 'Fiori in Rome, further exhibiting works by such artists as Marcel Duchamp, Alighiero Boetti, Luigi Ontani, Marisa Merz, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Nam June Paik, Gilbert and George, Hans Bellmer, Emilio Prini and more. In 2010, MACRO presented an exhibition that traces its cultural and artistic activity from the period between 1966 and 1978.

Very Good copy with some light creasing and tanning from age.

File under: Ugo Mulas Pino Pascali Galleria L'Attico / Rome Art Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare

Information (50th Anniversary Edition)
By Kynaston McShine. Text by Lucy Lippard, et al.

2019, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Published by MoMA / New York

$55.00 - Out of stock

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The 50th anniversary edition of MoMA's landmark book on conceptual art.

In the summer of 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show and attendant catalog together assembled the work of more than 150 artists from 15 countries to explore the parameters and possibilities of the emerging art practices of the era. Noting the participating artists’ attunement to the “mobility and change that pervades their time,” McShine underscored their interest in “ways of rapidly exchanging ideas, rather than embalming the idea in an ‘object.’” Indeed, much of the work in the exhibition engaged mass-communications systems, such as broadcast television and the postal service, and addressed viewers directly, often encouraging their participation in return.

The catalog, rather than merely document the show, functioned autonomously: it included a list of recommended reading, a chance-based index by critic Lucy Lippard, and individual artist contributions in the form of photographic documentation, textual description, drawings and diagrams—some relating to work in the exhibition and others to artworks as yet unrealized. This facsimile edition of the original Information catalog, which has long been out of print, invites reengagement with MoMA’s landmark exhibition while illuminating the early history of conceptual art.

Kynaston McShine was formerly Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Artists include Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language Press, Art & Project, Richard Artschwager, David Askevold, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Barrio, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Bernhard & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, George Brecht, Stig Broegger, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, James Lee Byars, Jorge Luis Carballa, Christopher Cook, Roger Cutforth, Carlos D'Alessio, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Group Frontera, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Giorno Poetry Systems, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ira Joel Haber, Randy Hardy, Michael Heizer, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson, Richards Jarden, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Cildo Campos Meirelles, Marta Minujin, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, New York Graphic Workshop, Newspaper, Group Oho, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Paul Pechter, Giuseppe Penone, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Alejandro Puente, Markus Raetz, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Edward Ruscha, J.M. Sanejouand, Richard Sladden, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Erik Thygesen, John Van Saun, Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre Siah Armajani Keith Arnatt Art & Language Press Art & Project Richard Artschwager David Askevold Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge John Baldessari Michael Baldwin Barrio Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Bernhard & Hilla Becher Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Bill Bollinger George Brecht Stig Broegger Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden James Lee Byars Jorge Luis Carballa Christopher Cook Roger Cutforth Carlos D'Alessio Hanne Darboven Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Group Frontera Hamish Fulton Gilbert & George Giorno Poetry Systems Dan Graham Hans Haacke Ira Joel Haber Randy Hardy Michael Heizer Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Robert Huot Peter Hutchinson Richards Jarden Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol Lewitt Lucy Lippard Richard Long Bruce McLean Cildo Campos Meirelles Marta Minujin Robert Morris N.E. Thing Co. Bruce Nauman New York Graphic Workshop Group Oho Helio Oiticica Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Paul Pechter Giuseppe Penone Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Alejandro Puente Markus Raetz Yvonne Rainer Klaus Rinke Edward Ruscha J.M. Sanejouand Richard Sladden Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Erik Thygesen John Van Saun Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz Bernar Venet Jeff Wall Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Ettore Sottsass Newspaper Ettore Sottsass Jr. Kynaston McShine Lucy R. Lippard MoMA / New York Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Conceptual Art Arte Povera Photography Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Art Fluxus Minimal Art

Broken Music

2019, English
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

File under: Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Primary Information / New York Art Sound / Music Fluxus Conceptual Art Dada Arte Povera Counterculture Bauhaus Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Lucio Fontana - The Conquest Of Space

2021, English / Dutch
Softcover, 176 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Nai010 Publishers / Rotterdam

$60.00 - Out of stock

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Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) is one of the most important avant-garde artists of the 20th century and continues to inspire artists, designers and architects. He is known for his iconic monochromatic paintings with vertical cuts. Lucio Fontana: The Conquest of Space highlights the ideas of Fontana's Concetto spaziale and shows how these spatial notions took shape not only in his slashed canvases, but also in his sculpture, jewellery, and installations. With photography by Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm, and texts by Colin Huizing and Paulo Campiglio, this publication is an indispensable overview of Fontana's innovative spatial views on art.

File under: Lucio Fontana Nai010 Publishers / Rotterdam Art Ceramics / Glass Sculpture / Installation Painting Theory / Essay Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Arte Povera

Lucio Fontana
by Enrico Crispolti

1999, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 400 pages, 28 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Charta / Milan

$150.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of one of the largest and most comprehensive English-language books on Lucio Fontana, edited by esteemed Italian art critic and leading Fontana author Enrico Crispolti and published on the occasion of a major Lucio Fontana retrospective exhibition held in Milan, 23 April—30 June, 1999. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white with a huge array of Fontana's works, accompanied by texts from Enrico Crispolti, Antonello Negri, Luciano Caramel, Paolo Biscottini, Tommaso Trini, and a conversation between art critics Guido Ballo and Tommaso Trini, together covering every dimension of this highly original and influential artist's career. Also includes an incredible photo album edited by Nini Ardemagni Laurini and Valeria Ernesti, documenting the artist's world, studio, exhibitions, social life through the lens of many photographers, including many by the great Ugo Mulas, whose photographs adorn the covers. Includes a biography, list of works, exhibitions and a selected bibliography. A rare and in-depth insight into the life and work of a rare artist.

Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) is one the most innovative artists of the 20th century. A major figure of postwar European art and a binational resident of Argentina and Italy, Fontana blurred numerous boundaries in his life and art, crossing borders both literally and figuratively. The founder of Spatialism, a movement focused on the spatial qualities of sculpture and paintings with the goal of breaking through the two-dimensionality of the traditional picture plane, he pushed the painterly into the sculptural and redefined the relationship between the arts. He was best known for his monochrome canvases known as Concetti Spaziale that he would cut or puncture, leaving distinctive gaping slash marks and holes that imbued the finished work with an almost violent energy. In his seminal writing, White Manifesto (1946), the artist traced ideas for creating a new medium that blended architecture, painting, and sculpture. “I do not want to make a painting; I want to open up space, create a new dimension, tie in the cosmos, as it endlessly expands beyond the confining plane of the picture,” he said of his work. Fontana had widespread impact on the following generation of artists, who began to use installation media more aggressively to address the dynamics of space in gallery environments and Land Art. Fontana died on September 7, 1968 in Varese, Italy at the age of 69, just two years after being awarded the Grand Prize for painting at the Venice Biennale.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Lucio Fontana Ugo Mulas Lucio Fontana Enrico Crispolti Antonello Negri Luciano Caramel Paolo Biscottini Tommaso Trini Guido Ballo Charta / Milan Art Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Arte Povera Painting Ceramics / Glass Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

The New Sculpture 1965-75: Between Geometry and Gesture
Hesse, Smithson, Tuttle, Nauman, Serra, Le Va, Saret, Sonnier, Benglis, Shapiro

1990, English
Softcover, 389 pages, 29 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Whitney Museum of American Art / New York

$100.00 - Out of stock

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The bountiful exhibition catalogue published to accompany the first large-scale assessment of the work of ten American sculptors working during a critical period in postwar American art; held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 20 February to 3 June, 1990. Organised by Richard Armstrong and Richard Marshall, this extraordinary exhibition brought together the work of Lynda Benglis, Eva Hesse, Barry Le Va, Bruce Nauman, Alan Saret, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, and Richard Tuttle, to survey a radical and widely misunderstood chapter in the history of American art. Twenty-five years after its heyday, Process Art or antiform or Post-Minimalism, as this work is generally called, still exuded a sense of fierce radicality, as it does to this day. This incredible, over-sized, profusely illustrated book presents countless examples of work by each participating artist (in colour and b/w), an illustrated chronology of their exhibitions, bibliography, alongside texts by Richard Armstrong, John G. Hanhardt, Robert Pincus-Witten, Lucy R. Lippard, Jane Livingstone, Rosalind E. Krauss, Cindy Nemser, Emily Wasserman, Philip Leider, Klaus Kertess, Max Kozloff, Gregoire Müller, Fidel A. Danieli, Richard Marshall, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, James Collins, Thomass Hess, Lizzie Borden, Ellen Lubell, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Rose, Willoughby Sharp, Marcia Tucker, and texts by/interviews with the artists themselves, making it an extraordinary resource.

Very Good copy with some edge and reading wear/marking.

File under: Lynda Benglis Eva Hesse Barry Le Va Bruce Nauman Alan Saret Richard Serra Joel Shapiro Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Richard Tuttle Richard Armstrong John G. Hanhardt Robert Pincus-Witten Lucy R. Lippard Jane Livingstone Rosalind E. Krauss Cindy Nemser Emily Wasserman Philip Leider Klaus Kertess Max Kozloff Gregoire Müller Fidel A. Danieli Richard Marshall Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe James Collins Thomass Hess Lizzie Borden Ellen Lubell Lawrence Alloway Barbara Rose Willoughby Sharp Marcia Tucker Whitney Museum of American Art / New York Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Conceptual Art Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections

Na de beeldenstorm
by Carel Blotkamp

1970, Dutch
Hardcover, unpaginated, 27.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Nederlandse Stichting Openbaar Kunstbezit / Netherlands

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Published in 1970 by Dutch art historian and critic Carel Blotkamp (b. 1945), Na de beeldenstorm: drie opstellen over recente beeldende kunst (3 essays on recent visual art) surveys developments in art at the height of one of the most innovative periods in art history, the 1960s. Blotkamp traces the influence of historical avant gardes (Mondrian, Kandinsky, Malevich, Duchamp...) into new abstraction, hard-edge, Color Field, Minimalism, Pop, Op Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Art Povera, Land Art, et al. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white with fine examples of work by Barnett Newman, Josef Albers, Lucio Fontana, Robert Rauschenberg, Daan Van Golden, Richard Serra, Kenneth Nolan, Morris Louis, Jo Baer, Frank Stella, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Walter de Maria, Yves Klein, Robert Morris, Bridget Riley, Jasper Johns, Lawrence Weiner, Jan Dibbets, Armando, Panamarenko, Joseph Beuys, Sol LeWitt, Ellsworth Kelly, Larry Poons, Barry Flanagan, JCJ Vanderheyden, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Martial Raysse, Richard Long, Wim T. Schippers, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Heizer, Ger van Elk, Mario Merz, Carl Andre, Pieter Engels, Andy Warhol, Edward Rushca, Jesús Rafael Soto, Peter Struycken, and many more...

