Cura.

Cura.magazine is a platform for contemporary art based in Rome that investigates with an independent spirit today's artistic production, art's emerging scene and the borders that have marked its central moments, through collaborations with international artists and curators, who live in different areas of the world. It has a production of four issues per year.
The platform is also an editorial structure (Cura.books), publishing a series of artist's books.
Series:
 
Francesco Arena -
2014
English edition
Reference monograph, featuring Francesco Arena's works collection and his most important shows from 2004 to 2014, with texts by Marcella Beccaria, Lorenzo Benedetti, Florence Derieux and Ara H. Merjian.
Ursula Nistrup - Eavesdropping
2014
English edition
Artist's book (each book contains 4 different types of paper handmade by the artist).
Cura.
2014
English edition
Essays and conversations about the practice of exhibition making; artistic projects and conversations of artists and curators (Ruba Katrib and Anthea Hamilton, Anna Gritz and Richard Sides, Diego Perrone by Cecilia Canziani, Parker Ito by Liv Barrett, George Henry Longly and Nicoletta Lambertucci, Michele Abeles and Margaret Lee, Ian Cheng, Tilman Hornig, Sara Cwynar...).
Commercial Road Project - 2011-2013
2014
English edition
Catalogue / collective artists' book.
Francesco Arena - Masse Sepolte
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A complete documentation on Francesco Arena's installation for the Italian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.
Dario D\'Aronco - (Eidolon) - 3 illustrations for voice
2014
English edition
Artist's book.
Cura. - Spring-Summer 2013

2013
English edition
Lorenzo Benedetti on Lucy R. Lippard, Vincent Honoré and Krist Gruijthuijsen, Jean-Max Colard, Stefan Brüggemann, Raimar Stange on Poul Gernes, Will Rogan, Sean Edwards, Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Niels Trannois et Alexis Vaillant, Sara Barker, Gabriele De Santis, G. Küng...
Cura. - Winter 2013
2013
English edition
The contemporary arts magazine focusing on emerging artists and curators, in the inaugural issue of its new formula (with Oliver Osborne, Alexander Dorner, James Langdon, Anthony Huberman, Eszter Steierhoffer / Candida Höfer, Luca Francesconi, Bettina Buck, Mark Barrow, Aurélien Froment & Julien Fronsacq, Laura Reeves, Roger Van Voorhees...).
Cura. - Fall 2012
2012
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Daniel Gustav Cramer, Alfred H. Barr Jr., Christian Bernard / Mamco, Sophie Calle, Anna Barham, Marie Lund, Isabelle Cornaro, Babak Ghazi, Erik Van Der Wejde, Iris Touliatou...
Cura. - Spring-Summer 2012
2012
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Adrien Missika, Arnold Bode, Emily Pethick, On the Work and Role Play of Graphic Designers, Asier Mendizábal, Mark Manders, Dina Danish, Jamie Shovlin, Caroline Achaintre, Anna Franceschini, Invernomuto, Fashion Curating – Valerie Steele, Avital Geva...
Cura. - Winter 2012
2012
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Ian Tweedy, Seth Siegelaub, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Olaf Metzel, Cabello/Carceller, Abdul-Hay Mosallam Zarara, Walid Raad, Giulio Delvè, Martin Soto Climent, Iza Tarasewicz, Raphaël Zarka, Benny Chirco, Amy Feneck, Kaat Debo...
Gabriele de Santis - AB
2012
English edition
Artist's book (contributions by Adam Carr, Daria Irincheeva, Jacopo Miliani, Maria Loboda, Marie Lund, Rebecca Digne, Tenzing Barshee, Stefano Raimondi, Ruth Proctor, Lucy Woodhouse, Thomas Kratz, Antonia Alampi, Meriç Algün Ringborg, and Elisabetta Benassi).
Marco Raparelli - Permafrost
2012
English edition
Artist's book: about 180 plates, portrays a collectivity, gathered in its different human manifestations, in the infinite variety of the characters and typologies that only apparently seem fantastical characters.
Ian Tweedy - Crisis
2012
English edition
Artist's book: a selection of works from 2009 to 2012 over various pages of the original title Missiles of the World, 1972.
Jorinde Voigt - Views on Views on Decameron
2012
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
An artist's book inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, which explores the relationship between text and image, addressing the literary and visual culture of Italy.
Patrick Procktor - A View From a Window
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
sold out
A monographic itinerary on Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), a leading, contradictory and flamboyant figure in the London art scene of the 1960s and 1970s, through a selection of about sixty works, including paintings, watercolors and drawings.
Cura. - The Generational Issue
2022
English edition
sold out
CURA. 38 "The Generational Issue" is the magazine's first survey about artists' portraits that aims to investigate some of the most meaningful protagonists of the new generation who, stressing the urgencies of current times, are shaping the landscape of the present and the future in contemporary art.
Cura. - Post Society / After language
2021
English edition
sold out
Cura. #37 intertwines the themes of After Language and Post Society, and explores the way in which the radical change in the economic, political, cultural, linguistic and emotional structures that define our present is called upon to identify alternative and functional models for the advancement of "new."
Cura. - Futurity
2021
English edition
sold out
The power of art to anticipate future social and technological developments inspired the new issue of Cura. to investigate the notion of futurity through the work of some of the most visionary and promising artists of the contemporary landscape.
Clubbing - Hubert
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
sold out
Issue dedicated to the iconic Parisian club Les Bains Douches.
Cura. - The Changing World
2020
English edition
sold out
A selection of artists and authors records within a multifaceted mosaic some of the most relevant, urgent and dystopian visions of today's changing world.
Davide Balliano - Building Body
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
sold out
This catalogue traces a comprehensive itinerary within the artist's rigorous and appealing body of work. A research where austere geometric forms, shaped in tones of white and black, become the alphabet of an open reflection on the world. The publication includes an interview with Balliano by curator Chrissie Iles, a critical essay by Luigi Fassi, and a rich collection of images.
Maaike Schoorel - Elemento
2016
English edition
sold out
A comprehensive monograph, including preparatory documents and two essays by Jens Hoffmann and Alessandro Rabottini to better understand the delicate paintings of Dutch artist Maaike Schoorel.
Diego Marcon - A script for Dick
2014
English edition
sold out
A collection of 38 short, self-contained episodes (artist's book).
Cura.
2014
English edition
sold out
Walter Zanini, Vincent Honoré and Margarida Mendes, Jean-Max Colard, Ed Fornieles, João Mourão et Luís Silva, Jack Lavender, Rolf Nowotny, Judith Hopf, Avery Singer, Marie Angeletti, Quinn Latimer and Anne Dressen, The Still House Group...
The Ritual of the Snake
2014
no text
sold out
A collection of 80 images, selected by eight artists and eight curators, dedicated to the identification and construction of a personal and collective imaginary, in tribute to Aby Warburg's lecture on Serpent Ritual.
Cura. - Fall 2013
2013
English edition
sold out
Conversations, texts, labs, projects and contributions by about twenty international artists, curators and critics, linked together by the subtle fil rouge of fiction, narration and story-telling.
Luca Trevisani - The Art of Folding for Young and Old
2012
sold out
Artist's book based on a Chinese book of origami and paper folding.
2024
English edition
forthcoming
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