Conceived as a catalogue and an artist’s book, the publication offers a deeper insight into the eponymous 2022 exhibition staged at Indipendenza Roma, and explores tensions that can be generated between artworks and their surrounding architectural context, raising questions of taste, value, function and decoration.
The practice of Tomaso Binga (Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, 1931) toys with the notion of gender, reconsidering women’s social roles and rights. This monograph, edited by Eva Fabbris, Lilou Vidal, and Stefania Zuliani, analyses her work through various languages and features a selection of poems, highlighting the author’s critical and artistic approach.
In her work, Cally Spooner crystallizes an absurd contemporary ecosystem in which entities run the risk of managing themselves and one another to death. Featuring newly commissioned essays alongside a lecture by Spooner, SWEAT SHAME ETC. is the first comprehsive survey of the artist’s output of the last five years.
This new anthology brings together visions, experiences and critical interdisciplinary methodologies that have been instrumental in the development of the language of moving images since 2010. New essays and conversations reflect on radical technological and poetic transformations in the works of the generation of digital native artists.
Center of the Frame is the artist’s first monograph and brings together paintings made between 1997 and 2024. The publication provides an in-depth look at Eisler’s fascination with cinema and with the transmission of images through the various formats of analog film, television broadcasts, Internet video and, of course, the painted canvas.
At 500 pages, this is the most comprehensive book yet on Norwegian artist, Ida Ekblad. Appearing three years after the artist’s show at Kunsthalle Zürich, Melted Snow took certainly a long time—all the time is takes to ponder fifteen years of the artist’s career.
Edited by Samuele Piazza and Nicola Ricciardi.
With original contributions from Samuele Piazza, Nicola Ricciardi, Tyler Coburn, and Claire Fontaine. Reprinted archive texts by Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora, Diedrich Diederichsen, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, Renate Wiehager, Reed Berkowitz, Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy, Andrea Bowers, and the Cultural Capital Cooperative.
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2021, English, softcover, 13 × 21 cm, 272 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-03-4
Vogliamo Tutto. Cultural Practices and Labor has its origin in the novel Vogliamo tutto (1971) by Nanni Balestrini, whose protagonist Alfonso Natella became the voice of an entire generation as well as the workers’ movements in 1968 Turin. In 2021, thirteen artists were invited to reflect on the change of labor in the contemporary context. The result is a sum of choral voices and practices, which together outline the peculiar transformative nature of labor and its socio-cultural context over a wide time span: from the impact of the Industrial Revolution to the post-industrial decline and the shifts of the digital era.
The book features two essays by Samuele Piazza and Nicola Ricciardi, curators of the eponymous exhibition at OGR Torino; new writing by the artists Claire Fontaine and Tyler Coburn; and archive texts selected by the artists in the show: Andrea Bowers, Pablo Bronstein, Claire Fontaine, Tyler Coburn, Jeremy Deller, Kevin Jerome Everson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Elisa Giardina Papa, Liz Magic Laser, Adam Linder, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Mike Nelson, and Renate Wiehager for Charlotte Posenenske.
The archive texts include the essays “Automation and the Invisible Service Function” by Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora; “Audio Poverty” Diedrich Diederichsen; “Sabotage” by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; “Wages Against Housework” by Silvia Federici; “The Wreck of the Sea-Venture” by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker; “Charlotte Posenenske Mimetic Minimalism and Practicability” by Renate Wiehager; an excerpted texts from The Human Animal by Émile Zola; as well as the articles “A Game Designer’s Analysis of QAnon” by Reed Berkowitz; “Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time” by Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy; the “Letter of Protest, Frieze Art Fair, New York” by Andrea Bowers, and the “License Agreement” by the Cultural Capital Cooperative collective; the script from Erie by Kevin Jerome Everson; a conversation between David Green and Rick Smith, UAW Local 1112, and LaToya Ruby Frazier.
The editors
Samuele Piazza is Senior Curator at OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, in Turin. He curated Vogliamo Tutto and solo shows by contemporary artists such as Mike Nelson and Monica Bonvicini. He also founded and co-curated the experimental series Dancing is what we make of falling, an exhibition format mixing video screenings, talks and performances.
Nicola Ricciardi is the Artistic Director of miart – Milan’s international modern and contemporary art fair since October 2020. From 2016 to 2020 he has been Artistic Director of OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, in Turin, where he organized over 20 exhibitions including solo shows by Tino Sehgal, Susan Hiller, Mike Nelson, Monica Bonvicini, and Trevor Paglen, among others.