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New paintings by Katya Muromtseva: monumental watercolour triptychs that connect to the multifaceted narratives and histories of women immigrants>Based on the exhibition Over the Slopes of Speech at NIKA Project Space, Dubai (February-May 2024), the catalogue includes works inspired by conversations the artist had with immigrants, both in the USA and the UAE. These profoundly personal stories form the basis for her watercolor compositions, which capture the resilience of these women and delve into themes of home, borders, refugees, and human destinies.Muromtseva grounds her practice in storytelling as a means to explore the relationship between personal and collective memory.

This volume marks the inaugural entry in a series dedicated to the new generation of Chinese contemporary artists, meticulously selected and curated by the esteemed critic and art historian Lü Peng>a dynamic fusion of cultural influences and contemporary practices.The book is further enriched by a thought-provoking dialogue between the renowned Chinese curator Lü Peng and Italian critic Andrea Del Guercio. Their insightful essays provide a fresh and compelling perspective on Zhang Zhaoying's work, offering readers a deeper understanding of the artist's influence and the broader implications of hiscontribution to contemporary art.

The installations by the celebrated Portuguese artist>With works which focus on the quotidian nature of existence presented alongside four major installation pieces which connect with a sense of the spiritual - Tree of Life, The Garden of Eden, Loft and Valkyrie Mumbet. In addition to generous images, the catalogue will include an academic essay and an in-depth conversation with the artist.With a career spanning over 30 years and a huge variety of media, Joana Vasconcelos (1971) is a Portuguese visual artist recognised for her monumental sculptures and immersive installations.

The life and work of the Egyptian painter and activist in the women's movement, pioneer of modern Egyptian art.>Accompanying the translation are insightful scholarly essays and interviews that delve into Efflatoun's artistic legacy and socio-political impact. This volume, commissioned by the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, offers an exploration of her enduring contributions to art and social justice, making it an essential read for those interested in Middle Eastern art and history.

Almost forty years of works on paper by the contemporary American artist, known for his powerful, no holds barred approach to subject matter relating to socio-political, ethical, and humanistic themes.Tom Torluemke's (b. Chicago, 1959) name is familiar to art lovers in Chicagoland thanks mainly to his detailed acrylic paintings, in which he observes and memorializes society's ills with the doting attention of a diehard humanist. Torluemke has been considerably more prolific in painting works on paper, a primarily unexplored part of his oeuvre; Tom Torluemke: Live! On Paper, 1987 - 2024, aspires to reframe the conversation around his art, representing almost forty years of studio activity that includes works about nature, fantasy, autobiography, abstraction, social strife, identity, and a full spectrum of emotion from shame to ecstasy, showcasing Torluemke's unique artistry through his freewheeling imagination and boundless technical chops in capturing our broad collective experience of being fully aware, conscious citizens living in this place at this peculiar moment in history.

The evolution of the city of Milan and its transformation over the last fifty years>Celebrating 50 years of COIMA (the leading Italian group for the investment, development and management of property assets on behalf of international and Italian institutional investors), Inspiring Cities invites to reflect on the future of our cities.The book includes 25 interviews with leading international architects, who talk about their projects on Milan, offering profound reflections on the city of the future. These dialogues highlight the challenges and opportunities of urban development, proposing innovative visions for the metropolis of tomorrow.

The major new migration museum opening in Rotterdam in 2025.A building of iconic design by leading architects MAD>Visitors will immediately see its architectural masterpiece, the Tornado, an organic, dynarnic structure evocative of rising air that climbs from the ground floor and flows up and out of the rooftop onto a platform hovering above the city - an uplifting symbol for the journeys experienced by migrants globally.FENIX explores the timeless story of human migration in a changing world through a series of encounters with art, architecture, photography and history, setting out to redefine the role of a museum for the next generation.

The works by the two leading artists after the dissolution of their friendship.>Both artists experienced the final days of World War II as adolescents. During their twenties, they produced the groundbreaking Pandemonium Manifestoes (1961-1962), retrospectively heralded by critics for shifting post-war painting through figuration and abstraction. Despite their accomplished collaboration, a paired exhibition has notbeen possible in six decades.

