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A concise, dynamic introduction to the Italian postmodern design groupThis small-format volume presents more than 200 furniture and objects made between 1981 and 1986 for the Memphis collection. Memphis was an Italian design and architecture collective founded by Ettore Sottsass, a leading exponent of 1980s postmodernism. It was the outcome of a long process that began at the Olivetti company in Ivrea, where Sottsass had been the design coordinator since the late 1950s, and continued with the research of the radical architecture movements of the 1960s and 1970s, in Florence and Europe.Memphis Again documents the eponymous 2022 Milan exhibition on the group, for which Memphis works--bookshelves, tables, desks, chairs, sofa beds, lamps, pots, bowls, rugs and more--were dynamically installed in chronological order in the style of a fashion show, with quotes by critics, architects and designers projected on the walls. Works by Sottsass, Michele De Lucchi, George J. Sowden, Martine Bedin, Andrea Branzi, Shiro Kuramata, Marco Zanini, Matteo Thun, Peter Shire, Aldo Cibic, Nathalie du Pasquier, Gerard Taylor and Masanori Umeda are featured.

Ingenious sculptural takes on idiomatic language from a leading Brazilian artistFor his installation at the Brazilian pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), Jonathas de Andrade (born 1982) draws on idiomatic expressions using metaphors of the body to develop a series of two- and three-dimensional works that render tangible the poetry of these expressions. For example, two immense ears placed at the entrance and exit of the pavilion allow the public to "go in one ear and out the other," while an inflatable balloon, which invades the space at various times of the day, alludes to a "heart coming out of the mouth." The emphasis on the body, especially the body of the man from the Brazilian Northeast, is also characteristic of several of the artist's earlier works featured in this book, which also includes essays by the publication's editor Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, and Clarissa Diniz.

The Warrior: one of the most favourite themes in Antoni Clave's work, treaded in this volume published on the occasion of Biennale Arte 2022. Text in English and French.

The volume is dedicated to the work of New York-based Croatian artists TARWUK, presented, for the first time in Italy, at the Maramotti Collection in Reggio Emilia. Text in English and Italian.

This fully illustrated volume accompanies the latest "European Photography" festival. Text in English and Italian.

This volume is the second edition of SIGNS, which aims to introduce the general public to the profession and discipline of graphic designers. Text in English and Italian.

A posthumous survey of an Italian photographer with close ties to the international art sceneThis monograph is the first to trace the life and career of Italian photographer Claudio Abate (1943-2017), whose practice ranged from photographs of works, artists and exhibitions of Arte Povera to fashion photography, photo-documentary and personal artistic photographic experimentations.

A photographic mediation on the Alps across changing seasonsItalian photographer Carlo Valsecchi (born 1965) spent three years roaming the Alps with his camera, exploring the region's role in historical conflicts and migration patterns. The resulting photographs are sudden glimpses, portals of light and compositions hovering in an endless limbo between loneliness, isolation and waiting.

Surveying the oeuvre of a genre-bending French documentarianFrench artist Marine Hugonnier (born 1969) makes experimental films that investigate the politics of the gaze and exist at the border of documentary and fiction. Equipped with her 16mm camera, Hugonnier mixes the roles of reporter and ethnographer.

Key performances and new works from the Cuban activist and artist famed for her courageous defiance of governmental oppression Over the past three decades, Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera (born 1968) has consistently and inventively blurred the line between art and activism. She first gained notoriety for her 1997 solo performance The Burden of Guilt (El peso de la culpa), a response to the mass suicide of a group of Indigenous Cubans who had consumed soil to demonstrate resistance to Spanish occupation. Subsequent works have frequently put her in conflict with the Cuban government: most notoriously, in Tatlin's Whisper #6, performed in her native Havana in 2009, she set up a stage for audience members to speak uncensored for one minute.Featuring a die-cut cover, Tania Bruguera: Let Truth Be, Though the World Perish includes her most significant performances and installations, as well as a new work designed for Milan's Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea.

