A multifaceted perspective on contemporary sculpture that explores the practices and concepts of the medium through different approaches. The publication interweaves works by Yu Ji, Bronwyn Katz, Dan Lie, Trương Công Tùng, and Luana Vitra, with essays by Federico Giani, Sohrab Mohebbi, Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, Chiara Nuzzi, and Anne Reeve.
Suffused with specially conceived collages of the artist’s research materials, notes, and sketches, this is the first monograph on Castelli’s painting and sculpture, with essays by Sarah Crowe and Lillian Davies, and an artist interview by Francesco Manacorda. Published with Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Kunsthalle Wien.
What if the shadow moved first? From March through May 2026, the exhibition The Second Shadow. Dozie Kanu Mirroring Marc Camille Chaimowicz, with Shared Echoes and Kindred Spirits at Fondazione ICA Milano unfolds online through a series of voices and crossings that shift its gravity. Not an extension. A displacement.
A Cosmic Movie Camera is the title of the 18th edition of the BIM’24, which also marks the 50th anniversary of the Biennale organized by the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. By blending the real and the virtual, its catalogue captures the spirit of the exhibition, which explores the evolution of moving images, particularly in our algorithmic age.
The book seeks to define the contours of the obsession with the teenage years; a fixation that has shaped a significant strand of contemporary art over the last ten years. Adolescence is here understood as a state of mind, a prolonged condition that dissolves the transition into adulthood and becomes a critique of an unstable world.
In this multi-voiced book, starting from the Orobie Alpine range, the mountainside becomes an epistemological lens through which to interpret contemporaneity and address issues such as multi-species migrations, our relationship with geological time and intergenerational inheritance, and the rethinking of collective memories and rituals.
8th Arnaldo Pomodoro Sculpture PrizeDancing at the Edge of the World
Edited by Federico Giani and Chiara Nuzzi
Texts by Federico Giani, Sohrab Mohebbi, Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, Chiara Nuzzi, and Anne Reeve
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2026, English / Italian, 13 x 21cm, 160 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-85-0
Published on the occasion of the exhibition by the finalists of the 8th Arnaldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize, this book provides a multifaceted perspective on contemporary sculpture. Works by Yu Ji, Bronwyn Katz, Dan Lie, Trương Công Tùng, and Luana Vitra are interspersed with texts by Federico Giani, Sohrab Mohebbi, Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, Chiara Nuzzi, and Anne Reeve, exploring the practices and concepts of sculpture through different approaches. Sculpture is shown to be an open field of critical inquiry, responsive to the cultural, ecological, and social transformations of the present day; a living, ever-evolving entity that acts as a critical and visionary art form with the capacity to redefine the relationships between human and non-human, natural and artificial, time and space.
The book, edited by Federico Giani and Chiara Nuzzi, and printed on blue-black paper, is conceived as the interweaving of two independent yet simultaneous narratives, recalling the choreography of two dancers engaged in a dialogue within the same space-time. The first section, titled Gestures, focuses solely on images and consists of small portfolios by Yu Ji, Bronwyn Katz, Dan Lie, Trương Công Tùng, and Luana Vitra—finalists and joint winners of this edition of the Prize. For each of the artists, the book presents individual works and installation views from exhibitions, as well as images of works in progress in their respective workshops, thus offering a glimpse into the artists’ creative process.
The second section is a condensed anthology of perspectives on contemporary sculpture. The five authors, who are members of the Prize jury, in addition to being directors and curators of the Sculpture Center, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro and the Fondazione ICA Milano, agreed to share their thoughts on the practices and conceptual frameworks that are driving sculpture forward today.
This approach gave rise to a multilayered panorama that encompasses everything from the anthropological constants linking archaic and contemporary perceptions of sculpture, to the elements that contribute to defining the “atmospheric” quality of present-day sculpture and its interpretation as, variously: a relational and transformative art form comparable to dance; a materially experiential expression of the “structure of feeling” within today’s political, social, and theoretical context; an inquiry into how sculpture—now, as before—is ultimately a site for investigation, sensation, and possible revelation; and a gathering place where we attempt to understand how things generate meaning.
