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Artist's Travels

 
The Artist's Travels series brings together the contributions of contemporary artists who, each in their own way, create or are the protagonists of books, drawing collections or catalogues, recounting their own personal research, rediscoveries and obsessions. Every book introduces us to a particular world, and gives us the experience of a journey—be it real or imaginary—and its consequences unfolding through artistic elaboration. On an ever more globalised planet, travel means leaving a mark, an underlining, on the maps of our era.
 
 Invernomuto - Negus
2014
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
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(last copies available!)
Artist's book based on a complex project linking Vernasca, Ethiopia and Jamaica according to two points of view, placing certain critical moments in Italy's colonial history in relation to the symbolism of Rastafarian tradition.
Nathalie du Pasquier - The Strange Order of Things
2019
English edition
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sold out
A reflection on the genealogy of objects (artist's book).
Nathalie du Pasquier - Gabon 1977 - Un Don Juan chez les gendarmes
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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sold out
This publication presents a comic strip made by a 20-year old Nathalie Du Pasquier in remembrance of a six months journey in Gabon. Inspired by a clipping from a Gabonese daily, the cartoon tells the colorful story of a clumsy Don Giovanni. This edition features an introductory text by the artist, the translated strip, and a facsimile of the comic book in original French version.
Incompiuto - The Birth of a Style
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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sold out
This pioneering group study accompanies the reader on a modern Grand Tour amid Italy's contemporary ruins.
Joanna Piotrowska - Frantic
2017
English edition
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sold out
Frantic brings together black and white photographs, taken in 2016 in Lisbon and later in London, Warsaw and Rio de Janeiro. The series features shelters with their inhabitants as well as shelters photographed on their own. These temporary shelters built inside houses reflect on the general notion of home and the very fragility of the domestic sphere.
Jonathan Monk - One Hundred Meals Between Rome and Berlin
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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sold out
A compilation of restaurants receipts collected between Rome and Berlin on which the British conceptual artist reproduced images of works by other artists (Luciano Fabro, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Jenny Holzer, André Cadere, Maurizio Cattelan…). Far from being innocent, this appropriationist gesture reflects on the art world economics while displaying a panorama of art history, stretching from the 1960s to the present day.
Roman Signer - A Step Towards the Sea (+ DVD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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sold out
A Step Towards the Sea tells the relationship between the artist and Italy through a selection of installation views and video works. The accompanying DVD includes an unreleased film and a documentation on every actions carried out in Italy by Signer since the 1990s.
Haris Epaminonda - Chapters I-XXX
2014
English edition
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sold out
Artist's book: a deconstruction of a 16 mm film shot by Haris Epaminonda in Cyprus, embarking on a new set of associations between image and subject, source and information, meaning and abstraction.
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