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Size 23 × 27.5 cm
(9 × 10¾ in.)
dual-language edition
(English-Italian)
248 pages
345 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5555-2
£ 55.00, $ 65.00
PUBLICATION July 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Turin, MAUTO
Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile
13 November 2025 8 March 2026
FERRARI DESIGN: CREATIVE JOURNEYS
edited by Centro Stile Ferrari
preface by John Elkann
essays by Benedetto Vigna, Flavio Manzoni, Enrico Leonardo Fagone and Daniela Calamia photographs by Guglielmo Galliano
A creative journey through the most significant projects of the Ferrari Styling Centre from 2010 to the present
This publication is a creative journey through the most significant projects of the Ferrari Styling Centre since its establishment in 2010 under the direction of Flavio Manzoni.
After years of collaboration with Pininfarina, Ferrari set up its own design studio, developing a new design approach that, over the years, has become increasingly integrated and structured within the company. Ferrari Design. Creative Journeys allows readers to retrace the past 15 years of the company’s activity through the work and achievements of the Ferrari Styling Centre: unique sports cars, the result of constant refinement in design, creativity, engineering and production, of the contributions of designers and engineers, and of all those whose dedication and commitment have made it possible to create such high-performance sports cars, ever more perfect in every aspect, capable of attracting and fueling the passion for Ferrari.
Sketches, drawings, photographs, and renderings created with the most advanced technologies, alongside models shaped by hand, offer a profile of the work accomplished so far and, at the same time, the desire to involve the reader in these authentic Creative Journeys.
John Elkann is Executive Chairman at Ferrari. Benedetto Vigna is Chief Executive Officer at Ferrari. Flavio Manzoni is Chief Design Officer at Ferrari. Enrico Leonardo Fagone is Design Consultant at Ferrari. Guglielmo Galliano is Graphic and Visual Manager of the Ferrari Styling Centre. Daniela Calamia is Design Product Information & Relations Specialist at Ferrari.
• Ferrari Design. Creative Journeys documents the creative evolution of the Ferrari Styling Centre since its foundation, highlighting its most significant projects and moments.
• Full-scale models are accompanied by a rich iconographic repertoire.
Size 17 × 24,5 cm
(6½ × 9¾ in.)
400 pages
190 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5551-4
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
PUBLICATION
October 2026
TWO CENTURIES OF AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: 100 MASTERPIECES FROM THE COLLECTION OF MUSEO
NAZIONALE DELL’AUTOMOBILE
texts by Davide Lorenzone, Gianluigi Ricuperati, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Ilaria Pani, Silvia Baruffaldi, Paolo Tumminelli, Maurizio Arnone
100 cars from all over the world tell the story of two centuries of automotive history
A collection that is unique in the world. A journey through history that shows how the automobile has influenced fashion, society, art, scientific research and technological achievements in a constant drive toward innovation.
The Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile in Turin is a benchmark institution for automotive culture, a place for debate and experimentation that, starting from the enhancement of its preserved heritage, creates original content capable of speaking the languages of the contemporary culture.
Drawing on a wide variety of contributions and materials, the Museum’s new catalogue reflects its complexity: from the technical specifications of the masterpieces in the collection to a selection of archival documents that reconstruct their histories, from newly commissioned artworks to research projects showcased in immersive and interactive environments. The volume is completed by an extensive iconographic section, highlighting the sculptural power of the automobiles, along with textual contributions by the curators, who reinterpret the museum’s heritage from a cross-disciplinary and contemporary perspective.
Gianluigi Ricuperati has published around twenty books and has collaborated with museums and cultural institutions worldwide. Giacinto Di Pietrantonio is currently art curator at Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, Turin. An automotive journalist, Silvia Baruffaldi is Editor-in-Chief of Auto&Design and contributes to Il Sole 24 Ore Motors column. Maurizio Arnone since 2024 curates “The Future Unfolds” project for the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile. Paolo Tumminelli is professor for design concepts in Köln. Ilaria Pani, curator, is in charge of Centro di Documentazione del Museo Nazionale delle Automobile, Turin. Davide Lorenzone since 2017 is in charge of Centro di Conservazione e Restauro del Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, Turin.
• The story of automobile through the extraordinary Museum’s collection.
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
256 pages
210 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5556-9
£ 70.00, $ 90.00
PUBLICATION
October 2026
SCHIAPARELLI: ANGLOMANIAC
edited by Thierry-Maxime Loriot
with exclusive interviews with Daniel Roseberry, Nick Knight, Stephen Jones, Dame Pat McGrath, Guido Palau and Nadia Lee Cohen foreword by Dua Lipa; additional texts by Robin Muir and Trino Verkade
A
celebration of Elsa Schiaparelli’s enduring legacy through the works of British artists
Since the arrival of Daniel Roseberry at Schiaparelli, his unique perspective and boundless creativity have inspired a group of British artists, photographers, illustrators, performers, fashion editors, make-up artists and hairstylists. In the tradition of Elsa Schiaparelli, this book captures their creative dialogue, celebrating a multi-disciplinary and multi-generational community and Roseberry’s influence on today’s cultural landscape. Bringing together nearly fifty artists from different eras — from historic photographers such as Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson to established artists like Nick Knight, Tim Walker and Pat McGrath, as well as the younger generation including Nadine Ijewere, Campbell Addy, Felix Cooper, Tom Craig and Harley Weir — this book celebrates diversity, pluralistic beauty, the wit of some and the technical mastery of others. United by friendship and collaboration, these artists have reinvented and subverted the established codes of both a house and an industry through their lens, each asserting their identity. Daniel Roseberry’s singular approach draws us into the bustling energy of street and popular culture, and into the dreamy world created by the exquisite haute couture craftsmanship he has injected in the fashion house, propelling Schiaparelli into the future.
Thierry-Maxime Loriot is a Canadian writer, curator, and creative director who has overseen the curation of several fashion exhibitions all over the world. He authored many books on art and fashion, and is creative director of album covers and tour books for popstars Mika and Madonna. Robin Muir is a British photographic historian and exhibition curator, contributing editor with Vogue. Director of the Sarabande Foundation, Trino Verkade worked closely with Alexander McQueen and managed Savage Beauty, the retrospective of his work at MET in 2011.
• A very important book for the contemporary history of Fashion Photography.
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Italian) 192 pages
90 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5522-4
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
PUBLICATION July 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia
27 March - 23 August 2026
BRUCE GILDEN A CLOSER LOOK
edited by Denis Curti
A curated selection of images retraces Bruce Gilden’s entire artistic journey, from his early black-and-white work to his recent colour photography
A pioneer of street photography, and a full member of the Magnum Photos agency, Bruce Gilden (b. 1946) is one of the undisputed protagonists of the international photography scene. His gaze penetrates the soul of the urban space and returns an immediate spectrum of situations, moods, and humanity, without filters or embellishments. While his early shots explore the city with a dynamic eye, among crowded sidewalks and hidden corners, his more recent work addresses issues such as vulnerability and marginalization, never succumbing to the aestheticization of pain. The photographer’s gaze rests on often invisible lives, producing striking images marked by a harsh, tragic, and deeply human beauty. His practice, defined by himself as in-your-face photography, is distinguished by a direct and radical language, able to capture the soul of his subjects and their relationship with their context. Published on the occasion of his major monographic exhibition, the book features a selection of approximately ninety images and centres on Faces (2013-2024), collecting portraits made as a figurative chronicle of cities around the world, from the United States to England, passing through Mexico, Greece, and Colombia. Alongside these, a series of black-and-white photographs of his beginnings (1968), taken in Japan (1996–1999), Haiti (1985–1995), Europe, but above all in his hometown, New York (1969–1995). The book also features two new and unpublished reinterpretations of two Raphael’s paintings (The Angel and Christ Blessing), through which Gilden reinterprets the concept of “grace” expressed by the great Renaissance master.
Denis Curti is the artistic director of the Stanze della fotografia. For more than fifteen years, he was the photographic critic for Vivimilano and Corriere della Sera, With Skira he recently published Joel Meyerowitz. A Sense of Wonder (2024).
• An in-depth look at one of Magnum’s most influential photographers.
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
256 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5535-4
£ 50.00, $ 70.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
LEILA ALAOUI
edited by Kasia Maciejowska
A tribute to the renowned photographer, famous for capturing identities, cultures and communities through her photography and video
Admired Moroccan-French photographer Leila Alaoui (1982-2016) brought to light a full spectrum of striking beauty and challenging realities by blending techniques from fashion and fine art portraiture with photojournalistic storytelling. The artist was among the first to portray the refugee crisis in contemporary art and commissioned by humanitarian organisations to document key issues. This monograph collects her oeuvre, featuring previously unseen creative and biographical material that communicates the artistic vision and charismatic spirit of an inspiring young woman whose unique imagery and abrupt departure rendered her a heroic figure renowned worldwide. Released to acknowledge a decade since her life was taken in a terrorist attack in Burkina Faso, where she was working for Amnesty International in support of women’s rights, the publication is edited by arts writer and friend of the photographer Kasia Maciejowska.
Kasia Maciejowska is a writer for FT Weekend, Wallpaper and World of Interiors. She has interviewed high profile figures such as Etel Adnan, Martin Margiela and Yanis Varoufakis, and reviewed major exhibitions. She has lectured at the V&A Museum and University of Westminster, and teaches workshops at University of the Arts, London. She collaborated closely with Leila Alaoui on her website and exhibition texts.
• The book features insightful tributes by cultural figures such as Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, Yves Saint Laurent’s partner Pierre Bergé, and UNHCR commissioner Bruno Rotival, plus new essays by Honorary Research Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art and The British Museum, Dr Venetia Porter, President of the Moroccan Association of Photographic Art, Professor Jaâfar Akil, and independent curator and publisher of African art Anna-Alix Kofi. • It is published in collaboration with Fondation Leila Alaoui, established to preserve her work, defend her values, and inspire and support other photographers.
Size 23.4 × 29.7 cm
(9¼ × 11¾ in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
112 pages
53 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-310-7
£ 38.00, $ 50.00
PUBLICATION
July 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Nice, France, Musée de la Photographie
Charles Nègre
14 February – 24 May 2026
JUSTINE TJALLINKS: VISION
foreword by Sophie Agon and Aurora Larocca
A new monograph on the virtuoso Dutch photographer
Much more than a photography book, Vision is a sensory experience, an invitation to relearn how to see. In this publication, Justine Tjallinks presents a body of work in which each image is born from an inner gesture, carefully considered long before any encounter with the model. Photography becomes a space for rigorous composition, nourished by pictorial inspiration inherited from the Flemish masters, where light, posture and texture interact with silent precision. On the border between reality and imagination, her portraits are constructed layer by layer, revealing a restrained, profound, almost meditative presence. Behind this masterful aesthetic lies a deeply human and committed approach. The artist asserts a feminine gaze freed from the rigid norms of beauty and visual hierarchies inherited from history. She celebrates long marginalised singularities: non-standard bodies, faces bearing complex stories, visible or invisible differences. Without exoticism or voyeurism, Justine Tjallinks seeks the truth of the gaze and the expressive power of what disturbs and moves us. Vision offers another way of perceiving the world, where difference becomes an essential value and beauty is revealed in fragility, vulnerability and encounter.
A powerful and necessary book that transforms the act of looking into an act of consciousness.
Sophie Agon is director of the Sophie Scheidecker Gallery, Paris.
Aurora Larocca is gallery collaborator.
• The book is co-published with the Sophie Scheidecker Gallery.
• Drawing from the legacy of the Flemish masters, Justine Tjallinks constructs her portraits with rigorous precision.
• The book presents an inclusive vision that challenges traditional beauty standards.
Size 20 × 26 cm
(7¾ × 10¼ in.)
192 pages
100 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-314-5
£ 25.00, $ 35.00
PUBLICATION
October 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Amboise, Château du Clos Lucé
4 June – 13 September 2026
LEONARDO DA VINCI MASTER OF WATER
edited by Pascal Brioist and Andrea Bernardoni preface by François Saint Bris
Leonardo da Vinci and water, between art and engineering
A universal genius of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never ceased to observe, analyze, and glorify water, which he regarded as the vital force of nature and the hidden engine of the world. Rivers, whirlpools, rain, floods, underground flows: for Leonardo, water is at once a natural phenomenon, a scientific subject, a pictorial material, and a major technical challenge. Through his drawings, notes, and engineering projects, he emerges as a true “master of water,” anticipating by several centuries the sciences of hydraulics, geology, and even environmental studies.
This book offers a fascinating immersion into Leonardo’s thoughts, bringing together autograph drawings, manuscripts, scientific studies, sketches of hydraulic machines, and works of art to show how water permeates his entire oeuvre, from painting to engineering. Dams, canals, flood-regulation systems, studies of currents and vortices testify to the striking modernity of his vision, in which observation of nature fuels technical innovation. At the crossroads of art history, science, and contemporary issues related to water and the environment, this richly illustrated book is accompanied by essays written by specialists. This reference book offers a renewed reading of the Florentine master’s oeuvre and invites readers to rediscover a visionary way of thinking—more relevant than ever at a time when the management and preservation of water constitute a major challenge for our future.
François Saint Bris is President of the Château du Clos Lucé company.
Pascal Brioist is an historian specialized in Leonardo da Vinci and in sciences and technologies of the early modern period.
Andrea Bernardoni is an historian of technology at the Museo Galileo in Florence.
• A renewed reading of the master’s oeuvre and an immersive view into his creative process.
• The book features essays by contributors, specialists in art history and history of the period.
Size 24 × 29 cm
(9½ × 11½ in.)
192 pages
75 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5508-8
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
PUBLICATION
December 2026
MUSES AND MASTERS: DORA MAAR'S PICASSO PERIOD. DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF SANDRA HINDMAN
by Richard
P. Townsend; with an essay by Mary Ann Caws
Dora Maar’s Études, published for the first time, her “Picasso period” and her return to painting
A group of seventy-five drawings which the artist, Dora Maar, called “études” or “studies” are published here for the very first time anywhere.
Created after her lover Pablo Picasso completed Guernica (1937), whose making she documented, the works mark her decision to leave photography and return to painting. The Études depict this moment, through Maar’s restless interpretations of famous works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Dürer, Vermeer, Poussin, Delacroix, and Matisse. But it is the group of drawings after Spanish masters such as El Greco, Velázquez and Picasso that stand out, reflecting her love for Spanish culture and language. The Études are joined by works by Picasso and others that provide context, as do essays on Dora Maar and the training of women artists in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and on the tempestuous relationship of Picasso and Dora Maar. This extensively illustrated publication includes an introductory essay by Mary Ann Caws, renowned writer, and Maar biographer. An essay by Richard P. Townsend investigates these drawings as documents of this decisive moment in her career and relationship with Picasso and contextualizes her within the French academic system in which she was trained. A second, short essay explores the iconography of the chair in Picasso and Maar’s work. Full catalogue entries and a checklist of the entire Sandra Hindman Collection of Dora Maar and Picasso material complete the volume.
Mary Ann Caws is an American literary critic, translator, and art historian specializing in Surrealism and modernist studies. Richard P. Townsend, President of Townsend Art Advisory LLC, a veteran museum director, curator, and art historian, has led institutions across the country and organized landmark exhibitions.
• Seventy-five previously unpublished drawings by Dora Maar capture her return to painting.
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Italian)
224 pages
85 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5524-8
£ 50.00, $ 60.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Venice, Biennale
di Venezia Museo Fortuny
5 May – 22 November 2026
ERWIN WURM
texts by Elisabetta Barisoni, Cristina Da Roit
The catalogue of the Austrian artist’s solo exhibition on the occasion of the Venice Biennale
Known for redefining the boundaries of sculpture through irony, performance and the absurd, Erwin Wurm (1954) has built a career exploring the relationship between body, object and social behaviour – from his famous One Minute Sculptures to his distorted houses and anthropomorphic forms.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Museo Fortuny in Venice, this monograph documents Erwin’s extraordinary artistic practice related to clothing and conveys his philosophy and aesthetic with intellectual depth and visual refinement. Through essays by Elisabetta Barisoni and Cristina Da Roit, compelling imagery, and a contemporary graphic design, the volume engages readers and art enthusiasts in a deeper understanding of the work of this major contemporary figure. The monograph retraces the artist’s solo exhibition at Palazzo Fortuny, which unfolds within the historic rooms of the building, creating a dialogue between contemporary sculpture and Fortuny’s rich legacy of textiles, light, theatre, and experimentation. It delves into themes of clothing, presence, and absence, presenting sculptural “garments” and enclosures that evoke the human body through the interplay of form and void.
Elisabetta Barisoni is head of Museums Division / MUVE Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. Cristina Da Roit is a curator at the Museo Fortuny, Venice.
• The book documents the artist’s groundbreaking practice highlighting his innovative exploration of body, object, and social behavior.
• It documents the Palazzo Fortuny exhibition, exploring the interplay between contemporary sculpture and Fortuny’s heritage of textiles.
• The book features installation views of the exhibition, Erwin’s newest, previously unseen works (including an in situ installation created for this exhibition) with iconic and key works from throughout his career.
ISBN 978-88-572-5534-7 £ 65.00, $ 80.00 PUBLICATION October 2026
MORTEN VISKUM WORKS 1993-2026
edited by Demetrio Paparoni
The new updated monograph devoted to Morten Viskum, one of the most controversial contemporary artists in the Nordic countries
This new monograph on Morten Viskum (Helsingør, 1965) presents the artist’s complete body of work, from his early beginnings to the present day. Through a series of controversial projects, Morten Viskum has frequently been at the center of public debates in Norway, polarizing the attention of a broad segment of public opinion. By employing unconventional tools—including medical equipment, dead animals, and cancer cells—Viskum has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions with his installations, performances, photography, and paintings. Particularly well known are the paintings created during his famous performances in which he used the hands of deceased individuals as brushes. Through his art, Viskum challenged both the relationship between science and ethics. Viskum gained international recognition in 1995 with his “Rat/ olive project”. Over the course of two days, he replaced the contents of 20 olives jars with newborn laboratory mice in 20 grocery stores in the five largest cities in Norway. The dispute that followed established him as one of the most controversial contemporary artists in the Nordic countries.
Art critic, curator, and essayist, Demetrio Paparoni is one of the most authoritative voices in Italian art criticism. His books and monographs have been translated into many countries around the world.
• This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Morten Viskum’s controversial career, from its beginnings to the present, providing insight into his provocative works that blur the boundaries between art, science, and ethics.
• Through critical essays, the monograph situates Viskum’s art within a broader cultural context, exploring how his work addresses themes of mortality and society’s discomfort with the ephemeral and the strange.
