Bøger udgivet af Marsilio Arte

Exhibition held at Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, April 13-September 16, 2024.

A radical artist and pioneer of Arte Informale, bearing witness to events that left their mark on the centurySelf-taught Italian painter Emilio Vedova (1919-2006) is known for his raw, visceral and historically informed works that reflect strong political convictions. His dark, expressive compositions are titled after tumultuous movements from his lifetime: from the Prague Spring to the Years of Lead.

Segreti, protetti e nascosti: sono i giardini di Venezia, protagonisti del volume illustrato edito da Marsilio Arte e curato da Toto Bergamo Rossi, direttore dell'associazione Venetian Heritage con Marco Bay, architetto paesaggista. I testi firmati dai due autori del volume, accompagnati dai suggestivi scatti di Marco Valmarana, guidano il lettore alla scoperta di queste gemme verdi, luoghi privilegiati in cui natura, arte e storia si intrecciano. Il volume costituisce un vero e proprio viaggio tra i giardini di Venezia, dai più sontuosi custoditi nei palazzi nobiliari affacciati sul Canal Grande a quelli più vernacolari delle isole della laguna, raccolti e presentati sistematicamente attraverso un'indicizzazione per sestieri. La fioritura primaverile, l'opulenza estiva, i colori dell'autunno, le nebbie e il gelo invernali vengono catturati in maniera inedita in una serie di foto ricche di dettagli e di emozioni, che svelano il verde segreto veneziano attraverso le stagioni. Le parole di Toto Bergamo Rossi, grande appassionato di giardini, raccontano l'evoluzione e la storia del giardino a Venezia, indagando le sue peculiarità e le sfide di questo ambiente naturale con la pietra, con le maree, nel tentativo di integrarsi armoniosamente con la conformazione della città, la storia dei luoghi e dei palazzi. Marco Bay, architetto paesaggista che si occupa di restauro di giardini storici, analizza una serie di aspetti più tecnici che spaziano dalla botanica alla storia, fino all'architettura del paesaggio. A un excursus storico che racconta lo sviluppo e i cambiamenti che nel corso dei secoli hanno interessato il giardino veneziano, l'autore affianca nozioni tecniche e riflessioni su cosa significhi possedere uno spazio verde a Venezia. A chiusura del volume, Bay firma un saggio in cui immagina e propone dieci nuovi formati di giardino attraverso i quali tramandare l'eredità botanica di Venezia, in un rimando di esperienze passate e sperimentazioni future.

Nella primavera 2024, Palazzo Strozzi ospita una grande mostra dedicata a uno dei maggiori esponenti dell'arte tra XX e XXI secolo: Anselm Kiefer, celebre per le sue opere di forte impatto che attraverso pittura, scultura e installazione investigano i temi della memoria, del mito, della guerra e dell'esistenza. Ogni produzione artistica di Kiefer esprime il rifiuto del limite, nella monumentalità e nella potenza della materialità, ma soprattutto nell'infinita ricchezza di risorse con le quali sonda le profondità della memoria e del passato. Ha esordito sulla scena artistica tedesca alla fine degli anni sessanta, con opere che hanno segnato tra le prime una riflessione sulla storia della Seconda guerra mondiale e sull'eredità emotiva e culturale della Germania. Da qui è iniziato un percorso artistico in cui si uniscono e confondono tra loro storia, mito, religione, misticismo, poesia, filosofia. A cura di Arturo Galansino, la mostra di Palazzo Strozzi mira a restituire la vitale complessità dell'arte di Kiefer, celebrandone l'intreccio tra figura e astrazione, natura e artificialità, creazione e distruzione, con un forte coinvolgimento per il pubblico nello spazio fisico e concettuale delle sue opere.

