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The essence and memory of Al Saggaf Palace Within the intricate valleys of Mecca, humbly against the mountains, stood Al Saggaf Palace, witnessing the unfolding of history where civilizations, ethnicities, languages, and cultures have conversed and merged, rippling and resonating far beyond its boundaries. The palace has kept safe the soul of the land and guarded its stories. Initially the main seat of the Sherifs of Mecca, the palace became t...

An in-depth survey of the sculptural and performance-based installation by the internationally recognized artist This publication is an intimate exploration of Brendan Fernandes¿s installation and performance Inaction and the film Free Fall for Camera, which were co-presented by the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, United States and the Richmond Art Gallery in British Columbia, Canada. It creates a richly i...

The official catalogue of the new centre for contemporary art in Valencia, opening its doors in November 2023. ¿Sharing the artistic and cultural awareness means learning to understand, value and love art, so everyone can enjoy looking at it.¿ ¿ Hortensia Herrero The Hortensia Herrero Art Centre (CAHH) has two key aims. One is to share the best international contemporary art with society at large and the other is to help turn the Valencian Aut...

The work by the Irish contemporary artist. Edited by Shai Baitel, the book features twenty-two large painted canvases and six freestanding sculptures that speak to Ward¿s nomadic lifestyle driven by a need for both escapism and its darker counterpart, avoidance. Though known for his figurative work, Ward explores these themes through abstract compositions and mixed media sculptures. Walking in the Dark speaks to the themes of migration and tra...

The first Catalogue raisonné of the artist's paintings and sculptures. Jewad Selim is remembered as one of the defining figures of twentieth century Middle Eastern visual culture and the key protagonist of Iraqi Modernism. In the 1950¿s, Selim forged a distinctive movement which sought to express modern Iraqi identity by combining traditional, local forms of artistic expression with the visual language of the European avant-garde. Selim honed ...

The first comprehensive publication on artist Jessie Homer French's work. Born in 1940 in New York, New York, Jessie Homer French lives and works in Mountain Center, California. Homer French is a self-taught, self-proclaimed "regional narrative painter" who routinely, perhaps even obsessively, paints archetypes of death, nature, and rural life. Through a simplified language of apparently naive, flat colors and calm brushstrokes, her paintings ...

The volume documents the first institutional solo exhibition in China by Los Angeles based artist. This monograph serves as a survey of the artist's work to date and also premieres a number of important new paintings: Full Moon epitomizes Jennifer Guidi's practice and the evolution of her artistic process. Guidi's immersive work operates within both the physical and metaphysical world. Her abstract compositions refer to the natural world liter...

A great painter and his atelier, in which the lives of leading postwar artists intertwine. A remarkable graphic novel devoted to Pablo Picasso on the 50th anniversary of his death. The graphic novel Atelier Picasso tells a true, timeless story. It takes place in the postwar period illuminated by the light of the Côte d'Azur. In Picasso's atelier, the lives of great artists and an Italian tailor, Michele Sapone, intertwine. Picasso's tailor was...

The first catalogue raisonné of the work of the provocative artist, awarded a Leone d¿Oro alla Carriera in 2003. Edited by Maria Cristina Mundici, with Raffaella Roddolo and Maria Grazia Messina, the Catalogue Raisonné of the works of Carol Rama analyzes fully, for the first time, the artist¿s 70-year career, from 1936 to 2005. A central and unique figure in the context of Italian art history, Carol Rama (Turin, 1918-2015) spanned the 20th cen...

A new comprehensive survey of the work of the acclaimed Estonian artist. Anu Poder (1947-2013) was an acclaimed artist from Estonia whose work was recently featured in The Milk of Dreams, the 59th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia. This publication will be the first comprehensive survey of her practice in English, published on the occasion of her exhibition at Muzeum Susch opening in December 2023, curated by Cecilia Alema...

Bohemian glass after the Second World War in the new chapter of "Le Stanze del Vetro". Bohemia (the historical name for the largest of the lands that make up the present-day Czech Republic) was home to glassmaking innovators from the twelfth century onwards, who helped shape and augment the impact of European glass. Glassmakers based in this region were permanently pushed to invent new forms of glass production by competitive pressures from ot...

A lavish volume that pays tribute to one of the greatest contemporary Italian sculptors. Published in collaboration with FENDI, the volume Arnaldo Pomodoro: The Great Theatre of Civilizations is an immersive journey into the work of the greatest Italian sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. The book itself is conceived as a sculpture. In a large format, it is made of luxurious materials and fitted within a perforated and die-cut sli...

The book celebrating 100 years since the founding of the historic Italian multinational company. In the early 1920s, Oronzio De Nora was a young electrochemistry researcher at Politecnico di Milano. Experimenting with a new electrolytic cell, he cut his finger, he dipped the wound into the plant's oxygenated and electrified solution and invented Amuchina, a chlorine disinfectant. A touch of luck, a touch of genius. Over the course of the 20th ...

The book of the Rubin Collection exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. This monograph celebrates William Rubin (1927-2006) and his impact on the world of modern art. Renowned as the Director of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art from 1967 to 1988, Rubin is remembered for his unprecedented acquisitions for MoMA¿s collection and the ground-breaking exhibitions that showcased them, accompanied...

One August morning at Marcinelle, Maurizio Galimberti pointed his camera upwards and for several hours shot the same subject, which turned out differently in each of the 262 images. One for each of the victims of the disaster that occurred on the morning of 8 August 1956 in the same Belgian mining town, claiming the lives of 262 miners. A photographer and artist of international renown, Maurizio Galimberti is famous for working almost exclusiv...

I bambini migranti di Mauritania, Lesbo e Libia nelle opere di Jean René, in arte JR, artista, fotografo, street-artist conosciuto come il Banksy parigino. JR (1983) è un artista francese classificato come uno dei più importanti street artist degli ultimi vent'anni. L'artista è riuscito a creare un perfetto connubio tra la fotografia e il concetto di arte urbana, riproducendo immagini di grandi dimensioni e inserendole all'interno del contesto...

As an initiative by the Kinda Foundation for Contemporary Arab Art, Objects of Imagination is a unique collaboration of nearly forty artists from across the Arab World, in which both traditional and innovative techniques were used to create a body of ceramic artworks. Over the course of nine months, the Kinda Foundation invited a group of Arab artists to a dedicated ceramic workshop in Amman, Jordan, supervised by Delair Saad Shaker and Waleed...

The work of two leading Surrealist artists Published on occasion of the exhibition Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy: Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool curated by Dr Victoria-Noel-Johnson, Marzina Marzetti (Director of the Helly Nahmad Gallery) in collaboration with Derek Des Islets and Matthew Foster, Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York, this catalogue explores the work of Kay Sage (American, 1898-1963) and Yves Tanguy (French-American, 1900-1955), two eminent Su...

The first monograph entirely devoted to the sculptural work of Not Vital, one of the most important international sculptors. The career of the artist Not Vital (b. 1948, Sent, Switzerland) spans over fifty years and today he is considered one of the leading and most radical voices in the world of contemporary sculpture. This monograph aims to provide an extremely broad selection of his output and an enlightening picture of a remarkable career ...

A comprehensive survey of the work by one of the famous masters of modern Iranian painting. Painter Aydin Aghdashloo is one of the most recognized Iranian artists. Known for his highly elaborate technique, he has produced a body of work deeply influenced by the socio-political circumstances of his home country, while in dialogue with universal concepts. His style draws on a multiplicity of sources, from Renaissance paintings to Persian classic...