Very Good copy without dust jacket (as issued), light tanning/wear to glossy, foiled boards.

File under: Barnett Newman Josef Albers Lucio Fontana Robert Rauschenberg Daan Van Golden Richard Serra Kenneth Nolan Morris Louis Jo Baer Frank Stella Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Jim Dine Walter de Maria Yves Klein Robert Morris Bridget Riley Jasper Johns Lawrence Weiner Jan Dibbets Armando Panamarenko Joseph Beuys Sol LeWitt Ellsworth Kelly Larry Poons Barry Flanagan JCJ Vanderheyden Robert Indiana Roy Lichtenstein Martial Raysse Richard Long Wim T. Schippers Marcel Duchamp Michael Heizer Ger van Elk Mario Merz Carl Andre Pieter Engels Andy Warhol Edward Rushca Peter Struycken Jesus Rafael Soto Nederlandse Stichting Openbaar Kunstbezit / Netherlands Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Arte Povera Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Conceptual Art Minimal Art Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare

Eva Hesse 1965

2013, English
Hardcover, 240 pages, 24.1 x 27.9 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich

$130.00 - Out of stock

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In 1964, Eva Hesse and her husband Tom Doyle were invited by the industrialist Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt to a residency in Kettwig an der Ruhr, Germany. ‘Eva Hesse. 1965’ brings together key drawings, paintings and reliefs from this short, yet pivotal, period where the artist was able to rethink her approach to colour, materials and her two-dimensional practice and begin preparing herself for the momentous strides she would take upon her return to New York.

Edited by Barry Rosen. Texts by Todd Alden, Jo Applin, Susan Fisher Sterling, Kirsten Swenson

File under: Eva Hesse Barry Rosen Todd Alden Jo Applin Susan Fisher Sterling Kirsten Swenson Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Arte Povera Minimal Art

Facendo mobili con Poltronova
Pier Carlo Santini

1977, Italian
Softcover (with dust jacket), 182 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Poltronova / Italy

$390.00 - Out of stock

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Beautiful, very rare volume published in 1977 by the mighty Poltronova. This valuable reference presented with notes by Poltronova founder Sergio Cammilli, surveys one of the most innovative furniture companies and exponents of Italian Radical Design, highly cited and fully illustrated with more than 500 images of projects and various creations by the artists and designers they collaborated with.

Poltronova was founded just north of Florence by Cammilli in 1957, and by 1958 a young Ettore Sottsass was hired to be the company's artistic director. Cammili had a background in art, and many believe it was the founder’s remarkable openness to bold creative expression that led the company to become one of the most daring in 20th-century Italian design. In 1966, Cammilli and Sottsass visited the Superarchitettura exhibition, presented at Galleria Jolly 2 in Pistoia. This era-defining project was organized by Superstudio and Archizoom—two counterculture student groups from the University of Florence’s Faculty of Architect; it’s now seen to be a landmark moment in the development of Radical Design movement. Cammilli and Sottsass immediately changed the direction of the Poltronova from sleek modern furniture to began working with young, iconoclastic designers, and helped to usher in the postmodern era in design. Archizoom designed the company’s new factory and programmed events at the headquarters, which included a poetry reading and meditation workshop led by poet Allen Ginsberg.

Design by Leonardo Baglioni, "Facendo mobili con Poltronova" compiles the entire history under the direction of Cammilli and Sottsass, who left Poltronova in the 1970s, presenting all the iconic works by Archizoom, Sergio Asti, Gae Aulenti, Mario Ceroli, De Pas D'Urbino Lomazzi, Max Ernst, Gianfranco Fini, Angelo Mangiarotti, Gino Marotta, Giovanni Michelucci, Ugo Nespolo, Gianni Ruffi, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Lella and Massimo Vignelli, Achilli Brigidini Canella, Giampiero and Giovanni Bassi, Franco Bettonica, Sergio Cammilli, Graziella Guidoti, Luciano Nustrini, Paolo Portoghesi, Van Onck/Von Klier, Rino Vernuccio...

Very Good copy with light wear and tanning to jacket.

