Nero

Nero is a publishing house specialized in the production of artist's books, editions, and catalogues commissioned by museums, foundations and private collections. Based in Rome, Nero also works in curating, art direction and consulting for cultural projects and contemporary art.
 
 Clusterduck - Deep Fried Feels
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
forthcoming
A memetic exploration of the "poor images" found on the fringes of the internet's dynamic and ever-expanding reservoir of content.
Alassan Diawara - Post Scriptum - A museum forgotten by heart
2025
English edition
forthcoming
An hybrid editorial object based on the language of fashion, utilizing the eponymous exhibition at the MACRO museum as a starting point.
Lukas Wassmann - Post Scriptum - A museum forgotten by heart
2025
English edition
forthcoming
An hybrid editorial object based on the language of fashion, utilizing the eponymous exhibition at the MACRO museum as a starting point.
Carola Bonfili - Second Order Reality
2025
English edition
forthcoming
A layered graphic novel, conceived as a video-game trailer, weaving together diverse imaginaries, from Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony to H.G. Wells' short stories, from brutalist architecture to generative artificial intelligence.
Marzia Migliora - Seven Imaginative Exhibitions - 1993-2024
2025
English edition
forthcoming
Seven exhibitions on paper, curated by different curators, to look back at the over-thirty-years production of one of Europe's foremost contemporary artists.
Jim C. Nedd - The Stream
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
forthcoming
A series of photographs of Naples, by Jim C. Nedd, blending and reinterpreting elements from diverse iconographic traditions, such as fashion photography, documentary, and tableau vivant.
Lina Pallotta - Voce \'e stommache
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
forthcoming
A personal and intimate portrayal of the Neapolitan trans community.
Tomás Saraceno - Life(s) of webs
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
forthcoming
A collection of essays discussing the role of spider/webs in different cultures from an inter-species perspective.
Colorescenze - Artiste, Toscana, Futuro
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A publication about twelve women artists in Tuscany and their alternative ways of making art, departing from dominant, male-centered models to embrace regenerative practices and transformative imaginaries.
Fiamma Montezemolo - Hidden in Plain Sight
2024
English edition
A publication tracing the itinerary of Fiamma Montezemolo's anthropological and artistic research, across Italy, Mexico, and the United States.
Visible – Art as Policies for Care - Socially Engaged Art (2010-Ongoing)
2024
English edition
currently out of stock
Comprehensive documentation on 43 outstanding socially committed artistic projects over the past twenty years.
Re-Materialization of Language - 1978-2022
2024
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
currently out of stock
The first attempt at a philological reconstruction of the seminal exhibition Materializzazione del linguaggio, curated in 1978 by Mirella Bentivoglio within an edition of the Biennale di Venezia, and dedicated to the verbo-visual explorations of eighty international women artists.
Jacopo Pagin - The Sniper In The Brain
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Over 200 drawings and paintings to explore the visionary, obsessive, and hypnotic qualities of Jacopo Pagin's work.
Micol Roubini - La montagna magica
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
An extensive investigation on the ecosystem of Europe's largest asbestos quarry in Balangero (TO) and the dense network of relations between human and land.
Towards the Realm of Materiality - Designing Philip K. Dick\'s Non-Existing Technologies
2024
English edition
A multidisciplinary exploration of the technological devices, the machines, and the objects conceived by the brilliant mind of Philip K. Dick.
Giovanna Silva - Saudiscapes
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The trip to Saudi Arabia by photographer Giovanna Silva and curator Emilia Giorgi.
Angelo Plessas - The House of All Beings (box set)
2024
English edition
A board game and a communal ritual conceived by artist Angelo Plessas to explore self-made sacred spaces and inter-species connections.
The Glover Group - A Los Angeles Story
2024
English edition
A portrait of the cohesive community of women artists in Frogtown, Los Angeles, including Ruby Neri, Hilary Pecis, Megan Reed, Lily Stockman, and Austyn Weiner.
Museums at the Ecological Turn
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A reflection on the relation between art, museum institutions and climate activism.
Lucia Palladino - To enter the forest
2024
English edition
currently out of stock
A collection of walking and writing exercises to put our perspective about self and what is other to self, as well as the relations between things, even beyond the human, into question.
Valentina Tanni - Exit Reality - Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold
2024
English edition
The first attempt to map that ensemble of subcultures, popular narratives, and visual and auditory languages we now recognize as "internet aesthetics".
Forgotten Architecture - An Archive of Overshadowed Projects
2024
English edition
A "minor" and alternative history of architecture.
