Between an artist’s book and a catalogue, this publication follows up on Armleder’s multidimensional exhibition at KANAL in 2020–21. Through archival pictures and in depth conversations, the book is designed to recreate the immersive experience of this collective experiment, and proposes a dive into something akin to a large self-portrait, conceived through the works of more than a hundred artists.
This artist’s book reflects Eva & Franco Mattes’ continued interest in the condition of displacement to be sensed in Fukushima. Borrowing the format of wrapping-paper catalogs, it contains twenty large pre-perforated sheets, each of which features a photographic texture—a seamlessly repeating motif captured by the camera amid the radioactive ruins of the contaminated towns and countryside.
The album brings together the music composed by Federico Chiari for various film and video works by Diego Marcon, including Monelle (2017), Ludwig (2018), The Parents’ Room (2021), and Dolle (2023). The album comes with a booklet containing lyrics and images that provide a deeper insight into this unique, profoundly intertwined collaboration between Chiari and Marcon.
This small anthology reviews some of the central themes of Diego Marcon’s research: from the role of the display in exhibitions to his relationship with cinema, from the use of special effects and animatronics to the sense of community established through his work. Glassa accompanies the exhibition of the same name designed by the artist for the spaces of the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato.
Strata raccoglie 37 conversazioni con artisti il cui lavoro ha dato un contributo significativo alla scena artistica italiana e internazionale a partire dal 2000. Questo libro è il resoconto personale di una serie di incontri, amicizie e relazioni professionali che Vincenzo de Bellis e Alessandro Rabottini hanno coltivato negli ultimi vent’anni.
Strata compiles 37 conversations with artists whose work has made a significant contribution to the Italian and international art scene since 2000. This book is the personal account of a number of encounters, friendships, and professional relationships that Vincenzo de Bellis and Alessandro Rabottini have nurtured over the past twenty years.
Edited by Nicola Wright
Texts by Andrew Bonacina, Jake Grewal and Philip Hoare
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
Co-published with Studio Voltaire
2025, English, hardcover, 33.5 x 23.5 cm, 144 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-91-1
Jake Grewal’s work explores the intertwined themes of landscape, identity, and queer embodiment. His paintings and drawings often depict solitary figures in natural settings that blur the boundary between the external world and inner emotion. The landscapes—misty forests, coastal horizons, and shifting terrains—act less as backdrops and more as psychological spaces where intimacy, vulnerability, and transformation unfold.
Central to Grewal’s practice is the relationship between human fragility and the cyclical processes of nature. Through motifs of erosion, water, and changing light, he reflects on time, memory, and renewal. His figures—often nude and rendered with tenderness—suggest both exposure and belonging, merging with their surroundings in ways that evoke the fluidity of identity and desire.
Grewal’s sensibility is deeply informed by his queer and diasporic experience. Rather than addressing these identities overtly, he weaves them into the emotional and atmospheric texture of his paintings. The result is work that feels both personal and universal: meditations on longing, connection, and the search for home within the self and the world.
Under the Same Sky is Grewal’s first monograph, published on the occasion of the artist’s recent exhibition at Studio Voltaire, London. Accompanied by a conversation between the artist and Andrew Bonacina and an essay by Philip Hoare, this book also features the paintings and drawings that informed Grewal’s past exhibitions at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, and Thomas Dane Gallery in London.
