Anselm Kiefer. The Seven Heavenly Palaces
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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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Chen Zhen. Short-circuits
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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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Trisha Baga. the eye, the eye and the ear
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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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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws The Hand
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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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Sheela Gowda. Remains
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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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Mario Merz. Igloos
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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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Leonor Antunes. The last days in Galliate
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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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Matt Mullican. Photographs Catalogue 1967-2018
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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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Take Me (I’m Yours) – Catalogue
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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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Lucio Fontana. Ambienti/Environments
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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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Rosa Barba. From Source to Poem
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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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Kishio Suga. Situations
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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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Carsten Höller. Doubt
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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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Petrit Halilaj. Space Shuttle in the Garden
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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.
32 €
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Philippe Parreno. H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS Hypothesis
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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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Céline Condorelli. Support Structures
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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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Céline Condorelli. bau bau
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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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Joan Jonas. In the Shadow a Shadow
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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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Micol Assaël
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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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Dieter Roth, Björn Roth: Islands
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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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