Haim Steinbach

Sergio Grandini
Editore Stampatore Giulio Topi

Vico Viganò
s.e.

Simone Soldini, Elena Pontiggia
Museo d'arte Mendrisio

Orietta Berlanda, Claudio Cerritelli
Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta

La muestra presenta una lectura paralela de dos grandes protagonistas de la comunicación artística del siglo XX, portavoces del arte entendido como sistema de lenguajes interactivos, de la pintura a la escultura, del diseño a la gráfica editorial, de la fotografía al cine, de la escenografía a la música, de las artes aplicadas al diseño, de los materiales tradicionales al uso de las nuevas tecnologías: Munari propone al diseñador como artista de nuestra época, Veronesi exalta el papel del pintor como operador/creador de las relaciones entre color y sonido, entre realidad y abstracción, entre forma e imaginación.

Jean-Marie Gallai, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tacita Dean
Galerie Max Hetzler

Throughout his life, French artist Raymond Hains (1926?2005) proved a constant innovator, who in his art always found new means of expression and new ways of finding and presenting images. Immediately after the Second World War he experimented with photograms and optical distortion through camera lenses, in what he termed hypnagogic photography. In the 1950s, he took torn posters from the billboards of the city and offered them as paintings, suggesting an affichiste alternative closer to life than spiritually suffused abstract expressionism. In 1960 he was among the original founders of Nouveau Realisme and carried the grim reality of construction hoardings into the gallery space. He then discovered the possibilities inherent in word play and framed the resulting juxtapositions and narratives in photographs, or collected them in suitcases full of curious findings. He discovered street sculptures at the margins of the cityscape and photographed them, too. Around the new millennium, he began a series of macintoshages, collages of pop-up windows grabbed from a computer screen, while he also developed neon sculptures after the Borromean knots of psychiatrist Jacques Lacan. 0Exhibition: Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany (10.10.-14.11.2015).

Douglas Cooper
Editoriale Jaca Book

Issey Miyake, Kazuko Sato, Hervé Chandès, Raymond Meier
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

"Ce catalogue d'exposition nous offre une vision saisissante des créations les plus actuelles d'Issey Miyake. Il propose une somme exceptionnelle d'informations et de documents concernant les vêtements, les matériaux, les techniques, les processus de fabrication, et les réflexions fondamentales mises en oeuvre depuis trente ans par l'un des inventeurs les plus importants de la fin du XXe siècle. Contient également un entretien entre Issey Miyake et Hervé Chandes.

José Barrias
Colpo di fulmine edizioni

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

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