"This beautifully illustrated catalogue presents Jason Martin's most recent works: jewel like casts in nickel, copper and rose gold.Featuring essays by academic Luca Massimo Barbero, and writer Ossian Ward, this title has been published on ..."
"In the 1940s, the Italian painter and sculptor Lucio Fontana carried out a gesture that revolutionized the history of contemporary art: He punctured and slashed the canvas, leaving fissures in its surface and creating a new dimension in painting. Recognized as one of the masters of the international midcentury avant-garde, Fontana, who was actually born in Argentina, is considered a father of postwar monochromatic abstraction and Concep ..."
"One of the most important representatives of the American Abstract Expressionist group, Conrad Marca-Relli, born in Boston in 1913 of Italian parents, held his first one-man exhibition in New York in 1947. He later founded, together with Rothko, Franz Kline, De Kooning and others, the Eighth Street Club and was among the promoters of the Ninth Street Abstract Expressionists' show. In 1951, after a stay in Europe, he moved to East Hampto ..."
"The experimental character of Stockholm's renowned Modern art museum, the Moderna Museet, was formed in the late 1950s and early 60s, with influences coming primarily from Paris and New York. To mark the museum's fiftieth anniversary this year, three exhibitions focus on other creative hubs--Rio, Milan-Turin and Los Angeles--during that exciting period. Three volumes, available singly or in this 3-volume, slipcased edition, are definiti ..."
"The experimental character of Stockholm's renowned Modern art museum, the Moderna Museet, was formed in the late 1950s and early 60s, with influences coming primarily from Paris and New York. To mark the museum's fiftieth anniversary this year, three exhibitions focus on other creative hubs--Rio, Milan-Turin and Los Angeles--during that exciting period. Three volumes, available singly or in a 3-volume, slipcased edition, are definitive ..."
"226-page catalogue for an exhibition curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and held at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice July 4-September 24, 2006. Italian Text, illustrated in colour and black and white, with an excellent detailed bibliography/chronology. The full-page plates, all in colour, including one stunning gatefold, and unlike a number of exhibition catalogues for this artist show the full range of his work in all media. Fine ..."
"The experimental character of Stockholm's renowned Modern art museum, the Moderna Museet, was formed in the late 1950s and early 60s, with influences coming primarily from Paris and New York. To mark the museum's fiftieth anniversary this year, three exhibitions focus on other creative hubs--Rio, Milan-Turin and Los Angeles--during that exciting period. Three volumes, available singly or in a 3-volume, slipcased edition, are definitive ..."
"The essays in this catalog by Enrico Crispolti, Luca Massimo Barbero, Caterina Toschi and Piero Dorazio offer insights into the origins and characteristics of Spatialism, the artistic movement Fontana founded, which synthesized color, sound ..."
"Page after page the volume explores the artist's vast creativity disseminated with experimentations finding an ideal expression in ceramic works investigating and putting into practice an ideal relation between form, colour, matter and ..."
Spaziali/Nucleari Artworks from the Lanfranchi Collection (Hardback) by LucaMassimoBarbero Hardcover, 500 Pages, Published 2021 by Forma Edizioni, Italy ISBN-13: 978-88-552-1053-9, ISBN: 88-552-1053-X
"- Published for the first time ever, the Lanfranchi Collection is an important testament to the impact of the Spatialism and Nuclear Art movements in post WWII Italy Following WWII in Italy, the art movements Spatialism (founded by Lucio ..."
"Particularly since his spectacular exhibition in the Romanian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, Adrian Ghenie (born 1977) has been celebrated as one of the most interesting and unconventional painters of his generation. His works--painted in oils sometimes applied with a palette knife or thrown onto the canvas--have already gained entry into the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern and the Centre Pompid ..."
"This monograph on Italian sculptor Pietro Consagra (1947–2005) focuses on early abstract works from 1947 to his “frontal music” projects in 1982. A founding member of Forma 1 group, Consagra challenged sculptural conventions by creating slender, almost two-dimensional “frontal sculptures” in bronze, iron, wood, steel and marble."
"Departing from his earlier figurative works and engagement with Futurist ideals, Italian painter Osvaldo Licini (1894–1958) turned away from realism in 1940 and painted only abstract works from then on. His paintings from that fruitful decision engage in a surrealist language of precise lines, solid colors and pregnant signs; colors and signs that Licini viewed as expressions of energy, willpower, ideas and magic. This catalog of Licini ..."
"Sassolino?s works are characterised by a clear reference to a sense of constant tension, almost an imminent danger that looms over the visitor: the choice of the materials, their conformation and the positioning of the works within the ..."