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Celebrated in the 1930s, controversial and forgotten during the postwar period, and finally rediscovered today, Piero Portaluppi was an undisputed protagonist of 20th-century Italian architecture. An eclectic and agnostic protagonist, who steered clear of specific styles and schools, a master of hydroelectric architecture, and a great bourgeois whose projects changed the face of Milan. But Portaluppi was not only an architect, indeed he played...

An artist¿s choosing to engage with Dante Alighieri by illustrating The Divine Comedy is not only a sign of great courage and audacity, or the desire to carry on the tradition introduced by the Renaissance masters. Above all, it stems from an awareness that the Comedy is an unceasing source of reflection and inspiration, as only great literary works can be. Each new period, each historical and cultural context, is attentive to, rereads and int...

The so-called Edo period (1603¿1868) was extremely productive for Japan from a historical and artistic standpoint, later its influence would extend beyond the archipelago, as far as the West, where it gave rise to a real passion for Japanese aesthetics and culture. The term ukiyo-e, which translates as ¿pictures of a floating world¿, refers to the woodblock colour prints that were first created in the Edo period, by combining the talents of pa...

JR (1983) is considered one of the most important street artists of the last 20 years. He has succeeded in perfectly combining photography and the concept of urban art, reproducing large-scale images and incorporating them in the urban landscape in ever-more complex ways, but always empathizing strongly with the public. Known by many as the Parisian Banksy, JR describes himself as a ¿photograffeur¿, that is a mix of photographer and graffiti a...

George Floyd is an African American who died during his arrest on 25 May 2020 when a policeman suffocated him by pressing his knee onto Floyd¿s neck for nine minutes to immobilize him. ¿I can¿t breathe...¿ Seeing those images, Giangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadula instinctively shot a candle deprived of its flame in a sequence of nine photographs, one for each of the nine minutes of the tragedy. With the hope of generating a collective reflection o...

Characterized by a search for meaning, Hirsch's oeuvre connects psychological, scientific, and philosophical implications of form, bringing together ideas in art, science, ecology, and human consciousness. The artworks in multiple and mixed media provide an evolving history of Hirsch's ideas and craft as they illustrate the progression of her original research on the origin of all alphabets. Her elegant theory about five fundamental shapes in ...

After Conrad Marca-Relli, a new chapter devoted to the great Italian and international masters of the twentieth century

Since 2011, Alcantara has initiated a series of collaborations and virtual projects, establishing a new form of intervention in the art world. A unique, tailor-made approach, in perfect harmony with the brand's values and identity. Visual artists, fashion and industrial designers, directors and video makers, architects and musicians from all over the world have worked with Alcantara, developing works exhibited in some of the most prestigious m...

FontanaArte. House of Glass is a book that critically examines the legendary Milanese manufacturer of glass furnishings through the production periods lead by its four great artistic directors: Gio Ponti (1932-1933, with continuous involvement thereafter), Pietro Chiesa (1933-1948), Max Ingrand (1954-1967), and Gae Aulenti (1979-1996). From Ponti's founding of the company in 1932 until Aulenti's departure in 1996, the present catalogue - publi...

One of the key figures in Japan's pivotal Mono-ha phenomenon of the late 1960s and early 1970s, artist Kishio Suga has realized a visionary practice of ephemeral, site-specific installations and performative interventions into the everyday environment. Writing is an important mechanism in Suga's artistic process, and his output spans aphoristic statements, fragmentary notes, art criticism, theoretical essays, and detective novels. Published in...

The monograph, which accompanies the inaugural exhibition of the new Intesa Sanpaolo museum in Turin's Piazza San Carlo, presents the work of Italian photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin through his photographic reportages on the theme of climate change. Paolo Pellegrin (1964) is one of the undisputed masters of contemporary international photography. Over the course of his long career, he has succeeded in documenting the reality of our times with ...

Pedro Cabrita Reis (b. 1956, Lisbon), is one of Portugal's most gifted and imaginative artists, having forged an international career from the early 1980s with his challenging and innovative paintings, sculptures and architectural interventions. As a self-defined classical artist, Cabrita is known for his forays into past histories and collective memories to rejuvenate his art, manifesting and declaring new perspectives within our contemporary...

This book examines a selection of paintings by Bernardino Luini (ca. 1480/85-1532) that were influenced by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Comparative analysis shows that Luini, from adopting Leonardo's compositions and motifs, went on to incorporate elements of his style and expression in a group of works dating to the 1520s. These are the focus of the book. In imitating Leonardo, Luini traded complexity for clarity, simplifying his manner and...

The Lahore Biennale 01 Reader assembles substantial scholarly and curatorial essays that engage with salient questions of cultural politics in the global South. The contributions are developed from the program of the first Lahore Biennale (LB01) in 2018, which included works by over 50 artists. LB01 was accompanied with a robust academic forum that brought together local and international scholars, curators, and artists to investigate issues o...

The COVID-19 Visual Project. A Time of Distance began life as a multimedia platform with the aim of becoming a permanent archive on the pandemic. In its entirety, it is a collection that includes a variety of content aimed at recounting the health crisis, the social and individual consequences and the economic impact that characterize this unexpected period in history. A platform where internationally renowned photographers and video makers, v...

Thilo Westermann is known for his reverse glass paintings, unique prints and photo-montages. His latest book, Migrations by Thilo Westermann, offers insights both into his complex work and into his manifold and profound research interests: in botany, porcelain, Asian art, global histories and the mechanisms of intercultural exchange. During residencies in China, the UK and USA, Westermann worked closely with internationally renowned scholars, ...

This volume presents the works of Kerunen and Sekajugo, whose dual ways of making art, despite their different aesthetic approaches, find common ground in their respective visions of materiality and form. Says Shaheen Merali, curator: "Radiance. They Dream in Time refers to the essential knowledge and lived experiences of Kerunen and Sekajugo in speaking to the many different territories of Uganda as well as to urban trade and living condition...

The book Luigi Premazzi (1814-1891). A Milanese Artist at the Court of the Tsars reconstructs the adventurous life and pictorial production of the Lombard artist for the first time. To date, no text has fully illustrated the work of this prolific painter with an excellent command of oil and watercolour technique. During his long career, he produced urban views and landscapes as well as polished watercolours of the imperial residences of the ts...

On the Move features three different groups of nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists in three vastly different regions - the Central Sahara in Africa, the Arabian Gulf and the Central Eurasian steppes - highlighting crosscutting themes relevant to contemporary concerns about the human condition and our planetary future. The book shares lessons we might learn from the ways of pastoral nomads, such as living lightly on the land and working creati...

Katalin Ladik is pioneering figure in Central and Eastern European art histories, merging performance, (visual) poetry, photography, and installation in a practice that spans over six decades. Her practice is intertwined with the art histories of Novi Sad in former Yugoslavia - where she was a key protagonist among a generation of avant-garde artists and writers in the 1960s - and Budapest, her adopted home since the mid-1970s. The catalogue f...