More than 150 works by American artists from the major art collection>Works by emerging artists are presented alongside the work of significant predecessors who have anticipated recent reflections on the concept of verism and representation. This reflection on realism finds an original and extraordinary setting in the National Galleries of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, which house the world's largest collection of works by so-called "Caravaggisti", the painters who, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, participated in completely reconfiguring the naturalistic representation of reality, profoundly affecting the history of Italian and European art.

The art of the most prominent female artist of Korean modern and contemporary art history, on the occasion of the centenary of her birth>Trained in traditional Asian painting, she developed an innovative style with vivid colors, strong expression, and powerful themes. Her life and art made her a cultural icon, a beacon of individuality in a time of strong conformity.Published in collaboration with the Chun Kyung-Ja Foundation, founded by the artist's daughter Sumita Kim, this volume includes essays by Eleanor Heartney, Kim Hong-Hee, and Barbara MacAdam.

A defining publication marking the artist's first North American retrospective to survey Haegue Yang's two-dimensional explorations over the last three decades>One of the most important artists working today, Yang is predominantly known as a sculptor and installation artist. Nonetheless, her two-dimensional investigations have been consistent and essential to her creative development. A fundamental recognition of these series is that "flatness" registers a collapse of the three-dimensional world as image.

Louis Glackens, William's talented older brother whose prolific career as an illustrator and pioneering cartoon animator has been overlooked until now.>The artist was prolific in creating his satirical scenes, steeped in wit, combining his 'childlike' fantasies with a heavy dose of jaded cynicism. Following his tenure at Puck, Glackens became one of the first cartoon animators within the burgeoning film industry of the 1910s, creating characters for production houses such as Bray, Pathé and Sullivan Studios. His fantastical depictions of mermaids, anthropomorphic beasts and pie-faced grown-ups carved a path for what would become the wonderful world of Walt Disney. Regrettably, Louis Glackens was out of step with the fashion of his time and bore the curse of the avant-garde. As such, his vast contribution to the history of cartoons has remained largely unexplored. This monograph seizes the opportunity to reevaluate Louis Glackens' cultural contributions through the gift of hindsight and wealth of illustrations generously gifted to the Museum by The Sansom Foundation, Inc.

A major monograph on the international artist's practiceInternationally celebrated Spanish artist Jaume Plensa is recognized as one of today's most significant voices in contemporary sculpture. For more than four decades years, Plensa has created a multifaceted body of work that interplays traditional materials with unconventional media on intimate and monumental scales. Traversing the globe—from The Crown Fountain in Chicago, a modern-day agora in an urban landscape, to Echo, the monumental, yet serene portrait which greets Seattle's citizens by land and sea, to Roots, composed of the world's languages towering within the city of Tokyo— Plensa's nomadic practice speaks to the capacity and beauty of humanity, celebrating the similarities of the world's otherwise seemingly divergent cultures. One Thought Fills Immensity is the most comprehensive monograph published on the artist to date with over 200 color plates and contributions from international curators and scholars including Clare Lilley, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Jeremy Strick, Sarah Coulson, Joseph Becherer, Marcello Dantas, and Víctor García de Gomar.

The work of one of the main protagonists of international contemporary art>The red thread is the theme of the imprint, a privileged subject in the artist's research, which can be found throughout the entire span of his production: from the work Alpi Marittime of 1968, the first experimentation of direct contact between body and forest, to the series Impronte di luce (2022-2023). Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Ferrero Foundation, the monograph delves into the theme of the imprint, ranging from drawing to photography, from modelling to carving in an accurate compendium of the vast selection of genres and techniques tackled by the artist. The motif of the imprint becomes in Giuseppe Penone's vision synonymous with contact between different surfaces and finds its own ideal manifestation in nature, understood as a global ecosystem of which every element is an integral part, from the human being to the leaves, from the trees to the earth.

The work by the Brazilian visual artist>Continuously exploring the margins and limits of form, Monteiro delves into the possibilities of the line as an organic, dynamic, and yet controlled, principle. The line acts as both the trace of choreography and a boundary that demarcates different zones. The palette of his paintings oscillates between predominantly cool tones and strong, warm hues, at times, creating a strident contrast. Meanwhile, his sculptures displace handfuls of matter to create novel shapes that swell and crumble, resembling ever-transforming life forms.

