Italian Art & Design

The exhibition Ytalia, held in Florence in 2017, featured over 100 works by major contemporary Italian artists and aimed to connect contemporary art with Renaissance heritage. Comprehensive documentation provides detailed descriptions of the works by each artist on show. Extensive iconographic material, including images from archives...

“In the Space Age,” wrote Italian artist Lucio Fontana, “spatial art.” Fontana’s desire to create art in space came in response to unprecedented technological advances and contemporary fantasies of space travel. Fifteen years before Andy Warhol said he wanted to be as much a...

This book gathers the essential writings and declarations that defined this movement, offering readers an insightful look into the minds of those who sought to break free from tradition and reshape the future of art. After an introduction setting aspects of Futurism in the...

Art of Sool is Claudio, Marco and Nicola who hail from the mountains of Northern Italy.They work across illustration, graffiti, and multimedia graphics as well as more traditional art. Their work is an instinctive continuation of the Italian affinity for writing, street art and graphic design which has flourished particularly...

The One Work series is a library of small books, each title focusing on a single artwork that has significantly shaped the way we understand art and its history. In 1971 Alighiero e Boetti commissioned Afghan embroiderers to create a map of the world,...

Twins Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia (b. 1985 in Catania, Sicily) work with matter, time, biology, and philosophy. The peculiarity of the identical twins is to work simultaneously on the same precise and scientific body of work, because one is left-handed and the other, right-handed....

In Fashion by Chance Italian fashion designer Cleonice Capece provides a vivid and richly documented account of how creativity, entrepreneurial courage and institutional support played a key role in the success of 'Made in Italy'. Capece offers the testimony of someone directly involved in...

Between 1967 and 1970 Italian auteur Giovanni 'Tinto' Brass directed four feature films in London, each starring a woman as the main character. Exploring the political, cultural and sexual ideas of their time, often in a deliberate pop-art style, they contain much priceless footage...

Like no other city in the world, Los Angeles encourages the observer to play with illusions - and to be played with in turn. At every street corner one wonders if they are still in ordinary life, have stepped onto a movie set, or...

Rare & Collectible This is a superbly illustrated overview of the Cross Stories works of acclaimed Italian artist Gigi Rigamonti (b. 1949). This volume showcases Rigamonti's unique style and visual flair and analyses his creative process, with a particular focus on the cross-references and multi-disciplinary...

This monograph provides insight into many aspects of Gilberto Zorio's (b. 1944) works, including paintings, sculpture, installations and drawings including works from the 60s - Sedia (Chair), Tenda (Tent) and Senza titolo (Untitled), (Star) and Canoa (Canoe).  Zorio’s artistic activity began through his involvement in...

Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, this volume represents an important tool for getting to know every aspect of Leonardo da Vinci's work: his pictorial technique, his scientific and technological investigation, his study on anatomy, his Codices, and...

Luca Pignatelli's (b.1962) works evoke a sense of timelessness and reflect on memory, antiquity, and history Senza data (Undated) presented a series of works painted on railway tarpaulins, wood, paper, sheet metal, and Persian carpets from the early 20th century. The painted carpets stand...

Italian artist Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) is seen as one of the pioneers of international conceptual art. During his short artistic career, he produced more than a thousand canvases, sculptures and other objects. He radically broke with the conventions of art, even making the body of the artist,...

This volume provides a complete portrait of the work of Marco Tamburro (b.1974) - from the references to classical cinema, to the theatre and to contemporary photography, to his personal history and paintings, which combine aspects of his own life with imaginary events. His...

This catalogue was published to accompany a reunion exhibition of four Calabrian artists who trained during the 1970s, each with a  different poetic path but with a communion of intentions. After Marginalia - their first group exhibition held in 1979, their paths split across...

The first English translation of Erwin Panofsky's long-lost work on Michelangelo.In 2012, a manuscript by renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky was rediscovered in a safe in Munich, in the basement of the Central Institute for Art History. Hidden for decades among folders and administrative...

Rare & Collectible The 40 full-page colour photographs presented here - which include landscapes, fashion and still lifes as well - form a kind of atlas on skin that also refers the observer, on the one hand, to Northern European painting from the 1500s...

Rare & Collectible Text in English & Italian Layers of torn posters, chipped and peeling stucco and plaster, ghostly images formed by time and nature, childlike sketches by an unknown hand: these images and more can be found in this volume which focuses exclusively...

Rare & Collectible Published for the exhibition at Mary Boone Gallery in 2013 where Halley's paintings were hung against Italian architect Mendini's wallpaper. The exhibition featured nine new Halley paintings installed on digitally-printed wallpaper designed by Mendini in his atelier in Milan, Italy. Halley, who...