File under: De Pas-D'Urbino-Lomazzi Angelo Mangiarotti Archizoom Sergio Asti Gae Aulenti Mario Ceroli Max Ernst Gianfranco Fini Gino Marotta Giovanni Michelucci Ugo Nespolo Gianni Ruffi Ettore Sottsass Superstudio Achilli Brigidini Canella Franco Bettonica Sergio Cammilli Graziella Guidoti Luciano Nustrini Paolo Portoghesi Van Onck/Von Klier Rino Vernuccio Lella and Massimo Vignelli Giampiero and Giovanni Bassi Poltronova / Italy Art Furniture Architecture / Interior Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism

The Halifax Conference

2019, English
Softcover, 184 Pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by New Documents / Los Angeles

$36.00 - Out of stock

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The Halifax Conference presents a transcript of a conference held at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design on October 5–6, 1970, transcribed and adapted by artist Craig Leonard. Organized by Seth Siegelaub, the Conference was conceived as a means of bringing about a “meeting of artists…[from] diverse art making experiences and art positions…in as general a situation as possible.” Infamously, the conference was held in the college’s boardroom, while students and other interested parties watched the proceedings on a video monitor in a separate space. The result was a conversation that devolved—technologically and ideologically—into a quasi-tragicomic farce, punctuated by remarkable moments of rupture initiated by activist resistance to the Conference from the outside and dissenting voices from within. Attendees at the Conference included Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Ronald Bladen, Daniel Buren, Gene Davis, Jan Dibbets, Al Held, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Murray, N.E.Thing Co. (Iain and Ingrid Baxter), Richard Serra, Richard Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, and Lawrence Weiner.

Edited by Jeff Khonsary

File under: Carl Andre Joseph Beuys Ronald Bladen Daniel Buren Gene Davis Jan Dibbets Al Held Mario Merz Robert Morris Robert Murray Iain Baxter Ingrid Baxter Richard Serra Richard Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Lawrence Weiner Jeff Khonsary New Documents / Los Angeles Conceptual Art Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Curatorial Art Arte Povera

Explosion! : Painting as Action

2012, English / Swedish
Softcover, 224 pages, 28 x 21.7cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$68.00 - Out of stock

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In the years following the Second World War, artists across the world began to attack the most basic premises of painting, in ways that were both aggressive and playful. The creative act itself was deemed as important as the painting that resulted from it, creating an energetic interzone between painting and performance in which chance procedures, the movement of bodies and the participation of spectators were all recruited as tools.

Explosion! Painting as Action explores the connections and cross fertilizations between painting, performance and conceptual art from the late 1940s to the present. Examining painting, photography, video, performance, dance and sound art, this volume includes works by Lynda Benglis, Niki de Saint Phalle, Cai Guo-Qiang, the Gutai Group, Allan Kaprow, Yves Klein, Alison Knowles, Ana Mendieta, Rivane Neuenschwander, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Shozo Shimamoto, Lawrence Weiner and many others.

File under: Adel Abdessemed Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Bruce Nauman Cai Guo-Qiang Ceal Floyer Francis Alÿs George Brecht Jackson Pollock Jean Tinguely John Baldessari John Cage Jutta Koether Lawrence Weiner Niki de Saint-Phalle Paul McCarthy Robert Rauschenberg Tony Conrad Yoko Ono Yves Klein Rivane Neuenschwander Carolee Schneemann Shozo Shimamoto Gutai Atsuko Tanaka Simone Forti Ann-Sofi Noring Daniel Birnbaum Julia Robinson Ming Tiampo Walther König / Köln Art Arte Povera Dada Fluxus Minimal Art Painting Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections

Marisa Merz
Geometrie sconnesse palpiti geometrici

2018, English / Italian
Softcover, 120 pages, 23 x 30 cm
Published by Mousse / Milan

$59.00 - Out of stock

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“With a simple gestures, Marisa draws a space, marks a place, alludes to its transparency, discovers the direction, and etches her passage into the very short breath of a vacuum that she fills with incommensurable meaning. A shoe, a net whose mesh captures the time and the moment, the material present in the fragment of impulses of the living, in the pattern of a notion of lightness and strenght.”—Ester Coen

Published on the occasion of Marisa Merz’s exhibition at MASI (Lugano, Switzerland), Marisa Merz: Geometrie sconnesse palpiti geometrici takes its name from a phrase by the artist written on a wall in her studio, and is the result of the precious collaboration between Collezione Giancarlo and Danna Olgiati (Lugano) and Fondazione Merz (Turin). Embracing all the expressive modalities explored by the artist—from drawings to unfired clay sculptures, from copper and nylon weavings to objects transmuted into wax— and with texts by Ester Coen, Douglas Fogle, and Beatrice Merz, the book follows and highlights the pivotal theme that recurs in the artist’s work: her exploration of the face and the figure in general. Traces of a complex, philosophical thought, they’re the products of an almost obsessively cadenced superimposition of visual marks and materials.

File under: Marisa Merz Ester Coen Douglas Fogle Beatrice Merz Mousse / Milan Art Sculpture / Installation Drawing Ceramics / Glass Arte Povera

Conceptual Art In A Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization And Documentation
by Nathalie Zonnenberg

2019, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Valiz / Amsterdam

$58.00 - Out of stock

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Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization and Documentation focuses on the curatorial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual works are not object-based, creates challenges in exhibiting or re-exhibiting them. This book offers various perspectives on how to handle conceptual art in the context of the museum, based on three detailed case studies and an extensive introduction in which the paradox of conceptual art is analyzed. It also elaborates on the history of exhibiting conceptual artworks, and on the influence of curators in their canonization.
The aim of the book is not to offer clear-cut practical solutions, but to raise awareness of the issue and the different ways of dealing with it within the traditional curatorial field. It is relevant for students of art and culture (particularly in museum and curatorial studies), art and museum professionals, and everyone interested in the art of the 1960s and 1970s.

