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Bruno Cora
Catalogue of the exhibition dedicated by La Galleria Nazionale di Roma to Vasco Bendini on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, which opened in March 2022. Text…
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From the blue of Giotto's frescoes to the monochromatic canvases of Lucio Fontana, Klein found a natural niche for his work in Italy
Following Yves Klein USA, Yves Klein Germany…
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The retrospective dedicated to the great Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915- 1995) seeks to explore the beauty and complexity of the creative process that underlies all his work.
The exhibition…
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The first monograph dedicated to the artistic journey of Sicilian-born Antonino Bove (b.1945), one of Italy’s most multifaceted contemporary artists, and his research into the sphere of dreaming and death…
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A monograph on Sicilian post-war and contemporary artist Vittorio Messina (b.1946), who is known for his striking cell-like installations, sculptures, and videos.
Fire as a creative medium in 19th century art. Burri, Klein and many others in an exhibition that grows from the flames.
The book, edited by Bruno Cora and accompanied by a rich apparatus of images, highlights the affinities and divergences of four Calabrian artist who trained during the 1970s: Francesco Correggia…
This volume presents the artistic career of German/Italian artist Klaus Muench through a selection of his work. Text in English and Italian.
A history and critical analysis of the Plastic Combustions series created by Italian artist Alberto Burri.
Yves Klein e Arman. Le Vide et Le Plein is published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati in Lugano. Curated by Bruno Cora…
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Best known for his complex draperies on irregular-shaped canvases, Umberto Mariani’s work explores illusions of light and shadow created within the folds of fabric in his work. His first monumental…
Documents a collaborative project by Vincenzo Agnetti and Paolo Scheggi that remained unfinished due to Scheggi’s untimely death in 1971: The Temple. Birth of Eidos.
Accompanies an exhibition dedicated to the relationship between the arts, examining the career of Giuseppe Ungaretti, a very important exponent of the Italian literary world.
Evelyn Weiss,Bruno Cora,Peter Weiermair
Andrea Fogli’s drawings offer an insight into an inner world, in which interior and exterior, dream and reality, closeness and distance are in a state of flux. This work contains…
Joseph Beuys
Widely regarded as one of the most influential figures of the second half of the 20th century, Joseph Beuys (1921-86) was prolific in his production of performance art, sculpture, installations…
Massimo Di Carlo,Laura Lorenzoni,Maurizio Calvesi
A distinctive feature of Alberto Burri’s artistic imagery: the treatment of black in his Cellotex works.
Gas flames, trails of smoke, steel, iron, lead, glass, coal, cotton, coffee grinds, or textiles intermingle with equal importance. Through the use of these materials, Kounellis continues to renegotiate fundamental…
Rough, pristine, and poetic
Jan Jedlicka is a painter, draftsman, graphic artist, photographer and filmmaker, but also a wanderer and explorer. As an attentive observer, he engages with the subtle…
Eliseo Mattiacci: Sculpture in Action in Rome is a fresh examination of the developments in Mattiacci’s sculpture from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, dates that embrace the two decades he…
Critical texts and reproductions of Ettore Spaletti’s meditative paintings and sculptures
This publication presents critical essays–both historical and previously unpublished–on Italian artist Ettore Spaletti (1940-2019). Known for his meditative and…
