Since 2013, Pirelli HangarBicocca has launched important publishing projects to accompany its temporary exhibitions and explore them in greater depth. These lavishly illustrated catalogues contain essays by critics, curators, and academics who explore less familiar aspects of the artists’ work.
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Pirelli HangarBicocca presents a new book about Anselm Kiefer’s permanent installation The Seven Heavenly Palaces. The volume offers an in-depth analysis of the work, with descriptive entries, original photographs, and a brand-new interview with Anselm Kiefer. It includes essays by Matthew Biro, Massimo Cacciari, and Gabriele Guercio, as well as a bio-bibliography that puts Kiefer’s installation into the context of his oeuvre.
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Published on occasion of the homonymous exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, the catalogue presents the research on large-scale installations conceived by Chen Zhen (1955-2000) from 1991 to 2000. It includes essays by art historian and curator Alexandra Munroe, by critic and curator Marco Scotini, and by Artistic Director and curator of the exhibition Vicente Todolí, introducing key-concepts coined by Chen Zhen, illustrated through extracts of the artist’s own writings. Together with an in-depth documentation of the exhibition path, the publication is enriched by detailed entries related to each work on display, and by a selection of the artist’s preparatory sketches.
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First monographic volume dedicated to Trisha Baga (1985), the book is conceived as a Sci-Fi narration that expands the personal universe of the artist, one of the major American filmmakers of her generation. The catalog brings together scientific, literary, and artistic references of Trisha Baga interwoven with several critical contributions by: Lucia Aspesi and Fiammetta Griccioli, curators of the show; Pavel Pyś, critic and curator; and Elisabeth Sherman, writer and curator; together with a visual essay made in collaboration between the curator Herb Tam and Trisha Baga, and a conversation of the latter with the artist Lucy Raven. Furthermore, the volume contains a wide photographic documentation of the exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca together with the artist’s complete filmography from 2007 up to today.
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The monograph casts new light on Evans installations of light and sound and is released in conjunction with his largest-ever solo show. The volume opens with photographs taken by Evans and selected from an archive of over 3.000 images that pertain to the idea of light and continues with three essays by the art historian Briony Fer, the theoretician Éric Alliez, and the philosopher Alexander García Düttmann. Together with exhibition views, the catalogue presents a text by the curators Roberta Tenconi and Vicente Todolí, entries with detailed descriptions of all the exhibited works, and an illustrated chronology of Evans’s solo shows.
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Published in occasion of Steegmann Mangrané’s first survey exhibition in Italy, the volume is the most complete monographic study on the artist and includes unpublished essays by Kaira M. Cabañas, Flora Katz a contribution by Lucia Aspesi e Fiammetta Griccioli, the curators of the exhibition, and the reprint of a conversation between the artist and Lauren Cornell. In addition, the publication presents the complete inventory of over a hundred installations, drawings, sculptures, photographs and films created by the artist from 1997 to the present day. The catalog is a co-production with Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne and Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
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The first monographic publication by Sheela Gowda presents an overview of her thirty-year production. The catalogue contains essays by Geeta Kapur, Pablo Lafuente, and a text by curators Nuria Enguita and Lucia Aspesi. The book also offers commentaries and analysis by relevant authors, art historians and curators, among which Marta Kuzma, Jessica Morgan and Grant Watson. By providing unedited perspectives on Gowda’s work, the publication underlines crucial phases of her practice and contextualizes it in a contemporary discourse.
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Following Giorgio Andreotta Calò’s solo show at Pirelli HangarBicocca, the monographic publication focuses on the artist’s sculptural practice and research into space, and presents a selection of his works conceived over the course of twenty years. The publication opens with essays by Mara Ambrožič and Emanuele Quinz, by Riccardo Venturi, and by the show’s curator Roberta Tenconi. In addition, detailed entries on each work and series of sculptures are interspersed with a lavish set of illustrations that includes images of the works on display at Pirelli HangarBicocca as well as previously unpublished and archive materials.