Nathalie Zonnenberg is an art historian and curator. She holds a PhD in Art History from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (NL). Zonnenberg regularly writes on contemporary art, and she lectures at the post-graduate Curatorial Studies programme at KASK/the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (BE).

File under: Robert Morris Douglas Huebler Sol LeWitt Stanley Brouwn Markus Raetz Robert Ryman Adrian Piper Charlotte Posenenske Richard Tuttle Niele Toroni Michael Snow Sarkis Reiner Ruthenbeck Keith Sonnier Sherrie Levine John Latham El Lissitzky Richard Long Gordon Matta-Clark Piero Manzoni Brice Marden Bruce McLean Mario Merz Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Pino Pascali Barry Flanagan Dan Flavin Lucio Fontana Piero Gilardi Eva Hesse Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Barbara Kruger Richard Prince On Kawara Jo Ann Kaplan Rem Koolhaas Robert Filliou Robert Barry Alighiero Boetti Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Joseph Beuys Hanne Darboven Maria Eichhorn Jan Dibbets Marcel Duchamp Lynda Benglis John Baldessari Bernd and Hilla Becher Gilbert & George László Moholy-Nagy Michelangelo Pistoletto Valiz / Amsterdam Theory / Essay Curatorial Conceptual Art Arte Povera Fluxus Dada Minimal Art Group Shows / Collections

Chambres d'Amis
Edited by Jan Hoet

1986, English / Dutch / German / French / Italian
Hardcover (cloth w. dust jacket, inc. ephemera, guide/ticket, prints), 366 pages, 27 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst / Gent

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First and only edition of this very special, scarce exhibition catalogue / photo-book published to document and accompany the innovative exhibition Chambres d'Amis (‘friends’ rooms’), organised by Jan Hoet in Ghent in 1986, awarding him an international reputation as a leading artistic figure in Belgium. Chambres d'Amis featured about 50 European and American artists invited by Hoet to create works for 50 private homes in Ghent, which were then opened to the public for several weeks between June 21 - September 21, 1986. Artists included are Carla Accardi, Christian Boltanski, Raf Buedts, Daniël Buren, Michaël Buthe, Jacques Charlier, Nicola de Maria, Luciano Fabro, Günther Förg, Jef Geys, Dan Graham, Milan Grygar, François Hers, Kazuo Katase, Niek Kemps, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Bertrand Lavier, Sol LeWitt, Danny Matthys, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Helmut Middendorf, Juan Muñoz, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bruce Nauman, Maria Nordman, Oswald Oberhuber, Heike Pallanca, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Royden Rabinowitch, Norbert Radermacher, Roger Raveel, Wolfgang Robbe, Claude Rutault, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Remo Salvadori, Rob Scholte, Ettore Spalletti, Paul Thek, Niele Toroni, Charles Vandenhove, Philip van Isacker, Jan Vercruysse, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Martin Walde, Lawrence Weiner, Robin Winters, Gilberto Zorio.

The entire city-wide exhibition is comprehensively documented herein (from the domestic interior installations themselves to behind-the-scenes photography, social and working imagery of the artists installing and meeting, public events, etc.) in colour and b/w on various paper stocks with many fold-out panels and reproductions of artist's sketches, alongside extensive texts by Jan Hoet and statements accompanying the work of each artist all in Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian. Includes a list of all hosts/hostesses alongside the artists.

An incredible document of one the most important and unique contemporary art exhibitions in Belgium's history. Jan Hoet (23 June 1936 – 27 February 2014) was the Belgian founder and director of SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent (director from 1975 until 2003) and subsequently managed several important exhibitions all over the world including curating Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992, presenting several hundred works by 190 artists from nearly 40 countries.

“Intriguingly titled ‘Chambres d’Amis’ –-‘guest rooms’,” or, literally, ‘friends’ rooms’-– the show places art in 58 houses belonging to everyday townspeople, carrying the work outside the separate universe, the total institution, of the museum, to bring it within the private zone of the private home, an asocial place insofar as it is removed from the public arena. (...) His [Hoet’s] project takes the exhibition structure off its hinges, goes beyond the limits of the frame and spills over, whole, into an interior. Art here no longer offers a mirror or a window, nor constitutes the privileged sign of a choice, but is an actual, provocative presence, confirming its difference both from the museum space, which has lost its sanctity, and from the contextual frame in which the object serves as a fetish.”—Pier Luigi Tazzi, “Albrecht Dürer would have come too”, Artforum, September 1986

Very Good copy w. some wear/light spine fading to Good dust jacket, now preserved under mylar wrap. This special copy comes most complete, including exhibition guide/work checklist, Ghent map of exhibit locations, and a selection of 4 loose photographic press prints of featured installations.