Celebrates one of the best-known and most-loved Italian directors of all time, Dario Argento. Text in English and Italian.

The surprising and enigmatic work by Marco Tirelli, in a richly illustrated monograph. Text in English and Italian.

350 between objects, furnishings, drawings, studio paintings and models in a volume that explores and reconstructs the imaginative world of design of one of the masters of architecture of the 20th century. Text in English and Italian.

Artists respond to the storied history of a Munich exhibition spaceThis catalog chronicles three exhibitions at BNKR, Munich--a WWII air-raid bunker turned internment camp turned exhibition space. The artworks exhibited relate to architecture and deception, confinement or transformation. Artists include Hans Op de Beeck, Bettina Pousttchi, Gregor Sailer and others.

How expressionism crossed genres in pursuit of the total artwork, from Nolde to MurnauAs a revolutionary cultural movement, Expressionism endeavored to join art and life and diminish the separation between the arts. The Gesamtkunstwerk--the total artwork--became the ideal for artists. Expressionism in Art and Film traces this crossing of genre boundaries, outlining mutual influences between painting, graphics and film. Exaggerated figures, strong contrast and distorted perspective pervaded all three mediums, reflecting the tremendous angst of the early 20th century's social upheavals. Social critique also figured centrally in the movement, in caricatured depictions of modern men and women. This volume highlights these elements of Expressionism, drawing parallels between art and film. Artists Erich Heckel, Emil Nolde, Paula Mondersohn-Becker, Alexander Kanoldt, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Otto Mueller figure here, as well as directors Robert Wiene, F.W. Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch.

Il volume presenta il catalogo ragionato della produzione documentata di Arredoluce, che conta 555 fra lampade e complementi di arredo, e la ricostruzione della storia dell'azienda e dei designer che vi hanno lavorato. Arredoluce nasce nel 1943 a Monza grazie ad Angelo Lelii, imprenditore e progettista: la sua curiosità per le innovazioni provenienti dall'estero, unita all'amore per i materiali della tradizione e a una cura maniacale per i dettagli, ha segnato la linea di produzione dell'azienda. Con Arredoluce, di cui si ricordano le partecipazioni alle Triennali di Milano dal 1947 al 1960, hanno collaborato importanti designer tra cui Gio Ponti, Ettore Sottsass jr. e Nanda Vigo.

This catalog accompanies the first major retrospective of London-based Iraqi artist Dia Al-Azzawi (born 1939). Working in a variety of two- and three-dimensional mediums over his 55-year career, including his mural-like political paintings and assemblage works, Al-Azzawi has become one of Iraq's most influential artists.

Over 350 works created by Jodice - artist, photographer and filmmaker - over 25 years of career bring about a kaleidoscopic fresco of our time. Text in English and Italian.

Bonalumi contributed decisively to the artistic debate in post-WW2 Italy, creating shaped works using convex canvas obtained through the use of wooden or steel elements positioned behind the canvas itself. Text in English and Italian.

The influence of Depero's research in the fields of art, fashion and design still live on to this day, showing how prophetic his vision has been. Text in English and Italian.

Through a skilful modulation between light and shadow, Marco Anelli's black and white photographs offer a profound and evocative understanding of the sculptor's work, a leading figure in the 20th century art scene.

A "whimsical" journey through 800 glass masterpieces from the 18th century to the present, acquired by the Galleria Rizzarda in Feltre, Veneto.

Crucial moments of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of 29 great women photographers, witnesses and protagonists of the events that changed the world. Text in English and Italian.

For over 25 years, Borges has been documenting indigenous and tribal cultures, striving to create an understanding of the challenges these people face everyday. Text in English and Italian.

Through his lens Robert Doisneau was able to grasp the daily life of Parisian people with an ironic and light touch. Text in English, Italian, and French.