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Realized on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Vicente Todolí in collaboration with Fondazione Merz, the volume highlights and outlines the multiple paths that gave rise to Merz’s pioneering work, the igloos. The book includes essay by Germano Celant, Lisa Le Feuvre, Pietro Rigolo, Mariano Boggia and, in addition to a rich apparatus of images and unpublished documents, as an interview between Merz and Harald Szeemann in 1974, presents an extended photographic reconstruction of the whole exhibition.
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The last days in Galliate reveals Leonor Antunes’s meticulous research on the history of art, architecture, and design of the twentieth century, and in particular connected to Milan’s Modernist tradition and the figure of Franca Helg and Franco Albini. Published in conjunction with the homonymous exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, the monograph includes essays by Briony Fer, Tom McDonough, Antonio Piva and curator Roberta Tenconi, together with a rich photographic apparatus by Nick Ash and Heinz Peter Knes.
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This pubblication accompanies the major retrospective by Matt Mullican and comprehensively documents his photographic practice, comprising a selection of 1.000 images made by the artist between 1967 and 2018. Essays by Marie-Luise Angerer, Tina Rivers Ryan, Anne Rorimer, a conversation between James Welling and Matt Mullican, as well as an interview by curator Roberta Tenconi, and notes written by Mullican himself to introduce images and chapters, offer an overview of his relationship to image-making and case studies about his personal cosmology and the use of digital photography.
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Published on the occasion of the artist’s first major show in Italy, the catalog focuses on the theme of sleep as a moment in which new visions and parallel worlds are created through dreams. As a mechanism that aims to get the reader closer to the artist personal inner archive, the book includes original scripts for the exhibited works , arranged in a continuous flow together with an extended photographic apparatus of the show in Milan and contributions by Luigi Fassi, Petr Kot’átko, Lino Nobili and a conversation between Eva Koťátková and Roberta Tenconi.
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The exhibition catalogue “Take Me (I’m Yours)” is accompanied by a publication in limited edition, a box inspired to the well-known Boîte Verte by Marcel Duchamp. Born from an idea by Christian Boltanski, whose sign is also visible on the cover, the box seems irreverently empty but could be filled with the objects collected in the exhibition and with archive material to be downloaded from a link reported inside, namely texts and interviews from the first edition of the show at the Serpentine Gallery in 1995. This way everyone can create his/her own version of the catalogue.
An exclusive sheet sealed inside and signed by the participating artists also renders the box unique: the signature will be a total surprise!
Limited print run of 200 copies
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Realized in occasion of the exhibition “Take Me (I’m Yours)”, the volume opens with an unedited visual essay by Armin Linke including images of the first edition at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1995. Following a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Lea Vergine, an essay by Chiara Parisi and Roberta Tenconi, a text by Alan Pauls, a dialogue between Obrist and Lewis Hyde, and a republishing of the conversation between Christian Boltanski, Obrist, Arnaud Esquerre and Patrice Maniglier in Paris in 2015. The book also features a photo documentation of the show and of the 55 projects presented in Milan.
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Edited by Marina Pugliese, Barbara Ferriani and Vicente Todolí, the volume deepens, for the first time in an exhaustive way, the pioneering installations created by Fontana since the late 1940s, many of which rebuilt for the show. The texts by Pugliese, Ferriani, Enrico Crispolti, Paolo Campiglio, Luca Massimo Barbero, Orietta Lanzarini, Anne Rana, Jennifer Josten and Maria Villa, touch the most relevant aspects of the Environments underlining their crucial historical relevance. The book presents a rich apparatus of images and unpublished documents, with a large photo documentation of the show.