File under: Carla Accardi Christian Boltanski Raf Buedts Daniël Buren Michaël Buthe Jacques Charlier Nicola de Maria Luciano Fabro Günther Förg Jef Geys Dan Graham Milan Grygar François Hers Kazuo Katase Niek Kemps Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Bertrand Lavier Sol LeWitt Danny Matthys Gerhard Merz Mario Merz Marisa Merz Helmut Middendorf Juan Muñoz Hidetoshi Nagasawa Bruce Nauman Maria Nordman Oswald Oberhuber Heike Pallanca Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Royden Rabinowitch Norbert Radermacher Roger Raveel Wolfgang Robbe Claude Rutault Reiner Ruthenbeck Remo Salvadori Rob Scholte Ettore Spalletti Paul Thek Niele Toroni Charles Vandenhove Philip van Isacker Jan Vercruysse Jean-Luc Vilmouth Martin Walde Lawrence Weiner Robin Winters Gilberto Zorio Jan Hoet Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst / Gent Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Arte Povera Curatorial Painting Sculpture / Installation

Marisa Merz
The Sky is a Great Space

2017, English
Hardcover, 319 pages, 23 x 27.5 cm
Published by Hammer / Los Angeles Prestel / Munich

$95.00 - Out of stock

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Bringing together five decades of painting, sculpture, and installations from the celebrated Italian artist Marisa Merz, this major hardcover monograph accompanies a major US retrospective of her work. This generously illustrated book offers readers the chance to appreciate the full range of works by Marisa Merz, winner of the 2013 Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice Biennale. This volume traces Merz's artistic evolution from early experiments with non-traditional materials and processes, to intricately constructed installations of the 1970s and the enigmatic ceramic heads of the 1980s and '90s. Authoritative essays explore the rise of international women's art in the 1960s and '70s and Merz's own place in Italy's postwar art history. As the sole female protagonist of Arte Povera she is one of the few Italian women to exhibit in major venues internationally. Merz's challenging and evocative body of work is deeply personal and resistant to the categories of art history, including Arte Povera and international feminist art, with which she was associated. Previously unpublished texts and poetry by the artist, and an illustrated chronology, complement this comprehensive look at an enormously influential artist.

Texts by Connie Butler, Ian Alteveer, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Leslie Cozzi, Teresa Kittler, Lucia Re, Cloe Perrone, Tommaso Trini.

File under: Marisa Merz Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Cloe Perrone Connie Butler Ian Alteveer Leslie Cozzi Lucia Re Teresa Kittler Tommaso Trini Hammer / Los Angeles Prestel / Munich Art Arte Povera Drawing Painting Sculpture / Installation

Un art autre : où il s'agit de nouveaux dévidages du réel
by Michel Tapiè

1952, French
Softcover, 26 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gariel-Giraud / Paris

$350.00 - Out of stock

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First, very rare 1952 edition of this important piece of art history, considered the manifesto of "L'art Informel". Published in an edition of only 1000 copies, Michel Tapié's book Un Art Autre (Art of Another Kind) defined a tendency in postwar European painting that he saw as a radical break with all traditional notions of order and composition—an art that worked through ‘paroxysm, magic, total ecstasy’. This dominant trend of abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s was characterised by an improvisatory approach and highly gestural technique, much aligned with America's Abstract Expressionism. In describing such work he used the term art informel (from the French ‘informe’, meaning unformed or formless), and presented the exemplary works of Wols, Herni Michaux, Jean Dubuffet, Mark Tobey, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Soulages, Georges Mathieu, Ruth Francken, René Guiette, Victor Brauner, Alfonso A. Ossorio, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jean Fautrier, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Karel Appel, Mario Sironi, Camille Bryen, Alberto Burri, Hans Hofmann, Claire Falkenstein, Slavko Kopač, Germaine Richier, Graham Sutherland, Sam Francis, Mark Rothko, Gianni Dova, Jaroslav Serpan, André-Pierre Arnal, Roger-Edgar Gillet, Lucio Fontana, Roberto Matta, Eduardo Paolozzi, Willem de Kooning, and more.

Very Good copy with tanning from age and light spotting. Beautifully preserved copy.

File under: Karel Appel Wols Henri Michaux Willem de Kooning Ruth Francken Pierre Soulages Jackson Pollock Gianni Dova Sam Francis Lucio Fontana Jean Dubuffet Mark Tobey Georges Mathieu Victor Brauner Alfonso Ossorio Jean Fautrier Giuseppe Capogrossi Jean-Paul Riopelle Alberto Burri Roberto Matta Eduardo Paolozzi René Guiette Mario Sironi Camille Bryen Hans Hofmann Claire Falkenstein Slavko Kopač Germaine Richier Graham Sutherland Mark Rothko Jaroslav Serpan André-Pierre Arnal Roger-Edgar Gillet Michel Tapiè Gariel-Giraud / Paris Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Out-of-print / Rare Painting Drawing Art Arte Povera

Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke: Erotic Abstraction

2020, English
Hardcover, 224 pages, 24.8 x 30.5 cm
Published by Rizzoli / New York

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An in-depth look at these two American artists, who explored issues of sexuality and feminism in the 1960s and 1970s in their sculpture and photography.

This major hardcover book, produced to accompany an exhibition, offers the first opportunity to appreciate the resonances between the studio practices of Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke. Both artists found themselves drawn to unconventional materials, such as latex, plastics, erasers, and laundry lint, which they used to make work that was viscerally related to the body. They shared an interest in repetition to amplify the absurdity of their work. These repeated forms--whether Hesse's spiraling breast or Wilke's labial fold--sought to confront the phallo-centricism of twentieth-century sculpture with a texture that might capture a more intimate, psychologically charged experience. Eleanor Nairne, the curator of the exhibition, writes the lead essay, followed by texts by Jo Applin and Anne Wagner. An extensive chronology by Amy Tobin includes primary-source materials, which bring a new history of how both artists' work sits in relation to the wider New York scene. Also included are excerpts of both artists' writing.

