Books
ANDREA GALVANI MONOGRAPH
Published by Mousse Publishing, 2018
448 pages, 22 x 28 cm, hardcover with archival box
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This monograph offers a portrait of over a decade of work by international artist Andrea Galvani. It is a visual excavation into the rigorous research, scientific methodologies, and philosophical thought that underscore his practice. With over 400 pages of color images, handmade drawings, archival materials, essays and interviews by critics and curators, including an introduction by Giorgio Verzotti, this publication shifts between artist book, scientific journal, and historical encyclopedia—systematically combining fragments gathered and synthesized through different stages of his creative process. Focusing on a selection of Galvani’s most notable and challenging projects, his practice is registered through studies, field notes, mathematical calculations, and intimate cartographies. Compiled through years of investigation and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this book depicts—for the first time—the intensive phases of planning and preparation, hours and exertions of physical and intellectual effort that constitute and define this artist’s pursuits.
LIFE ETERNAL - THE ANTHOLOGY
Published by The Nobel Prize Museum, 2023
457 pages, soft cover
Swedish text
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A creative, artistic mind can make us change our habitual perspectives and entice us to see the world in new ways. A thought-provoking work of art can playfully and educationally lead us down new, completely unexpected tracks. Innovation is both found and born in curiosity, and in the unexpected. There, in the open mind, resides the dream of something else, something bigger. For institutions seeking Eternal Life, there must be a door open to transgressive thought. Pursuant to this, Liljevalchs and the Nobel Prize Museum have joined forces to create this anthology—which accompanies an exhibition with the same name featuring 27 international artists—in which more than 35 writers elaborate on the theme of eternal life. Among those who have contributed essays are Karl Ove Knausgård and Ellen Mattsson. The editors of the book are Clara Åhlvik, Director of Exhibitions at the Nobel Prize Museum, and journalist Jan Gradvall. The book was designed by Greger Ulf Nilson.
Eternal Life featured artists Anna Dumitriu, Andrea Galvani, Ann Lislegaard, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Christian Partos, Dana Sederowsky, Éva Mag, Fredrik Paulsen, Jillian Edelstein, Jone Kvie, Julian Charrière, Laura Splan, Mark Dion, Mats Hjelm, Moa Israelsson, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Petra Lindholm and Lars Åkerlund, Oscar Nilsson, Rineke Dijkstra, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Ulla Wiggen, William Kentridge, Ylva Carlgren, ARTECHOUSE and a joint work by John Wynne and Tim Wainwright
23rd TRIENNALE MILANO
UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS. AN INTRODUCTION TO MYSTERIES
Published by Electa, 2022
368 pages, 21 x 14 cm, paperback with dust jacket
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This volume is the catalogue of the 23rd International Exhibition of the Triennale di Milano, entitled Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries. The exhibition is interdisciplinary and driven by the ambition to answer a series of questions about the ‘don’t know we don’t know’ in different topics: from the farthest reaches of the universe to dark matter, from the bottom of the oceans to the origin of our consciousness. A plural experience which involve designers, architects, artists, researchers offers an opportunity to upend our convictions. The event is accompanied by two publications, the catalogue and a volume of essays (both with graphic design by the 2×4 studio in New York), presented as extensions of the curatorial gesture, as an exhibition ‘in’ and ‘beyond’ the exhibition. The catalogue, in the standard editorial format of the Trienniale’s historical catalogues, presents the works and projects that made up the constellation of exhibitions and installations at the 23rd International Exhibition: the thematic exhibition, curated by Ersilia Vaudo, the two major exhibitions Mondo Reale (The Real World) and La Tradizione del Nuovo (The Tradition of the New), the international participations and a series of installations and projects compelling us to confront the unknown. This dual publishing proposal provides visitors to the exhibition with a guide and a valuable tool for finding their bearings and understanding the full complexity of the era we live in. English edition, translations by Adam Victor, Lauren Sunstein and Mark Eaton for Scriptum, Rome.
