The catalogue of this ambitious project, held at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève in 2017, reflects on the centrality of writing in contemporary visual art practices. Documenting its slippages from printed matters to the digital realm, from voice modulations to its sculptural presence, this book celebrates the word in all its forms.
A book emerged from the need to try to tell the story of architecture in a way quite unlike how it’s usually told, in a continuous dialogue between the anthropological gaze of Armin Linke’s photos compared with the ideation process of two public works by the Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli architecture office.
The book documents and brings together two exhibition projects by Nina Canell and Maria Hassabi. Essays, unpublished materials and a rich set of photographic materials form the driving force behind two visual narratives that offer new keys to understanding the research of the two artists.
Can art, literature, filmmaking, and music draw out, make visible, legible, audible, or even contestable the patterns in which our lives are held? Considering the work by Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ingri Fiksdal, Åke Hodell, Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler, Susan Philipsz, and Elizabeth Price, this publication entertains this question.
This new major monographic publication on the Ghanian artist documents the work that transformed sites and repurposed buildings in his native town of Tamale to transformative outcomes rooted into the idea of art as a tool of understanding, rebalancing, and advancement.
For life and limbs, Austrian artist and curator Anna-Sophie Berger has assembled a group of works, from Arakawa and Gins to Lyle Ashton Harris, that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed.
Texts by Francesco Arena with Davide Pellicciari and Carlotta Spinelli
Notes by Nicola Del Roscio and Federico Vercellone
Design: Marcello Jacopo Biffi
2024, English / Italian, softcover, 20 x 28 cm, 112 pages
ISBN: 979-12-80579-48-5
Through his multidisciplinary practice, Francesco Arena implements continuous and subtle references to contemporary society, highlighting the impossibility of being totally self-sufficient and how crucial is to have a support from others. For the artist, just like religion, magic, philosophy and politics, art is a support for human life but also an antidote that humanity has created to give meaning to the existence and to be protected against the unknown.
The title of this volume, published to accompany Arena’s exhibition at Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio in Rome, refers to a famous quote by Heraclitus that was inscribed on the lintel of the entrance door of Heidegger’s famous hütte in Todtnauberg, rebuilt in real dimensions inside the space of the Foundation. The hut, ideally related to the philosopher’s memory, is a work that contains a series of new sculptures that create a game of continuous cross-references and exchanges between container and content, visible and invisible, individual and collective experience. By superimposing archive images and current documentation, this book replicates the same dynamics.