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
dual-language edition
(Italian-English)
3 volumes, 24 × 28 cm, 2232 pages
5000 colour and b/w hardcover in slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-4701-4
£ 410.00, $ 520.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
NO RIGHTS OF RETURN
DORAZIO. CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES
edited by Francesco Tedeschi compiled by Luca Pietro Nicoletti based on a project by Enrico Crispolti
The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Sculptures by Piero Dorazio is the first publication bringing together the artist’s entire oeuvre
The three-volume Catalogue documents more than 4,000 works by Piero Dorazio (1927-2005), presented chronologically and organized into typological series to highlight the coherence of his vast production. Compiled from the photography collection of the Archivio Piero Dorazio, archival research, and exhibition records, it includes critical essays, biographical and bibliographical materials, and detailed entries for each work. The volumes cover 1945–1963, 1964–1979, and 1980–2005. The Catalogue features an essay by Francesco Tedeschi, which contextualizes Dorazio within an elaborate network of artistic relations, criticism and activism in Italy and abroad, and another by David Anfam –respected international expert on Abstract Expressionism and curator of the catalogue raisonné on Mark Rothko – focusing on the specific nature of Dorazio’s abstract art as it developed in the 50s through his contact with the American art world. Luca Pietro Nicoletti contributes an essay on the artist’s critical reception while Valentina Sonzogni, director of the Archivio Piero Dorazio, writes about the Archive’s collections.
In addition to works presented in black and white photos, a selection of colour plates reveals more clearly the delicate weavings, colour harmonies and contrasts of a master who studied and managed to expand the possibilities of colour and light. Finally, the catalogue includes an anthological selection of writings on Piero Dorazio by major critics and poets.
Francesco Tedeschi is professor of History of Contemporary Art at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. His work centres on late 19th-century sculpture, historic avant-garde movements, and post-war Italian art. He curated the general catalogues on Gianni Bertini and Enrico Della Torre.
• The definitive, most comprehensive reference on Piero Dorazio’s oeuvre.
SANGREGORIO CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF SCULPTURES
edited by Elena Pontiggia and Lorella Giudici
The most complete publication on the sculptor’s work
The Catalogue raisonné of Sculptures of Giancarlo Sangregorio (1925–2013) includes over 1,400 illustrations of works made between the 1940s and 2013 and is presented by a lengthy essay by Elena Pontiggia that offers an analysis of the complex career of Sangregorio, highlighting the international aspect of his art and drawing attention to the sculptor and his role on the Italian and European scene. Ordered chronologically, this Catalogue raisonné covers the developments in the artist’s trajectory, starting with his initial figural stage in the 1940s and 1950s, and in particular a turning point in the late 1950s; a long creative course that is always open and in constant evolution, never stuck in strict patters. The publication continues across the decades, up to the 1960s with his large stones and large wood pieces, which also mark the debut of anti-figural monumentality, the first interlockings of organic and inorganic matter, of wood and stone, the two oldest and most beloved materials of Sangregorio, crafted directly. A monumentality that unfolds in the titanic and mythical sense starting in the 1980s. The volume includes both famous and previously unpublished works, along with an extended biography and a complete bibliography.
Elena Pontiggia, art historian, is a professor of Contemporary Art History at the Polytechnic in Milan and taught for forty years at the Brera Academy. Curator of numerous exhibitions and catalogues, she is recognized as one of the foremost experts on twentieth-century Italian art. Lorella Giudici, art historian, is a professor of Contemporary Art History at the Brera Academy and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Sangregorio Foundation and serves as curator of the artist’s archive.
• This most comprehensive and authoritative publication on Sangregorio’s oeuvre, the first to document his entire sculptural production, from the 1940s to 2013.
Size 24 x 28 cm
(9½ x 11 in.)
dual-language edition (Italian-English)
512 pages, 1457 colour and b/w
hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-4197-5
£ 220.00, $ 300.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
NO RIGHTS OF RETURN
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
272 pages
280 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5516-3
£ 50.00, $ 90.00
PUBLICATION
December 2026
JIMMIE DURHAM HUMANITY IS
NOT A COMPLETED PROJECT
edited by Kathryn Weir
Jimmie Durham: fifty years of art, activism, and critical imagination
Artist, poet, performer, essayist and activist, Jimmie Durham (1940-2021) is a unique figure in the international art history of the last half century.
Edited by Kathryn Weir, this first major publication since his death in late 2021 features more than ten newly commissioned essays as well as extensive documentary materials that have never previously been published. It also includes an unpublished poem that Durham wrote in 2020 and that was presented to the public in a retrospective that Weir curated at the Madre museum of contemporary art in Naples in 2022, the first exhibition to consider all of Durham’s oeuvre. Across a career spanning more than fifty years, Durham dedicated his practice to the critical decoding of the naturalised images and symbols that underpin dominant cultural systems. His works, marked by a strong vein of humour, range from sculptures to videos, poems, performances, installations, paintings, drawings, collages, prints and essays. This book is a tribute to an artist whose protean, multi-layered work is fundamental to the understanding of contemporary art and its possible futures. Its title, taken from a print by Durham, underlines his project to relativise as culturally specific the universalising and teleological notions of the human characteristic of European modernity.
A curator and writer based in Paris, Kathryn Weir is currently the artistic director of the Madre Museum of Contemporary Art Donnaregina in Naples.
• Rich visual and conceptual presentation of Durham’s oeuvre across twelve thematic sections and an illustrated chronology, with extensive previously unpublished documentation materials.
• Each section is illustrated with reproductions of works and rich documentation, as well as installation views. A number of Jimmie Durham’s poems are also included.
• The book features essays by Paula Antonielli, Bart de Baere, Sylvia Federici, Yrjö Haila, Hou Hanru, Richard Hill, Roselin Rodríguez, Paul Smith, Dirk Snauwaert, Kathryn Weir.
OBSERVATOIRES CARTE BLANCHE TO JOHN M ARMLEDER
edited by the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire
John M Armleder reimagines the MAH collection through thematic worlds
The Musée d’art et d’histoire (MAH), under the direction of Marc-Olivier Wahler, cultivates dialogue between cultural heritage and contemporary art. Since 2021, with its Carte blanche exhibitions it has offered artists an opportunity to engage with the museum’s objects and propose new interpretations of its collection. In 2026, John M Armleder presents Observatoires, a thematic exhibition exploring animals, abstract painting, musical instruments, and light fixtures.
Born in Geneva in 1948, John M Armleder is a major Swiss artist whose five-decade career has reflected many movements in contemporary art. As a co-founder of the Ecart Group, his work is marked by the influence of Fluxus and John Cage, injecting humour and conceptual challenges and drawing from various movements such as Dada and Abstract Expressionism. With over 500 of his works in the museum’s collection (including his famous Furniture Sculptures), Armleder is the ideal curator for this unique dialogue between cultural heritage and contemporary art. Armleder’s own works interact with old and modern masterpieces, from the flowers by Jan Brueghel the Elder, to graphic works of artists such as Sol LeWitt, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Salvador Dalí, and Sylvie Fleury portraits and self-portraits by Ferdinand Hodler, Cuno Amiet, Giovanni Giacometti, Henriette Rath to artists’ books, including important pieces by Ed Ruscha, Yoko Ono, Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Sonia Delaunay, and Andy Warhol.
• By breaking with the traditional approach, Observatoires creates new connections between cultural heritage and contemporary art, suggesting thematic affinities rather than chronological classifications.
• Observatoires is divided into thirteen thematic rooms, as many chapters to explore: abstract, floral, animal painting, self-portraits, debris, lighting and others. Each space shows one or more of my works from the collections, playing the role of “announcement” or symbolic threshold.
Size 17 × 24 cm
(6½ × 9½ in.)
dual-language (English-French)
368 pages
300 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5545-3
£ 65.00, $ 80.00
PUBLICATION
October 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Genève, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire
29 January – 25 October 2026
Size 28 × 30 cm
(11 × 12 in.)
192 pages
70 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5537-8
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
PUBLICATION July 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Malta, MICAS Malta International Contemporary Art Space
9 May – 30 August 2026
REGGIE BURROWS HODGES MELA
edited by Edith Devaney
The work by the painter whose narrative works explore storytelling, identity, and memory by using expressive brushwork
Dedicated to the African-American painter Reggie Burrows Hodges (b. 1965, Compton, California) on the occasion of his first exhibition in Europe, this publication brings together an entirely new body of work created during his move to Malta in 2024, inspired by his experiences on the island and engaging with its culture and history. Spanning over 30 new paintings, including the largest canvases of his career, Mela represents Hodges’ most ambitious body of work to date. Hodges is an internationally acclaimed artist known for his use of painting as a powerful form of visual storytelling and metaphor. Mela – a widely used Maltese word meaning ‘so’ or ‘well,’ which Hodges observed often precedes the expression of a thought or idea – extends his ongoing exploration of identity, memory, labour and collective experience, bringing his practice into fresh dialogue with the Maltese context. The works in Mela exemplify Hodges’ distinctive painterly language: originally trained in theatre and film, his work combines strong narrative charge with dramatic composition. Beginning with a layer of black paint, Hodges allows figures and environments to emerge through negative space, shifting emphasis away from descriptive realism toward atmosphere, gesture and psychological presence.
Edith Devaney is the artistic director at MICAS. For twenty years she was a senior curator at the Royal Academy of Arts where she was curated exhibitions such as Jasper Johns; ‘Something Resembling Truth’ (2017) and Abstract Expressionism (2016). She also curated the David Hockney exhibition, 82 Portraits and one still-life, and originated and co-curated the Hockney landscape exhibition, A Bigger Picture (2012), and Richard Diebenkorn (2015). As Head of Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, she collaborated with many international contemporary artists.
• Reggie Burrows Hodges will exhibit at major museums across the U.S. over the next few years.
SORAYA SYED THE LIVING SCRIPT
edited by Nur Sobers-Khan and Mujadad Zaman; foreword by Sussan Babaie; introduction by Venetia Porter; texts by Bilal Badat, Mohammed Hamdouni, Hilal Kazan, Hui-Wen Lu, Nur Sobers-Khan and Soraya Syed
The work of the British pioneer of contemporary Arabic calligraphy
This volume draws together leading voices from the field of Islamic art, art history and calligraphy to respond to the work of Soraya Syed, considered a British pioneer of Arabic contemporary calligraphy. Fully illustrated and centred on key works, Soraya Syed: The Living Script offers a unique opportunity to hear from an artist as she reflects on a personal journey in multimedia practice and the state of the craft today. The contributing essays come from scholars, curators and fellow calligraphers, several of whom share teachers within Soraya’s own lineage or have worked closely with her over many years. Together they consider Arabic calligraphy, its historical significance, rich cultural contributions and spiritual vitality as drawing a consilience towards a living art. In so doing, the normative lines between “art” and the “artist” are blurred. Calligraphy becomes an embodiment of aesthetic values, one that “lives” through and within the craftsperson. Soraya Syed: The Living Script ultimately gathers ideas, history and tradition with a visual presentation of Syed’s outstanding repertoire. It aims to reach and inspire a new generation, addressing both specialist readers and a wider international audience.
Soraya Syed (London, 1976) is a classically trained calligrapher and artist dedicated to bringing the ancient art of Arabic calligraphy into the 21st century, reimagining the written word as embodied movement and a form of visual devotion that speaks beyond language and belief. Nur Sobers-Khan is a researcher and curator of Islamic manuscripts and visual culture. Mujadad Zaman is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education and Humanities, Boğaziçi University (Türkiye).
• In 2005, Soraya Syed became the first Briton to be awarded the coveted ijazah, or authoritative license to practice the art of calligraphy from the celebrated Turkish masters Hasan Çelebi and Efdaluddin Kılıç.
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
160 pages
100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5536-1
£ 45.00, $ 60.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
London, Leighton House Museum — Centenary Commission
31 July – 4 October 2026
Houston, Museum of Fine
Arts – Eternally Present Opening 19 December 2026
Size 23 × 28 cm
(9 × 11 in.)
200 pages
120 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5487-6
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
KINDRED SPIRITS THE AKA CIRCLE OF EXHIBITING ARTISTS
edited by Iheanyi Onwuegbucha
The first comprehensive study of one of the most influential artist collectives in Africa
Founded in 1985 by El Anatsui and Obiora Udechukwu, the Aka Circle of Exhibiting Artists brought together fifteen artists based in Eastern Nigeria who shared a commitment to artistic experimentation and intellectual exchange. Their inaugural exhibition took place in Enugu and Lagos, Nigeria in 1986, and over the next two decades, the group played a pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of contemporary art in Nigeria and Africa.
Kindred Spirits explores the formation, evolution, and legacy of the Aka Circle, situating its members within the broader currents of global contemporary art. It examines how the group provided a platform for radical formal and material experimentation, enabling artists to challenge prevailing Western art orthodoxies and articulate new visual languages entrenched in African histories, philosophies, and socio-political realities. Far from being isolated, the Aka artists were deeply engaged with global debates around modernity, identity, and the role of the artist in society. Their work anticipated many of the critical concerns that would come to define 21st-century contemporary art in Africa: the politics of representation, form and materiality, the negotiation of tradition in a globalized world, and the artist’s responsibility to community and culture.
Iheanyi Onwuegbucha is an art historian and independent curator. Assistant Professor of African and Caribbean modern and contemporary art at the University of Cambridge, he has organized major exhibitions in Nigeria, France, Germany, and the United States. His critical essays have appeared in leading journals and magazines.
• By positioning the Aka Circle as a key node within the global network of artist collectives emerged in the 20th century, the book contributes to the argument for a polycentric understanding of modernism that recognizes the multiple intersecting trajectories of artistic innovation across the world.
SALAH ELMUR
texts by Melissa Gronlund, Morad Montazami, Qutouf Elobaid and Zain Al Saie
An exhaustive publication on the leading Sudanese contemporary painter
Salah Elmur’s (b. 1966, Khartoum, Sudan) artistic journey is deeply entwined with Sudanese cultural heritage, resonating with the pioneering spirit of the Khartoum School and modernist movements within African and Arab diasporas. Inspired by his upbringing near the Blue Nile in Khartoum, Elmur’s work reflects the rich history of Sudanese culture. His fascination with photography, nurtured in his father’s studio, infuses his paintings with the nostalgia of 1960s Sudanese portrait photography. His compositions blend figurative abstraction, and familial themes, reflecting the multiplicities within Sudanese life. Salah Elmur is a painter of people emerging from his own history and childhood. Through recurring figures of peasants, fishermen, and laborers inhabiting a pastoral world, he creates a portrait that is simultaneously autobiographical and collective, while exceeding national boundaries, depicting a community both real and imagined.
Melissa Gronlund is a writer on contemporary art and cultural heritage. Her work appears across newspapers, magazines, academic publications. She has lectured internationally at universities and public institutions, and has authored and edited several books. Morad Montazami is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary art from Arab, African, and Asian contexts. He was Curator for the Middle East and North Africa at Tate Modern, London (2014–2019) and has curated major international exhibitions. Qutouf Elobaid, a curator and writer, is currently Assistant Curator of Public Programmes at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai. Zain Al Saie is a curator working across exhibitions, publications, and commissioned projects. She currently is an Assistant Curator at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai.
• Salah Elmur is a leading Sudanese painter whose work bridges the country’s modernist legacy and contemporary experience.
Size 24 × 31 cm
(9½ × 12¼ in.)
250 pages
200 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5518-7
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
PUBLICATION
December 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Dubai, Art Jameel from October 2026
Size 24,5 x 32,8 cm (9½ × 13 in.)
240 pages
150 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5539-2
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
PUBLICATION
December 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
26 March – 13
SHEZAD DAWOOD SKIN OF DREAMS
edited by Jessica Cerasi and Karolina Svobodova texts by Jessica Cerasi, Nicolas Bourriaud and Reem Fadda interview between the artist and Zoé Whitley
The first comprehensive monograph on the work of Shezad Dawood published on the occasion of his first mid-career retrospective
The publication is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Shezad Dawood and accompanies his first mid-career retrospective. The monograph draws out the connections between the various strands of the artist’s practice, centring two major avenues: Modernist Architecture in the Global South and Ecology. Featuring a key essay by exhibition curator Jessica Cerasi taking an in-depth look at Dawood’s painting practice, additional essays by Nicolas Bourriaud and Reem Fadda are complemented by an interview between the artist and Zoé Whitley, giving an in-depth and timely overview of the artist’s life and work.
Shezad Dawood’s 25-year career spans painting, textiles, sculpture, ceramics, film, performance and digital media. Fascinated by ecologies and architecture, his work connects art, science, music, environmentalism and technology to explore both alternative histories and futures, through a process of continuous world-building expressed as an explosion of colour and multi-layered narratives.
Shezad Dawood (b. 1974) is a multidisciplinary artist who interweaves stories, realities and symbolism to create richly layered artworks, spanning painting, textiles, sculpture, film and digital media. Jessica Cerasi is an independent curator and Head of Programme at the Bagri Foundation. With a strong interest in promoting contemporary art, she has taught at Tate Modern (2017-2019). Karolina Svobodova is a London-based art historian, currently Head of Operations at Shezad Dawood Studio where she works on multiple international projects and publications.
• The monograph is designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio, in collaboration with the artist’s studio, and includes a List of Exhibited Works and a Timeline of the artist’s practice for the first time.
EVA BERESIN
edited by Denise Wendel-Poray with a text by Gert Korentschnig
This first comprehensive monograph devoted to the work of Eva Beresin traces her practice unfolded over decades across painting and shifting political realities
Size 22 × 28 cm
(8½ × 11 in.)
304 pages
150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5499-9
£ 55.00, $ 75.00
PUBLICATION
December 2026
Rooted in memory, biography, and historical rupture, Beresin’s work develops as a form of figurative narration marked by grotesque comedy, emotional exposure, and a persistent undertow of melancholy. Her paintings convey a fundamental ambivalence: their motifs often appear humorous or disarmingly light at first glance, only to reveal—on closer inspection—a melancholic absurdity, an intuited abyss. Blending grotesque humor with melancholy, her work balances lightness and trauma, revealing layered reflections on identity, corporeality, and history. A pivotal moment came in the 2010s, when she confronted her mother’s post-Auschwitz diary, leading to powerful works in which female figures embody resilience, desire, and pain. Now based in Vienna, Beresin is recognized for her raw immediacy and psychological depth.
This volume is the first comprehensive publication dedicated to her work.
Denise Wendel-Poray, a Canadian/ French writer, editor and curator, is author of books and essays on the relationship between art, theater and music. (Painting the Stage, Skira Editore 2019, The Last Days of the Opera, Skira Editore, 2023) She has directed and authored artist’s monographs for Skira (Kalif Tahir Thompson, 2023, Chiharu Shiota, 2024 Paul Pagk, 2025). As a journalist, she is a regular contributor to Le quotidien de l’art, Wiener Kurier, Art Press, and La Scena. She is the director of Skira’s new Milestones series on today’s greatest living artists. Gert Korentschnig is an Austrian journalist, editor, and cultural commentator. He serves as Head of the Culture and Media editorial department at the Austrian daily newspaper Kurier
• The first comprehensive publication on Eva Beresin’s practice, an artist shaped by history and memory.