A sumptuous display of Byars' mystical sculptures and installations, including the gilded tower displayed at the Venice BiennaleAmerican artist James Lee Byars (1932-97) combined motifs from Eastern cultures, such as Noh theater and Zen Buddhism, with the ideologies of Western philosophy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, this catalog presents a wide selection of emblematic works that blend geometric forms with precious materials such as marble, velvet, fine wood and gold leaf. It delves into Byars' practice through detailed entries on the works on display written by the scholar Sarah Kislingbury, illustrated by a wide selection of historical images. The volume includes an essay by curator Jordan Carter on the relationship between Byars' works and performances, a text by curator Alexandra Munroe on the artist's correspondence in the context of the Fluxus aesthetic and an essay by art historian Shinobu Sakagami on Byars' relationship with Japanese culture.

Mehretu's evocative compositions in conversation with artists and writers of all stripes, imparting the artist's ongoing commitment to collaborationThis catalog is published in conjunction with a major exhibition dedicated to the work of American artist Julie Mehretu (born 1970), spotlighting more than 60 paintings, drawings and prints, from the past 25 years--several of which were painted in the last two. Her sensual and emotional compositions are imbued with palimpsestic and inventive marks that emerge from a dense, multilayered and complex set of references: art historical and sociopolitical, geographical, contemporary and personal. Mehretu's practice has also always engaged in various forms of collaboration and sustained conversation with fellow artists.Fittingly, then, this catalog presents Mehretu's work alongside that of the artists and writers Nairy Baghramian, Huma Bhabha, Robin Coste Lewis, Tacita Dean, David Hammons, Paul Pfeiffer and Jessica Rankin.

From realist photography to Informalism, Migliori documents Italian society from a witty, amusing perspective At age 98, Nino Migliori (born 1926) is still one of Italy's greatest photographers. With curiosity and continual experimentation, combined with his sense of irony, he highlights the everyday life of Italians from the end of the dictatorship in 1948 to the 21st century.

Lush multimedia landscapes blend dreamlike narratives and folk traditions to reflect upon the colonization of VietnamInspired by the geography of Vietnam, Thao Nguyen Phan (born 1987) combines literature, oral tales, fairy tales and myths to trace the history of her home country and reconstruct its cultural heritage, addressing pressing issues related to contemporary environmental and social changes.

The first study of de Kooning's works on paper and clay sculpture from his formative sojourns in ItalyThe Dutch-American giant of abstraction Willem de Kooning (1904-97) enjoyed two long sojourns in Italy: in the fall of 1959 and in the summer of 1969. These trips profoundly impacted his work--the first generated a significant body of black-and-white works on paper, while the second inspired the artist to experiment with clay--yet they have yet to receive their due scholarly attention. Willem de Kooning and Italy is the first monograph to explore these two chapters in de Kooning's life and career, as reflected in the development of his work from the end of the '50s to his last works of the '80s.In addition to essays by the two curators and editors, this lavishly illustrated volume includes contributions from the art historians Jeremy Bleeke, Ester Coen, Anna Coliva and Patrick Elliott. A bibliography and a list of exhibitions further enrich the monograph.

Through immersive installations, Masbedo re-energizes a Milanese electronic music studio from the '50sItalian artist duo MASBEDO dedicate their new work to the Studio di Fonologia RAI in Milan: a facility for experimental electronic music that first opened in 1955. Their reenactment through a video performance provides a contemporary look at an institution that was fundamental to the creation of a new cultural language.

A scenic journey through the sweeping countryside of Italy's Prosecco regionThis first photobook in a new series on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Veneto brings together writer Ginevra Lamberti (born 1985) and photographer Filippo Romano (born 1968) to capture the languid slopes and undulating treelines of the Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene.

Eye-catching advertisements for the Triennale Milano chart an evolution of poster designOn the occasion of the centenary of the Triennale Milano, this book offers an invitation to look back over 100 years of the institution's history through the 23 posters for its international exhibition. From Massimo Vignelli to Italo Lupi, some of the world's greatest designers have contributed pieces.

Mind-bending compositions of human beings and commercial products scrutinizing work, religion and consumerismKnown for his complex "patternizations" or "superstructures," German artist Thomas Bayrle (born 1937) creates grid-like images of people, products and machines as part of his fascination with the relationship between the individual and society. This catalog is published on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin (11/03/23-04/02/24).

