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Gabriele Basilico
(55 Series)
by Francesco Bonami, Gabriele Basilico, Mary Panzer, Vv.Aa.
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2001 by Phaidon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-4078-9, ISBN: 0-7148-4078-5

" Eine regennasse, von Laternen begleitete Straße in Calais, ein aus dem Hafen auslaufendes Schiff in Antwerpen oder das Pirelli-Hochhaus in Mailand, dessen Höhe sich durch den Bildrand abgeschnitten nur vermuten lässt. Gabriele Basilicos menschenleere Fotografien beschreiben urbane wie periphere Momente der Stadt. 1944 in Mailand geboren, widmet sich Gabriele Basilico nach seinem Studium der Architektur ausschließlich der Fotografie. De ..."

2010
Whitney Biennial
by Francesco Bonami, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Gary Carrionâ"Murayari
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2010 by Whitney Museum Of American Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-16242-4, ISBN: 0-300-16242-1

"Since its inauguration in 1932, the Whitney Biennial has showcased contemporary artistic innovation, becoming a highly anticipated event in the art world. The 2010 Biennial is curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari and features works by approximately 55 artists working in a variety of media and practices. Uniquely, this catalogue serves as both a handsome accompaniment to the 2010 exhibition and an insightful exploration ..."

Enrico Baj(1st Edition)
The Artist's Home
by Mariuccia Casadio, Francesco Bonami, Michael Reynolds, Stephen Kent Johnson, Professor Michael Reynolds
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by Skira Rizzoli
ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-5899-6, ISBN: 0-8478-5899-5

"An Italian villa never before open to the public houses a trove of artistic creativity and design by one of the central figures of the Italian neo–avant garde. Not far from Milan, in the hills of the northern Italian countryside, lies the estate of famed Italian artist Enrico Baj. This jewel of a book offers a unique lens through which to consider a true artistic giant of the late twentieth century associated with Dada, Surrealism, Ar ..."

Echoes(1st Edition)
Contemporary Art at the Age of Endless Conclusions (Parallaz: Re-Visions of Culture and)
by Jen Budney, Francesco Bonami, Neville Wakefield, Jeffrey Rian, Keith Seward, Jeff Rian, Van De Walle, Budney Bonami
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1996 by The Monacelli Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-885254-36-8, ISBN: 1-885254-36-9

"Book by Budney, Jen"

The Spinster's Poems
101 Bonaku (Paperback or Softback)
by Francesco Bonami, Richard Prince
Paperback, 101 Pages, Published 2023 by Karma Books, New York
ISBN-13: 978-1-949172-97-3, ISBN: 1-949172-97-X

"Spinster as state-of-mind: A collection of verse from the illustrious curator-cum-writer In this poetry collection, the Italian polymath Francesco Bonami (born 1955) dedicates his introspective verses to the figure of a spinster--an ..."

Maurizio Cattelan
(Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series)
by Francesco Bonami, Nancy Spector, Cattelan Maurizio Staff, Massimiliano Gioni, Barbara Vanderlinden, Marc Etkind, Philip |Roth, Vv.Aa., Spector Bonami
Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2003 by Phaidon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-4306-3, ISBN: 0-7148-4306-7

"Maurizio Cattelan (b.1960) is today's best-known Italian artist. In some ways an heir to the legendary Italian 'anti-artist' Piero Manzoni, Cattelan produces witty, unorthodox performances, sculptures and photoworks that are as varied as they are unsettling. This humorous, untraditional art often takes an off-centre standpoint at the margins of mainstream society to poke fun at art history, monumentality and nationalism. Cattelan was on ..."

Words Of Wisdom
A Curator's Vade Mecum
by Carin Kuoni, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Judith Richards, Bice Curiger, Francesco Bonami, Dan Cameron, Contributor-Thelma Golden, Independent Curators International
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2001 by Independent Curators International (Ici)
ISBN-13: 978-0-916365-60-8, ISBN: 0-916365-60-3

"A modern update of the Medieval trade manuals--the 'come-along-with-me' (vade mecum) of Medieval craftsmen--Words of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum is an invaluable guidebook for anyone interested in contemporary art and the practice of curating. In over fifty short essays, this compendium offers advice to a new generation of curators from veterans of contemporary art exhibitions who, over the past 25 years, have played a crucial role i ..."

Damien Hirst
For Heaven's Sake
by Damien Hirst, Other Criteria, Francesco Bonami
Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2015 by Other Criteria
ISBN-13: 978-1-935263-35-7, ISBN: 1-935263-35-8

""For Heaven's Sake" was produced for the Damien Hirst: Forgotten Promises inaugural exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong in 2011. The book title, named after the artwork "For Heaven's Sake" (2008), includes full-color plates of the skull, including fabrication shots and installation shots at the Hong Kong exhibition where this life-size human baby skull cast in platinum and covered in 8,128 pave-set perfect diamonds: 7,105 natural ..."

