Italy

This first monograph on Italian artist Emilio Prini (1943–2016), a key figure of Arte Povera, explores his radical approach to art across five decades of work through texts, archival research, and artist interventions.

The American photographer appropriates the objects that populate the Italian painter's work.

By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.

A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.

A retrospective tracing seventy years of work by Mario Ceroli (born in 1938), a central figure in 20th-century Italian sculpture.

A photographic reflection on place and borders (artist's book).

Thrid issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office Studiospazio.

Lina Pallotta's much anticipated Tongue on Flames captures the underground poetic energy that pulsed through New York from the early 1990s to the early 2000s, featuring Pallotta's photographs and texts by key figures from that scene.

On the occasion of Seasons, Maurizio Cattelan's exhibition at GAMeC, art historian Lisa Parola, investigates how contemporary art can redefine the idea of the monument.

Lorenza Longhi unfolds her strategies of subversion/reappropriation of the visual signs and codes of the society of control and consumption in the spaces of the Kunst Museum Winterthur.

First monograph.

The first monograph dedicated to the Neapolitan feminist and pacifist artists' group.

Comprehensive documentation of the Italian artist's latest works, in which he playfully explores the theme of light.

An artist's book composed of fragments of texts from different eras and contexts—literary, science fiction, philosophical, scientific—all centered on the theme of the subterranean.

First monograph, featuring the artist's long-term research on the colonial and neo-colonial relations between Italy and Libya through a critical engagement with the Italian "archive of coloniality" and its structural violence.

A collection of poems by artist Tiziana La Melia.

The first monographic publication dedicated to the collected works of artist Margherita Moscardini.

This publication is part of Farid Rahimi's eponymous multimedia project, the fruit of long-term research into the memory of Afghanistan, the country of origin of the artist's father.

Nathalie Du Pasquier presents still lifes bringing together objects, drawings, books, and photographs—assembled like fragments of an intimate language.

A comprehensive overview of the unique work of the Italian artist born in 1931 and "discovered" late on the international scene, with numerous texts and an interview.

Morten Søndergaard (co-editor); interviews with panGenerator, Charles Stankievech, Mélia Roger, Adelin Schweitze; articles: Geofónie, Sonic Reorientations; reports: Electric Dreams, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, Art Must Be Artificial.

A wide selection of paintings and drawings by Margherita Manzelli from the 1990s to the present day.

Research on materials conducted by two leading figures in 20th-century Italian art, Enrico Prampolini (1894–1956) and Alberto Burri (1915–1995).

Deeply shaped by his long-term residence in Indonesia, the conceptual practice of Italian artist Marco Cassani engages with the country not as a tourist or detached observer, but as an active participant in navigating the reconfiguration of authorship in a globalized landscape.

This book brings to life the artistic and literary community that flourished in Carona, Ticino, from 1968 to 1978. Centered on Swiss artist David Weiss (1946–2012) and his circle of friends, it explores their works, processes, and the communal spirit that fueled artistic experimentation.

This pioneering group study accompanies the reader on a modern Grand Tour amid Italy's contemporary ruins.

This volume explores the life and work of Antonio Beato (c. 1835–1905), aiming to address the gaps in existing scholarship on this remarkable photographer. It highlights his distinctive body of work, his role in nineteenth-century photography, and the significance of his images in documenting the Middle East.

The first comprehensive study of Lucia Marcucci.

The first French translation of Giorgio Grassi's 1967 text La construction logique de l'architecture [The Logical Construction of Architecture] is a strong statement in favor of an architecture conceived for its own sake, standing in opposition to the experimental excesses characteristic of both his time and ours.

Two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad developed in parallel with a commitment to contemporary experimental approaches.

The first collaborative release from Giuseppe Ielasi and Jack Sheen: 14 pieces presenting a delicate balancing between abstraction and immediacy, austerity and abundance, imbued with a distinctive lightness of touch and a subtly psychedelic approach to the stereo field.

Easily one of the most striking and memorable releases by either artist to appear in recent years, Sergio Armaroli and David Toop's "And I Entered Into Sleep", issued as the tenth and final album in Die Schachtel's Decay Music series, traverses uncharted realms at the borders of literary reference, sound art, ambience and abstraction through delicately musical sounds, revealing new depths at every turn.

An aural bridge between two distinct generations of Italian experimental and electroacoustic musicians, "Liminale" is the debut collaborative outing from the creative partnership of Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello.

A photographic report by the famous Italian architect and designer on his youthful trip to Moscow during the political “thaw.”

An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.

The Trial is an extensive publication chronicling the decade-plus-long evolution of one of Rossella Biscotti's seminal works, focusing on the trials of members of the revolutionary left-wing movement Autonomia Operaia in the early 1980s, an emblematic judicial drama of Italy's Years of Lead.

The encounter between sculptor Giulia Cenci and photographer Jacopo Benassi.

An artist's book of images and words—an exploration of Piero Golia's imagery and an articulation of his personal understanding of art.

An interdisciplinary exploration of Bolzano's complex and dissonant architectural heritage.

A research project exploring the relationship between the ordinary and architecture, in everyday architecture, featuring the work of sixty-one architectural offices from across Italy, accompanied by reflections of scholars and professionals.

Modernist architecture and the urban transformation of Maputo, Mozambique, between history and modernity.

L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano brings together, in a lucid and amusing way, fragments of a vast collection of voice memos collected by him from around the world as a catalogue of localized sounds, precise moments of personal experience.

Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).

Superior and Inferior presents a facsimile reprint of Italian abstract artist and feminist Carla Accardi's provocatory publication Superiore e Inferiore and the first ever English translation of the full text.

Interviews with Dan Ploeger, Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki, Liz Pelly, Barnaby Francis & Bill Posters; Poetic Terrorism & Brand Sabotage; reports: xCoAx 2024, Konton-ni-Ai!, 7th International Digital Art Biennal...