• Eva Beresin has been represented by Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria, since 2015.
256 pages
125 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5517-0
£ 45.00, $ 60.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
LOCATING GIRLHOOD: IDENTITY AND PLACE IN "SCHOOLGIRL" ART, 1750-1830
edited by Emelie Gevalt and Caroline Culp
The cultural power of early American “schoolgirl” art
Featuring spectacular examples of needlework and other ornamental arts made by American girls in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art sheds new light on a rich but understudied genre, offering one of the most significant presentations on the subject in recent memory. Published on the occasion of the major exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, the publication presents nearly 100 exceptional objects from over 35 museums and private collections nationwide, uniting celebrated masterpieces with remarkable lesser-known gems. Locating Girlhood explores girlhood artworks from an explicitly art historical perspective, reframing these objects through the lens of place. Though the story of landscape art in the United States has traditionally centered on male academic painters, American girls and young women were laboring over a variety of landscape scenes long before the Hudson River School. From the eighteenth century onwards, representations of landscape were a common visual thread in samplers, needlework pictures, watercolors, and other artworks commonly united under the umbrella term “schoolgirl art,” extending from country scenes and cityscapes to maps and other cartographic compositions. By considering these works as deeply resonant expressions of place, Locating Girlhood expands the story of the American landscape and situates women at its heart.
Emelie Gevalt is Deborah Davenport and Stewart Stender Deputy Director & Chief Curatorial and Program Office at the American Folk Art Museum (NYC). Caroline Culp is Warren Family Assistant Curator at the American Folk Art Museum (NYC).
• Timed to coincide with the US’s semiquincentennial, Locating Girlhood both celebrates the creativity of early American girls and women and critically examines the colonial and early federal ideologies that structured their worldview.
PATRICK ROGER DESSIN - SKETCH
introduction by Pierre Hermé foreword by Patric Pastor text by Mathilde Debray
A
unique insight into a major figure in French chocolate artistry
Size 27.3 × 35.6 cm
(10¾ × 14 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
280 pages
200 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-307-7
£ 65.00, $ 80.00
PUBLICATION July 2026
Patrick Roger is an exceptional artisan whose reputation was initially built around chocolate. Voted Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman of France), he has established himself as one of the most creative chocolatiers of his generation, thanks to his technical expertise and instantly recognisable visual style. Alongside his work as a chocolatier, he has developed a prolific sculpting practice. His workshops are the birthplace of monumental works, first modelled in chocolate (his favourite material) then cast in bronze, resin or aluminium. His pieces oscillate between hyperrealism and stylisation, playing on the tension between the raw power of the materials and the delicacy of the modelling. Displayed in his shops, galleries and public spaces, his sculptures demonstrate a desire to transcend the boundaries between craftsmanship, design and monumental art. This book, part of a series on Patrick Roger’s sculptural work, offers a unique insight into a major figure in French chocolate making, focusing in particular on his drawings, which are meticulously crafted projects in their own right. From the first pencil stroke to the final creation, this in-depth exploration allows us to understand Patrick Roger’s creative process step by step.
Pierre Hermé is a pastry chef and chocolatier. In 2016, he was voted best pastry chef in the World by the Academy of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants and Vanity Fair positioned him in fourth place in the list of the 50 most influential French people in the World. In October 2021, he is the fourth favorite entrepreneur of the French, ranking revealed by the magazine Forbes Mathilde Debray is an engineer.
• A in-depth look at Roger's creations, from the original drawing to the final sculpture.
Size 17 × 24,5 cm
(6½ × 9¾ in.)
dual-language edition
(English-Italian)
96 pages
45 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5552-1
£ 20.00
PUBLICATION October 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Turin, MAUTO
29 October 2025 September 2026
CONVERGENCES
edited by Lorenza Bravetta, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
texts by
Bernardo Follini, Sally Paola Anselmo Pinottini
A curatorial project that reinterprets the history of the automobile through modern and contemporary art
The book documents the first chapter of the multi-year project Convergences, curated by art critic Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, which aims to offer an updated interpretation of the history and culture of the automobile and to reinterpret the heritage of Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile in Turin through new narrative paradigms. Alongside a selection of works from the Sandretto Collection – including 100 cinesi by Paola Pivi, Nudeltisch (Spaghetti painting) by Giulia Andreani and the triptych CREMASTER 2: The Ballad of Max Jensen by Matthew Barney – the publication presents 34 paintings from the Second Futurism movement, in dialogue with the cars that embodied the “mechanical fervour” of the first three decades of the 20th century: the aesthetics of Aeropainting – including Il marinaio by Nikolay Diulgheroff, Divinità della vita aerea by Fillìa and Bolide Rosso by Tato – engage with engineering and the imagery of speed. The project is completed by four works by contemporary artists, two of which are site-specific commissions by the Museum and conceived in relation to its collection and architecture, including C/ART SERVICE by Robert Kuśmirowski and Supercar by Cristian Chironi.
After twenty years at Magnum Photos, Lorenza Bravetta in 2015 founded CAMERA – Italian Centre for Photography. Since 2023, she has been director of Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, Turin. Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, art curator and critic, editor in chief and then vice-director of Flash Art Italia and International from 1986 to 1992, is currently Professor of Exhibition Design and Art Publishing at the IED Accademia di Belle Arti Galli in Como. Bernardo Follini is Senior Curator at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in Turin. A passionate art scholar, Sally Paola Anselmo Pinottini collaborates with national and international artists.
• An interdisciplinary dialogue between automobile and contemporary art.
WALLACE CHAN VESSELS OF OTHER WORLDS
catalogue by Long Museum, Shanghai texts by Wallace Chan and James Putnam
Five decades of monumental sculptural innovation by the renowned Chinese contemporary artist
Size 23 × 30 cm
(9 × 11¾ in.)
dual-language edition (English-Chinese)
280 pages
100 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5547-7
£ 65.00, $ 80.00
PUBLICATION
October 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Venice, Santa Maria della Pietà
8 May – 18 October 2026
Shanghai, Long Museum (West Bund)
18 July – 25 October 2026
The publication accompanies the most ambitious project to date by the renowned artist Wallace Chan, the major dual-site exhibition presented in Venice and Shanghai. Coinciding with the artist’s 70th birthday and focusing exclusively on largescale titanium sculptures, the book traces Chan’s five-decade journey as a carver-sculptor, beginning in 1973.
Through monumental vessels and sculptural forms, the book examines his sustained exploration of containment, transformation, and transcendence, alongside his pioneering use of titanium as a sculptural medium. Featuring key projects from recent years, this richly illustrated volume offers an overview of Chan’s sculptural language, technical innovation, unprecedented technical mastery, and evolving artistic vision. Wallace Chan: Vessels of Other Worlds traces the dialogue between Venice and Shanghai, where the same vessels appear on a larger scale, culminating in monumental works. These vessels are a metaphor for the origin of humanity, and they are sculpted and carved in the material closest to eternity: titanium.
Wallace Chan (b. 1956) is a Hong Kong-based, self-trained artist whose practice encompasses jewellery, sculpture, and carving. Carving gemstones since 1973, he draws on nature and Chinese motifs and has pioneered techniques including the Wallace Cut and methods for working with titanium, applied to both jewellery and monumental sculptures. James Putnam is an independent curator and writer, founder of the British Museum’s Contemporary Arts and Cultures Programme, and author of Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium (2000/10). Since 1994, he has organised a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions for major museums.
• The book marks the artist’s 70th birthday and coincides with the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
Size 25 × 25 cm (9¾ × 9¾ in.)
112 pages
50 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5526-2
£ 25.00, $ 35.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Venice, Biennale
9 May – 22 November 2026
IN ANOTHER MAN’S YARD: JOHN BEADLE, LAVAR MUNROE AND THE SPIRIT OF (POSTHUMOUS)COLLABORATION
edited by Krista Thompson
The catalogue of the Bahamas Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026
Focusing on John Beadle (1964–2024) and Lavar Munroe (b. 1982), this publication explores how both artists draw on the Bahamian Junkanoo masquerade tradition to address commemoration, collaboration, and overlooked communities. Beadle, who died in 2024, incorporated discarded costume materials into his studio practice, while Munroe transforms remnants of Junkanoo into elaborate contemporary sculptures. Beadle and Munroe share a focus on the hidden, the discarded, the thrown away, the undervalued, “the minor notes,” in society—the migrant, the day laborer, the homeless. Central to the volume is the idea of “posthumous collaboration,” honoring Beadle through the material traces of his work.
Krista Thompson, art historian, is the Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Her writings and curatorial projects focus on modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora and the Caribbean.
• The book showcases the powerful intersection of Junkanoo and contemporary art through the work of John Beadle and Lavar Munroe, offering a rare, in-depth view of Bahamian visual culture within the broader African diaspora.
NO NEED TO SPARKLE EXPERIMENTS IN LOVE AND REVOLUTION
edited by Margerita Pulè
The catalogue of the Malta Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026
Size 15 × 21 cm (6 × 8¼ in.)
144 pages
60 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5519-4
£ 20.00, $ 30.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Venice, Artiglierie, Arsenale
9 May – 22 November 2026
The 2026 Malta Pavilion features the work of a trio of multidisciplinary artists with complementary perspectives: Adrian MM Abela, Charlie Cauchi and Raphael Vella. No Need to Sparkle responds to our fractured, contemporary times through three film-based installations and a layering of fictions, myths, and histories. Following Aristotle’s philosophy of “doubting well”, it attempts to counter the certainty of political rhetoric and the extremes in which the world finds itself. Abela explores founding texts and myths through digital technologies, sculptural elements, and hand-drawn pieces. Cauchi’s Dolce decodes Roman mythology alongside contemporary consumerist culture through a pastiche of two seminal cinematic works. Vella draws from 20th century archival footage of protests and revolutions to create his experimental stop-motion animation.
Margerita Pulè is a curator, researcher and educator. She is founder-director of Unfinished Art Space, an independent and nomadic space showing contemporary art in Malta.
• No Need to Sparkle features writings by contributors including sociologist Michael Briguglio, philosophers Federico Campagna and Vid Simoniti, writer Ryan Falzon, cultural theorist Valeria Graziano and political scientist Michelle Pace.
COSMOTECHNICS: DING YI AS A PLANETARY CODE
edited by Alfredo Cramerotti and Auronda Scalera
Ding Yi’s work between abstraction, space, and philosophy
The book is the publication accompanying the solo exhibition of the Chinese artist Ding Yi at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, opening concurrently with the Venice Biennale in 2026. The volume focuses on the artist’s long-standing Appearance of Crosses series, approaching the cross motif as a generative system through which abstraction, perception, and spatial experience converge. The book documents twelve newly produced paintings on basswood panels, conceived in close dialogue with Carlo Scarpa’s architectural language and installed as a contemplative “forest.” A curated selection of historical works traces the evolution of Ding Yi’s practice from the late 1980s to the present, situating the new paintings within a broader temporal and material continuum
A cultural entrepreneur at the intersection of contemporary art, media and tech, Alfredo Cramerotti is an art curator, writer and cultural critic. Auronda Scalera is an art curator, lecturer, cultural strategist, advisor, board member, global ambassador for art and culture.
• The catalogue documents the Venice exhibition and offers a critical framework for understanding Ding Yi’s practice through newly commissioned texts and comprehensive visual documentation, situating his work within wider art-historical, architectural, and philosophical contexts.
ROSANA PAULINO
edited by Renato Silva text by Diane Lima and Adele Nelson; interview by Igor Simões
The first monograph dedicated to the work of one of the leading figures in Brazilian contemporary art
This first monograph on Rosana Paulino (São Paulo, 1967) offers a comprehensive overview of her entire career. Rosana Paulino’s work addresses social, ethnic, and gender issues, focusing on the experiences and violence suffered by Black women in Brazil as a result of racism and the lasting legacy of slavery. Covering Paulino’s entire artistic career, the book features reproductions of drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, and installations, as well as photographs of emblematic exhibitions. It also includes unpublished essays by Diane Lima and Adele Nelson and an interview with Igor Simões.
Renato Silva is a partner at Galeria Mendes Wood DM and a curator whose research focuses on artists from the Global South, as well as the United States, Africa, and Europe. Curator and researcher Diane Lima is the curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and was appointed chief curator of the 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo. Adele Nelson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Igor Simões is a Brazilian curator, art historian, and professor.
• Rosana Paulino will be one of Brazil’s representatives at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026.
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Italian)
112 pages
50 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5525-5
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Venice, Fondazione
Querini Stampalia
9 May – 22 November 2026
Size 22 × 28 cm
(8½ × 11 in.)
dual-language edition
(English-Portuguese)
272 pages
190 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5514-9
£ 60.00, $ 75.00
PUBLICATION September 2026
Size 16,5 x 24 cm
(6½ × 9½ in.)
dual-language edition
(English-Arabic)
352 pages
100 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5540-8
£ 25.00
PUBLICATION
October 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Abu Dhabi
Manarat al Saadiyat
16 May - 30 June 2025
LAYERED DIALOGUES: WE ARE IN OPEN CIRCUITS
edited by Kyung-Hwan Yeo and Maya El Khalil
A critical catalogue produced in conjunction with a landmark presentation of Korean contemporary art in Abu Dhabi
The book is the first in a two-part publication series produced in parallel to the two exhibitions of contemporary art developed through an institutional collaboration between Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation and Seoul Museum of Art. Initiated in 2024, the long-term partnership was forged to connect the United Arab Emirates and South Korea through their artists, collections and curatorial visions.
Layered Dialogues: We Are in Open Circuits serves as both catalogue and critical reflection on art’s mediating role amid South Korea’s rapid urban, technological, and social transformations since the 1960s. Featuring 48 works by 29 artists, it documents four decades of Korean media-based practice through images, installation views, and essays. Structured in three sections—body, society, and space—it explores how artists have used evolving technologies to engage with shifting social and environmental realities.
Kyung-Hwan Yeo is a curator at the Seoul Museum of Art (since 2013).
Maya El Khalil is a UK-based contemporary art curator and art advisor.
• Contemporary art from Korea from the 1960s to today, from iconic pieces like Nam June Paik’s Self-Portrait Dharma Wheel to immersive contemporary installations.
LAYERED DIALOGUES: PROXIMITIES
edited by Maya El Khalil and Eunju Kim
A critical catalogue for the most extensive exhibition of contemporary art from the United Arab Emirates in East Asia
Size 16,5 x 24 cm
(6½ × 9½ in.)
dual-language edition (English-Korean)
352 pages
100 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5541-5 £ 25.00
PUBLICATION October 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art
15 December 2025
29 March 2026
The book brings contemporary visual art from the United Arab Emirates into dialogue with the Korean context. Conceived as a critical companion to the exhibition PROXIMITIES, the volume features more than 110 works by 47 artists across three generations. The second in a pair of companion publications produced by the Seoul Museum of Art and Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, the book extends an ongoing exchange around contemporary practice in globalised contexts. Organised in three sections developed with artist-curators, the volume explores how individuals navigate a changing world: A Place for Turning, anchored by photographer Farah Al Qasimi, explores domestic and psychological space; Recording Distance, Not Topography, conceived with Mohammed Kazem and Cristiana de Marchi, approaches space as relational rather than fixed; and That Thing, Amphibian, developed with Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, turns to elemental materials proposing hybridity as an active mode.
Maya El Khalil is a UK-based contemporary art curator and art advisor. Eunju Kim is a contemporary art curator based in Korea.
• New comparative conversations between Gulf and East Asian contemporary art.
TRIBUTE TO THE LIVING: THE LEFLAIVE ESTATE
foreword by Brice de La Morandière
texts by Guillaume Rebière and Thierry Thevenin recipes by Hugo Bourny
A
unique approach to the world of wine
In bookshops saturated with wine guides, technical accounts and family histories, this book offers a new approach: a unique, sensitive work that is resolutely “outside the box”. Here, Domaine Leflaive is presented neither as a monograph nor as a traditional chronicle, but as a living experience, where emotion is cultivated as much as the vines. In Puligny-Montrachet, in the Hautes Côtes as in the Mâconnais, the estate draws its inspiration from an exceptional natural environment, patiently respected thanks to biodynamic methods. Two years of meticulous work, attention to detail, and human and artisanal alliances give rise to wines capable of leaving a lasting impression. This book reveals the intimate fabric of this alchemy: the heritage of the Leflaive family, the biodiversity that shapes the landscape, and the discreet gestures of those who work at the estate.
Brice de La Morandière is the owner of the Leflaive estate. Guillaume Rebière is a journalist specialising in wine. Thierry Thevenin is a farmer and grape picker. Hugo Bourny is a Michelin-starred chef.
• The first book on an iconic wine estate in Burgundy. An immersive and emotional experience.
ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2026 FOUNDATION PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO
A Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Award
Created in 2021, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Environmental Photography Award serves a dual purpose: to celebrate the extraordinary beauty of our planet and to raise awareness of the major challenges we face in protecting it. Professional or amateur photographers can compete in five categories: Change Makers; Reasons for Hope; Humanity versus Nature; Polar Wonders; Into the Forest and Marine Worlds. These photographers take us on a pictorial journey from the polar ice caps to the secret canopies, showing both the devasteting effects of human activity and the courage of communities working for a sustainable world. Each photograph is accompanied by the photographers’ personal accounts, providing inspiration for establishing a more harmonious relationship with nature. Founded in 2006 by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Foundation is a global non-profit organisation committed to progressing planetary health for current and future generations by co-creating initiatives and supporting hundreds of projects across our precious planet.
• The catalogue of the prestigious photography award 2026.
• The jury is composed of internationally renowned photographers.
Size 24 × 32 cm
(9½ × 12½ in.)
224 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-311-4
£ 50.00, $ 70.00
PUBLICATION September 2026
Size 28.5 × 25 cm
(11½ × 9¾ in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
104 pages
50 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-305-3
£ 30.00
PUBLICATION
July 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Monaco, June 2026
PABLO ARROYO
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
112 pages
60 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5523-1
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
PUBLICATION July 2026
The first monograph dedicated to Pablo Arroyo’s new professional project “beyond” fashion photography
After years devoted to fashion photography for the most prestigious international brands, Pablo Arroyo presents a new and significant chapter in his professional career, which consciously goes “beyond” the boundaries of fashion photography. It is a choice that breaks with the past and, at the same time, marks a return to the origins: a renewed closeness to “pure” photography, stripped of all artifice and superstructure. In this new phase, the artist’s gaze becomes more intimate and rigorous, focusing on the essence of the subjects and the intrinsic power of the image. His photographs are characterised by an essential, direct visual language, free of embellishment, in which objects and nudes emerge forcefully from the background, isolated and laid bare in their formal and expressive uniqueness. This monograph documents Arroyo’s new professional path “beyond” fashion photography, in search of a pure and essential form of photography.”