Travelling from Muscat to Marrakech, this book explores the importance of perfume and its place in Arab culture Since ancient times, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been at the heart of the trade in olfactory materials. Home to myrrh and incense, it was also the crossroads for the trade in spices and precious aromatics, such as the mythical oud or the mysterious musk. All these marvels, brought by caravan from the eastern reaches of the world, spread to the shores of the Mediterranean and the Euphrates. Perfumes not only had a historical and commercial status, but they were one of the favourite things of the Prophet, as he said: "From your world, I love women and perfume, and my favourite part of the world is prayer." The use of perfume has always been a hallmark of Arab-Islamic civilisation, as perfume makes one's life pleasant and accompanies them in both their social and intimate lives. With contributions from more than twenty perfumers, including olfactory experimenters, materials researchers, engineers, sociologists, and historians, this book celebrates an art that is as evanescent as captivating, and which still shapes an entire culture today. From the fields of roses in the Drâa valley to the saffron-scented streets of the medina, from the incense scents of the souk to the sacred fumigations of the temple, from the gardens of jasmine to the aromas of honey and orange blossom in oriental cuisine, let yourself be drawn into the fascinating and sensual world of perfume.

A visual and conceptual journey through the 35-year career of one of the most influential and internationally acclaimed street artists On the occasion of 35 years of Shepard Fairey's (Obey) career and his first solo exhibition in Italy (curated by the artist and the Wunderkammern gallery), this monograph presents a body of work that is among the most representative of his artistic production, together with numerous unique pieces conceived especially for the occasion. Shepard Fairey (Charleston, 1970) is the artist behind Obey. Known for the HOPE poster, a portrait of Barack Obama for the 2008 presidential campaign, Obey is distinguished by an essential and bold style with a minimalist palette guided by the hip hop and punk cultures that taught the artist to question social conventions. This is the poetics with which Fairey animates all of his works, inviting the audience to question on relevant current issues. The sections of the book are inspired by the most representative themes of Shepard Fairey's art: propaganda; peace and justice; environment; music and new works. Introduced by the essays by Giuseppe Pizzuto, Edoardo Falcioni and by a statement by Obey, the book begins with the section dedicated to propaganda featuring some of the artist's most significant images on this theme, starting with the iconic HOPE portraying Obama's face, which sparked so much enthusiasm and hope in 2008. It then continues through works in the peace and justice section in which, through the power of images, Shepard Fairey draws attention to issues such as human rights, abuse of power, war and peace. Suggestive and powerful are the works in the environment section, where the artist wishes to open a dialogue with the viewer reminding him of the importance of community in safeguarding our planet. The artist's universal message also finds expression in the section devoted to music. Of this art form Fairey especially admires universality and accessibility; he himself cites musical groups such as the Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Bob Marley and Public Enemy as his main sources of inspiration. The monograph ends with the new works, executed by Obey between 2021 and 2024, and Rubylith illustrations.

A comprehensive insight into the Iranian artist's workThe work of Mehdi Farhadian (b. 1980) emerges from the fusion of personal visual memories of nature and collective memories preserved in old photographs. The former is deeply individual, while the latter taps into a shared reservoir of collective memory. His paintings are a deliberate effort to activate overlooked histories - forgotten places, neglected public events and monuments erased by time in Iran, portraying the intersection of reality and fiction. Through these images, Farhadian explores the dichotomies of public versus private, past versus present and the forgotten allure of historical images contrasted with the recreation of those memories. Despite incorporating archival images, his artistic pursuits are not solely driven by these materials; they are equally fuelled by the emotional bonds and effective responses he shares with them. This book, comprising scholarly essays accompanied by over 150 colour images, provides a comprehensive insight into Farhadian's oeuvre. It reveals how Farhadian approaches history with a dual perspective - an intellectual appreciation coupled with a profound reverence. For him, a site's history transcends its physical or archival origin; it also encompasses an emotional projection onto that space. Farhadian invites viewers into a world they may have never physically experienced, known, or consciously remembered. Instead of erasing history, he seeks to illuminate hidden facets, using the seemingly faded qualities and ahistorical additions to evoke the challenges of uncovering the truth about Iran's complex past.

