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.
Michel Carlana, Luca Mezzalira, and Curzio Pentimalli
Photographs by Armin Linke
Design by Lorenzo Mason Studio
Hardcover, 176 pages, 24 x 33 cm
ISBN: 979-12-80579-39-3
The Italian-based architectural office Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli designed two important public buildings in the ancient city center of Bressanone, South Tyrol. Just over five hundred meters apart, the two works, the Music School, and the Public Library allowed for reasoning about the city’s architecture, exercising a method made up of ideas that look at the peculiarities of places.
In a historical period in which the image—by virtue of its visual impact even before its meaning—has taken on the role of the main channel of communication, the Luogo Comune (“common place”)—understood both as a meeting space and as the lowest common denominator of an “essential language”—might provide the interval of reflection necessary to start asking some simple, elementary questions about what surrounds us.
Within this publishing project, the authors talk about the passage of time, the concept of place and method through the anthropological approach underpinning the photographs taken by Armin Linke in several site visits made in the cities of Treviso, Brixen and Munich, between 2020 and 2021.
Lorenzo Mason gave the graphic structure to a text written in short annotations, in which trilingualism helps to bring out the traditions of the community of Brixen: a town capable of welcoming two public buildings designed with the same approach yet specific to the context in which they are rooted.
Biographies
Michel Carlana (1980), Luca Mezzalira (1982), and Curzio Pentimalli (1982) graduated from the Università Iuav di Venezia. Founded in 2010, the office aims to make urban planning and architecture a single practice—simple and enduring, organic, precise, and necessary—that considers the project an idea, an opportunity to reinterpret a place.