Creative, art director, and photographer, Pablo Arroyo (Mexico City, 1975) is a leading figure in the contemporary landscape of photography and creative direction. After an initial experience as a graphic designer at Vogue Italia, Arroyo began a full-time career as a photographer in 1998, collaborating with numerous Italian and international magazines and producing catalogues and campaigns for major fashion houses, including Alexander McQueen, Gucci, Trussardi, and Valentino. In 2009, he launched his first independent magazine/project in Paris, marking the beginning of a path increasingly focused on creative direction and the development of brand visual identities. In parallel, he held prominent editorial roles as Creative Director and Editor in Chief of L’Officiel Hommes Italia (2011–2015) and L’Officiel Hommes Paris (2015–2019).
• First monograph on Arroyo’s new project of Pablo: a return to “pure” and essential photography.
RENATE GRAF JOURNEY OF TRACES
edited by Denise Wendel-Poray with an essay by Emanuele Trevi
The first comprehensive monograph devoted to the work of Renate Graf, tracing her photographic journey across countries and continents
Size 25 × 31.5 cm
(8¾ × 12½ in.)
304 pages
150 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5447-0
£ 55.00, $ 75.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
Rooted in travel, literature, and lived experience, Renate Graf’s practice unfolds as a form of poetic documentation, marked by the extreme nuance of her predominantly black-and-white images and by a deliberate refusal of technological mediation. In his essay, Emanuele Trevi sounds the depths of her work, revealing an audacious, unstoppable artist for whom photography is inseparable from life itself. Austrian photographer Renate Graf has drawn wide acclaim and respect for her powerful body of work, which could be described as a form of poetic documentation where image wavers on the edge of language. Inspired by writers such as Fernando Pessoa, Rainer Maria Rilke, Tagore, T. S. Eliot, Edmond Jabès, Paul Valéry, and Hermann Broch, Renate Graf turns literary vision into images. The camera began to accompany the artist on far-flung travels, as a witness to her nomadic journeys to South India, Morocco, China, Alaska, Russia, Yemen, Cambodia, Italy, and Germany—her own writing and numerous literary references melding with the images.
Denise Wendel-Poray is a Canadian/French writer, editor and curator; she is author of books and essays on the relationship between art, theater and music. With Skira she published Painting the Stage (2019), The Last Days of the Opera (2023) and directed and authored artist’s monographs Kalif Tahir Thompson (2023), Chiharu Shiota (2024) and Paul Pagk (2025). She is the director of Skira’s new Milestones series on today’s greatest living artists. Emanuele Trevi has written numerous critical essays on literary figures. His book Qualcosa di scritto (Something Written) won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2012. In 2021, his book Due vite (Two Lives) won the Strega Prize.
• Today, the photography of Renate Graf is recognized for its distinctive chimerical quality combined with the formal austerity of the pictorial composition, which characterizes her works.
LIMITED EDITIONS
Size 24 × 30.5 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
box in plexiglas containing a brochure (16 pp) narrating the birth of this major publication and the volume
French edition
412 pages duo-tone print
30 colour etchings unbound pages
hardback with mono-colour foil-stamped cover
1000 numbered copies
ISBN 978-88-572-3949-1
£ 220.00, $ 300.00
LES MÉTAMORPHOSES
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) illustrated with 30 original etchings by Pablo Picasso, 1931
The facsimile of Ovid’s Métamorphoses, the first volume published by Skira in 1931, illustrated by the extraordinary etchings of Pablo Picasso
In 1931, thanks to the help of Jacqueline Apollinaire, a young Albert Skira, upon the suggestion of Pierre Matisse, convinced Pablo Picasso to illustrate Ovid’s Métamorphoses with 30 etchings. The exceptional edition, in only 145 copies, was the first publication of the newborn Skira. It was soon followed by the Poems of Mallarmé (29 original etchings by Henri Matisse) and Les Chants de Maldoror illustrated by Salvador Dalí (42 etchings).
For the 90th anniversary of the publishing house, Skira issued an anastatic copy of the work, slightly different in format and in agreement with the Picasso Estate. The volume boasts 412 pages including the etchings (15) both in and outside the text (15). The facsimile is perfect. The work is contained in a box that, with the Métamorphoses, also bears an illustrated brochure narrating the birth and history of this legendary volume. Picasso’s etchings out of the text, on 15 myths, are of rare uniformity, in a style with clean edges and discrete eroticism. Instead, the etchings found at the start of the chapters do not relate to the text and portray faces, nudes and the female body.
The book was printed on Picasso’s 50th birthday and was described by Christian Zervos as being “of almost Doric beauty”.
• The facsimile of the legendary Métamorphoses published in 1931 and illustrated with 30 original etchings by Pablo Picasso.
• The book was printed on Picasso’s 50th birthday and was described by Christian Zervos as being “of almost Doric beauty”.
• A true encyclopaedia of classical mythology.
PAINTING THE STAGE BOTTA, FABRE, KABAKOVS, KENTRIDGE
LIMITED EDITION
Denise Wendel-Poray
Four luxury versions, in a wooden sculpture by Mario Botta, enriched with four numbered and signed prints by William Kentridge, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and Jan Fabre
ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV THE FLIES. A MUSICAL PHANTASMAGORIA print run 60
ISBN 978-88-572-4020-6
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE, ALBAN print run 30
ISBN 978-88-572-4019-0
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE, LULU print run 30
ISBN 978-88-572-4046-6
NO RIGHT OF RETURN
Denise Wendel-Poray takes us into uncharted territory. Painting the Stage examines over 200 years of opera stage design, unravelling this rich historical tale through more than 300 illustrations, interviews and accurate reconstructions. The most complete resource book yet on the subject, it will be of great interest to those in the fields of art as well as opera. The exquisite wooden sculpture created and signed by archistar Mario Botta acts like a proscenium theatre framing each one of the numbered prints created exclusively for this publication by artists William Kentridge, the Kabakovs, and Jan Fabre.
There are four distinct versions of this limited edition, with special wood for each: an ash wood sculpture for the two William Kentridge sugar lift aquatints, walnut for the print by the Kabakovs, and durmast for that of Jan Fabre. Mario Botta designed the box exclusively for the project, and Riva1920 made them. All the prints have been numbered and signed by the artists.
• Limited edition with exclusive wooden box designed by Mario Botta.
• All the prints have been numbered and signed by the artists.
Denise Wendel-Poray is a Canadian writer, journalist and curator. She is the author of books and essays concerning the relationship between art, theatre and music. She has been guest curator Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg Germany (2010-2012); at the Rupertinum Museum in Salzburg (William Kentridge Works for Theatre 2017); Sammlung Friedrichshof Zurndorf, Austria (Wahlverwandtschaften 2018); RX Galerie Marais Paris (Hermann Nitsch Paintings Only 2018); Galerie Éric Dupont Paris (Howard Hodgkin 2015, Sandro Kopp Take Time 2016, Otto Muehl 2018).
Size 35.4 × 47 cm
(14 × 18½ in.)
216 pages
97 b/w illustrations hardcover in canvas and applied plate, hot printing
3 different silkscreens, numbered and authenticated
100 copies for silkscreen, numbered and signed by Lorenzo Mattotti
£ 700.00, $ 850.00
DOLLS
ISBN 978-88-572-3869-2
IMITATIONS
ISBN 978-88-572-3974-3
REFLECTION
ISBN 978-88-572-3975-0
NO RIGHT OF RETURN
LANTERNA MAGICA LIMITED EDITION
Guido Crepax
Three large-format versions, with three numbered silkscreens authenticated by the Archivio Guido Crepax and an artistic plate designed by Lorenzo Mattotti
Published as a tribute to the first edition of the graphic novel dated 1978, the Limited Edition of Lanterna Magica is a large-format book with three numbered silkscreens authenticated by the Archivio Guido Crepax and an artistic plate signed by Lorenzo Mattotti.
The story, entirely created by Crepax, is an example of very modern graphic design and settings and contexts that are “outside historical dimensions”. The first edition was introduced by a text by Gillo Dorfles which is here published in its entirety and repositions the value of the plates of Valentina not only within the creative perspective of Guido Crepax but, above all, within the artistic context of the European scene.
• The 216 pages in this book are printed on precious ivory paper and enriched by a tribute signed by Lorenzo Mattotti made specifically for this publication.
• The Lanterna Magica project, Skira Limited Edition, has a print run of 300 copies and is divided into three versions, each characterised by a silkscreen authenticated by the Archivio Crepax: Imitations, Reflection and Dolls.
• 100 copies for silkscreen, numbered and signed by Lorenzo Mattotti.
• The volume is contained in a box, entirely covered in canvas, with applied plate and hot printed title; each silkscreen is contained in a folder, also covered in canvas, placed on top of the volume.
• The box is wrapped in protective cardboard.
DAIDO MORIYAMA IN COLOR LIMITED EDITION
Filippo Maggia
Colour photographs taken by one of the leading figures in contemporary Japanese photography in a special, luxury edition that includes an original print signed by Moriyama
Framed original and signed photograph
12¾ × 16¾ in.
(32.5 × 42.5 cm)
image 7¾ × 9½ in.
(19.5 × 24.6 cm)
Book Size 17¾ × 13¾ in.
(45 × 35 cm) hardcover with slipcase
£ 1700.00, $ 2200.00
YOKUSUKA EDITION
ISBN 978-88-572-3116-7
SELF-PORTRAIT EDITION
ISBN 978-88-572-3631-5
NOCTURNAL NUDE EDITION
ISBN 978-88-572-3630-8
NO RIGHT OF RETURN
For the first time, the colour photographs taken by Daido Moriyama, one of the leading figures in contemporary Japanese photography.
An extraordinary limited-edition artist book edited by Filippo Maggia, intended for all collectors searching for the magic of a precious and extraordinary product destined to grow in value over time.
Considered one of the great masters of contemporary Japanese photography, Daido Moriyama is a lone traveller whose images recount visions and worlds hidden just beneath the surface of reality. A constant flow of images that is often frenetic or suddenly suspended, following the rhythm of an unfettered, restless life spent travelling the roads of the world.
• An extraordinary limited-edition artist book.
• 3 limited editions each containing a different photo, 100 copies per edition.
• Each edition contains a framed original and signed photograph by Moriyama and the book Daido Moriyama in Color. Now, and Never Again.
• 3 different photographs to choose from: Yokosuka, Moriyama’s “iconic” image of the young girl running down a narrow alleyway; Self-portrait, a recurrent theme in Moriyama’s photography; Nocturnal Nude, a young woman emerging from the darkness of the night.
• Each copy comes in a black cloth slipcase designed especially for this special edition.
• For bibliophiles and collectors searching for the magic of a precious and extraordinary book.
MILESTONES
MILESTONES
AT THE HEART OF CREATION
Edited by Denise Wendel-Poray
A new approach to the leading protagonists of contemporary art. A behind the scenes of genius, narrated from an intimate and unique perspective by the artists themselves, in a conversation about their key works, the most crucial moments of their career.
Each book is produced in collaboration with the artist and features original interviews with the artist, an essay by a renowned author and the artist’s biography.
The iconography includes images and plates of the key works explained by the artists themselves and original photoshoots of the artists in their studio.
Complete with abundant illustrations, intimate interviews and insightful essays, Milestones explore the extraordinary art of today’s greatest living masters.
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE MILESTONES: AT THE HEART OF CREATION
edited by Denise Wendel-Poray with an essay by Stephen Clingman and conversation with Julian Barnes
A new title of Skira Milestones series, dedicated to today’s greatest living artists
Size 24 × 31 cm
(9½ × 12¼ in.)
204 pages
200 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5342-8
£ 55.00, $ 75.00
Skira’s new series Milestones is a collection of books devoted to today’s greatest living artists. More than retrospectives, Milestones are comprehensive excursions into the daily life and work of exceptional living artists and provide a rare backstage glimpse at their art. Each volume of the series presents one or more intimate interviews with the artist by a curator or a fellow artist, an essay by a renowned author, and the artist’s biography. The iconography of the book includes images and plates of the key works explained by the artists themselves and an original photoshoot of the artist in his studio by leading photographers, as well as a “family album” with previously unpublished shots and personal photos. Born in Johannesburg in 1955, William Kentridge is internationally renowned for the expressionism of his work in numerous media (charcoal, printmaking, sculpture and film), as well as his acclaimed theatrical and operatic productions. As elusive as it is allusive, Kentridge’s art is shaped by apartheid and grounded in the politics of the post-apartheid era, and in science, literature and history.
• A new approach to the leading protagonists of contemporary art, a behind the scenes of genius, narrated from an intimate and unique perspective.
• Produced in collaboration with the artist, the book features a photo essay by Jabulani Dhlamini.
Denise Wendel-Poray is a Canadian writer, editor and curator. She is the author of books and essays concerning the relationship between art, theatre and music. Stephen Clingman is distinguished University Professor of English and former Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Julian Barnes is an internationally acclaimed English writer, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2011. Jabulani Dhlamini is a Johannesburg-based photographer whose quietly powerful images explore memory, trauma and resilience in post-apartheid South Africa.
GEORG BASELITZ MILESTONES: AT THE HEART OF CREATION
edited by Denise Wendel-Poray
with an interview by
Cornelius Tittel
A new title of Skira Milestones series, dedicated to today’s greatest living artists
Skira’s new series Milestones is a collection of books devoted to today’s greatest living artists. More than retrospectives, Milestones are comprehensive excursions into the daily life and work of exceptional living artists and provide a rare backstage glimpse at their art. Each volume of the series presents one or more intimate interviews with the artist by a curator or a fellow artist, an essay by a renowned author, and the artist’s biography. The iconography of the book includes images and plates of the key works explained by the artists themselves and an original photoshoot of the artist in his studio by leading photographers, as well as a “family album” with previously unpublished shots and personal photos. German painter, printmaker, and sculptor Georg Baselitz (1938) is a pioneering postwar artist who rejected abstraction in favor of recognizable subject matter, deliberately employing a raw style of rendering and a heightened palette in order to convey direct emotion. Embracing the German Expressionism, Baselitz returned the human figure to a central position in painting.
• A new approach to the leading protagonists of contemporary art, a behind the scenes of genius, narrated from an intimate and unique perspective.
• The book is produced in collaboration with the artist.
Denise Wendel-Poray is a Canadian writer, editor and curator. She is the author of books and essays concerning the relationship between art, theatre and music. Cornelius Tittel is editor-in-chief of Blau International, a large-format art magazine whose contributors include the French interiors photographer François Halard, the French fashion stylist Marie Chaix and the German astrologer Alexander von Schlieffen.
ALEX KATZ MILESTONES: AT THE HEART OF CREATION
edited by Denise Wendel-Poray
with interviews by Robert Storr and Denise Wendel-Poray
A new title of Skira Milestones series, dedicated to today’s greatest living artists
Skira’s new series Milestones is a collection of books devoted to today’s greatest living artists. More than retrospectives, Milestones are comprehensive excursions into the daily life and work of exceptional living artists and provide a rare backstage glimpse at their art. Each volume of the series presents one or more intimate interviews with the artist by a curator or a fellow artist, an essay by a renowned author, and the artist’s biography. The iconography of the book includes images and plates of the key works explained by the artists themselves and an original photoshoot of the artist in his studio by leading photographers, as well as a “family album” with previously unpublished shots and personal photos. Alex Katz (1927) is an American painter celebrated for his iconic portraits of contemporary society and his crisp, confident articulation of colour. Pristine flat surfaces, dramatic cropping, and economy of line are hallmarks of the artist’s work.
• A new approach to the leading protagonists of contemporary art, a behind the scenes of genius, narrated from an intimate and unique perspective.
• The book is produced in collaboration with the artist.
Denise Wendel-Poray is a Canadian writer, editor and curator. She is the author of books and essays concerning the relationship between art, theatre and music. Her books with Skira include The Last Days of the Opera (2022) and Painting the Stage: Artists as Stage Designers (2019). Robert Storr is an American artist, curator and critic. Senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (from 1990 to 2002), he has been a contributing editor at Art in America since 1981 and writes frequently for Artforum, Parkett, Art Press (Paris), Frieze (London).
BACKLIST
Size 23 x 27 cm
(9 × 10½ in.)
288 pages
350 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5432-6
£ 65.00, $ 89.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Bergen, Kode Museum
3 October 2025 22 February 2026
BASELITZ
A LIFE IN PRINT
edited by Cornelius Tittel
texts by Georg Baselitz, Per Kirkeby, Michael Semff, Reiner Michael Mason and Frode Sandvik
BASELITZ / SCHÖNEBECK: 1962-66
essays by Richard Shiff, Stephanie Biron, foreword by Max Hollein
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
120 pages
100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5333-6
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
The first comprehensive survey of Baselitz’s printmaking
Celebrating six decades of print making, A Life in Print is the first comprehensive book on an important part of Georg Baselitz’ artistic practice. Considered to be one of the greatest painters alive and credited to have revived Figuration in a time when Abstraction ruled the art world, the German artist started to explore different print techniques beginning in 1964, and never stopped to see them as an integral part of his work. While his contemporaries used new offset and screenprint techniques to create what amounted to reproductions in often high editions, Baselitz rejected the Zeitgeist and explored century old techniques like drypoint etchings, aquatinta, wood– and linocuts, while tirelessly pushing his own artistic limits. A Life in Print brings together more than 245 prints and will introduce the reader to all major themes and motives of Baselitz career, from the so-called Heroes of the mid-60ies to his iconic images of Eagles to the manyfold portraits of his wife Elke. Edited by Cornelius Tittel in close collaboration with the Baselitz Archive in Munich, the book will forcefully make the point that no other artist since Picasso has done more for and in that genre than Baselitz.
• The first book to fully explore six decades of Georg Baselitz’s groundbreaking print work.
• Published in close collaboration with the Baselitz Archive, the volume is both a visual celebration and a scholarly resource.
Cornelius Tittel is the editor of the Berlin based art magazine BLAU international. Frode Sandvik is a curator of modern art at Kode Art Museum in Bergen and a Phd affiliate at the University of Oslo. Per Kirkeby (1938-2018) was a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor. Michael Semff was director of the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich. Reiner Michael Mason, an art historian and curator, is a specialist in printmaking.
L’ESTAMPE ORIGINALE A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ
by Donna Stein
foreword by Stuart Denenberg
L’Estampe originale portfolio revisited in landmark Catalogue raisonné
Size 21.5 x 24.5 cm
(81/2 × 91/2 in.)