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The monograph is published on the occasion of “From Source to Poem to Rhythm to Reader,” Rosa Barba’s solo show at Pirelli HangarBicocca (05.05.2017–08.10.2017). The exhibition, curated by Roberta Tenconi, brings together 14 works made since 2009, and presents for the first time in Italy the 35mm film From Source to Poem (2016). The publication features essays by Manuel Borja-Villel, Giuliana Bruno, Elisabeth Lebovici, and Roberta Tenconi, a conversation with Joan Jonas, and exhibition views from 2015 to date.
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Pirelli HangarBicocca has published a catalogue that analyzes thirty years of the artist’s work through critical essays by Anda Rottenberg and Simone Menegoi. The publication also reprints chapter 7 of Roberto Calasso’s novel The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1988), a text selected by the artist as a “preface” to the book. The catalogue ends with a series of meticulous entries describing the works on view, and a chronology illustrated with archival images that covers the artist’s solo exhibitions from 1985 to the present.
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The volume accompanies Prouvost’s first major solo show in Italy: reflecting on the meaning of art institutions and the legacy of an artist work, the publication echoes the project and encompasses different sources of inspiration for the GDM – Grand Dad’s Visitor Center, and in a broader sense for Prouvost’s oeuvre. The book includes contributions by Anna Goetz and the Curator Roberta Tenconi, together with entries on examples of other individual and amatorial “museums” that inspired the GDM project written by Barbara Casavecchia, Giulia Grappoli and Stefano Vittorini.
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This catalogue was published in conjunction with “Situations,” Kishio Suga’s first retrospective outside of Japan, curated by Yuko Hasegawa and Vicente Todolí (Pirelli HangarBicocca, 30.09.2016-05.02.2017). It is the most exhaustive book ever published on the artist, and includes essays by Bertozzi, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Yuko Hasegawa, as well as detailed entries on the works in the exhibition and a comprehensive collection of Suga’s essays. Lavishly illustrated, the catalogue also presents a detailed chronology retracing the artist’s entire career.
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This book documents the mural that OSGEMEOS (the brothers Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo) conceived at Pirelli HangarBicocca for “Outside the Cube,” a program dedicated to Street Art and other forms of expression in the public urban sphere. An essay by curator Cedar Lewisohn and behind-the-scenes pictures describe how the project developed, with the artists drawing inspiration from the history of the Pirelli HangarBicocca building and the nearby railway to create a monumental image of a subway car.
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The catalogue documents the solo show “Doubt” by Carsten Höller, presented at Pirelli HangarBicocca from 7 April to 31 July 2017. Edited by Vicente Todolí, it includes essays by Francesco Bonami and Stefanie Hessler, as well as a transcript of the conversation that Carsten Höller, Philippe Parreno, and Andrea Lissoni held at Pirelli HangarBicocca on 26 May 2016. Lavishly illustrated, it also includes a 2.6-meter-long concertina fold with a photographic reconstruction of the entire exhibition.
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This book documents Petrit Halilaj’s exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca (03.12.2015-13.03.2016). Edited by Roberta Tenconi, it analyzes the Kosovar artist’s work from various perspectives, through a selection of essays by Andrea Bagnato, Leonardo Bigazzi, Adrian Paci, and Roberta Tenconi. Alongside extensive photographic documentation of the show and texts focusing on various aspects of the artist’s practice, the catalogue presents a series of previously unpublished notes and drawings that Halilaj made from 2006 to 2010.
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This book grew out of a collaboration between the Park Avenue Armory and Pirelli HangarBicocca for the exhibitions “H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS” (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alex Poots, with Tom Eccles, 2015) and “Hypothesis” (curated by Andrea Lissoni, 2015). It offers an in-depth analysis of Parreno’s work, presenting essays by Cyril Béghin, Molly Nesbit, Brian O’Doherty, and Adam Thirlwell, and two interviews with the artist by Obrist and Lissoni. An appendix to the book also includes detailed entries on all the works in the two exhibitions.
