Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition at Kunst Museum Winterthur, this book provides the first overview of Altmann’s work to date, characterized by a strongly socio-critical consciousness, and reveals the artist’s influences and inspirations.
The first monograph dedicated to Paloma Bosquê addresses the Brazilian artist’s ways of understanding and giving shape to that matter which can be perceived, but not rationalized.
The first book on London based artist Gili Tal, whose practice identifies how the digital has long become a reality that has subjected our habits of perception to a radical change.
Through comprehensive and interdisciplinary readings of landscape, cinema, architecture, and visual culture, this first monograph builds on the storytelling dimensions that have always informed the photographic oeuvre of the Syrian artist.
The book is the outcome of an exhibition around the theme of the sacred. The resumption of historical figures, classical art-historical iconography, and everyday images intermingle in a reconstruction of reality that is dreamlike, painful, and sometimes grotesque.
Vogliamo tutto. Cultural Practices and Labor is a publication on work within a changing socio-cultural context: from the impact of the Industrial Revolution to post-industrial decline through to the rapid evolution of the digital era.
Edited by Lorenzo Giusti and Valentina Gervasoni
Texts by Emanuele Coccia and Ernesto Neto
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2025, English / Italian, softcover, 11 x 17.7 cm, 96 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-62-1
On the occasion of the exhibition Mentre la vita ci respira – SoPolpoVit’EreticoLe, Emanuele Coccia provides a commentary on the practice of the artist Ernesto Neto and the latter’s transformation of the exhibition space into a piece of living architecture, a place of interaction that seeks the participation of the viewer so as to engender a profound link between body, environment, and wider community. Coccia explores the potential of Neto’s artistic practice, in which the aesthetic engagement is partially mediated through the use of senses, including smell, that are all too often neglected in the act of aesthetic engagement and are here called upon to reawaken deep-seated memories and emotions.
Art on Earth is the third book in a series of short essay collections inspired by the site-specific art projects specially conceived for GAMeC at Palazzo della Ragione, a symbolic, time-honored location within the city of Bergamo that embodies the values of community life and participation. The artist was asked to name an author who interests him—be it a researcher, a philosopher, or a scholar—and whose thinking could be said to underpin the project, with a view to finding a path through the complexities of the present day, starting from the work produced but without necessarily lingering on it.
Photos: Lorenzo Mason Studio