248 pages
125 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5435-7
£ 55.00, $ 70.00
L’Estampe originale graphics portfolio, published in France during the mid 1890s, is widely regarded as one of the greatest collaborations in the history of printmaking. The portfolio features ninety-five works of art by seventy-four influential French, Swiss, Belgian, English and American artists. The visionary Parisian publisher André Marty issued and distributed nine quarterly installments of L’Estampe originale from March 1893 to March 1895 in a limited edition of one hundred. The first eight folios each consisted of ten prints of varying sizes, paper, and media, loose in paper wrappers; the final ninth installment included fourteen prints. In addition to the artist’s pencil or ink signature and an edition number, a unique blind stamp designed by Alexandre Charpentier was embossed on each print. This revised and full color publication of L’Estampe originale. A Catalogue Raisonné highlights the importance of color lithography during the last decade of the nineteenth century. The book includes an enlightening essay based on hundreds of mostly unpublished handwritten original and facsimile letters from the artists and from Marty’s collaborators; these are preserved at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. This vast chorus of voices allows the reader to eavesdrop directly on the past and reveals rich details of the life and working methods of André Marty— an ambitious cultural insider and artist, art historian, critic, editor, prominent and discerning publisher, private dealer and entrepreneur.
• First documentation in full color of this extremely rare portfolio and updated catalogue raisonné for L’Estampe originale, including the latest bibliographical references.
Donna Stein, an art historian and curator, has organized exhibitions in all media, primarily on nineteenth and twentieth century art. Stuart Denenberg is an art dealer, collector, and poet.
Size 19 × 26 cm (6¼ × 10¼ in.)
English and Korean editions
2 tomes, 340 pages
250 colour illustrations paperback with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-5433-3 E -5434-0 KOR
£ 40.00, $ 45.00
Park Seo-Bo, Cho Jinho
PARK SEO-BO
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. GRAPHIC NOVEL
edited by Park Seungho
A homage to a pioneering figure in Korean contemporary art
Park Seo-Bo (1931-2023), a Korean painter and a master of Dansaekhwa, is a key figure in the history of Korean contemporary art. He was born in 1931, during a time when Korea was enduring the historical turmoil of imperial rule, and came of age amid the devastation of the Korean War. The prolonged hardships of this era dismantled the nation’s social and cultural foundations and from what felt like awasteland, Park rose—through fierce determination—to become an internationally acclaimed artist.
This book presents two distinct perspectives on his life. One is an unfiltered autobiography drawn from Park’s own meticulous records going back to his birth and up to the late ’70s. The other offers an external view, illuminating the passionate story of the artist’s entire life through a graphic novel, designed to be accessible and engaging to a wide range of readers. Through this two-volume set, readers can gain both deep and enjoyable understanding of Park Seo-Bo’s life and his artistic philosophy.
• Two perspectives on the life of Park Seo-Bo.
• An artistic record for all ranges of readership, encompassing the professional and the general art lovers, and viewers of all ages.
Park Seungho is the second son of Park Seo-Bo and the inspiration behind the Ecriture series. A longtime professor at Ewha Womans University, he has devoted his career to education. As the chairman of PARKSEOBO FOUNDATION, he now preserves and carries on his father’s legacy while supporting the future of Korean contemporary art through various initiatives. Cho Jinho, the author of the graphic novel, has published several graphic novels on scientific themes, earning acclaim from scholars, critics, and readers alike.
REALITY, SURREALITY. A MAJOR EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PAINTING
edited by Lü Peng with Li Guohua and You Yi
An in-depth exploration of Chinese Surrealism by the esteemed critic and art historian Lü Peng
This catalogue is the accompanying publication of the exhibition Reality, Surreality—A Major Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Painting, specially organized by renowned art historian and curator Lü Peng at the Museum of Contemporary Art & Urban Planning in Shenzhen. Bringing together 50 artists and more than 100 works, the exhibition reconsiders Surrealism as a broad and evolving concept that has transcended stylistic boundaries. From the legacy of the 1985 New Wave to the innovative practices of a younger generation, the project traces the development of Chinese Surrealism and reveals its new creative directions within a global context.
• This publication accompanies the major exhibition curated by renowned art historian Lü Peng, offering scholarly insight and expert curation from one of the most respected voices in Chinese contemporary art.
• Featuring over 100 works by 50 artists, the book is the most comprehensive overview of Chinese Surrealism, from its roots in the 1985 New Wave to today’s emerging artists (Zhang Zhaoying, Bi Jianye, Ge Yan, Lin Wen, Meng Site, Qi Wenzhang, Shen Muyang, Xiong Tao, Xu Dawei).
• The catalogue situates Chinese Surrealist painting within a broader international context, illustrating how this evolving movement.
Lü Peng is a leading Chinese art curator, critic, and historian. In 1992, he was appointed Artistic Director of the First Guangzhou Biennial Art Fair, China’s first art biennial. He has also authored several important publications and he currently is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Theory at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, as well as at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2017, he has served as President of L-Art University. With Skira he recently published Zhang Zhaoying (2025).
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
256 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5443-2
£ 45.00, $ 60.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Shenzhen, Museum of Contemporary Art & Urban Planning
10 November 2025 1 March 2026
Size 24 × 28 cm
(91/2 × 11 in.)
224 pages
150 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5438-8
£ 45.00, $ 65.00
SUE WILLIAMSON. THERE’S SOMETHING I MUST TELL YOU. A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
texts by Zoé Whitley, Sean O’ Toole, Sihle Sogaula, Andrew Lamprecht and Sue Williamson
A complete monograph accompanying the first retrospective exhibition of globally acclaimed South African artist
The book is the complete catalogue of Sue Williamson’s long-awaited retrospective at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town. There’s something I must tell you covers almost fifty years of the artist’s practice – from her iconic 1980s series
A Few South Africans, portraying the women who were the driving force behind the struggle against apartheid, through the Truth Games series, revealing the painful difficulties of a transforming country, to the legacy of colonisation, the story of District Six, and much more. Collaborating with communities and delving into archives, Williamson moves fluidly between drawing, printmaking, photography, video and installation to explore the dark corners of history and document the complex gaps between generations. Through critical essays, texts and images, this book reveals why her life and work have been inspirational to so many.
• For anyone interested in how art can speak to power, in the courage of women, or in making collaborative work that resonates within a community, this is a must-have book.
• This beautifully photographed volume takes readers through the most significant works of the artist’s career—drawings, prints, photographs, videos, and sculptural installations.
Zoé Whitley is an award-winning curator and writer based in London. American-born, she has been Director of the nonprofit Chisenhale Gallery (2020-2025), and a museum curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2003–13); Tate (2013–19); and Hayward Gallery (2019). Sean O’Toole is a writer, editor and curator based in Cape Town. Sihle Sogaula is archivist, curator, and photographer. Andrew Lamprecht is the Curator of Historical Paintings and Sculpture at the Iziko South African National Gallery. Sue Williamson (b. 1941) started making art in the 1970s addressing apartheid, and social issues. Her work is held in such museum collections as the Tate Modern, MoMA NY and the Pompidou.
THREE AMERICAN PAINTERS THEN AND NOW
edited by Eik Kahng
texts by Eik Kahng, Todd Cronan, Michael Fried, Gordon Hughes, Charles Palermo and James Welling
A reconsideration of the significance of Michael Fried’s early critical writing and a visual summation of the artists, many of them photographers, endorsed by Fried over the six decades since
Size 25 × 28 cm
(9¾ × 11 in.)
152 pages
108 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5418-0
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
This is the catalogue is the catalogue of an exhibition that never took place. The show sought to faithfully recreate the historically significant 1965 exhibition Three American Painters, curated by Michael Fried and featuring Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Frank Stella, while expanding its scope to include contemporary painters, sculptors, and photographers.
Although the exhibition was canceled, this volume preserves its vision through insightful essays, interviews, and a richly illustrated checklist of works. An essential resource for understanding Fried’s lasting impact on art history and criticism, as well as the ongoing dialogue between past and present American art.
• The book provides a user-friendly introduction to the critical writings of Michael Fried and the contemporary art that he has championed throughout his career.
• It proposes a through line between 1960s Post-Painterly Abstraction and ambitious contemporary art (particularly photography) related to the ideals of what used to be known as high modernism.
• Offers new scholarly interpretations of the implications and significance of Fried’s early criticism as articulated in the introduction for Three American Painters and in relation to his later writings.
Eik Kahng is an independent curator and art historian. Todd Cronan is Professor of Art History at Emory University. Michael Fried is Emeritus Professor of Humanities and History of Art and a member of the Academy at Johns Hopkins University. Gordon Hughes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Rice University. Charles Palermo is a professor of art history at William & Mary. James Welling is a widely published, exhibited, and collected photographer.
Size 19 x 25 cm
(71/2 × 93/4 in.)
208 pages
100 colour illustrations dutchbound
ISBN 978-88-572-5449-4
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
ART IN VINEYARDS CULTIVATING CULTURE
by Christina Makris editorial coordination by Paola Gribaudo
A journey through art, wine, and place—to where the senses meet
Art and wine share a profound connection: each has the power to inspire, transform, and awaken the senses. Art in Vineyards: Cultivating Culture takes readers on a journey through more than thirty extraordinary vineyards worldwide — from France to Chile, Italy to Australia, Greece to the United States, Lebanon to Spain, and beyond — revealing how the story of wine is retold through art. With exclusive reflections from renowned winemakers at estates such as Château Mouton Rothschild, Maison Ruinart, and Tenuta dell’Ornellaia, and with insights on wine from celebrated artists including James Turrell, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marinella Senatore, William Kentridge, Vik Muniz, and David Shrigley, the book uncovers how vineyards weave art into their craft and evolve into cultural destinations where tradition meets innovation.
Enriched with evocative photography, first-hand accounts from vingerons, and researched wine history and facts, Art in Vineyards: Cultivating Culture invites readers to explore landscapes where vines and visions intertwine, where art speaks through the terroir, and where every glass tells a story of passion and creativity.
• The book uncovers fascinating stories of vineyards and wineries that merge the worlds of wine and art.
• A gift book for wine lovers and art lovers to appreciate art and discover the cultural history and artistic interpretations of wine.
Christina Makris is a cultural commentator and writer specialising in philosophy and the senses. She is a regular speaker for leading cultural institutions, businesses, and brands. Christina writes on the intersection of art, design, and philosophy, with contributions to The Art Newspaper, Sotheby’s and a monthly column for Apollo, the world’s oldest art magazine.
FRANCIS BACON’S LIBRARY
texts by Monika Keska and Barbara Dawson
Reading Francis Bacon’s art through his personal book collection
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
240 pages
300 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5407-4
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
This is the first book to deal exclusively with the fascinating subject of Francis Bacon’s collection of books and magazines and its role as visual and intellectual source material for his paintings.
Bacon was a bibliophile who owned around 1300 publications on a host of subjects as diverse as art, photography, cinema, sport, travel, cookery, the occult, politics, philosophy, history, antiquity, medical issues, and many more. His interest in literature ranged from W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Aeschylus, and Shakespeare to Jane Austen and Agatha Christie.
Francis Bacon’s Library reveals the wealth of material in Hugh Lane Gallery’s archive of Francis Bacon material, which was generously donated by the Estate of Francis Bacon. The richly illustrated book contains texts by Dr Monika Keska, who catalogued Bacon’s library and Dr Barbara Dawson, Director of Hugh Lane Gallery.
• The first book devoted to Francis Bacon’s collection of books and magazine.
• An exclusive exploration of the artist’s personal library, revealing the diverse literary sources that inspired his art.
• An original and comprehensive look at the artist’s bibliophile side.
Monika Keska, Assistant Professor History of Art Department, Granada University and cataloguer of Francis Bacon’s Library. Barbara Dawson, Director of Hugh Lane Gallery (HLG) who secured and managed the relocation of Francis Bacon’s Studio to HLG.
FRANCESCO VEZZOLI DIVA?
edited by Shai Baitel
Vezzoli’s exploration of visual history, spanning from the glamour of Italian cinema’s golden age to the sacred motifs of religious iconography
Francesco Vezzoli’s work revels in the power of nostalgia, fame, and sorrow, threading cinema, embroidery, and art history into a singular, melancholic vision. His bejeweled tears—stitched onto the faces of film and fashion’s great icons—transform heartbreak into ornament, elevating sorrow to spectacle. This book traces Vezzoli’s engagement with visual history, from the golden age of Italian cinema to the devotional traditions of religious iconography. Through film, needlework, and performance, he reframes longing and loss as a conceptual thread linking cultural memory with contemporary image-making. Francesco Vezzoli: Diva? is a study in beauty, artifice, and catharsis.
“While Vezzoli went on to embrace film as an essential medium within his multidisciplinary work, his early adoption of embroidery as a signature channel of expression gave him the unique form with which to convey the pathos he discovered on the screen.”—Nancy Spector
• Drawing from different disciplines (cinema, embroidery, art history), Vezzoli’s exploration of cultural memory links the golden age of Italian cinema with religious iconography, creating a rich tapestry that redefines nostalgia and loss in the contemporary context.
• The book features an interview to Francesco Vezzoli by Hans Ulrich Obrist, a conversation between Sophia Loren and Francesco Vezzoli and the essays by Nancy Spector and Donatien Grau.
Shai Baitel, exhibition curator and writer, is the artistic director of The Modern Art Museum (MAM) in Shanghai. With Skira he recently published Marina Abramovic´. Transforming Energy (2024) and David Hockney. Paper Trails (2024).
KENNY SCHARF EMOTIONAL
by Shai Baitel
A landmark survey of a Pop Surrealist icon, on the occasion of his first museum show in China
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
220 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5473-9
£ 50.00, $ 70.00
Spanning decades of Scharf’s work, Emotional examines the artist’s playful yet meticulous exploration of emotions through a vivid iconography. It features more than 120 multi-disciplinary artworks, including Kenny Scharf’s Beach Club, an installation that transports everyone into the artist’s California beachside utopia. Published on the occasion of Scharf’s largest solo exhibition to date, the book showcases Kenny Scharf’s pioneering street art aesthetic and distinctive visual language. Featuring exaggerated faces and expressive forms, his work connects ancient pictographic languages and modern emoji culture. Long before emojis emerged to fill the emotional gap in digital communication, Scharf developed a visual language that captured the complexities of humanity’s relationship with expression and feeling. As the curator Shai Baitel says, “Kenny Scharf is a giant whose art and influence cannot be overstated. He is one of the most distinctive artists today, having started alongside Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.” The publication features paintings, sculptures and other objects organized into groups of emotions: Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Sadness and Awe.
• An original glimpse into emotional expression through art history, focusing on Scharf’s approach to this part of human nature.
• The most comprehensive book of Kenny Scharf’s career to date offering readers a transportive experience into his artistic world.
• Published in collaboration with Almine Rech Gallery, Opera Gallery and TOTAH Gallery.
Shai Baitel is the Artistic Director of the Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai for which he created, among others, the exhibitions and edited the catalogues Marina Abramović: Transforming Energy (Skira, 2024), David Hockney: Paper Trails (Skira, 2024) and Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum (2019).
Size 16.5 × 24 cm
(61/2 × 91/2 in.)
288 pages
200 colour illustrations
Dutchbinding
ISBN 978-88-572-5436-4
£ 58.00, $ 78.00
CHEN XI. A RABBIT'S TALE
edited by Lü Peng; texts by Francesco Paolo Campione,
Lü Peng and Chen Xi
contributions by Pan Lusheng, Wen Lipeng, Yi Ying, Chua Soo Bin, Wang Min’an, Jeff Kelley, Shu Kewen, Wang Huangsheng, Yang Xiaoyan, Chen Angie, Florian Knothe, Wu Sarah, Du Xiyun, Jia Fangzhou, Ju Baiyu, Yin Ji and Wang Chunchen
The first comprehensive international monograph on the renowned Chinese contemporary artist
This first international monograph on Chinese artist Chen Xi accompanies her debut solo exhibition in Europe at MUSEC, Lugano. Structured in nine sections, the publication traces her evolution from the 1990s to today, each chapter reflecting a key solo exhibition in her career.
Known for her deeply personal yet socially engaged work, Chen Xi explores the human condition through painting, installation, and conceptual expression— without aligning explicitly with feminist art discourse.
As Lü Peng writes in his foreword, Chen Xi’s work revolves around memory, vulnerability, and identity in an era of rapid change. Her recurring motif of the rabbit—a figure born from literary influence and psychological reflection—embodies the tension between fragility and resilience. From the expressive canvases of her early years to the installation Lost, a monumental wooden sculpture created after the Covid-19 pandemic, Chen Xi continually interrogates the role of the individual within shifting cultural, historical, and technological landscapes. Combining academic technique with conceptual depth, her practice reflects the broader transformation of Chinese society since the Reform era. This monograph offers a rare window into Chen Xi’s singular voice and visual language—one that captures, with nuance and intensity, the evolving spirit of contemporary China.
• The first in-depth international monograph on Chen Xi, offering an essential resource for understanding one of China’s most compelling contemporary artists.
• Through detailed essays and rich imagery, the monograph situates Chen Xi’s work within the broader transformation of Chinese society.
Lü Peng is a leading Chinese art curator, critic, and historian.
MARK MENNIN OBSERVANCE
introduction by Dani Shapiro essay and interview by Hilary Lewis
Three decades of carving monumental sculpture in the landscape: Mark Mennin’s sculptural journey from figurative to large-scale forms
Observance is about thirty years of carving monumental sculpture in the landscape. Originally trained as a figure carver in marble, Mark Mennin’s scope grew beyond the figure into the landscape over thirty years ago, carving a large granite wall in the south of France. He became comfortable with the enlarged scale and the more durable material, while always keeping in mind the proportions of the figure in the context of Nature. As with most of Mennin’s titles, Observance has two meanings that include the action of noticing or watching as well as the practice of fulfilling or respecting a ritual. It is a projection of his belief that one needs to know the rules of carving well before breaking them. His approaches to carving a very unforgiving material are both traditional and innovative using hand tools as well as fire, water and machine. His collaborations with the Landscape are often of enormous scale yet respectful of the environs. The physical approach and process demonstrates a sacrifice and reverence toward his contexts that celebrate labor and humanity. The human intervention by the sculptor himself is always present.
• The book features statements by Dore Ashton, Tristan Cassamajor, Vincent Desiderio, Peter Drake, Cheryl Effron, Stephanie Ingrassia, Raymond Jungles, Doriano Navarra, Ben Nickoll, Richard Olcott, Suzanne Ramljak, Alexis Rockman, Susan Sayre Batton, Dorothy Spears, William Tucker.
• Mennin’s artistic journey spans continents, from his early work in Italy to exhibitions in Paris and commissions across the U.S., reflecting a rich international influence in his practice.
• His work appears in numerous private and public collections, including Laumeier Sculpture Park, Grounds for Sculpture, and Stanford University Law School, Penn State University.
Dani Shapiro is an American writer, the award-winning author of six novels. She has also written for The New Yorker, Vogue, Elle, The Oprah Magazine. Hilary Lewis is an Architectural historian, curator and educator.
Size 28 × 30 cm
(11 × 12 in.)