For Heaven's Sake(1st Edition)
by Damien Hirst, Francesco Bonami, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Cy: Twombly, Francesco Bondmi
Hardcover, 68 Pages, Published 2012 by Other Criteria
ISBN-13: 978-1-935263-21-0, ISBN: 1-935263-21-8

""For Heaven's Sake" was produced for "Damien Hirst: Forgotten Promises," the inaugural exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2011. The book, titled after the artwork "For Heaven's Sake, " 2008, includes full-color plates of the work, including fabrication shots and installation shots at the Hong Kong exhibition where this life-size human baby skull cast in platinum and covered in 8,128 pave-set perfect diamonds and 1,023 whi ..."

Thomas Demand(1st Edition)
by Francesco Bonami, Regis Durand, Thomas Demand, Francois Quintin
Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2001 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-97495-7, ISBN: 0-500-97495-0

"Originally trained as a sculptor, Thomas Demand approaches photography as a means of preserving ephemeral paper constructions but inevitably the camera becomes central to his creative process. At first glance, Demand's works seem to present fragments of a hyperreal and familiar place but, before long, they reveal their true identity: a wholly artificial world reduced to generic forms. Large immaculate photographs of interiors and archit ..."

Universal Experience
Art, Life, And The Tourist'S Eye
by Emilia Kabakov, Peter Fischli, Matthew Buckingham, Robert Fitzpatrick, David Weiss, Carol Becker, Alain De Boton, Martin Parr, Lucy Lippard, Susan Sontag, Katherina Fritsch, Aleksandra Mir, Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Chris Burden, Ilya Kabakov, Jeff Koons, Gabriel Orozco, Simon Starling, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Piotr Uklanski, Francesco Bonami, Maurizio Cattelan, Nancy Spector, Thomas Struth, Kari Dahlgren
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2005 by D.A.P./Mca, Chicago
ISBN-13: 978-1-933045-02-3, ISBN: 1-933045-02-7

"Drawing from such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, economics, art criticism, and travel writing, Universal Experience is both a sizeable illustrated catalogue of the exhibition at the MCA, Chicago and a companion to the experience of contemporary travel and tourism. This volume draws on the proliferation of research surrounding the social, geographic, and cultural dimensions of mobility and outputs this information as an antholog ..."

Fiona Tan(1st Edition)
Correction
by Tessa Jackson, Fiona Tan, Katharina Sykora, Robert Fitzpatrick, Ann Philbin, Lisa Phillips, Francesco Bonami, Contributor-Joel Snyder, Julie Rodrigues . Widholm, N.Y.
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2004 by Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago
ISBN-13: 978-0-933856-84-4, ISBN: 0-933856-84-9

""A filmed photograph stretches time, and in those often uncomfortable moments a lot happens: The viewer can see the embarrassment, bewilderment, and anger or the curiosity and shyness due to the confrontation with the camera." --Fiona Tan Artist Fiona Tan works somewhere in between the still photograph and the moving picture. In her "moving photographs," the before and after of the captured image is revealed; that which lies outside the ..."

Rick Owens(1st Edition)
by Rick Owens, Contributor-Francesco Bonami, Contributor-Olivier Zahm, Maria Luisa Frisa, Jo-Ann Furniss, Vaginal Davis
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2011 by Rizzoli
ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-3663-5, ISBN: 0-8478-3663-0

"This luxurious large-format book documents the work of the American designer Rick Owens, a transformational figure in contemporary fashion. Defiantly antifashion, Rick Owens’s honest and intensely personal approach to craft has ironically produced some of the most sublime fashion of the last two decades, propelling him to the front ranks of the international avant-garde.Established in 1994, Owens’s subversive designs have now becom ..."

Kenzo(1st Edition)
by Antonio Marras, Olivier Saillard, Francesco Bonami, Contributor-Bradley Quinn, Contributor-Catherine Orman, Catherine Ormen, Tamae Armand-Ejima, Patrick Cabasset, Ryoko Sekiguchi
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2010 by Rizzoli
ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-3471-6, ISBN: 0-8478-3471-9

"An extraordinary collectible, Kenzo creatively presents forty years of the Paris-based fashion house, founded by Japanese designer Kenzo Takada and now in a resurgence under artistic director Antonio Marras. Established in 1970 by Kenzo Takada, who had arrived in Paris from Japan in 1965, Kenzo is one of the great French houses that transformed global fashion in the latter half of the twentieth century. Now under the artistic directorsh ..."