A exhaustive survey of thirty years of Peter Lynch's architectureAn in-depth exploration of Peter Lynch's architecture spanning three decades of practice, teaching, and writing. Fragments and Coherence is also an inquiry into a compositional approach that the author calls "holding together," practiced in many creative disciplines. Beethoven's Late Quartets, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass," Hadrian's Villa, the Humble Administrator's Garden, Scarpa's Brion Vega Cemetery, and Peter Lynch's own Timescape Garden are all examples. In each case the work's overall structure arises from the holding-together of heterogeneous parts. The book proposes a relationship between this way of making things and philosopher Giorgio Agamben's notion of singularity. Works made up of disparate, disjunct elements, reconciled with each other according to their natures, are often singular- examples of themselves alone, not encompassed by any category or rule.

The wonders of the Red Sea in a wonderful children's picture book My Little Red Sea is a children's picture book that tells the adventures of Naham in the Red Sea. A child like many others, Naham is nine years old and lives in Jeddah, a city on the coast of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. Together with his fisherman uncle, they spend hours at sea. While Naham spends most of his time by the Red Sea, he doesn't know the magic it entails. Until one night, amazed by the magical bioluminescent fish, he falls into the water, gets sucked into the depths, and brought before the Genius Loci who guides him to discover the wonders of the sea. His adventures include going to school with other fish, cheering at a Marlyn speed race, and even attending a magnificent party! But more importantly, Naham learns to respect and care for this underwater world so close to us yet still unknown.

The life and work of the iconic artist in Chinese contemporary art historyAuthored by the distinguished critic and art historian Lü Peng, Story of Parent Icon is a fascinating biography and in-depth exploration of the life and artistic journey of Mao Xuhui, a pivotal figure in the realm of Chinese contemporary art and one of the key artists within the influential Southwest art group. This luxuriously illustrated volume not only traces Mao Xuhui's ideological and artistic maturation during the 1980s but also seeks to reconstruct this journey through the artist's personal documents and materials, including diaries, letters, paintings, reading notes, and transcripts. The result is a profound and authentic portrayal, narrating the true history and the illustrious years of a remarkable generation. Story of Parent Icon stands as a testament to Lü Peng's commitment to preserving and illuminating the diverse narratives within contemporary Chinese art, marking another significant work following Bloodlines: The Zhang Xiaogang Story.

The wonders of the Red Sea in a wonderful children's picture book My Little Red Sea is a children's picture book that tells the adventures of Naham in the Red Sea. A child like many others, Naham is nine years old and lives in Jeddah, a city on the coast of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. Together with his fisherman uncle, they spend hours at sea. While Naham spends most of his time by the Red Sea, he doesn't know the magic it entails. Until one night, amazed by the magical bioluminescent fish, he falls into the water, gets sucked into the depths, and brought before the Genius Loci who guides him to discover the wonders of the sea. His adventures include going to school with other fish, cheering at a Marlyn speed race, and even attending a magnificent party! But more importantly, Naham learns to respect and care for this underwater world so close to us yet still unknown.

The new works of the versatile artistic practice of the acclaimed artist Published on the occasion of the exhibition in Venice, Venetian Bubbles inaugurates a new phase of the versatile and experimental artistic practice of the globally acclaimed artist Jiri Georg Dokoupil: the evolution of the artist's renowned Soap Bubble Paintings into three dimensional forms. Accompanied by an essay by Christian Dominguez and an introduction by Reiner Opoku, the curator of the exhibition, the catalogue presents Dokoupil's large-scale sculptural works in glass, several large-scale paintings, and a series of works on paper. These new works reflect the artist's liberated exploration of materials and techniques, revealing new approaches to painting and glassmaking with freedom, play and humour, while capturing the ephemerality of existence. A key figure in the Neue Wilde movement in Germany in the 1980s and known for his unconventional experimentations in the global art scene, Georg Dokoupil has never been confined to a specific genre or style. Instead, he transcends traditional practices, using unusual materials such as whip marks, candle soot, or fruit, and soap bubbles, demonstrating a multiplicity of approaches to painting and a body of work that defies categorization. Since the late 1970s, the artist has been exploring the subtleties of his technique, mixing soap-lye with pigments, and blowing bubbles onto a canvas coated with paint, guiding their burst to leave intricate organic imprints. These unpredictable patterns evoke a sense of spontaneity that challenges the control of the artist and the notion of permanence often found in the painting practice. Dokoupil simultaneously reflects on deeper themes of the human condition - the breath used to conceive the bubble, evokes the fugacity of existence, while the traces marked on the canvas reveal traces of its ephemerality.

