Italia

The result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography, Glasraum explores the deliberate ambiguities embedded in a seemingly aloof approach to the construction of both space and image.

The facsimile of a never-before-published catalogue, documenting a Milanese exhibition banned by the police in 1992, renders the productions and stances of a group of Italian artists in the artistic context of the time.

An artistic reflection on the political and social structures that shape the emotional state of loneliness and its perception in contemporary society.

The first published recording by Amelia Cuni, Werner Durand (fusing her Indian Raga singing in the Dhrupad style with his minimalist and experimental approach) and Uli Hohmann (joining them in a range of hand drums from the Middle East and North Africa, plus a dulcimer-sounding hammered guitar).

Two previously unreleased collages for magnetic tape, both realized at the Studio di Fonologia Muisicale RAI in Milan. These pieces are precious testimonials to Aldo Clementi's intense and ongoing interest in electronic music in the 1960s.

Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.

Catalogue of the first edition of a project that turns Palazzo Esposizioni on an annual basis into a primary observatory for exploring the visions and the research go those foreign scholars and artists who spend a period of residency in Rome every year, a guests of the Academies and Cultural Institutes that have been part of a city's life since the seventeenth century.

A photographic exploration of the architecture, history and people of Naples at the time of the fervent Scudetto celebrations.

The English translation of Il viaggiatore insonne, poet legend Sandro Penna's final collection, coupled with illustrations by the American artist Louis Fratino.

New monograph.

Photographer and writer Carla Cerati (1926-2016) captures the architectural, social and political upheavals of 1960-70s Milan.

An overview of Studio Marconi's publishing activities since the 1960s, tracing the studio's history.

A series of astonishing photographs by the Italian architect and designer, discovering China at the end of the Cultural Revolution, between millenary traditions, openness to the world and forced modernization.

A mysterious hybrid manuscript ("rediscovered", edited and presented by Alessandro De Francesco) whose prose, oscillating between poetry, philosophy and conceptual art, ingenuously explores the great unresolved questions of humanity and nature.

The music composed by Federico Chiari for various film and video works by the artist Diego Marcon.

This artist's book reflects Eva & Franco Mattes' continued interest in the condition of displacement to be sensed in Fukushima. Borrowing the format of wrapping-paper catalogs, it contains twenty large pre-perforated sheets, each of which features a photographic texture—a seamlessly repeating motif captured by the camera amid the radioactive ruins of the contaminated towns and countryside.

A polyphonic examination of the Italian artist's project for the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, the largest display of the artist Diego Marcon artworks in an Italian institution, reviewing some of the central themes of Diego Marcon’s research.

Interviews with Vivian Xu, Abi Liu, Stephen Cornford, Timo Toots, Egor Kraft; reports: xCoAx 2022, Ars Electronica 2022...

A musical version of legendary Italian designer and artist Enzo Mari's rare book The Function of Esthetic Research (1970), singed by a computer-aided software.

A series of 16 photographs documenting an action for house lights performed by Alice Guareschi at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris (leporello).

Elisa Filomena's women.

A previously unheard archival recording of the legendary improvising ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva (Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum), captured in concert at Bard College, New York in 2012.

An interdisciplinary perspective upon Italian visual culture through the words of 37 artists active from 2000 to today.

An incursion into a major field of work by Christina Kubisch, a pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of electromagnetic fields generated by our urban and technological environment since the 1970s.

Pardon Façade documents the artistic output of Luca Monterastelli, showcasing almost all of the sculptures and installations that he produced between 2011 and 2022.

The 2024 Toilet Paper wall calendar.

Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.

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, 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.

The volume "Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else" brings together the voices of all the protagonists involved in the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

A long-term project by the Italian artist and agroecologist on rethinking the relationship with the earth, both from the point of view of humans and plants.

Giuseppe Ielasi's first album released on Oren Ambarchi's Black Truffle label continues the renewed exploration of the guitar that marks much of his solo work over the last few years: a major new work from a quiet master of contemporary experimental music

In his "Autobiography", Andrea Salvino uses different visual elements that characterized his production through the years: movie stills, details of master paintings, images of celebrities and many others.

29 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

An exploration of emerging Italian design, revealing a great variety of approaches to the discipline.

On Patterns reflects the themes in Adelaide Cioni's research: nature, language, craft, performance and abstraction/spirituality.

A photographic portrait of Porpora Marcasciano, human rights activist, writer, sociologist and honorary president of MIT (the Italian Transgender Identity Movement).

The monograph dedicated to Italian artist, editor, critic and writer Lisa Ponti (1922–2019), daughter of the famous architect and designer Gio Ponti, who spanned a number of moments of twentieth century culture, constantly involved with the leading names of the Italian and international art scene.

A journey through the history of the pioneering Italian science fiction magazine Urania since the early 1950s.

The debut of the duo Damāvand (Gianluca Ceccarini and Alessandro Ciccarelli), a tribute to the 18th Century Armenian poet and musician Sayat Nova, weaves a sprawling sense of rhythmic abstraction from ancient poetic touchstone, offering further proof that the future of ambient music is now.

Occupying a remarkable middle ground between the operatic, the abstractions of experimentalism, and seductive qualities of popular music, Italian berlin-based composer, performer and publisher Claudio Rocchetti has created an entirely singular from of electroacoustic practice, as though Phillip Glass' Operas were tossed into a blender run by Alvin Lucier. Thrilling, deeply engaging, and bordering on the visionary, this transportive wonder taps the melancholic and ecstatic alike.

Undoubtedly one of the most important texts on the out of book poetry, both a documentary sum and a manifesto to underline the major role that the poetry and the poets have occupied and occupy in the whole of the transformations that have upset the the contemporary art field, considered by the amateurs and the researchers like a true bible.

A photographic journey through the city of Genoa, exploring the past of historic buildings, the contemporaneity of the first modern museums, and Franco Albini's interiors.

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.

A revisiting of the singular urban planning project of the residential district of Milano San Felice.