This book, with follows the eponymous exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg, is constructed as a story, with a prologue, four acts, and an epilogue: an intuitive journey through the voices of thirty-four artists from different generations who are experimenting with the idea of the performative.
Dreaming Alcestis is an artist’s book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name. It features a commissioned essay by poet and translator Allison Grimaldi Donahue, as well as a reprint of the American poet Alice Notley’s 1991 essay What Can Be Learned From Dreams?
What if clay is the future and the future is clay? Curators Chus Martínez and Filipa Ramos brought together a group of artists to think and create through this old, maleable and fascinating matter. The result was materialized in an exhibition and book format entitled Feet of Clay.
Catalog of the eponymous exhibition, held at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and curated by Andrea Bellini, this publication brings together a number of essays that explore the notion of metamorphosis from different perspectives. The catalog, like the exhibition, celebrates a world in constant transformation, where human nature is fluid and hybrid, open to change.
Ce catalogue de l’exposition éponyme, organisée au Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève sous la direction d’Andrea Bellini, rassemble plusieurs essais qui explorent la notion de métamorphose sous différentes perspectives. Le catalogue, comme l’exposition, célèbre un monde en constante transformation, où la nature humaine est fluide et hybride, ouverte au changement.
Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist’s practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history.
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.