About The Author
Eleanor Nairne is an art historian and curator at Barbican Art Gallery. Her recent exhibitions include Basquiat: Boom for Real (2017) and Imran Qureshi: Where the Shadows Are So Deep (2016). Jo Applin is the head of the history of art department at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Anne Wagner is Chair Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. Amy Tobin is a lecturer in the department of history of art at the University of Cambridge and curator at Kettle's Yard.

File under: Eva Hesse Hannah Wilke Eleanor Nairne Jo Applin Anne Wagner Rizzoli / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Eros Feminism Arte Povera Drawing Ceramics / Glass

Piero Gilardi
The Little Manual of Expression with Foam Rubber

2013, English
Softcover, 24 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 x 28 pages
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich

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In this artist’s book, Piero Gilardi (b. 1942, lives in Torino) reveals his working methods and explains how to create sculptures like those he has produced since the early 1960s. A pioneer of Arte Povera and a proud advocate of an ecologically concerned undertaking in the visual arts, Gilardi is also a political activist. The technique he developed for his sculptures has often been applied to produce masks, signs, and props for rallies and demonstrations, as this book and an interview with Andrea Bellini explains. For all this and for much more—his design and fashion creations, his social endeavors, etc.—Piero Gilardi is emblematic of the evolution of art and society over the last five decades. He is an artist whose works and theoretical research are still relevant to map what art might achieve and how art might be useful in the "real world."

File under: Piero Gilardi JRP Ringier / Zürich Art Sculpture / Installation SALE Arte Povera

Burri
Painting, an Irreducible Presence

2020, English
Softcover, 182 pages, 24 x 30 cm
Published by Forma Edizioni / Firenze

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This English-edition exhibition catalogue on the pioneering, avant-garde Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915-1995), whose work famously blurred the boundaries of painting and relief sculpture, documents a comprehensive retrospective at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice. It aims to reconstruct the full trajectory of his career, and addresses the transformative ways that he turned material into art. Nearly 50 works selected from each phase of his career are represented, including the rarely exhibited Catrami (tars), Muffe (molds), Sacchi (sacks), Combustioni (combustions), Legni (woods), Plastiche (plastics), Cretti, and Cellotex series.The show was curated by the art historian and president of the Fondazione Burri, Bruno Cora, with critical essays by Cora and the director of the Institute of Art History of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Luca Massimo Barbero.

Alberto Burri (12 March 1915 – 13 February 1995) was an Italian abstract painter considered a key figure in Post-War European art. Associated with the Arte Povera movement, he is perhaps best known for his sacchi (“sacks”) series, wherein he stitched, patched, and painted on rough burlap bags. Born on March 12, 1915 in Citta di Castello, Italy, he studied medicine before serving in Mussolini’s army during World War II as a doctor. Captured in Tunisia, Burri was interned at Camp Howze in Texas as a prisoner of war, where he began painting on readily available discarded burlap. After his release in 1946, he moved to Rome where his art practice turned towards abstraction. His interest in non-traditional materials continued with experiments using wood, tar, plastic, zinc oxide, pumice, PVC adhesives, and fabric. In one of his very rare statements, Burri claimed that the critics’ words, as well as his own, were of no use in offering a description of his artworks, affirming that its only real key strength was the formal balance that poor and industrial materials were surprisingly able to give.

File under: Alberto Burri Bruno Cora Luca Massimo Barbero Forma Edizioni / Firenze Painting Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Arte Povera Art

Piero Gilardi & Joshua Petherick
Pastorale

2019, English
Softcover, 56 pages, 23 x 22 cm
Published by Robert Heald Gallery / Wellington

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the two-person exhibition of Piero Gilardi (b. 1942, Turin) and Joshua Petherick (b. 1979, Adelaide) at Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington, July 18 – August 17, 2019. Profusely illustrated throughout with installation views, all exhibited works (w. details), along with a full work list. Presenting Gilardi's Nature Carpets (a central work of the artist since his catalytic involvement in the 1960s Arte Povera movement and the wake of European Pop) alongside Petherick's Condolences; both sculptural bodies of work in polyurethane foam, realistically reproducing fragments of our living environments, reflecting on the physical and psychological hyper-effects of our tenuous and increasingly artificial relationship to the natural world.

Designed by Rose Miller, Kraftwork.

File under: Piero Gilardi Joshua Petherick Robert Heald Gallery / Wellington Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Art Australian Art

Metro 15 (Pino Pascali cover)
Rivista Internazionale d'Arte

1969, Italian / English / French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 196 pages, 23 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Alfieri / Milan

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce copy of Metro, "The International Review Of Contemporary Art", published in Milan twice yearly, each issue in dust-jacketed hardcover format and edited by Bruno Alfieri. This 15th edition from 1969 with a wonderful illustrated cover by Pino Pascali. Like it's more widely-known architectural counterpart, Lotus, each issue of Metro features in-depth articles on a selection of artists or events in a format and style far closer to a book than a periodical. This issue also includes articles on Piero Manzoni, Leo Castelli Gallery (Robert Morris, Richard Serra, etc.), Bridget Riley, Documenta 4 in Kassel, Italian sociologist and artist Hans Glauber, and of course Pino Pascali. Also an article that looks at the work of Pascali alongside Lucio Fontana. Texts by Germano Celant, Lea Vergine, Bruno Alfieri, Giulio Carlo Argan, Peter Gorsen, Gillo Dorfles, Maurizio Dell'Arco, Giuseppe Gatt, and others. Text in Italian, English and French.