352 pages
335 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5401-2
£ 65.00, $ 85.00
Size 24 × 30 cm (91/2 × 11¾ in.) 224 pages
225 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5420-3 £ 50.00, $ 65.00
ABBOTT STILLMAN
texts by Barry Schwabsky, Kathy Battista and Daniel Palmer
The first publication of the paintings by the American contemporary artist
The book is the first publication of the contemporary American artist’s paintings. It represents a compendium of the multiple modes of painting the artist utilises, following the numerous paths and approaches he has utilised over the course of the many years of his studio practice. The works depicted in this catalogue are concentrated in the 21st century, though Stillman has been painting privately since the 1980’s. This represents the first publication of any of his paintings, which he did not even agree to show publicly until 2023.
A graduate of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, Stillman built a successful career in real estate while painting privately. His art is a combination of ambiguity, exuberance, balance, and harmony all in service to his central, and optimistic, beliefs about the human condition. His paintings are compositions of rich color, often in abstracted grounds and spaces that evoke deep emotional responses. Stillman’s love for painting is pure and abiding. It is driven by a compulsion to create and a desire to offer joy as a counter to suffering, and his reveling in the medium that has a long history of seeking to repair a fractured world. As Stillman himself says, “When I’m doing my best work, it feels like it’s coming through me, instead of from me.”
• First-ever publication on the pictorial work of Abbott Stillman.
Barry Schwabsky is an American art critic, art historian and poet. He is art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum; his essays have appeared in many other publications, including Flash Art, Artforum, London Review of Books, Art in America. Kathy Battista is a writer, curator, teacher and author of several books and publishes regularly in academic journals and artist catalogues. Daniel Palmer is chief curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia.
STEINAR JAKOBSEN
with a text by Arve Rød, Mikkel Bogh, Catherine Townsend and Peder Anker
The work of the Norwegian contemporary artist, known for blending traditional painting techniques with innovative materials and tools, creating works that explore the intersection of classical art and modern visual culture
The book is the first English monograph dedicated to Steinar Jakobsen (b. 1967), one of Norway’s most prominent artists.
Steinar Jakobsen graduated from the Oslo School of Drawing and Painting (19861988) and the National Academy of Fine Arts (1989-1993). Since his first solo exhibition at Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall in Arendal in 1996, Jakobsen contaminated traditional painting with a wide range of different techniques and materials, like aluminum and Plexiglas. He uses tools like sponges, cotton swabs, spray guns, and projectors to create both impressionistic and photorealistic works.
Jakobsen’s works often merge different genres and visual references, drawing on both fine art and broader visual culture. His motifs are usually based on snapshots he has taken himself, and he is inspired by classical painters like Velázquez and Vermeer, as well as by pop culture and postmodern artists such as Gerhard Richter.
• First English monograph on Steinar Jakobsen, recognized as one of Norway’s most distinctive painters, with his works resonating internationally.
• His innovative use of materials and blending of traditional and modern techniques places him at the forefront of artistic exploration.
• His works are part of prominent collections and have been exhibited in key galleries, positioning him as a significant voice in both Norwegian and international art scenes.
Arve Rød is one of Norway’s most established contemporary art critics. Mikkel Bogh was the Director of SMK, The National Gallery of Denmark, and he currently is Professor and Head of Center for Practice-based Art Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Catherine Townsend is a journalist, licensed private investigator, and creator and host of the true crime podcasts Hell and Gone and Hell and Gone: Murder Line Peder Anker is a Professor at New York University.
Size 23 × 32 cm
(9 × 121/2 in.)
240 pages
210 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5370-1
£ 52.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Oslo, Galleri K Spring 2026
GAVIN JANTJES: TO BE FREE!
A RETROSPECTIVE 1970–2023
edited by Salah M. Hassan
More than five decades of the diverse and distinctive practice of the UK-based South African painter and printmaker
Through over 100 prints, drawings, and paintings, as well as archival material, the publication celebrates Gavin Jantjes (1948) as a significant artist, and critical agent of change, while tracing his development as a painter, printmaker, writer, curator and anti-apartheid activist. Structured into chapters spanning the 1970s to the present, Gavin Jantjes: To be Free! A Retrospective 1970 - 2023 focuses on pivotal phases in the artist’s life, from his formative years in Cape Town, South Africa during the early years of apartheid regime (1948–1994), his transformative role at art institutions in the UK, Germany and Norway, his compelling figurative portrayals of the global Black struggle for freedom, to his recent transition to non-figurative painting. Jantjes’ journey embodies a quest for artistic emancipation, marked by a search for an autonomous form, freed from Eurocentric traditions and the limited expectations of Black creativity.
The book also focuses on Jantjes’ influence on the cultural landscape of London. His anti-apartheid print series A South African Colouring Book was shown at the ICA in 1976, and his role as both exhibiting artist and co-curator in the ground-breaking 1986 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition From Two Worlds cemented his position as a major voice in the UK’s arts scene.
• The book offers a rare overview of Jantjes’ influential career and his leading role in shaping discourse around representation of Africa and its diasporas.
• Organized by the Sharjah Art Foundation in collaboration with The Africa Institute.
Salah M. Hassan is an art historian, art critic and curator, who is currently the Chancellor of Global Studies University (GSU) and Dean of The Africa Institute (GSU), Sharjah, UAE. He has served as Director of The Africa Institute since its founding in 2018.
HAEGUE YANG: LOST LANDS AND SUNKEN FIELDS
in collaboration with the Nasher Sculpture Center texts by Leigh Arnold, Tom McDonough and Yasmil Raymond
An essential publication on Haegue Yang’s work
Over the past three decades, Haegue Yang (born 1971, Seoul, South Korea) has developed a prolific and hybrid body of work that folds quotidian objects and folk traditions into the canon of modern and contemporary sculpture-making. Informed by in-depth exploration into vernacular techniques and related customs and rituals, along with her continual movement through disparate cultures, Yang’s work is both homage to and critique of the modernist project toward singular Western domination. Lost Lands and Sunken Fields documents Yang’s 2025 solo exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, which occupied two levels of the museum’s galleries and gardens and debuted two new bodies of work that represent a significant turn in the artist’s sculptural production. This catalogue includes extensive photo documentation of the exhibition, along with essays by Nasher curator, Leigh Arnold, and scholars and curators Tom McDonough and Yasmil Raymond. Also included within Lost Lands and Sunken Fields is a floorplan of the exhibition and an illustrated list of exhibited works.
• An insightful analysis into Yang’s sculptural language and global influences.
• An essential resource for curators, researchers and contemporary art lovers, the book documents Haegue Yang’s 2025 solo exhibition, showcasing the evolution of her sculptural practice.
Leigh Arnold is Curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center. A scholar of Land art, Minimal and Post-Minimal sculpture, Arnold’s curatorial focus at the Nasher expands to contemporary art and tends to foreground artists whose practice subverts or broadens traditional understandings of sculpture. Tom McDonough, author and editor of several books on postwar art, is Professor of Art History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Yasmil Raymond is curator and co-curator of several retrospectives.
Size 17 × 24.5 cm
(6½ × 9½ in.)
140 pages
100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5471-5
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Dallas, Texas: Nasher Sculpture Center
1 February – 27 April 2025
Size 23 × 29 cm (9 × 11½ in.)
dual-language edition
(English-French) 176 pages
100 colour illustrations
ISBN 978-2-37074-293-3 £ 35.00, $ 50.00
XAVIER MASCARÓ
texts and interview by Julie Chaizemartin
Xavier Mascaró: where timeless legends meet modern sculpture
This monograph devoted to Xavier Mascaró (1965) presents the work of this Spanish artist fascinated by myths and legends. He draws on archaic iconography – heads, masks, boats, human and animal forms – to give substance to the contradictions of the human soul. His work resonates with the heritage of pre-Columbian art, which he reinvents with power and poetry.
Xavier Mascaró sublimates iron, an ancestral material to which he breathes new energy. Since 2004, he has extended his work to glass, wood, pewter, stone and ceramics.
Over the last ten years, his installations of monumental works of art have become emblematic and are regularly exhibited in public spaces and galleries around the world, from the Santo Domingo convent in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, to the Warehouse421 in Abu Dhabi, and even the Paseo del Prado in Madrid and the Palais Royal in Paris.
His work has also been the subject of more than 50 solo exhibitions in galleries in New York, Mexico City, Caracas, Buenos Aires, Paris, London, Düsseldorf, Beirut and Dubai. He has taken part in more than 150 group exhibitions as well.
• This monograph explores how Xavier Mascaró blends ancient mythologies and modern artistic vision, using archaic symbols like masks, boats, and totemic forms to reflect the complexities of the human condition.
• Mascaró redefines traditional media through poetic and innovative approaches.
Journalist and art critic Julie Chaizemartin is a graduate of the École du Louvre and Paris I Sorbonne in Art History and Law. Having contributed to L’Express, L’Officiel Art and the Huffington Post, she has developed a taste for art criticism. In 2016 she founded Art District Radio, a web radio station dedicated to art and jazz.
ALA EBTEKAR MIRRORED VISIONS
texts by Yasiin Bey, Venetia Porter, Sussan Babaie, Deena Chalabi, Hushang Ebtehaj and Shiva Balaghi
The first comprehensive monograph of Ala Ebtekar, spanning more than twenty years of the artist’s work and practice
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
252 pages
100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5289-6
£ 45.00, $ 60.00
This comprehensive monograph of San Francisco Bay Area-based artist offers a unique insight into the vast array of his influences and sources.
Ala Ebtekar (b.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 investigations create 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.
• Raised in Iran and the United States, Ala Ebtekar draws from the tradition of Persian miniature painting, and combines imagery from antiquity with that of the present and imagined future, in his mixed-media prints and installation work.
Yasiin Bey formerly known as Mos Def is an American rapper. Venetia Porter, art historian, was Senior Curator for Islamic and Contemporary Middle East art at the British Museum where she is now Honorary Research Fellow. Deena Chalabi is a writer and curator whose work explores relationships between individual expression, critical thought, and public imagination. Hushang Ebtehaj was an Iranian poet of the 20th century. Shiva Balaghi is a cultural historian specializing in the visual culture of the Middle East.
Size 22.5 × 28.5 cm
(8¾ × 11¼ in.)
244 pages
170 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5451-7
£ 50.00, $ 70.00
HA IN-DOO CYCLONE OF LIGHT
texts by Oh Gwangsu, Bae Wonjung and Ha In-doo preface by Éric Dereumaux
The first international publication on a pioneer of Korean Abstract Art
Ha In-Doo (1930-1989) stands as a pioneering figure in the history of Korean contemporary art. Drawing from traditional Korean aesthetics and Buddhist philosophy, he developed a unique form of geometric, non-formal abstraction that opened new horizons for Korean abstract art. Known for his experimental spirit and distinctive visual language, he left a profound impact on both his peers and subsequent generations.
This richly illustrated monograph is the first comprehensive international publication to chronicle Ha In-Doo’s artistic journey, spanning from his early works in the 1950s to his final creations in the 1980s. Through a wide array of paintings, the volume traces the evolution of his practice while shedding light on the philosophical and aesthetic depth embedded in his work. Featuring rare archival materials, photographs of his studio, and key exhibition highlights, the book offers an intimate glimpse into the artist’s creative environment and contemplative process.
• This first in-depth international publication dedicated to Ha In-Doo offers an unprecedented look at the life and legacy of a pivotal figure in Korean contemporary art.
• More than a visual record, this volume stands as a vital document that introduces Ha In-Doo’s legacy to the global audience, presenting the essence of his artistic vision.
Oh Kwangsu, art critic and writer, renowned as a leading figure in Korean contemporary art criticism. He has shaped Korean art’s identity through critical writing and served as Director of the Gwangju Biennale, Director of MMCA, Korea, and Chairman of the Arts Council Korea. Bae Wonjung, Korean curator, and art critic, currently serves as a curator of MMCA, Korea. She is specialized in East Asian modern art and is actively engaged in exhibition planning and scholarly research based on her studies in the field.
DAN BASEN
foreword by Krystyna Gmurzynska and Mathias Rastorfer preface by Jonathan D. Katz texts by Ekin Erkan
Rediscovering the forgotten visionary of 1960s Manhattan scene
Size 21 x 29,7 cm
(8½ × 11½ in.)
224 pages
170 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-292-6
£ 45.00, $ 65.00
Dan Murray Basen (1939-1970) was a captivating and largely overlooked artist of the 1960s downtown Manhattan scene. Though long neglected by art history, he left a lasting impression on those who knew him, friends, lovers, and fellow artists alike. He helped introduce Allan Kaprow’s Happenings to Baltimore, blurred the line between Pop art and Nouveau Réalisme, and exhibited alongside icons like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg. Yet he resisted easy classification, critiquing commercial Pop, dabbling in folk art, surrealist film, performance, and assemblage.
This monograph is the first academic art historical treatment of Dan Basen, the result of two years of research drawing on letters, diaries, archival footage, interviews, and long-lost ephemera. From gallery shows to philosophical musings, from queer eroticism to Dadaesque provocations, Basen’s work reveals a complex artist who bridged genres with visionary intensity and often, self-destruction. Dan Basen’s refusal to conform may explain his marginalization. Yet his art was collected by major figures like the Rockefellers and displayed in key institutions. With renewed scholarly interest in outsider and folk traditions, Basen’s legacy, marked by raw experimentation and fierce independence, deserves a rightful place in the broader narrative of postwar American art.
• The first academic art historical treatment of Dan Basen.
• Published with Galerie Gmurzynska.
Krystyna Gmurzynska and Mathias Rastorfer are co-owners of the gallery Gmurzynska in Zurich. Jonathan D. Katz is an art historian, educator and writer. Ekin Erkan is a philosopher, art critic, and art history researcher.
The first complete monograph on the Italian artist and her original and visionary realism
This book is the first indepth publication devoted to the work of Francesca Tulli (1956-2024). Francesca Tulli’s paintings and sculptures have developed as parallel practices, linked by her personal interpretation of a complex and perceptive realism, balanced between the naturalistic and the surreal. Her paintings, in blackand-white or in bold colour, often depict lush domestic interiors which are seemingly comfortable, yet due to their tilted perspectives and unusual viewpoints, become strangely unsettling. Her final canvases show patterned rugs which appear to be moved by subterranean forces or mysteriously sucked into vortexes. In her sculptures, the artist’s sinuous figures are posed in dynamic equilibrium, sometimes existing as athletes or “mutated” creatures. Made from bronze, terracotta or plaster, her figures shift between classical and futuristic, integrated with different materials including rusty steel, photographs, sand, glass spheres and led-lights. Tulli’s figures are beings which are simultaneously familiar and other-worldly.
• Tulli’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions including at the Italian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011) and Casa Italia during the Beijing Olympic Games (2008).
• The book documents Tulli’s intertwined bodies of work (painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video and installation), offering insight into her evolving themes of transformation, identity and the human condition.
Working as a curator and art critic for more than 35 years, Jonathan Turner has organized almost 400 solo shows, group exhibitions and biennale events in museums and art galleries in Europe, Asia, Australia and America, publishing numerous catalogues, books and monographs. Working with Francesca Tulli since the mid-1990s, Turner conceived and edited this unconventional monograph in close collaboration with the artist before her death in 2024.
SUZANNE PERLMAN
contributions by Jan Garden Castro, Amiel Clarke, Jan Rudolph de Lorm, Rowan Frame, Margo Groenewoud, Jennifer Higgie, Klara Kemp-Welch, Julia Nagle, Matthew Perlman, Josée Thissen-Rojer and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Discover the life and work of Suzanne Perlman, an émigré artist whose art spans continents and movements
This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Suzanne Perlman (1922–2020), a Hungarian-born artist whose life and work spanned continents and artistic movements. Fleeing Europe during World War II, Perlman began painting in Curaçao, where she lived for 50 years, developing a vivid expressionist style that captured the spirit of the island and its people with rare intimacy. She later studied in New York, worked with Oskar Kokoschka, and continued her practice in London into her late 90s.
Published in collaboration with The Estate of Suzanne Perlman, the book brings together leading curators, academics, and critics to explore the full range of Perlman’s oeuvre and life. It features essays and an archival interview that examine key themes in Perlman’s work: her deep-rooted engagement with place, her expressive depictions of everyday life, and her quietly radical artistic independence.
• The first in-depth publication on Suzanne Perlman’s life and work.
• Featuring 150 color images of Perlman’s paintings, alongside essays by leading curators, academics and critics, the book provides an immersive experience into her vivid expressionist style.
Jan Rudolph de Lorm, former curator at the Rijksmuseum, is a leading figure in Dutch art. Jennifer Higgie is a London-based Australian writer and podcast host, known for books on women and art. Dr. Margo Groenewoud is an emerging authority on Caribbean cultural history. Drs. Josée Thissen-Rojer, a leading voice on Curaçaoan contemporary art, is a curator, writer, and advocate. Jan Garden Castro is a New York-based art critic and author, known for work on Georgia O’Keeffe and Sonia Delaunay. Dr. Klara Kemp-Welch is a Professor at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine, has curated over 350 exhibitions worldwide.
50.00, $ 70.00
Size 24 × 28 cm
(91/2 × 11 in.)
304 pages
210 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5427-2
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
JOSÉ PARLÁ CONTEMPORARY PALIMPSESTS
edited by Rey Parlá
texts by Jonathan Rider and Iván de la Nuez
The colourful monumental paintings of the CubanAmerican contemporary artist
The publication is an expansive monograph celebrating the remarkable four-decade career of Cuban American artist José Parlá (b. 1973). This first midcareer publication coincides with major milestones, including solo exhibitions in Miami and Tokyo—“Homecoming” at the Pérez Art Museum Miami and “Home Away from Home” at the Pola Museum in Tokyo. The volume traces Parlá’s evolution from his early days of wall markings in Miami to his international acclaim, showcasing his innovative blend of gestural abstraction, calligraphy, and urban textures that have redefined contemporary painting.
Spanning from 1985 to 2025, the richly illustrated book features paintings, murals, rare sketchbooks, and archival materials. It also includes essays by curators Jonathan Rider and Iván de la Nuez, alongside an intimate interview with Rey Parlá, his brother and creative collaborator. Central to the narrative is Parlá’s profound reflection on his near-death experience with COVID-19, which deepens his exploration of home as a mosaic of memories and displacement. Celebrating his role as a cultural bridge, the monograph underscores his connections to a global community of friendships, travels, and collaborations. Parlá emerges as a poetic chronicler of surfaces, textures, and resilience—an artist whose work captures the luminous paths of exploration and belonging.
• First mid-career monograph for artist José Parlá.
• Celebratory publication on the occasion of major institutional milestones – solo exhibitions in both Miami, US and Tokyo, Japan.
Rey Parlá is a Cuban American artist working in photography, experimental film, writing, and visual storytelling. Jonathan Rider is a New York-based an artist, curator and writer. Iván de la Nuez is a Cuban essayist, art critic and curator.
