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...but, where is Bari?
A journey in contemporary art. The Bonomo Gallery since 1971
“…but, where is Bari?” That question is like a perpetual joke hovering over the gallery. The American artists whom in the beginning I met and asked to show in Bari became carried away with enthusiasm for ...New York shots
A boxing tale
New York Shots is the story of Italians in America, seen through their
successes, defeats and battles, inside and outside the ring. The author
adopts a disjointed, narrative and critical approach with ...Il Museo dell'Automobile di Torino
The collection
The loveliest and most important vehicles of the last two centuries
from Bordino’s Carriage of 1854 to the Fiat 500 of 1962 and the
Lancia Delta Evoluzione of 1991 from the Museum’s collection:
this ...Between the Louvre and the Zoo
Braco Dimitrijevic
The works with living animals came out of the two tendencies that have been dominant in Braco Dimitrijevic’s work right from the beginning. Simultaneously to exhibiting in galleries and museums, Dimitrijevic, ...Italian Newbrow
Cattive compagnie
Italian Newbrow, progetto nato da un’idea di Ivan Quaroni, formulata per la prima volta nel 2009, alla IV Biennale di Praga, curata da Giancarlo Politi ed Helena Kontova, presenta un significativo spaccato ...Villa Carlotta
Museum, Historical Park, Botanic Garden on Lake Como
Villa Carlotta is a place of exceptional beauty where masterpieces of Nature and human genius live in perfect harmony within an ensemble of 70,000 square meters of gardens and museum structures open to visitors.Anna Paola Pizzocaro. Il mondo di Mai/Neverland
Arriva alla seconda tappa la trilogia di Anna Paola Pizzocaro, fotografa milanese con alle spalle collaborazioni internazionali di altissimo livello come quella con David Lachapelle, caratterizzata da ...Alessandro Papetti. Le fabbriche dell'utopia
L'industrializzazione della Russia Sovietica negli anni '20 e '30 procedette secondo tappe forzate sconvolgendo il panorama urbanistico e sociale della stessa citta' di Mosca. Immense aree furono destinate ...Le Monde de Beaurepaire
Scoperto nel 1945 da Christian Berard, subito lanciato da Jean Cocteau fra i protagonisti della vita culturale e mondana francese, André Beaurepaire fu , a poco più di vent'anni, un' apparizione di grazia ...Flemish Painting
From the 16th to the 18th century. Relaying ideas from Erasmus to Diderot
Real “honest men”, the Brueghels took part in the intellectual epic of their day which, from humanism to the spirit of the Enlightenment, brought about a renewal in thought and laid the foundations of Modernity.Making the Italians
The book accompanying the exhibition demonstrates, with
pictures, the “plurality of narratives and languages” used on this
special occasion to present the national history of the last 150
years. “Making the Italians.Forme implicite/ Unearthed Shapes
Gioielli di Faiences / Faiences Jewels
A collection of rare gold and silver jewels, born from the fecund collaboration
between a sculptress and a poet, the first with a passion for
her native land (the “Romagna”) and for the art of bringing ...The Hidden Face of Jerusalem
This is another Jerusalem, more secret, more out-of-the-way, more
modest but no less fascinating than the more official, better-known
city. Perhaps these images may give life to the desire to discover
these ...Lolita Timofeeva
Opus alchymicum
With the exception of Marcel Duchamp (and in his case in a
different and more cryptic manner), of all the artists I have met,
none have given us a body of work as organic and as complex
and informed ...Starchitecture
Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities
Internationally renowned architects are at centre stage in public debates,
not only with reference to designing aesthetically striking artefacts,
but also to urban regeneration programmes and urban branding.Beyond Time
Mimmo Paladino and the Warrior of Capestrano: the New Room
Mimmo Paladino, one of Italy’s best-known artists, has created a dialogue with
the Warrior of Capestrano (sixthcentury BC), an outstanding masterpiece of Italic
sculpture.This artistic encounter takes ...The Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile in Turin
The sweeping renovation of the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile has
transformed it into a truly modern institution, a new, highly
dynamic cultural centre, laying the bases for future expansion and
once ...Eroi
The Eroi (Heroes) exhibition aims to investigate the work of those artists
who dare, who have the courage to make choices and thus, through
their art, introduce new social values.
