Il sabato della storia

Alberto Agazzani, Marco Vallora
Fratelli Bocca editori

Tomás Maldonado
Skira

A partire dal ruolo di promotore dell'avanguardia artistica argentina come teorico e pittore del movimento dell'arte concreta negli anni quaranta, la monografia ripercorre le tappe che hanno portato Maldonado dal Sudamerica in Europa, dove ha assunto un ruolo di primo piano nella cultura del disegno industriale, come professore e rettore della Scuola di Ulm e come protagonista del dibattito internazionale sui temi della progettazione e dell'ambiente. Nel volume sono ampiamente documentate tanto la produzione artistica, con le opere fra il 1945 e il 1953 e con i quadri più recenti, quanto i lavori nell'ambito del design del prodotto e della comunicazione. Una serie di saggi di studiosi affrontano alcuni dei temi che definiscono il profilo teorico di Maldonado, il suo contributo in diversi campi del sapere: la pedagogia del design e il carattere innovativo del progetto culturale e formativo della scuola di Ulm, l'apporto alla semiotica, il contributo ai fondamenti del disegno industriale in rapporto con la cultura della tecnica.

Elise Luong, Bjørn van Poucke
Lannoo

An overview of the 50 street artists and their works that matter today. With exclusive portraits and interviewsArtists include: David Walker, Banksy, Slinkachu, Mobstr, Vhils and many othersStreet Art Today offers a topical and contemporary overview of the most influential street artists and their work as well as the most important schools. The authors compiled this who's who of contemporary street art in collaboration with a range of artists. They take a close look at names such as Alexis Diaz, Ella & Pitr, JR, Faith47, Mobstr and SpY. Exclusive interviews, illuminating essays and a foreword by Martyn Reed make this book a must-read for anyone, experts or amateurs, interested in this increasingly popular art scene. 'Street Art Today is a taste of things past, a showcase of things present and a hint of things to come.' The book features: 1010 - Aryz - Banksy - Biancoshock - Bicicleta Sem Freio - Bordalo II - Borondo - Case Ma Claim - Isaac Cordal - DALeast - Alexis Diaz - Tristan Eaton - Elian - Ella & Pitr - Elle - Escif - Etam Cru - Eversiempre - Faith47 - Fikos - Fintan Magee - Hyuro - Conor Harrington - Maya Hayuk - Agostino Iacurci - Inti - Joe Iurato - Jana & JS - JR - Levalet - Ludo - M-City - Mobster - MTO - Nychos - Os Gemeos - Pejac - Phlegm - Pixel Pancho - Roa - Rone - Seth Globepainter - Space Invader - SpY - StrØk - Telmo Miel - Guido Van Helten - Axel Void - David Walker - Ernest Zacharevic

Germano Celant
Johan & Levi editore

Da cinquant'anni Franco Toselli esplora i territori dell'arte contemporanea. Un percorso fecondo, iniziato a Milano nel 1967, che lo porta a muoversi in spazi espositivi dalle caratteristiche ambientali mutevoli, dove si avvicendano gli artisti più rappresentativi del panorama internazionale. Insieme a loro Toselli realizza mostre memorabili, prendendo parte alle avventure dei maggiori movimenti: dalla Conceptual Art all'Arte Povera, dall'arte ambientale californiana alla pittura neoespressionista europea. Questo volume, curato da Germano Celant, fornisce una rilettura storico-critica volta a inserire l'operato di Toselli nel più ampio contesto della storia delle gallerie d'arte nel mondo. E lo fa servendosi di un ricco apparato di immagini - molte inedite - messe a disposizione dai massimi fotografi italiani.

AA.VV.
Neri Pozza Editore

Peter Weibel, Christelle Havranek
Kunsthalle Praha Services

Ever since electricity became ubiquitous artists have been fascinated by the manifold possibilities to create works with it. The catalogue Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art, which accompanies the opening exhibition of Kunsthalle Praha, explores how electricity has transformed artistic practice from 1920 to the present day, including cinematography, sound, kinetic and mechanical sculptures, computer-based art and immersive installations. A historical perspective emphasizes the fact that electricity, with its various usages-from artificial light to computing-has become a defining element of our societies.

Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art includes an essay by Peter Weibel, the author of the exhibition concept, four thematic chapters written by the co-curator Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás as well as descriptions and reproductions of key artworks by artists, such as Mary Ellen Bute, William Kentridge, Christina Kubish, Zdenek Pesanek, Anna Ridler, Nicolas Schöffer, Jeffrey Shaw, Takis, Steina, and Woody Vasulka.

Stephanie D'Alessandro, Matthew Gale
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Surrealism Beyond Borders challenges conventional narratives of a revolutionary artistic, literary, and philosophical movement. Tracing Surrealism's influence and legacy from the 1920s to the late 1970s in places as geographically diverse as Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Syria, Thailand, and Turkey, this publication includes more than 300 works of art in a variety of media by well-known figures—including Dalí, Ernst, Kahlo, Magritte, and Miró—as well as numerous artists who are less widely known. Contributions from more than forty distinguished international scholars explore the network of Surrealist exchange and collaboration, artists' responses to the challenges of social and political unrest, and the experience of displacement and exile in the twentieth century. The multiple narratives addressed in this expansive book move beyond the borders of history, geography, and nationality to provocatively redraw the map of Surrealism.

Beat Kuert
dust&scratches

Thomas Persson
Acne Studios

Beat Kuert
Artist and Timezone 8 Limited

Ghosting is the most complete publication on Li Qing, whose Finding Differences and Images of Mutual Undoing and Unity series have won him much attention in China over the past five years. Alongside these, Ghosting also reproduces some individual works and newer installation and photography works.

Michael Govan, Christine Y. Kim
County Museum of Art

Copublished with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the major touring retrospective and concurrent exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this comprehensive volume illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell's incredibly diverse and exciting body of work--from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress Roden Crater. Whether he's projecting shapes on a flat wall or into the corner of a gallery space, James Turrell is perpetually asking us to "go inside and greet the light"--evoking his Quaker upbringing. In fact, all of Turrell's work has been influenced by his life experiences with aviation, science, and psychology, and as a key player in Los Angeles's exploding art scene of the 1960s. Enhanced by thoughtful essays and an illuminating interview with the artist, this monograph explores every aspect of Turrell's career to date--from his early geometric light projections, prints, and drawings, through his installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, to recent two-dimensional experiments with holograms. It also features an in-depth look at Roden Crater, a site-specific intervention into the landscape near Flagstaff, Arizona, which will be presented through models, plans, photographs, and drawings. Fans of this highly influential artist will find much to savor in this wide-ranging and beautiful book, featuring specially commissioned new photography by Florian Holzherr.

Luciano Pelizzari
Edizioni Graphis Arte