Good copy with some small closed tears to jacket and edge wear. Now preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: Lucio Fontana Piero Manzoni Robert Morris Richard Serra Bridget Riley Hans Glauber Pino Pascali Germano Celant Lea Vergine Bruno Alfieri Giulio Carlo Argan Peter Gorsen Gillo Dorfles Maurizio Dell'Arco Giuseppe Gatt Alfieri / Milan Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Painting Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Conceptual Art Art Theory / Essay Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Pop Art

Pino Pascali
Pascali : Catalogo generale delle sculture dal 1964 al 1968

2011, Italian
Softcover, 12 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by De Luca Editori D'arte / Rome

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First and only edition of this highly collectable catalogue raisonné of sculpture by Italian artist Pino Pascali, issued by De Luca Editori D'arte in Rome in 2011, and very quickly out-of-print.

Pino Pascali (b. Bari, 1935—1968), in the late 1950s, whilst working as a set designer, graphic designer, scriptwriter, and creative writer for television advertising, met fellow Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis. In 1965, Pascali first exhibited his “fake sculptures,” a series of shaped-canvases that first appear to be solid sculptures but are actually paintings presenting abstract forms that suggest animals, plants and landscapes. During his brief activity as a sculptor at the height of Pop Art, Pascali, considered a key artist of the Arte Povera movement, produced no more than 149 works, many of which are true icons of twentieth-century Italian art. The day of his untimely death at the age of 32, following a tragic motorcycle accident on 11 September 1968, coincided with the moment of his greatest public recognition (his presentation at the Venice Biennale and the posthumous awarding of the Sculpture Grand Prix). His short, enigmatic career has served as an important, almost mythological, contribution to post-war European art.

Housed in heavy linen slipcase, this oversized clothbound hardcover book collects Pascali's sculptural output, profusely illustrated throughout with photographs of Pascali's works and installaions, alongside texts in Italian and fully illustrated catalogue raisonné in colour and black and white. A real treasure!

Edited by Marco Tonelli.
Scientific Committee: Vittorio Brandi Rubiu and Fabio Sargentini.

Very Good copy in Very Good slipcase.

File under: Pino Pascali Marco Tonelli De Luca Editori D'arte / Rome Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Art

Silent Friendship : 1960-90's: 7 Artists
Buren, Byars, Cragg, Knoebel, Palermo, Pascali, Penone,

1999, Japanese / English / Italian / German
Hardcover, 120 pages, 20.6 × 28.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Toyota Municipal Museum of Art / Aichi

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Very scarce and beautifully compiled hardcover catalogue published in Japan in 1999 to accompany the unique exhibition, Silent Friendship : 1960-90's: 7 Artists, featuring the work of Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Tony Cragg, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, Pino Pascali, and Giuseppe Penone. Generous colour spreads of each artist are accompanied by biographies, exhibition histories and text contributions by and about the artists in their native language(s), including Buren's reflections "In those days Europe", Tony Cragg on "that era" and James Lee Byars, Giuseppe Penone remembering the "cubes, giraffes and weapons of Pino Pascali", Masahiro Aoki on Imi Knoebel, Masao Chatan on Giuseppe Penone, Tomoaki Kitagawa on Tony Cragg the "Material Seeker", Laszlo Glozer and Joseph Beuy's in conversation about Blinky Palermo, and more. Through twenty-six paintings, sculptures and installations the exhibition presented a meaningful overview of the broad scope of the artistic expressions of 7 artists from the 1960s that embodied the theme of the collection, "the art of our time". "Each of them in his own individual way strongly provokes in us new ideas and emotions, suggesting new possibilities for the arts of the next generation." - from the Introduction

Very Good copy.

File under: Pino Pascali Daniel Buren James Lee Byars Tony Cragg Imi Knoebel Blinky Palermo Giuseppe Penone Toyota Municipal Museum of Art / Aichi Art Minimal Art Conceptual Art Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Painting Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare

Gordon Matta-Clark
Anarchitect

2017, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 184 pages, 20.3 x 26.7 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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"Undoing is just as much a democratic right as doing."---Gordon Matta-Clark

This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark returned to his home city of New York. There he employed the term “anarchitecture,” combining “anarchy” and “architecture,” to describe the site-specific works he initially realized in the South Bronx.

The borough’s many abandoned buildings, the result of economic decline and middle-class flight, served as Matta-Clark’s raw material. His series Cuts dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of the ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with Conical Intersect, a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of 17th-century row houses slated for demolition as a result of the Centre Pompidou’s construction. This compelling volume grounds Matta-Clark’s practice against the framework of architectural and urban history, stressing his pioneering activist-inspired approach, as well as his contribution to the nascent fields of social practice and relational aesthetics.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark Antonio Bessa Jessamyn Fiore Yale University Press / New Haven Architecture / Interior Arte Povera Minimal Art Conceptual Art