The selection deliberately ...Niente di meno / Nothing Less
The power of female design
The exhibition catalogue for “Niente di meno / Nothing less” documents a selection of more than 100 out-of-production objects designed between 1945 and 2000 by female Italian (or long-term Italian resident) ...Biennale Giovani Monza 2011
30 artisti, 5 critici
This volume accompanies the 2011 edition of the Young Artists Biennale of Monza, a project tied to the historic National Exhibit of the City of Monza, established in 1951 with a revival in the 1980’s, and a complete reformulation in 2005.Sandro Chia
Ceramica vs Disegno 1:0
Sandro Chia is one of the most famous Italian artists on the international scene.
His iconographic repertory has always drawn on the antique and the
modern, formal tradition and so-called marginal artistic ...Guide to Kazakhstan
Sites of Faith, Sites of History
Acountry larger than Western Europe, Kazakhstan is one of the least known of the Asian states. This Guide to Kazakhstan. Sites of Faith, Sites of History presents the extremely rich, complex, and diversified ...Femmes fatales at the opera
The “belle dame sans merci” as personified in the poem by Keats, the seductress who drives men insane and slowly but surely to their ruin, is one of the myths of modern culture, pervading literature, drama, figurative arts, cinema.
Cremonini
Dessins et aquarelles 1946-1996
«Pour Cremonini, le dessin a été indéniablement au cours de ces années un instrument nécessaire et irremplaçable pour exprimer la présence insondable de ce monde “naturel”, pétrifié dans son existence, ...
Cremonini
Drawings and Watercolours 1946-1996
“Drawing was undeniably a necessary and essential instrument for Cremonini, enabling him to express the impenetrable presence of a ‘natural’ world that was petrified in its existence. It was a world that, ...
Susanna Pozzoli. On the Block
Harlem private view
This book presents Susanna Pozzoli’s On the Block art project developed in New York’s Harlem district between July 2007 and July 2009 - 66 photographs of the interiors of a single street block, 121st Street, ...
Mondo piccolo
Photography by Paolo Simonazzi
“Mondo piccolo”, the title of Paolo Simonazzi’s photography cycle, refers to that singular human and social world created by Giovannino Guareschi immediately after the war with the epic saga of his two ...
Discover the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres
English edition
This book forms part of the Viaggi d’avventura nell’arte series that helps you discover wonderful art locations. This one visits the Salvador Dalí house-museum in Figueres, a museum created by the most ...
Stories of Looks and Visions
Alessandra Albarello
This book tells the fascinating story of how eyewear and optical instruments evolved from the thirteenth century through to the present day. It takes its cue from the precious and eclectic collections ...
Treatise on paint. Gianni Maimeri.
The Treatise on Paint by Gianni Maimeri (1884-1951) is an unpublished manuscript in the author’s own hand by one of the most unusual Italian artists of the early twentieth century. Founder of one of the ...
The baths of Acqui.
City and Architectures for Care and Leisure
The great future ambitions of Acqui, a European spa city, are rooted in its history, of which this book tells the story. As in other localities that were made famous (and attractive) by their thermal waters, ...
Constantinople
through the Lens of Achilles Samandji and Eugene Dalleggio
A photographer of the Sultan’s court, Achilles Samandji, and a historian, a talented amateur photographer in his spare time, Eugène Dalleggio, both Greeks of Constantinople, proffer the reader of this ...The Nicolas
Restoration Tales in a Family History
Over half a century of work restoring antique and modern paintings on canvas and wooden panels, frescoes and wooden or stone statues, conjugated with Guido Nicola’s passion and enthusiasm, allowed his laboratory to expand year after year.La Spina. A 20th century yacht
Annunziata Berrino
In the first months of 1929 at Varazze near Genoa a sailing boat was launched, designed to participate - the first in Italy - in the sports competitions of the International rule 12-metre class. It was ...
Karajan. The Master’s Style
A conductor of legendary fame, Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) left his unmistakable mark on an immense repertoire ranging from Bach to contemporary composers, but he also transformed the status of the ...How to Look at Contemporary Art
Giorgio Guglielmino
Everything you ever wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask. The idea behind this book is that an art which at first sight may appear cryptic and elitist can, in fact, be explained ...Bertos.The triumph of motion
Charles Avery
A rediscovery of the eighteenth-century sculptor Francesco Bertos by the eminent British art historian, Charles Avery, a specialist in European- and particularly Italian - sculpture. Bertos lived and died ...The Hand of Palladio
This book aims to identify Palladio’s personal touch, to pinpoint the most typical features of his language, his preferences, tics, obsessions, working method and the various stages of his training and ...The Castello del Valentino
Costanza Roggero, Annalisa Dameri
Property of the House of Savoy since the second half of the sixteenth century, the building has been the subject of numerous phases of enrichment and rearrangement, which, over time, have transformed its appearance.The Anti-Minimalist House
In contrast to the minimalism of contemporary design, a reinterpretation of past styles has never ceased to be one of the languages in which interior design expresses the taste and culture of living.