An updated and comprehensive monograph devoted to a leading figure of Italian contemporary artAmong the most relevant artists of the contemporary Italian scene, since the 1970s Remo Salvadori (Cerreto Guidi, 1947) has been carrying out research that, based on the interaction between elements such as water, colour, and metals, proposes a renewed formulation of the work defined by alchemical mutations and streams of knowledge, capable of offering the observer a new awareness of the self and the world. This monograph edited by Studio Celant with the curatorship of Antonella Soldaini - the first to have this approach within the artist's bibliography - traces in an articulate and in-depth way Salvadori's life and activity from 1947 to 2024 through a rich chronology, resulting two-years research into the artist's archive. The publication is accompanied by more than 600 images of solo and group exhibitions, works, events, and documents, many of them previously unpublished, and introduced by the essays by Antonella Soldaini, Davide Bondì, Filippo Bosco, and Sharon Hecker that, through different viewpoints, contribute to broaden the critical analysis of the artist's work.

One hundred years after the publication of the first Manifesto of Surrealism, an excursus on the movement through its magazinesPublished on the occasion of on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of the first Manifeste du Surréalisme (15 October 1924), the volume volume intends to reread the parabola of the movement through the study of some of the journals animated by its members, i.e. the collective products that most effectively revealed its interdisciplinary complexity and theoretical strength, but also its contradictions and internal conflicts. If the extraordinary London exhibition Dada and Surrealism Reviewed edited by Dawn Ades back in 1978 focused for the first time on the centrality of periodicals in the overall economy of the movement, Rosalind Krauss does not hesitate to define these publications as "the true surrealist object", works of art in themselves that challenge conventions and disciplinary boundaries in order to mix languages and forms of expression. The essays collected in this volume reveal the role played by journals as veritable laboratories of Surrealism. In the introduction to the volume Jacques Dürrenmatt explores Paulhan and Éluard's journal Proverbe (1920-21) while Franca Bruera and Elena Galtsova scour Littérature above all in search of the contributions of women. Andrea Zucchinali in his essay traverses the crucial junctures of the periodical La Révolution Surréaliste (the movement's official journal) from 1924 until its closure in 1929. Gianluca Poldi opens his contribution on La Révolution Surréaliste and on other Surrealist journals that hosted the surrealists' reflections on the processes and materials of painting. Arnauld Maillet reconstructs the experimental and pioneering vein of the journal L'âge du cinéma, while Anna Maria Testaverde and Elena Mazzoleni analyze Comœdia very attentive to the international theatrical avant-garde. The "surreal without surrealism" in the Italy of the Ventennio is the focus of Gabriele Gimmelli's contribution and with Elio Grazioli we move instead to American soil, where there the eclectic journal View. Alessandra Violi documents the Surrealist movement in Great Britain (from the small university magazine Experiment to Mass Observation) and Andrea Zucchinali offers a complete mapping of the journals at the end of the volume.

The monumental Land Art sculptures by Puerto Rican ecofeminist artistGisela Colón is a Puerto Rican-American contemporary artist whose organic, totemic, light-activated sculptures and monumental environmental installations explore human per_x0002_ception challenging viewers to experience transformation in real time and space. Through an artistic process that employs high-tech materials like optical acrylics and carbon fiber, as well as matter harvested from sites of the artist's own life, Colón is known for pioneering a language of "organic minimalism" that recalls the energy of the earth, ancestral biological memories, and concepts of time, gravity, and universal forces of nature. Colón's monoli_x0002_ths invoke bullets, projectiles, and missiles, consequently recalling the fraught history of militarized colonialism in the Caribbean generally, and the artist's complicated personal experiences with gun violence more particularly. Yet for Colón the monolith in its soaring verticality also echoes the arresting mountainous peaks of Puerto Rico, an enduring source of materia prima for the artist. Employing ecofeminist and decolonial strategies, Colón reconfigures entangled histories into a universal language, transmuting forms of violence, displacement, and death into vessels of healing, light, and life.

