Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
Strata compiles 37 conversations with artists whose work has made a significant contribution to the Italian and international art scene since 2000. This book is the personal account of a number of encounters, friendships, and professional relationships that Vincenzo de Bellis and Alessandro Rabottini have nurtured over the past twenty years.
Pardon Façade documents the artistic output of Luca Monterastelli, showcasing almost all of the sculptures and installations that he produced between 2011 and 2022. Across four chapters—corresponding to four solo shows that he staged in Milan, Otegem, Antwerp, and Naples—the publication provides the first overview of the artist’s work.
More than half a century after its premiere, Yvonne Rainer, in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Emily Coates, directed the 2019 revival of her 1965 performance Parts of Some Sextets. This book poses questions about the trajectories of artworks, performers, and audiences, all while tracing the life—and afterlife—of a dance.
How does technology organize life? This book documents and reflects on the exhibition Proof of Stake: Technological Claims at Kunstverein in Hamburg, curated by Simon Denny and Bettina Steinbrügge. It brings together a unique group of artists and scholars who investigate the technological apparatuses and power relations of organized life.
This artist’s first monograph brings together sketches, documentation and installation shots, as well as an in-depth analysis of her practice. It highlights her process of making art, from the conception of an idea to the finished work, and from the deconstruction and re-assembling of her characters’ identities to the relentless creation of new worlds.
Published on the occasion of the first exhibition in Italy by Jenna Gribbon, staged at the Collezione Maramotti, Mirages showcases a wealth of images that highlight the fluid, sensual output of this artist who, in repeatedly portraying her wife, the musician Mackenzie Scott (aka TORRES), explores the implications inherent in seeing and being seen.
Edited by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi with Bianca Stoppani
Authors: Cecilia Alemani, Erika Balsom, Étienne Bernard, Leonardo Bigazzi, Ali Cherri, Lorenzo Giusti, Stefanie Hessler, Priyesh Mistry, Alessandro Rabottini, and Stefan Tarnowski
Design by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2024, English, softcover, 21 x 28 cm, 192 pages
ISBN: 979-12-80579-46-1
The publication is the first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri. It aims to highlight the constellation of ideas, themes, and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects.
Edited by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi, with Bianca Stoppani, this book provides an overview of the artist’s output over the past three years, teasing out both new strands for interpretation and formal links between his films, videos, sculptures, drawings, and installations.
Originated by Fondazione In Between Art Film on the occasion of Dreamless Night—a comprehensive solo exhibition first staged at GAMeC in Bergamo, and later at Frac Bretagne in Rennes—the book showcases a number of newly commissioned essays that reflect upon Cherri’s most recent exhibition projects. Starting with the documenting of Dreamless Night, the book also covers Humble and quiet and soothing as mud, the 2023 exhibition at Swiss Institute in New York; his participation at Biennale Arte 2022 in Venice; and If you prick us, do we not bleed?, the exhibition held at the National Gallery in London following his residency at the museum in 2021. Each exhibition is also extensively illustrated by a visual essay conceived by the artist, encompassing not only the installation views but also images charting the development and production stages.
The book features a wide-ranging conversation between the artist, GAMeC director Lorenzo Giusti, and Étienne Bernard, director of Frac Bretagne, as well as essays by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi, curators of the exhibition Dreamless Night at GAMeC, and at Frac Bretagne; Cecilia Alemani, who curated the exhibition The Milk of Dreams for Biennale Arte 2022; Stefanie Hessler, director of Swiss Institute in New York; Priyesh Mistry, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Projects at the National Gallery, London; Erika Balsom, Reader in Film Studies at King’s College, London; and Stefan Tarnowski, Early-Career Research Fellow in AMES and Social Anthropology at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.
This publication was made possible thanks to the support of Galerie Imane Farès.
Photos: Giacomo Bianco