Young artists reflect on the Pinault Collection's monumental exhibition of 20th-century photographyThe landmark Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century from Condé Nast's archives is responded to in this book with painting, sculpture, performance and photography from four artists: Tarrah Krajnak (born 1979), Eric N. Mack (born 1987), Giulia Andreani (born 1985) and Daniel Spivakov (born 1996).

The radical painter-conceptualist reviewed, from strike pieces to tool paintingsThis volume brings together a broad selection of the work of artist Lee Lozano (1930-99), representing the whole of her brief but prolific career. Trained as a painter, Lozano made a name for herself in the New York art world of the 1960s with a versatile output comprising painting on the one hand and conceptual practice on the other. While working in the social and artistic context of the time, Lozano maintained a position radically opposed to any form of categorization. Strike surveys the different periods of her work, from figurative drawings and paintings in an Expressionist style to the large oils on canvas titled Tool Paintings, and following their formal evolution toward minimalist abstraction. The project also includes a selection of her Language Pieces, works that mark the artist's shift to an exclusively conceptual phase that reached its conclusion in 1972 with Dropout Piece.

The rediscovery of a Baroque masterpiece by the venerable Italian painterIn 2021, a painting was offered at a Madrid auction houses at a starting price of 1,500 euros. Almost immediately and almost unanimously, this Ecce Homo was attributed by experts to Caravaggio (1571-1610), an unprecedented event in the critical history of the painter.This publication comprises essays by four of the most authoritative specialists on Caravaggio and Baroque painting, who together offer an essential starting point for the understanding of this new and fundamental addition to our knowledge of Caravaggio's work.Maria Cristina Terzaghi, Gianni Papi, Giuseppe Porzio and Keith Christiansen tackle the interpretation of the painting, taking different approaches. One essay dwells on the circumstances of the discovery, another traces its Spanish provenance, while the stylistic, technical and iconographic aspects of the work are examined in depth, along with the artist's critical fortune and the legacy he left behind in Naples.The four texts offer the reader a variety of interpretations that constitute the true value of this publication. While others have expressed skepticism over the attribution, all the contributing scholars share the same enthusiastic certainty: the Ecce Homo is a masterpiece by Caravaggio and, as such, still has a lot to tell us about the artist.

Cataloging the Uzbek national pavilion at the 18th Architecture BiennaleFrom the ruins of the ancient qalas to the mythical figure of the labyrinth: the amply illustrated Unbuild Together addresses different horizons of Uzbekistan's architectural heritage as potential tools for envisioning the future and key elements in challenging the concept of modernity.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museo del vetro, Murano, Venice, Italy, May 19, 2023-January 6, 2024.

Representative sculptural works that probe the limits and potential of our relationship with the worldThis monograph features 30 fundamental works by acclaimed Indian artist Anish Kapoor (born 1954) from the 1980s to the present day, spanning practically the entirety of his long and distinguished career.One of the most notable features of Kapoor's works is the way they transcend their materiality. Pigment, stone, steel, wax and silicone are manipulated--carved, polished, saturated and molded--to the point of a dissolution of boundaries between the plastic and the immaterial. Color in Kapoor's hands becomes an immersive phenomenon, containing its own spatial and illusive volume. Kapoor seeks estrangement, the erasure of ordinary references, in order to undermine the way that we are accustomed to see things and set them in a completely different perspective, creating works that act as catalysts of energy. This volume reveals the genesis of his artistic practice and investigates its language, providing new keys to its interpretation.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy, October 14, 2023-March 18, 2024.

The life and work of the Italian cinematic legend Gina LollobrigidaA symbol of Mediterranean beauty, the incarnation of the diva par excellence of Italian cinema, the witness of Italy's rebirth, but also the photojournalist, the sculptor, the painter: this was Gina Lollobrigida (1927-2023), best known for her roles in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) and Carol Reed's Trapeze (1956), among others.This volume presents the life of this great all-around artist through her extraordinary photographs; the affectionate accounts of Christian De Sica, Carlo Verdone, Gérard Depardieu and Alex Marshall; the critical texts of the curators and editors; and an essay by Fabio Melelli.Lollobrigida possessed an uncommon artistic sensitivity and a great love of life--a vitality that she never lost, an unshakable determination--in addition to her all-consuming passion for art: all important elements in the shaping of her career.Through photos and accounts, this book retraces the life of Lollobrigida and her human and artistic versatility as actor, photographer, sculptor and philanthropist: myriad facets of an amazing existence.