Doug Aitken(1st Edition)
100 Yrs
by Bice Curiger, Aaron Betsky, Kerry Brougher, Tim Griffin, Francesco Bonami, Doug Aitken, Karen Marta
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2014 by Rizzoli
ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-3832-5, ISBN: 0-8478-3832-3

"The most comprehensive book to date on the innovative multimedia artist Doug Aitken. Defying definitions of genre, Doug Aitken has explored every medium, from architecture and film to installations and interventions. While Aitken’s work varies in both theme and context, his installations share a common thread in their ability to use technology to evoke meaningful personal reactions from the viewer, encourage audience interaction, and i ..."

Damien Hirst
Forgotten Promises
by Damien Hirst, Francesco Bonami, Contributor-Karen Smith
Paperback, 174 Pages, Published 2012 by Other Criteria Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-935263-33-3, ISBN: 1-935263-33-1

"With full-color plates of paintings and sculptures, this book was produced for "Damien Hirst: Forgotten Promises," the inaugural exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2011. It includes For Heaven's Sake (2008), a life-size human baby skull cast in platinum and covered in 8,128 pavé-set pink and white diamonds, as well as beautiful diamond cabinets in gold and silver. A group of paintings made in 2008-2009, including Age of Magni ..."

Relational Aesthetics(1st Edition)
by Michael Archer, Jan Avgikos, Daniel Birnbaum, Ina Blom, Stefano Boeri, Nicolas Bourriaud, Xavier Douroux, Francesco Bonami, Hal Foster, Massimiliano Gioni, Michael Govan, Dorothea Von Hantelmann, Jens Hoffmann, Chrissie Iles, Emily King, Branden Joseph, Christy Lange, Patricia Falguières, Heike Föll, Maria Lind, Tom Morton, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Barbara Steiner, Rachael Thomas, Eric Troncy, Giorgio Verzotti, Thomas Wulffen, Olivier Zahm, Nancy Spector, Patricia Falguiã Res, Heike Fã Ll, Guggenheim Museum, Helena Winston, Not Available
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Guggenheim Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-89207-377-1, ISBN: 0-89207-377-2

"During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favour of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. Their work engages directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life, offering subtle moments of transformation. This catalogue, which accompanies a m ..."

Dreams and Conflicts
The Viewer's Dictatorship
by Francesco Bonami, Severino Faccin, Biennale Venezia
Paperback, 700 Pages, Published 2003 by Rizzoli
ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-2559-2, ISBN: 0-8478-2559-0

"The accompanying catalog to this year's Venice Biennale is a massive compendium of ideas and trends in contemporary art. The Venice Biennale, the world's most respected and influential contemporary art showcase, celebrates its fiftieth International Art Exhibition in 2003. Francesco Bonami, internationally known curator, writer, critic, and the Lewis Manilow Senior Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, will be curating t ..."

Zero to Infinity(1st Edition)
Arte Povera: 1962-1972
by Corinna Criticos, Francesco Bonami, Robert Lumley, Richard Flood, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Judith Kirshner, Karen Pinkus, Frances Morris, Walker Art Center, Tate Modern, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Kathy Halbreich, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Piero Gilardi, Lars Nittve, Pino Pascali, Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Emilio Prini, Gilberto Zorio, Alighiero E. Boetti, Giorgia Bottinelli, Germano Celant, Richard Morris Flood, Et Al.
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2001 by Walker Art Center
ISBN-13: 978-0-935640-69-4, ISBN: 0-935640-69-X

""Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-1972" focuses on one of the most innovative and influential art movements of the postwar era. Arte Povera came of age in the context of the economic boom of the "Italian miracle" and the subsequent student and workers' revolts of 1968. The work of Arte Povera was motivated by an urge to revolt not only against the primary achieved by painting in the postwar period, but also against certain aspects of ..."

Maurizio Cattelan(Updated)
(Contemporary Artists (Phaidon))
by Francesco Bonami, Nancy Spector, Barbara Vanderlinden, Barabara Vanderlinden, Maurizio Cattelan, Giorgio Verzotti
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2000 by Phaidon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-3866-3, ISBN: 0-7148-3866-7

"This comprehensive monograph documents the work of Maurizio Cattelan, the best-known Italian artist to have emerged internationally in the 1990s. His work has featured in three editions of the Venice Biennale (1993; 1997; 1999) and in major venues worldwide, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1998); and the Tate Gallery, London (1999). Cattelan creates sculptures that mock the art system and even the artist himself, with cons ..."

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