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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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 The book presents a rich apparatus of images and unpublished documents, with a large photo documentation of the show.
39 €
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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.
35 €
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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.
40 €
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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.
39 €
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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.
50 €
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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.
37 €
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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.
78 €
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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.
39 €
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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.
32 €
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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.
50 €
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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.
35 €
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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.
39.80 €
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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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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).
35 €
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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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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.
39.80 €
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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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