Julien Carreyn - Voyage à Kastelorizo
2024
English edition
An island photographic wandering (a series of photographs taken on a small island in the Aegean Sea, Kastelorizo, focusing on its hollow spaces and silent atmospheres).
Simone Forti - New Book
2024
English edition
A new poem composed by the legendary dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti.
MUdec United - Exposure
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
MUdec United, the publication of the MUDEC – Museo delle Culture di Milano, one of the Italian leading institutions, is a book-zine dedicated to interdisciplinary research on world cultures. The second issue questions the quintessential symbolic device of the museum machine: the showcase—a tool of preservation, mummification, and desire, with many stories to tell.
Valentina Tanni - Memesthetics - The Eternal September of Art
2024
English edition
The first book to draw a comprehensive cartography of the relationship between visual arts and digital culture since the early 2000s, tracing the history of memes "from Duchamp to TikTok."
Renato Leotta - Ondina (vinyl LP + booklet)
2024
An archive of sounds for interspecies communication, stemming from Renato Leotta's research on Posidonia Oceanica, an underwater plant endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.
Alex Cecchetti - Sentiero
2024
English edition
The documentation of a mountain path designed by artist Alex Cecchetti in Val Gardena (Bolzano, Italy) and a journey into more-than-human presences and ecologies.
Nicolas Cilins - Stills From Seven Works
2024
texts in English, German, French
A monograph dedicated to Nicolas Cilins’ films between 2011 and 2020.
Charles Bernstein - Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End - Poems of Artificial Intelligence 
2023
English edition
A collection of poems generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus.
Estelle Hoy - Jus d\'Orange
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A dialogue between Camille Henrot's images and Estelle Hoy's texts, a visual and verbal exploration of melancholy, failure, injustice, and hope.
Artists\' Survival Kit
2023
English edition
A collection of essays and a critical attempt to rethink and improve the relationship between artists and art institutions and to give visibility to the precarious, complex, and very often existential reality of the art workers.
Honza Zamojski - Rise and Fall of the Middlemen
2023
English edition
Artist book: a visual and poetic investigation of the enigmatic figure of the "Middleman", combining short punchlines and full-page illustrations, which are wryly reminiscent of Kafka's fictional world. The publication comes with a cardboard puppet, to be screwed and assembled.
Alice Guareschi - Je m\'appelle Olympia
2023
no text
A series of 16 photographs documenting an action for house lights performed by Alice Guareschi at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris (leporello).
The Rainbow Book
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
The reprint of a cult book of post-1968 psychedelic culture:, an encyclopedia of the cultural and artistic manifestations of the rainbow first published in 1975 in Berkeley, California, on the occasion of The Rainbow Show exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
 Salvo - Io sono Salvo - Works and Writings 1961-2015
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
A monograph conceived as a self-portrait: the story of the artist's career through works and writings from 1961 to 2015, collected in chronological order to illustrate the ever-evolving, organic nature of Salvo's activities, which constantly interacted with the history of art.
MUdec United - Rainbow
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
MUdec United, the new publication of the MUDEC – Museo delle Culture di Milano, one of the Italian leading institutions, is a book-zine dedicated to interdisciplinary research on world cultures. The first issue addresses the themes explored with an exhibition project composed of different stories related to the rainbow as a natural, cultural, spiritual and human phenomenon.
Abbas Zahedi - “ ”
2023
English edition
A conversation between Eva Wilson and the 2022 Frieze Artist Award Abbas Zahedi, around the core concepts of "translation and transplantation".
Lina Pallotta - Porpora
2023
English edition
A photographic portrait of Porpora Marcasciano, human rights activist, writer, sociologist and honorary president of MIT (the Italian Transgender Identity Movement).
The Mediterranean - A Round Sea
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
A body of essays and artworks, edited by Marina Folkidis, about artistic production in the Mediterranean terroir.
Philippe Malouin - Steel Works
2023
English edition
An overview of the Canadian designer's creative process.
Luca Trevisani - Walking loaves
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
An artist book by Luca Trevisani, overwriting in the mode of a palimpsest Piero Camporesi's Bread of Dreams, an Italian cult classic of "food" anthropology.
Massimo Bartolini - Hagoromo
2023
English edition
The most complete publication ever dedicated to the Tuscan artist.
Simone Forti - Oh, Tongue
2023
English edition
A new revised version of the notebook of the legendary American dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world.
Diego Perrone - Run-up - Grasso
2023
English edition
An artist book celebrating the first five issues of Grasso magazine.
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