WHAT IS LEFT UNSPOKEN, LOVE
Published by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2022
130 pages, 28.5 x 25.4 cm, hardcover
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Is love intrinsic, or is it a habit? What is the relationship of love to truth, freedom, and justice? Is love possible without mystery? Can it be scientifically proven? Why is it so hard to say, "I love you"?
What is Left Unspoken, Love features contemporary artworks from the early 1990s through the present by more than thirty-five diverse and multigenerational artists base in North America, Central America, Europe, and Asia. They examine the different ways that one of the most powerful forces of life is understood, expressed, and often left unspoken. Works in the exhibition explore concepts of love from the most intimate of relationships between two people, through the ties that bind family and friends, to social movements that promote the worth and well-being of community. At its most epic, the exhibition deals with the family of humankind and its connection with the natural world, as well as the pursuit of wisdom or the love of knowledge, while promoting the notion that love is worth considering, particularly as an agent of change and a force for good. Featuring artists Andrea Galvani, Ghada Amer, Rina Banerjee, Patty Chang, Jeffrey Gibson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Tomashi Jackson, María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez, Rashid Johnson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Ebony Patterson, Magnus Plessen, Gabriel Rico, RongRong and inri, Carrie Mae Weems, and more.
With an exhibition overview by curator Michael Rooks, the catalogue includes prose and poetry by French author Sonia David, Puerto Rican writer Noel Quiñones, and award-winning playwright and Atlanta poet laureate Pearl Cleage.
ANDREA GALVANI. LA SOTTIGLIEZZA DELLE COSE ELEVATE
Published by Quodlibet, Roma, 2022
157 pages, 24 x 16.7 cm, paperback
Italian and English text
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This publication is dedicated to Andrea Galvani's monumental site-specific solo exhibition, presented at the Mattatoio in Rome and curated by Angel Moya Garcia. Conceived as an open laboratory, La sottigliezza delle cose elevate is an immeresive, interdisciplinary project designed for the monumental space of Pavilion 9B at the Mattatoio. Produced in collaboration with the Departments of Physics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Astrobiology, Molecular Medicine, Biochemical Science, and Electrical Engineering at the Sapienza University of Rome, as well as researchers at CERN and Virgo data analysis group, Galvani generates an experiential environment in continuous and constant evolution. Using active processes of scientific research to build a living architecture that the public can enter and inhabit, the artist focuses our attention on the human compulsion to measure, decipher, understand the unknown and give shape and direction to the abstract. With essays by Angel Moya Garcia and Rebecca Rose Cuomo.
HORIZONTE Y LÍMITE. VISIONES DEL PAISAJE
Published by Fundación “la Caixa”, 2022
112 pages, 21 x 17 cm, paperback
Spanish and English text
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Published by Fundación “la Caixa”, Horizonte y Límite. Visiones del Paisaje is dedicated to the inaugural exhibition of CaixaForum Valéncia—a unique complex located in the architectural complex of “Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències de València”, the City of Arts and Sciences. Curated by Nimfa Bisbe, the exhibition focuses on the idea of landscape as a representation of nature that simulates reality from pure artifice. The seed of this exhibition is artworks from the Contemporary Art Collection of Fundación la Caixa which engage, challenge, and redefine our notion of "landscape." Thematically structured around four meridians, Horizon and Limit addresses the landscape from fiction, cultural and artistic codes, the notion of reality and objectivity, and environmental awareness. Featured artists include: Andrea Galvani, Hermen Anglada-Camarasa, Edward Burtynsky, Tacita Dean, Ramon Casas, Victoria Civera, Gustave Courbet, Nicolas Faure, Kimsooja, Cristina Lucas, Joan Miró, Perejaume, Ugo Rondinone, Sophie Ristelhueber, Bleda & Rosa, Ioanna Sakellaraki, and more. With an essay by Manolo Laguillo.