“I Paint Your Grace, I Paint Your Pain, I Paint Love”
REZA DERAKSHANI
SELECTED WORKS FROM 10 DIFFERENT SERIES
edited by Necmi Sönmez; texts by Alistair Hicks and Olivia Sand
The
art of the Iranian painter, musician and performance artist
Reza Derakshani
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 11¾ in.)
352 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4924-7
£ 60.00, $ 75.00
Edited by Necmi Sönmez, this monograph features the works of Reza Derakshani, showcasing his unique art perspective.
Reza Derakshani is a passionate painter. A hallmark of his paintings is their poetic surface; his subjects are figurative but nevertheless not easly deciphered. To understand the historical relevance of Reza Derakshani, his work must be conceived of as the result of a cross between transnational artistic avant-garde, music pratice, and political activity. It operates in synchrony with contemporary avant-garde language and, in profundity, is deeply rooted in Irans Post-Revolution cultural and social context. Since the mid 1980s, Reza Derakshani has been working on his pictorial vocabulary, which is marked by emotional narration, illusive leitmotives and fluent migration references. Derakshani’s work is characterized by a unique lighter scraping technique, greater exposed areas of unprimed canvas, a precarious imaginary, and the introduction of textual traces. His ongoinig series complement this output with mythic, often cryptic, archetypes and allegories. Derakshani’s world of poetic and music quotations is a gateway to a different fluent universe opened up by a multitude of references and ciphers that can be traversed emotively in a Situationist “dérive”.
• Derakshani has been showcased in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the globe.
• Derakshani’s work has been widely recognized in publications and in several international television programs and radio shows.
Dr. Necmi Sönmez is an independent curator who has led international cooperation and worked with different museums. Alistair Hicks is a writer and curator. Olivia Sand, a contributor to Asian Art Newspaper since its launch in 1997, has been among the first journalists to focus on contemporary Asian and Islamic art.
Size 27 × 30 cm
(10½ × 11¾ in.)
240 pages
122 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5364-0
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
MANOLO VALDÉS MONUMENTAL SCULPTURES
edited by Javier Molins
with an interview to Manolo Valdés by Rachel Campbell-Johnston
The multiform sculptural works by one of the leading figures of the contemporary international art scene
Edited by Javier Molins, the book features some of the most iconic and impressive monumental works by the Spanish artist from the beginnings to the present. Manolo Valdés (1942) is renowned for his monumental sculptures that blend classical influences with contemporary aesthetics. In 2024, his large-scale works have been displayed in several prestigious locations worldwide, including Venice, where his twelve Reina Mariana and a monumental Infanta Margarita were placed in Piazzetta San Marco. His sculptures also graced the City of Arts and Science in Valencia, the Botanical Garden in New York, the Orchard Road and Botanical Garden in Singapore, and the iconic Dubai, where they created a striking contrast with the modern skyline. In Paris, Valdés’s monumental pieces have been showcased in Paris at Place Vendôme and Palais Royal, adding a new dimension to these historic landmarks. Impassioned by artists of the past ranging from Zurbarán to Velázquez, Matisse to Lichtenstein, Valdés finds more than just inspiration in their paintings; he uses their work “as a pretext” to create an entirely new aesthetic object (a painting or sculpture that while clearly sourced from a known composition is a uniquely brilliant work of art in itself.
• The book offers a fascinating insight into how Manolo Valdés reinterprets classical and modern art to forge his own unique creative universe.
• The publication also documents how the Spanish artist transforms historic sites into dynamic art spaces, with pieces in some of the world’s most prestigious locations.
Contemporary art curator, writer and advisor, Javier Molins has curated exhibitions in leading venues across the globe and worked with some of the 20th and 21st centuries most esteemed artists. Rachel Campbell-Johnston served as the chief art critic of The Times newspaper for 20 years and continues to contribute to The Times.
JAUME PLENSA ONE THOUGHT FILLS IMMENSITY
texts by Jeremy Strick, Clare Lilley, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Sarah Coulson, Joseph Becherer, Marcello Dantas, and Víctor García de Gomar
A major monograph on the international artist’s practice
Size 27 × 30 cm
(10½ × 12 in.)
348 pages
270 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5321-3
£ 60.00, $ 75.00
Internationally celebrated Spanish artist Jaume Plensa (b. 1955) 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 to Echo, in Seattle, to Roots in 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 colour 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 most comprehensive monograph published on the artist to date.
• Winner of many national and international awards, Jaume Plensa is one of the world’s foremost sculptors working in public space.
Jeremy Strick, Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA. Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY, USA. Clare Lilley, Program Director at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, United Kingdom. Sarah Coulson, Senior Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, United Kingdom. Joseph Becherer, Director and Curator, Raclin Murphy Museum, Indiana, USA. Marcello Dantas, Curator and Artistic Director. Víctor García de Gomar, Artistic Director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Spain.
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
624 pages
700 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5304-6 £ 75.00, $ 100.00
REMO SALVADORI
by Studio Celant edited by Antonella Soldaini
An updated and comprehensive monograph devoted to a leading figure of Italian contemporary art
Among 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 – 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 approximately 700 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.
• In his long career, Remo Salvadori has exhibited in major Italian and European museums and participated in important international exhibitions.
Studio Celant was established in June 2020 to conceive and produce editorial and exhibition projects, in continuity with Germano Celant’s work methodology. From 2020 to 2023, it finalized the publication of several editorial projects, already embarked on by Celant, including The Story of (my) Exhibitions (2021), Anselm Kiefer. Paesaggi Celesti (2022) and the creation of the exhibition New York 1962-1964 (Jewish Museum, New York, 2022). Antonella Soldaini has collaborated with various archives for monographs or catalogues raisonné of artists.
DAVID HOCKNEY PAPER TRAILS
edited by Shai Baitel
A
wide-ranging monograph of over 100 prints by Hockney
Size 24 × 30 cm (9½ × 12 in.)
256 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5272-8
£ 55.00, $ 65.00
David Hockney (b. 1937) is renowned for his distinctive paintings, mostly portraiture and landscape, but also for his approach to works on paper and printmaking, mirroring the vibrancy and diligent indexing seen in his broader body of work. Hockney’s prints often showcase a dynamic interplay of color, form, and perspective, reflecting his keen eye for visual storytelling of intimate elements of his own life.
Throughout his career he has experimented with various printmaking techniques, including etching, lithography, screen printing, and more recently iPads, each method revealing his diligence in manipulating the medium. His visual experiments, always surprising in their outcomes, suggest a rich interior and exterior life, captured in telling bits and fragments, suggesting a montage of quotidian scenes.
Like much of his oeuvre, Hockney’s prints draw from extensive art historical study of the optical devices of Old Master paintings. Recently, his iPad-based art shows an interest in the changing seasons from his own perch in the English countryside, among other vantage points and geographies of interest. Whether depicting landscapes, portraits of friends, or banal scenes, Hockney’s prints exhibit a harmonious blend of traditional craftsmanship and his own distinct playfulness and insight to daily life.
• The works speak to Hockney’s ongoing dedication to capturing and indexing his life and the intimate poetics of the word through intimate portraiture and snapshots from daily life.
Shai Baitel is the Artistic Director of Modern Art Museum (MAM), Shanghai.
Size 26 × 32.5 cm
(10¼ × 12¾ in.)
400 pages
350 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5271-1
£ 59.95, $ 75.00
MARINA ABRAMOVIC TRANSFORMING ENERGY
edited by Shai Baitel ´
A monograph on Marina Abramovic´’s work with crystals, a part of her practice that is still underexplored
Marina Abramovic´ (1946) believes in the power of crystals to store the whole history of the earth and carry and transmit their energy. Thus, crystals are mainly linked to the Transitory Objects, a series of objects that the artist created to embody energy and trigger physical and mental experiences in the public through direct interaction, several installations, and exhibitions.
Inspired by one of Abramovic´’s most iconic performances, her walk across the Great Wall in China with German artist Ulay in 1988, and published on the occasion of the comprehensive exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) Shanghai, the book includes unseen images of Abramovic’s walk in Great Wall, along with a series of captivating new artworks especially created for the survey. Edited by Shai Baitel, the Artistic Director of MAM Shanghai, in close collaboration with the artist, the book tells the story of how Marina Abramovic´’s discovered and explored the power of stones and crystals, at first, during her performance across the Great Wall with Ulay, and later by visiting mines around Brazil.
• The book offers a unique and vital opportunity to experience the evolution of Marina Abramović’s artistic journey.
• The book is addressed to wider public, as both the healing power of crystals and Marina Abramovic´ are trending topics.
Shai Baitel, exhibition curator and writer, is the artistic director of The Modern Art Museum (MAM) in Shanghai. He conceived the exhibitions Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum in 2019 and Zaha Hadid Architects-Close Up in 2021.
CHIHARU SHIOTA
directed by Denise Wendel-Poray texts by Andrea Jahn and Christel Pélissier-Roy
A tribute to the Japanese artist, a leading figure of the new generation of great contemporary masters
This extensive monograph documents the work of the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972), who has created a distinctive and enthralling body of work – including drawings, sculptures and installations – rarely equalled for its depth and universality.
More than a retrospective, this book is a comprehensive excursion into the daily life and work of this exceptional artist and provides a rare backstage glimpse at the mesmerising, immersive installations and environments for which she is celebrated. Complete with abundant illustrations, an intimate interview and an insightful essay, this book explores the bold experimentation and rigorous critical thinking that lie behind Chiharu Shiota’s masterful works.
• A book produced in collaboration with the artist, featuring original interview and texts about the artist’s personal path, handwritten text or drawings and unpublished visual materials and photographs.
• The Japanese artist was holding the inaugural exhibition at the Grand Palais opening in December 2024.
Canadian writer, editor and curator, Denise Wendel-Poray is the author of books concerning the relationship between art, theatre and music. Her books with Skira include The Last Days of the Opera (2022) and Painting the Stage: Artists as Stage Designers (2019). German curator and writer Andrea Jahn organized Chiharu Shiota’s first institutional exhibition in 2003 at the Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart.. Christel Pélissier-Roy is an exhibition curator and writer.
Size 24 × 31 cm
(9½ × 12¼ in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
240 pages
150 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-263-6
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
Size 21.5 × 25 cm
(8½ × 9¾ in.)
tri-language edition
(English-French-Hebrew) 488 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-278-0
£ 55.00, $ 75.00
BRACHA LICHTENBERG ETTINGER
foreword by Laurent Le Bon and Xavier Rey
A book devoted to the renowned artist, psychoanalyst and philosopher, a pioneer of the concept of matrixial space
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger is a Franco-Israeli artist, writer, psychoanalyst and philosopher based in France. Born in Mandate Palestine on 23 March 1948, she lives and works in Paris.
Her work, deeply marked by the personal history of her parents, survivors of the Shoah, is part of a century in which modern painting developed in response to individual and collective tragedies. Drawing on both her family heritage and the history of art, she explores notions of generational transmission, trauma, collective memory and amnesia.
The originator of the concept of matrixial space, she was exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in 2024. Several of her works have been included in the permanent collections. This catalogue brings together all the works in the exhibition, views of installations, and photographs from her personal notebooks, providing a comprehensive overview of Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger’s various projects over nearly forty years.
• Ettinger’s work opens up a profound dialogue between the psychological and the aesthetic, offering a unique lens through which to view human experience and creativity.
• The inclusion of Ettinger’s work in the 2024 exhibition at the prestigious Centre Pompidou solidifies her place in contemporary art history.
Laurent Le Bon is the president of the Centre Pompidou. Xavier Rey is the director of the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre de création industrielle, Paris.
THE EGYPTIAN AVANT-GARDE ARTISTS, POETS, AND REBELS 1936-1973
by Fatenn Mostafa-Kanafani
Reclaiming the Narrative.
The Egyptian avant-garde: Western derivatives or independent pioneers?
Size 16.5 × 24 cm
(6½ × 9½ in.)
456 pages
270 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5404-3
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
Following the success of her highly acclaimed first work, Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence (1850-1936), Fatenn Mostafa-Kanafani’s new book, The Egyptian Avant-Garde: Artists, Poets, and Rebels 1936-1973, reclaims Egypt’s revolutionary art movements, positioning them as independent models within the global art historical canon. Navigating the complex intersection of art, politics, and society, Kanafani demonstrates how Egypt’s two most critical artist collectives—the Art & Liberty Group and the Contemporary Art Group—were at the forefront of a radical reimagining of Egypt, challenging Western-centric predefined frameworks that either label the former as a derivative of international Surrealism or view the latter through the lens of Islam.
The Egyptian Avant-Garde offers the first in-depth comparative study of these progressive cultural forces, fundamentally reshaping our understanding of their ideological and visual disruptions during Egypt’s fight for independence from colonial rule and in the aftermath of the 1952 Revolution.
• The book redefines Egypt’s radical art movements, presenting them as unique and influential models in the global art history.
• The first in-depth exploration of how Egyptian avant-garde movements directly engaged with the political landscape, reshaping both cultural identity and the global understanding of revolutionary art.
Fatenn Mostafa-Kanafani is an art historian and scholar, specializing in modern Egyptian art and the intersections of politics and culture, making her one of the leading figures in the study of Egyptian modernism. Her work has significantly contributed to the understanding of Egyptian cultural movements, and she continues to spearhead a deeper appreciation for Egypt’s role in the global art narrative.
TAKEHIKO SUGAWARA
texts by Nobuo Tsuji and Koichiro Noji
This landmark volume celebrates the extraordinary artistry of Takehiko Sugawara, offering a profound insight into his career and creative evolution Size
Richly illustrated and with a compelling narrative, this monograph introduces Sugawara’s evocative work to a global audience, cementing his reputation as a leading figure in contemporary Japanese art.
Born in Tokyo in 1962, Sugawara studied Japanese painting at Tama Art University. His artistic trajectory transformed in 1996 upon encountering Jindaizakura, an ancient cherry tree in Yamanashi Prefecture. This moment sparked his lifelong dedication to depicting nature’s grandeur. His subjects include iconic cherry blossoms and natural landmarks such as Usuzumizakura in Gifu, Miharu Takizakura in Fukushima, and the majestic Kirifuri no Taki waterfall in Tochigi. As a pivotal figure in 21st-century art, Sugawara bridges tradition and innovation, embodying the enduring legacy of Japanese aesthetics. He captures the vitality of nature through a fusion of techniques, employing traditional methods, such as back coloring on Echizen washi paper, alongside innovative practices like allowing burnt pine ink to crack naturally. The result is a body of work that reimagines Japanese painting, marrying age-old craftsmanship with contemporary expression.
• This monograph honors Sugawara’s ability to revitalize traditional art forms while offering a modern perspective, affirming his status as a masterful interpreter of Japan’s natural and artistic heritage.
Nobuo Tsuji is an art historian and professor emeritus at both the University of Tokyo and Tama Art University. He is the author of several influential works, including Lineage of Eccentrics: Matabei to Kuniyoshi (1970) and Playfulness in Japanese Art (1986), and of several other publications on Japanese art. Koichiro Noji is a prominent Japanese author and art historian specializing in modern Japanese art. He is currently the director of the Tokyo Branch of the Sen-Oku Hakukokan Museum.
LIU WEI
texts by Courtenay Finn and Massimiliano Gioni
The first major book devoted to the leading Chinese contemporary artist
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
272 pages
200 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5319-0
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
Liu Wei (b. 1972, Beijing, China; lives and works in Beijing, China) explores 21st-century socio-political concepts such as the contradictions of contemporary society and the transformation of developing cities and the urban landscape. In many of his sculptural and installation works, he uses found materials that are re-contextualized to draw new meanings out of the materials from which they are made. Liu Wei frequently uses geometric and architectural forms in his work as a reference to his urban surroundings.
This book will cover the artist’s overall practice and history, highlighting major moments, but focusing on the period from 2019 to 2025, which includes a major presentation at the 2019 Venice Biennale curated by the Hayward’s Ralph Rugoff and the 2019-2020 two part institutional show at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, titled Invisible Cities, which was the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. It will also feature his most recent work that will be showcased in an upcoming solo exhibition in New York.
• Liu Wei has not had a major book published not tied exclusively to an institutional show. The last large scale publication for his work was in 2012, Trilogy, tied to his solo show at the Minsheng Art Museum.
• Bringing together scholars from the United States, Europe, and China, the book will serve as a critical tool to expanding the artist’s profile globally.
• Liu Wei’s work is included in numerous collections worldwide.
Courtenay Finn is the Chief Curator & Director of Programs at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) and one half of Frank, a small publishing imprint for artist projects. Massimiliano Gioni, Italian curator and contemporary art critic based in New York, is Artistic Director of the New Museum.
Size 22.4 × 27 cm
(8¾ × 10½ in.)
184 pages
150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5408-1 £ 40.00, $ 50.00
KARL HAENDEL LESS BAD
introduction by Aldy Milliken; text by Andrea Gyorody contributions by Analia Saban, Darren Bader, Karla Diaz, Michelle Jane Lee, Ray Anthony Barrett and Hazel Haendel
A study in vulnerability and self-reflection of the American artist known for his thought-provoking hyper-realistic drawings
Published to accompany Karl Haendel’s exhibition “Less Bad”, originating at the Kimball Art Center in autumn of 2024 and traveling to the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, the book highlights key thematic elements from Haendel’s 25-year artistic output, focusing in on the artist’s exploration of masculinity, tenderness, friendship, introspection and vulnerability through drawing. The book includes a complete set of installation images from the exhibition, plates highlighting essential works, and selected details of drawings. In addition, a section of the book is devoted to Haendel’s ardent dedication to drawing, highlighting through images his approach, process, materials and distinctive installation strategy.
Less Bad contains an introductory essay by Aldy Milliken, a scholarly essay on Haendel’s work by Andrea Gyorody contextualizing it within the recent trajectory of contemporary art, a graphic essay by Hazel Haendel, the artist’s daughter, a discussion between Haendel and artist Analia Saban, and brief creative contributions by artists Darren Bader, Karla Diaz, Michelle Jane Lee, and Ray Anthony Barrett.
• Less Bad is a testament to LA-based Karl Haendel’s aesthetic innovation, conceptual depth, and ability to engage viewers in dialogues about values and belief systems.
• The book explores a wide range of themes, from intimate experiences like father-hood, love, friendship, and loss to broader issues such as tenderness, masculinity, introspection, and vulnerability.
• The book features more than 60 works, primarily in graphite on paper.
Aldy Milliken is executive director of Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah. Andrea Gyorody is director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles.
AARON PARAZETTE
edited by Nancy Zastudil texts by Michelle Grabner, Dennis Hollingsworth, Alison de Lima Greene, Aaron Parazette and Matt Warshaw
A detailed exploration of Aaron Parazette’ s artistic journey over three decades
Size 27 × 30 cm
(10½ × 12 in.)