The first comprehensive monograph on Pakistani artist and curator Amin Gulgee, dedicated to his illustrious career.Spanning over three decades, Gulgee's multifaceted practice unfolds through a rich tapestry of techniques and themes, inviting readers to immerse themselves in the intricate layers of his work. Featuring insightful essays from esteemed figures across the contemporary creative landscape—curators, novelists, artists, academics, critics—this volume illuminates Gulgee's artistry from myriad perspectives. From spirituality to politics, from the uni_x0002_versal to the particular, Gulgee's oeuvre navigates the complexities of human existence with fearless inventiveness, inviting contemplation on the boundless realms of the universe and the depths of our collective consciousness.

The extraordinary Vicky and Marcos Micha Levy Collection and its masterpiecesThis publication honors Mexican collectors Vicky and Marcos Micha Levy and traces their extraordinary artistic journey, bringing to light how, over a period of fifty years, they established a collection of the highest level. Driven by a keen sense of research, infallible eye, deep knowledge, and a passion for seeking out a great prize they amassed works spanning the development of modernity in Mexico with prevalent figures of Modernism and the national avant-garde such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta in juxtaposition to pioneers in modern art with major works by Chagall, Picasso, Duchamp. Later, their interest focused on contemporary artists such as Allen Jones, David Hockney, Anselm Kiefer, Miquel Barceló and Robert Rauschenberg. Other treasures in the Levy Micha collection include Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, and Édouard Manet. Under the direction of Denise Wendel-Poray, the book features essays by the greatest specialists of Latin American art, Taiyana Pimentel, Ana Elena Mallet, Ana M. Franco, James Oles, Ana Garduño Ortega and of modern and contemporay European art, Jonas Storsve.

The first comprehensive monograph of Ala Ebtekar, spanning more than twenty years of the artist's work and practice This comprehensive monograph of San Francisco Bay Area-based artist offers a unique insight into the vast array of his influences and sources and includes contributions by Yasiin Bey, Venetia Porter, Sussan Babaie, Deena Chalabi, Hushang Ebtehaj and Shiva Balaghi. Ala Ebtekar (1978) is a contemporary visual artist whose work frequently orchestrates various orbits and cadences of time, bringing forth sculptural and photographic possibilities of the universe, and time, gazing back at us. This extensive research and making process borrows and physically reworks thousand year old image/object-making traditions up to the latest technological advances in production. His ongoing investigations create liminal experiences extending beyond human timelines, exploring the phenomenology of light. Considering light itself as both a concept and medium, and its healing possibilities, Ebtekar uses UV-light emitted from the sun and night exposures produced by moonlight and starlight in his practice. His photographic works, which take an entire night to expose, continue his durational projects viewed as in collaboration with celestial bodies. Ebtekar equally over decades has employed the tactile traditions and properties of bookmaking, page and illumination in bound manuscripts, and classical training in Iranian coffeehouse painting. His alchemy of combining these legacies weave into his commitment and own work in tandem with enduring centuries of reclaimed text & image archives, poetry, and translation.

An unprecedented insight into telsem art through the work of one of its most prolific contemporary practitioners.Drawing from astrology, religion and spirituality, the Ethiopian art form of telsem interweaves symbols, drawings and texts imbued with spiritual and philosophical significance. Shaped throughout the ages by the sociopolitical and cultural histories of Ethiopia, telsem—with its ancient inspirations and modern idioms—is used to address critical problems in the contemporary world such as climate disasters, war and poverty. Despite the fact that it continues to be practised, telsem is often characterised as "healing art" or "talisman art" within western frameworks, a perspective that excludes it from many discussions of modernism. Henok Melkamzer: Telsem Symbols and Imagery, edited by scholar Elizabeth Giorgis, challenges such a one-dimensional understanding of modernism and offers us a rare insight into one of Ethiopia's most compelling modernist art practices through the work of Henok Melkamzer.