The story of the famous English critic's long and fruitful love affair with the city of VeniceJohn Ruskin visited Venice numerous times over the course of his life, starting in 1835, and after long stays in the city he published his three-volume masterpiece The Stones of Venice--a gorgeous paean to the beauty, uniqueness and fragility of this city that was destined to become a cornerstone of English culture and mark the beginning of the Gothic Revival. Venice, in Ruskin's drawings and watercolors, is a theater of "lost time" that builds up traces of historical time even as it is subject to erasure and destruction.In Venice with Ruskin is a meditation on the city, its architecture, its bittersweet relationship with nature, Ruskin's dialogue with the great Venetian artists whose works he reproduced, the curiosity that prompted him to explore it and the imagination with which he captured its essence on paper.

Over four decades of atmospheric installation worksSince the late 1970s, Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens (born 1956) has been using ephemeral elements such as light to investigate the sensory perception of reality. Her works create situations that disorient viewers, breaking down their conventional perceptive mechanisms. This catalog, accompanying an exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, retraces the artist's entire career across sculpture, video and installation.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Auditorium Parco della musica, Rome, Italy, September 16-November 1, 2022.

Key works from the International Studio Glass movement and beyond, from Chihuly to PesceThis volume documents a rare collection of works from the International Studio Glass movement that arose in the 1950s, signaling a major revival of the craft. Housed in Venice, Italy at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, the collection--assembled between 1990 and 2020--features 146 glass works created by 54 artists from Venice, as well as several international locations: academies in Bohemia, European research centers and the studio-furnaces of American, Canadian and Australian artists. The volume serves as a visual record of this remarkable collection, highlighting the friendship between the gallerist and collector, united by a shared passion for glass.Artists include: Dale Chihuly, Barbara Bloom Laura De Santillana, Stanislav Libenský & Jaroslava Brychtová, Richard Marquis, Richard Meitner, Yoichi Ohira, Gaetano Pesce, Borek Sypek (Rep. Ceca), Borek Sípek, Jana Sterback, Lino Tagliapietra, Toots Zynsky and Tony Zuccheri.

Twenty years of ethereal Venice photographyThis volume presents 20 years of work by Italian photographer Alessandra Chemollo (born 1963), who captures the otherworldly beauty of Venice in a way that only a true Venetian can. The images are accompanied by text by Italian philosopher and essayist Franco Rella (born 1944).

Artificial intelligence, mushroom spores and peanut butter: on Anicka Yi's unique brand of science-infused conceptualismKorean American artist Anicka Yi (born 1971) creates sculptures and installations that subvert the concepts of natural and synthetic, generating hybrid and symbiotic entities through the employment of the bacteria and technological devices in her work. Yi has collaborated with a range of professionals, including engineers, chemists and other scientists, with whom she carries out ambitious projects aimed at investigating new possibilities of exchange and interaction between living organisms and artificial intelligence.Metaspore is the most extensive monograph ever devoted to the artist, published to coincide with her solo exhibition of the same name at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. The volume examines her practice in detail, presenting a wide selection of installations created by Yi from 2010 to now. The catalog includes photographic documentation of the exhibition along with critical essays and thematic analyses.

An insider's photographic history of postwar Italian and American artBeginning his career in 1940, Italian photographer Ugo Mulas (1928-73) became a central figure in documenting postwar contemporary art. This volume presents Mulas' black-and-white photographs--two decades of the Venice Biennale, New York in the 1960s, and close friends and artists Fontana, Consagra, Melotti and Pisoletto.

This monograph on Italian sculptor Consagra focuses on early abstract works from 1947 to his "frontal music" projects in 1982. A founding member of Forma 1 group, Consagra challenged sculptural conventions by creating slender, almost two-dimensional "frontal sculptures" in bronze, iron, wood, steel, and marble.