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This catalogue, edited by Vicente Todolí, documents the Damián Ortega exhibition “Casino” (Pirelli HangarBicocca, 05/06-08/10/2015). In part an artist’s book—since it includes a “visual essay” where Ortega himself reworks literary quotations and images through a process of modification and deconstruction—the catalogue contains a text by Massimiliano Gioni and a dialogue between the artist and art critic Maria Mínera, along with exhaustive photographic documentation.
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The catalogue documents “Double Bind & Around,” an exhibition of works by Juan Muñoz at Pirelli HangarBicocca (09.04-30.08.2015). Edited by Vicente Todolí, it presents original writings by Juan Muñoz and essays by James Lingwood (curator of many projects dedicated to this artist) and Pier Luigi Tazzi, as well as a technical analysis by architect Federico Colletta of the work Double Bind. The book also includes extensive photographic material and a series of entries by George Stolz describing the works on view.
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Capping off a series of exhibitions—which began in 2011 with “Alien Theory” at le plateau/frac île-de-france in Paris and Museo Marino Marini in Florence, and ended with “Papagaio” at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan and then Camden Arts Centre in London—Teoria Extraterrestre is the most comprehensive monograph to date on João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva; it sums up almost four years of work and thought that the artists themselves have compiled into a cinematic cosmogony.
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Support Structures, a collective publishing project launched in 2003 by Céline Condorelli and Gavin Wade, is conceived as a critical manual for frameworks of aid and encouragement in the cultural sphere. The book brings together contributions from writers, thinkers and artists active in different fields, offering an inventory of potential or existing strategies to foster architectural and artistic practices. Originally published in 2009, it was republished in 2014 with the support of Pirelli HangarBicocca, in conjunction with Condorelli's exhibition “bau bau” (11.02.2014-05.05.2015).
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Published in conjunction with Céline Condorelli’s first solo show in Italy—“bau bau,” curated by Andrea Lissoni—this monograph analyzes the performative, participatory approach of this artist, who weaves connections between art, design, architecture, space, and society. The book includes texts by Nick Aikens, Andrea Lissoni, and Marco Scotini, as well as a conversation between Maria Lind and Céline Condorelli.
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This monograph, edited by Joan Simon, retraces the entire artistic output of Joan Jonas from the 1960s to the present. It features dozens of texts and entries by the artist herself and hundreds of images, with many drawn from “Light Time Tales,” her major anthological exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca (02/10/2014–01/02/2015). The book includes essays by Douglas Crimp, Barbara Clausen, and Johanna Burton, an analysis by Joan Simon, and writings by Joan Jonas, in addition to previously unpublished photos and drawings from the artist’s archive.
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This book presenting Cildo Meireles’s installations and their exhibition history concludes the curatorial project presented at Pirelli HangarBicocca (27.03-20.07.2014), a solo show which featured twelve of Cildo Meireles’s most important projects from 1970 to the present. Edited by Vicente Todolí, the catalogue includes texts by João Fernandes and Antonio Calabrò, exhaustive photographic documentation, and a series of detailed entries on the works.
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This publication was conceived to accompany Micol Assaël’s solo exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca (31.01-04.05.2014), curated by Andrea Lissoni. Bringing together all her works made between 1999 and 2014 for the very first time, it offers an in-depth look at a practice characterized by the juxtaposition of different media—drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, video, and sound. The catalogue features critical essays by Andrea Lissoni, Jens Hoffman, and Luca Lo Pinto, with entries on each work that include images and the exhibition history.
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Curated by Vicente Todolí, the exhibition “Islands” (Pirelli HangarBicocca, 06.11.2013-09.02.2014) included about a hundred pieces ranging from historic works by Dieter Roth to installations made with his son Björn, along with two new projects that the latter created with Oddur and Einar Roth, Dieter’s grandsons. The book presents essays by Vicente Todolí, Dieter and Björn Roth, Edith Jud, Gabriele Knapstein, Hansjörg Mayer, Fionn Meade, and Sarah Suzuki, as well as extensive behind-the-scenes photos that illustrate the making of the exhibition and a series of entries on the works.
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