Massimo ...Venini Glass
One of the most important changes during the 20th century was the evolution of the decorative arts from the rank of crafts to that of art: glass, today, has duly earned its place in museums, markets and the public opinion.The Irish towards the USA
English edition
The first volume of the series sponsored by the Whop clothing label of Turin, Italy, dedicated to the phenomenon of great migrations (which inspire the company in their production ideas), deals with one ...Turin 1980-2011
Its transformation and its images
From the conversion of the Lingotto factory in the early 1980s to the 'sleepless nights' that enlivened the Winter Olympic Games in 2006, and up to the celebrations for 2011.
A journey that embraces the ...EVERGREEN
Baroque
300 years old and as young as ever.
The destiny of the Baroque, from the rigorous design of Italy's first capital city to the rediscovery of a strategic resource for the future of Turin. In the heart of the contemporary city, the Baroque ...EVERGREEN
The Galleria Sabauda of Turin
Selected Works. English edition
This visitors’ guide contains a brief history of the Galleria Sabauda and a selection of seventy-five highlights from the eight hundred works on display in this famous Italian museum.
Established by Charles ...EVERGREEN
Le Museo di Antichità de Turin
French edition
A surprising panorama of ancient Piedmont.
A fascinating journey in search of civilisations that are no more but laid the foundations for our universal culture.
The Museo di Antichità has preserved ...EVERGREEN
The Museo di Antichità of Turin
English edition
A surprising panorama of ancient Piedmont. A fascinating journey in search of civilisations that are no more but laid the foundations for our universal culture. The Museo di Antichità has preserved its ...EVERGREEN
Il bianco e altro e comunque arte
English and Italian edition
“In art, white is a colour. In western painting it is used for the natural portrayal of atmospheric conditions of snow, ice, fog, and the desert, where light plays a fundamental role. The four seasons ...EVERGREEN
The Garden of Ninfa
The garden most loved by the English, Ninfa: an enchanted oasis one hour from Rome photographed by Marella Agnelli; an Anglo-Italian dynastic story narrated by Marella Caracciolo; a botanical treasure described by Giuppi Pietromarchi.EVERGREEN
The Palazzo dei Lavori Pubblici
Clients, designers, decision makers. English edition
Since its construction in the early 1960s, in front of the cathedral and adjacent to the Roman archaeological area, the municipal office of Public Works in Piazza San Giovanni has been the focus of heated ...EVERGREEN
Modern Alpine Architecture in Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta
English edition
A trek through Italy’s Western Alps to discover the buildings that have been constructed in the mountains of Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta in modern times: the “invention” of mountain
landscape in the 18th ...EVERGREEN
Italia 61
The nation on show. The personalities and legends heralding the netenary of the Unification of Italy. English edition
The nation on show. The personalities and legends heralding the centenary of the Unification of Italy
The buildings of Italia ’61, from the Palazzo del Lavoro to the Palavela, were for many years regarded ...EVERGREEN
Karakoram
Hidden treasures in the northern areas of Pakistan. English edition
Archaism and modernity among the Karakoram mountains
Situated at a height of 2000 metres along the course of the Indus, in the heart of the Karakoram chain, Hunza and Baltistan are two valleys rich ...EVERGREEN
Claudio Parmiggiani. L'isola del silenzio
French and Flemish edition
An installation by Claudio Parmiggiani in the Chapelle des Brigittines in Brussels Founded in 1663 by the order of St Saviour, the Chapelle des Brigittines is one of the most prestigious places today in Brussels for contemporary art.EVERGREEN
Art Treasures from the Museo Egizio
English edition
The book illustrates the exceptional collections in the only museum in the world, apart from the one in Cairo, devoted exclusively to Egyptian art and culture. The famous phrase “the route to Memphis and ...EVERGREEN
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