THE FAMILIES OF MAN
Published by Electa, 2021
208 pages, 28 x 21 cm
Italian and French text
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This book accompanies the major exhibition presented at the Museo Archeologico Regionale of Aosta from May through October 2021. Inspired by Edward Steichen’s groundbreaking 1955 exhibition at MoMA, New York—which sought to use art as a catalyst for new beginnings after the tragedy of World War II—The Families of Man features the best Italian photographers from the last 30 years, whose images document landmark social changes and disruptions, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the global pandemic. Curated by Elio Grazioli and Walter Guadagnini, The Families of Man addresses issues including globalization, immigration, the affirmation of virtuality, sustainability, gender issues and, finally, the pandemic—highlighting the ways that Italian photographers culture have described and interpreted these events. French translations by Jérôme Nicolas and Silvia Guzzi for Scriptum, Rome.
ART AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: LANDSCAPES AND PROTAGONISTS
Published by Electa, 2020
160 pages
Italian and English text
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Edited by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi and Valentino Catricalà, this volume surveys the relationship between art and new technologies from the last decades of the twentieth century t the most recent experiments. Art and Technology in the Third Millennium is specifically dedicated to research on Artificial Intelligence, the posthuman, relationships between art and the internet, augmented reality, and experiments in sound and video. This is the second issue of the Quaderni della Collezione series published by Electa, containing an overview of the
TIME PRESENT: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE DEUTSCHE BANK COLLECTION
Published by Deutsche Bank AG / PalaisPopulaire, 2020
212 pages, 20 x 27 cm
German and English text
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Time Present unfolds a vast panorama of contemporary photography. The exhibition at the PalaisPopulaire is an investigation into the artistic examinations of everyday events and the phenomenon of time itself. Time Present poses the question, if what we perceive on a photograph has already past or if it is still present, if it is real of mere imagination. The extensive volume reveals the relations between photography, film, performance, and conceptual art and, at the same time, the conscious expansion of the Deutsche Bank Collection with a global focus on Great Britain, Italy, the US, Asia, and Africa.
JAN MULDER COLLECTION. CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Published by Editorial RM, 2020
316 pages, 21 x 28 cm
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The Jan Mulder Collection presents its first catalogue of contemporary photography. Made in collaboration with Marta Gili (Director, Arles National School of Photography, France), who has also written the prologue to the catalogue, it presents a selection of eighty contemporary photographers from twenty different countries. This volume is presented as an itinerary in which the viewer can observe the collection’s different facets, beginning with Robert Frank’s visit to Peru in 1948. Also included are introductory texts by François Hébel (Director, Fondation Cartier-Bresson, Paris) and Jan Mulder, who provide a closer, more personal view of the collection.
A CUBE, A SPHERE, AND A PYRAMID
Edited by Daniela Zangrando
Published by Fondazione Buziol
32 pages, 10.5 x 15 cm, full color
Italian text
REWRITING WORLDS
4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Edited by Nikolai Molok
Published by Institute of Contemporary Art Moscow, September 2011
200 pages, 21 x 32 cm, full color
English/Russian text
SEMBIANZE: LA FOTOGRAFIA TRA REALTÀ E APPARENZA
Edited by Roberto Maggiori and Italo Zannier
Published by Editrice Quinlan, July 2011
133 pages, 20.5 x 32 cm, full color
Italian text
FRAGMENTS FROM NOWHERE
Edited by Stefano Romano
Published by Silvana Editoriale, July 2011
96 pages, 17 x 24 cm, full color
English/Italian text
ANDREA GALVANI: FOUR WORKS
By Nora Lawrence
Published by Artists Wanted and Aperture Foundation, 2011
96 pages, 17 x 24 cm, full color
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LABORATORIO ITALIA: Photography in Contemporary Art
Edited by Marinella Paderni
Published by Johan & Levi, 2010
208 pages, 21 x 27 cm, full color
English/Italian text
FUTURE IMAGES
Edited by Mario Cresci
Published by 24 ORE Motta Cultura, 2009
308 pages, 25.5 x 28.5 cm, hardcover, full color
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LANGUAGES AND EXPERIMENTATIONS
Young Artists in a Contemporary Collection
Edited by Giorgio Verzotti
Published by Silvana Editoriale, 2010
160 pages,
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THE SKY IN A ROOM
An Eccentric View of the Landscape
Edited by Andrea Bruciati
Published by GC|AC, 2010
188 pages, 18 x 24 cm, full color
English/Italian text
