Francesco Vezzoli's Trilogia della Morte (Trilogy of Death) explores video and embroidery, an unconventional combination unified by both passion and effectiveness. The 120 Seats of Sodom, inspired by the Italian director and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini's The 120 Days of Sodom, aligns 120 black Charles Rennie Mackintosh chairs with embroidered seats before a tapestry showing erotic scenes from other Pasolini films. Non-Love Meetings, conceived as a reinvention of Pasolini's documentary Love Meetings, in which the director traveled through Italy...

Vertigo seeks to document the surge of multimedia art driven by the advent of new technologies, including works produced by great names in art such as Balla, Warhol, Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Nam June Paik, and Laurie Anderson.

This instantly collectible exhibition catalogue for German artist Tobias Rehberger's exhibition at Milan's Fondazione Prada includes two brightly colored volumes bound together by four colored, custom-made elastic bands. Once these are pulled from the set, two very independent pieces are revealed. The first is an exhaustive reconstruction of Rehberger's solo exhibitions from 1990 to 2007, reproduced in glossy color, with installation views and details of his architecture-based sculptures and other works. The second volume is a more concise artist's book, including an interview with prominent...

A splendid, surprising, and original work of photography, this book is ideal for lovers of contemporary art and the boldest means of expression. Seventy images reveal the painful truth that beauty is fleeting. Gastel, who has been exalting beauty for years, challenges himself by confronting one of the deepest philosophical and literary themes.

Louise Bourgeois, who has produced art since the 1930s, began in the 1990s to use her clothes and the clothes of her loved ones as components in her sculptures and drawings. This title collects this set of images in its entirety.

For eight years, fueled by Dakis Joannou's belief that -although art is considered eternal and fashion ephemeral, both are contemporary creative processes, - creators from art, design, literature, film, architecture and fashion selected items from each year's fashion collection and interpreted them in the lexicon of their own discipline. Edited and designed by M/M (Paris), this publication follows the conceptual framework of the destefashioncollection exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens that presented the eight -capsules- (as each selection was called)--M/M (Paris), 2007; Juergen...

This volume is a retrospective of Matthias Schaller's (born 1965) photography, presenting all his major bodies of work from the last 13 years, such as the series Studio Gursky (2000), documenting Andreas Gursky's Dusseldorf studio, and Die Muhle (2001-2), showing the studio-home of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Presenting thumbnail images of numerous series and a bibliography, this book is the perfect entry point to Schaller's oeuvre.

Water Projects presents the complete series of large-scale projects implemented or devised by Christo and Jean-Claude from 1961 to 2016. In addition to the renowned wrapped monuments, from the Kunsthalle in Bern (1967-1968) to the Reichstag in Berlin (1971-1995), the works featured include installations made of barrels and fabrics such as Wall of Oil Barrels: The Iron Curtain (Paris, 1961-1962) and Valley Curtain (Rifle, Colorado, 1970-1972); huge inflatable objects like 42,390 Cubic Feet Package (Minneapolis, 1966) and 5,600 Cubic Meter Package; the project...

The definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence sculpture and installation art

Jessica Stockholder has long broken down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture to explore the body in social and cultural space - using found objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colours. This revised, updated edition spotlights the extraordinary evolution of her career, and examines the pivotal role she has played in shaping some of the most fundamental ideas around which contemporary sculpture and painting revolve today.

A cycle consisting of about fifty paintings. A clear reference to the artist's experiences in the United States.
De America is a series of some fifty paintings on paper and canvas created by Emilio Vedova in Venice between 1976 and 1977, subject of the exhibition organized by the Galleria dello Scudo and the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova.
The title of the wirk is an allusion to the artist's experience in the USA.
After the war, New York encouraged a dialog between American Abstract Expressionism and European art activities. It happened between Venice and America,...