176 pages
100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5351-0
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
The fully illustrated monograph Aaron Parazette offers an in-depth exploration of the artist’s practice over the past 30 years. Parazette (b. 1960, California) grew up by the beach and in the ocean; his temperament and aesthetics are deeply influenced by “West Coast cool” and surfing culture. His concerns have spanned beauty, originality, form, space, and color, oscillating between critique and reverence. At times ironic and at other times deeply sincere, Parazette has created a rich and compelling oeuvre grounded in abstraction, yet with a keen interest in how painting engages with the world. Featuring commissioned texts and over 100 full-color images, this volume highlights Parazette’s conceptual wit, use of color, geometry, and letterforms, and his engagement with materials and meaning.
• This fully illustrated monograph showcases the evolution of Parazette’s practice and the diverse themes he has engaged with.
• Featuring over 100 images, it captures the depth and range of Parazette’s oeuvre, providing both art lovers and scholars with an in-depth understanding of his impact on contemporary painting.
Independent editor, writer, and curator Nancy Zastudil has been advocating for artists’ voices for nearly two decades. She has held editorial, curatorial, or directorial roles at Arts+Culture Texas, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Frederick Hammersley Foundation, Tamarind Institute, and Hyperallergic. A 2024 Rabkin Prize nominee, her writing has been published in Artforum, Arts+Culture Texas, Hyperallergic, Southwest Contemporary, and more, and her research has been supported by Women’s International Study Center, National Endowment for the Arts, Graham Foundation, Utah State University, and others.
Size 23 × 28 cm (9 × 11 in.)
184 pages
120 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5354-1 £ 35.00, $ 45.00
CHRIS SOAL. TO SHARPEN OUR SENSES AND SOFTEN OUR TOUCH
introduction by Sean O’Toole texts by Natasha D. Becker and David Mann interview with the artist by Marta Papini
The work by the awardwinning, emerging South African artist
Chris Soal’s studio-based work is sculptural in its output, working with objects and materials in ways that show a conceptual engagement with the contexts and histories of the objects but that also re-enforce the body as a site for knowledge reception and production. Through his use of discarded and mundane ephemera, such as toothpicks and bottle caps, along with concrete, rebar, electric fencing cable, sandpaper, and other industrial materials, the artist intuitively develops the familiar to the point of the uncanny. Soal’s works can be considered social abstractions influenced by a reinterpreted Arte Povera that is deeply rooted in and reflective of his upbringing in Johannesburg, South Africa. Working symbiotically with his materials, Soal utilises the inherent physical characteristics of the objects to transform them through processes of aggregation, combination, and erosion. He seeks to interrogate views of nature and culture as a binary concept, foregrounding pressing ecological concerns by repositioning the viewer as an active agent within the contemporary environment. Despite the artificiality of his materials, Soal’s process allows them to take on biomorphic qualities or evoke natural phenomena, expressing his interest in their phenomenological quality.
• Soal was selected as one of ten contemporary artists to participate in redesigning three handbags as part of the 5th edition of the Dior Lady Art project.
Natasha D. Becker, a South African curator and expert in contemporary African art, is the head of the permanent collection of historical African art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Marta Papini is an independent curator and writer. Nadine Barth has been the editor for over 100 books on fashion, art, architecture, and photography, and a consultant for many more with publishers.
CHE LOVELACE
texts by Gavin Delahunty and Marsha Pearce and a conversation between Ekow Eshun and Che Lovelace
The first complete monograph devoted to the Caribbean artist whose work combines powerful visual storytelling with a deep exploration of social, political and cultural themes
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
224 pages
160 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5385-5
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
Che Lovelace (b. 1969, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) lives and works in his lifelong home of Trinidad. He holds a degree from l’École Régionale des BeauxArts de la Martinique and currently lectures at the University of the West Indies Creative Arts Campus. Rooted in the rural outskirts of Port of Spain, Lovelace considers Trinidad his ultimate subject. The flora, fauna and figures of island life are ever-present in his tropical vistas, painted on board panels split into quadrants. Lovelace’s vibrant, energetic compositions present a nuanced exploration of postcolonial identity, grounded in a deep commitment to the Caribbean landscape and its community. Lovelace’s art is a metaphorical journey through themes of resistance, freedom, mythology, and nature, intertwined with his personal sense of place and politics. His latest solo exhibitions include Day Always Comes at Corvi Mora (2023), Bathers at Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York (2023), and Nighscapes with Palms and Egrets at Various Small Fires, Dallas (2023), among others. His work is in prestigious collections worldwide and his paintings are unapologetically Caribbean, capturing the island’s rich iconography with energy and complexity, while exploring the intersection of culture, community, and identity.
• The book offers a rich exploration of Caribbean culture, identity, and postcolonial issues, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the region’s history and culture.
• Lovelace’s work captures the essence of Trinidad’s natural beauty.
Gavin Delahunty, writer and curator, over the past twenty years has curated over forty exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and published numerous articles, essays, and books. Rujeko Hockley is Assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Writer, journalist and curator, Ekow Eshun has been at the heart of creative culture for several decades, authoring books and curating exhibitions.
Size 20.1 × 26.8 cm (8 × 10½ in.)
dual-language edition (English-German)
336 pages
230 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5395-4 £ 45.00
THESE, ANTITHESE, SYNTHESE – RECONSTRUCTED
edited by Kunstmuseum Luzern
texts by Fanni Fetzer, Stanislaus von Moos, Beni Muhl and Bettina Steinbrügge
The publication explores the history and impact of the iconic exhibition “these, antithese, synthese” featuring essays and a facsimile of the original 1935 catalogue
The publication These, Antithese, Synthese – reconstructed presents, for the first time since the legendary exhibition of 1935, all the works that were shown in the Kunstmuseum Luzern against the backdrop of an increasingly totalitarian Europe. The fantastic project aimed to define a new, abstract, non-elitist art that was for everyone. In 1935, most of the works came directly from the artists’ studios; today, they hang in highly regarded collections across the world. Some were destroyed, others are missing. What were the conditions that led to that exhibition? Who selected the artists? Why were female artists not among them? And what has remained of modernism’s promises for a better life?
This publication brings together historical images, reviews of the time, and the prov-enance of the artworks. It also analyses the historical context of the Kunstmuseum Luzern. The facsimile of the exhibition catalogue designed by Jan Tschichold conveys the visionary graphic design of 1935: Tschichold established new means of expression that continue to inspire today.
• First scientific analysis of the influential 1935 group show “these, antithese, synthese”.
• The book documents the 21st century re-enactment of a trailblazing exhibition.
Fanni Fetzer has served as the director of the Kunstmuseum Luzern since 2011, after having previously held positions at the cultural magazine Du, at Kunstmuseum Thun, and at Kunsthaus Langenthal. Stanislaus von Moos is an art historian and professor emeritus of Modern Art at the University of Zürich. He published on Le Corbusier, Venturi, Scott Brown & Ass. and in 2023 the Swiss Federal Office of Culture awarded him the Grand Prix Meret Oppenheim. Beni Muhl is a Swiss art historian. Bettina Steinbrügge is director of Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand–Duc Jean.
ANTONY GORMLEY BODY BUILDINGS
texts by Hou Hanru, Stephen Greenblatt and Antony Gormley foreword by Mario Cristiani
The book explores the relationship between the human body and the built environment through sculptures and drawings
by Antony Gormley
Published on the occasion of Antony Gormley’s solo exhibition in Beijing in Spring 2025, Body Buildings interrogates our species’ relationship to the built environment, an increasingly high-rise world we rarely escape. In a significant group of recent sculptures and drawings, Gormley uses clay and iron, two ubiquitous materials of the built world, “to think and feel the body in this condition”. This publication illustrates the work in the exhibition through extensive installation photography, guiding readers from Gormley’s new installation Resting Place II (2024) to a series of sculptures investigating the relation of body to building and finally to a group of drawings published here for the first time. It also features new scholarship from Hou Hanru and Stephen Greenblatt who trace the development of this new body of work as well as Gormley’s 30-year engagement with China and the surrounding region in significant works such as Asian Field (2003), Event Horizon (2007) and Host (2016). A photo essay by the artist also tracks his ongoing dialogue with the region through a series of never-before-seen archival photographs of his first research trip to China in 1995 which took him from the Forbidden City in Beijing to the Terracotta Army in Xi’an.
• Antony Gormley is acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship between the human body and space.
• An essential resource for anyone interested in Gormley and his work.
• Gormley’s work has been widely exhibited internationally.
Hou Hanru is a Chinese-born art curator and art critic. He was artistic director of MAXXI in Rome from 2013 to 2023. Stephen Greenblatt is an American literary historian and author. Mario Cristiani is co-founder of Galleria Continua, the international contemporary art gallery.
Size 19 × 25 cm (7½ × 9¾ in.)
dual-language edition (English-Chinese)
180 pages
90 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5402-9
£ 45.00, $ 60.00
Size 22 × 26 cm
(8½ × 10¼ in.)
240 pages
180 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5269-8 £ 40.00, $ 55.00
MEHDI FARHADIAN REVEALING THE UNSEEN
edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan
A comprehensive insight into the Iranian artist’s work
The 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 he 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’s original style of painting combines a great respect for details with a powerful handling of contrasting visual effects, achieved by pouring and dripping paint and wax resist (batik). The use of magical and fantastical imagery in his works evokes both a nostalgic longing for the past and yet also hints at a vision of a futuristic utopia.
Hamid Keshmirshekan is an art historian, art critic and Research Associate at the School of Arts, SOAS, University of London.
CHUN KYUNG-JA A SPLENDID LEGEND
by Sumita Kim
contributors: Choi Kwang-jin, Eleanor Heartney, Kim Hong-hee and Barbara A. MacAdam
The art of the most prominent female artist of Korean modern and contemporary art history, on the occasion of the centenary of her birth
Size 25.5 × 30.5 cm (10 × 12 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Korean)
320 pages
270 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5330-5
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
Celebrating the centenary of her birth, this definitive monograph of the enormously influential South Korean artist Chun Kyung-Ja (1924-2015) presents her artwork alongside selections of her much-loved essays and writings to give personal insight into the life and times of this renegade and idiosyncratic artist. 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.
• The first monograph on the artist in English and Korean languages.
• Chun Kyung-Ja has often been described by critics as an artist who explored deep human emotions. She is also known by the nickname of “the magician of colors” for her bold and sophisticated color use.
• Chun Kyung-Ja’s paintings captivated the Korean people throughout her long career of seven decades, and even after her death, many regard her as kukmin hwaga, a “people’s artist.”
Sumita Kim, an artist and Professor of Art at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, is currently the Painting Coordinator of the Art Department at the Rockville Campus at MC. Eleanor Heartney is an American art critic, curator, art historian, editor and author of many publications, active in New York City. Kim Hong-Hee is an art historian, curator and critic who has served as Director of the Seoul Museum of Art and Commissioner of the South Korean Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale. Barbara A. MacAdam is an editor, writer, and curator, who has long worked for ARTnews.
artist and artwork selection by Nneoma Angela Okorie with contributions by Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti and Nneoma Angela Okorie
The definitive and debut publication of the Qatarbased ARAK Collection, home to over 4000 works by artists from Sub-Saharan Africa
The book features artworks from more than 100 artists in the collection. It serves as an essential framing text for the ARAK Collection and provides a much needed perspective on contemporary art from the continent. Through the ARAK Collection, one is able to gain a dynamic, collective vision of Africa. Arranged according to the selectively identified themes of Abstraction, Portraiture, and Place, each with an accompanying contextual essay by art critic and cultural theorist Ashraf Jamal, the publication also features short, informative texts on each artist written by Jamal, curator and researcher Nneoma Angela Okorie, and art historian and writer Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti. Through considered editorial decisions and engaging prose, African Art: The ARAK Collection places African art, and indeed the continent itself, at the centre of the world, and demonstrates why the rest of the globe is beginning to shift its focus toward the work of African artists.
• The ARAK Collection at present comprises over 4000 works by more than 300 artists, spanning 28 countries.
• Housed in Doha, Qatar, it is the largest collection of African art in the Gulf Region, and, as such, a key Afro-Asian cultural interface.
Ashraf Jamal is a Research Associate in the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg. Jamal is the former editor of Art South Africa and Art Africa. Nneoma Angela Okorie is a curator, writer and researcher. Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti, writer and art historian, is interested in practices of contemporary artists based on the African continent.
THE VICKY & MARCOS MICHA LEVY COLLECTION INHABITING ART
edited by Denise Wendel-Poray
The extraordinary Vicky and Marcos Micha Levy Collection and its masterpieces
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Spanish)
288 pages
160 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5290-2
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
This 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 Micha Levy 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 Paradoa, Ana Elena Mallet, Ana M. Franco, James Oles, Ana Garduño Ortega and of modern and contemporay European art, Jonas Storsve, Paul B. Franklin, Annie Cohen Solal and Richard Benefield.
• A comprehensive volume on the extraordinary collection of 20th-century art.
Denise Wendel-Poray is a Canadian/ French writer, editor and curator. She is author of books and essays on the relationship between art, theater and music (Painting the Stage, Skira, 2019). She has published artist’s monographs for Skira (Sofia Goscinski 2020, Kalif Tahir Thompson, 2023, Chiharu Shiota, 2024).
Size 21 × 26.5 cm (8¼ × 10½ in.) English and Arabic editions 208 pages
150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5475-3 E -5476-0 AR £ 60.00, $ 80.00
AL AIN MUSEUM: ARCHAEOLOGY, ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
edited by Peter Sheehan
The Al Ain Museum in context, tracing heritage, architecture and renewal within the UNESCO World Heritage landscape
This publication presents an account of the Al Ain Museum within its broader cultural and archaeological context. Structured in three chapters, it explores the museum’s significance within the UNESCO World Heritage landscape of Al Ain, its architectural and historical evolution, and its recent rehabilitation. The first chapter situates the museum within the cultural landscape of Al Ain, offering archaeological and historical insights into the region. Contributions by Peter Sheehan and Michel De Vreeze provide foundational context, while Abdul Rahman Al Nuaimi discusses the World Heritage designation. Cartographic inserts and a foldout timeline enhance spatial and temporal understanding. The second chapter focuses on built heritage, particularly Haret Al Hosn and the museum’s historical development. It includes archaeological analyses and conservation perspectives from Peter Sheehan and Amel Chabi. The last chapter addresses the museum’s rehabilitation, emphasising archaeological investigations conducted during construction and before it, as well as the architectural vision by Dabbagh Architects. A foldout floor plan illustrates curatorial zoning and interpretive strategies.
• While grounded in rigorous archaeological and conservation scholarship, the publication is designed for a general audience. Its accessible language and visually engaging layout aim to foster broader public understanding of Al Ain’s cultural heritage and the museum’s role within it. • The book also serves as a valuable reference for heritage professionals, archaeologists, and conservationists committed to the sustainable stewardship of cultural assets.
Peter Sheehan is an archaeologist who has been working in and around historic buildings and urban landscapes in Egypt and the Middle East for the last 30 years. His particular interests include historic building investigations and preservation, urban site formation processes and the development of cultural landscapes.
MAGAN REDISCOVERED THE BUILDING OF A BRONZE AGE BOAT THAT SAILED THE ARABIAN GULF
text by Jonathan Gornall; edited by Mo Gannon
Celebrating the UAE’s maritime heritage
Size 27 × 34 cm
(10½ × 13¼ in.)
240 pages
280 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5472-2
£ 65.00, $ 85.00
The book documents a remarkable experimental archaeology project by Zayed National Museum, in partnership with Zayed University and New York University Abu Dhabi: the recreation of a Bronze Age boat that in 2024 successfully sailed off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, once part of an ancient region known as Magan. Guided by archaeological evidence found across the region, including on Abu Dhabi’s Umm an-Nar Island, a team of scholars and traditional boatbuilders recreated the boat to gain knowledge of how Magan connected with its trading partners and to shed light on the UAE’s maritime heritage. Using only hand tools, the team employed techniques and materials based on clues found in ancient evidence, with reed bundles for the hull, black bitumen for the waterproofing and goat hair for the sail. The boat has a home in Zayed National Museum at the heart of Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Cultural District. Through a fascinating narrative and beautiful design, the book takes a deep dive into the archaeological evidence of Bronze Age boats, the building of the museum’s Magan Boat and two days of sea trials around the islands of Abu Dhabi.
• With rich visuals and compelling storytelling, the book offers a unique insights into ancient boatbuilding and the Arabian Gulf’s role as a key trading centre in the past.
• An original project that blends rigorous scholarship with the hands-on knowledge of traditional boatbuilders, bringing Bronze Age techniques and materials vividly to life.
Jonathan Gornall is a journalist, formerly with The Times of London, who has lived and worked in the United Arab Emirates. He is also a sailor and a very amateur boatbuilder. Mo Gannon, the senior English editor at Zayed National Museum, has worked as a journalist in the Arabian Gulf region since 2008. She spent her childhood sailing along Canada’s West Coast.
Size 25 × 28.5 cm (9¾ × 11¼ in.)
and Arabic editions
pages 200 colour illustrations
with slipcase ISBN 978-88-572-5455-5 E -5456-2 AR
70.00, $ 90.00
HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM ABU DHABI
edited by Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi
A timeless journey through the cosmos and life on Earth
Discover the hidden treasures of the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, a journey through time that unveils the story of our universe, the formation of our planet, and the evolution of life on Earth.
At the heart of this book are extraordinary specimens from the museum’s growing collection, each chosen for their ability to spark curiosity and deepen our appreciation of the natural world.
Through beautiful images, these treasures illuminate key moments that shaped our Solar System and life on Earth. Guided by the mission of the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi—an establishment dedicated to research, education, and sustainability—this book reflects the museum’s role as a global resource rooted in the heritage of the Arabian Peninsula. Located within the vibrant Saadiyat Cultural District, it invites readers to embark on an inspiring journey of discovery and connection with natural history.
• The book offers readers an immersive journey through time, unveiling some of the rarest and most iconic marvels of natural history.
• Discover rare treasures from the museum’s collection, brought to life through stunning visuals.
• A celebration of science, sustainability and the Arabian Peninsula’s natural legacy.
GOLDEN INK A JOURNEY THROUGH ARAB & ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS
edited by Doaa Nounou
A journey through time across the Islamic world, guided by exquisite manuscripts and artefacts that reveal unexpected stories
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
tri-lingual edition
(English-Arabic-French)
304 pages
150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5474-6
£ 50.00, $ 75.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Abu Dhabi, Qasr Al Watan
7 October 2025
7 April 2026
Montréal, McGill University from January 2027
The official catalogue for Golden Ink: A Journey Through Arab & Islamic Manuscripts accompanies the landmark exhibition opening at Qasr Al Watan, the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi, in October 2025 and traveling to McGill University, Montréal, in January 2027.
This trilingual publication (English, Arabic, French) includes over 250 pages of essays and full-color reproductions of rare manuscripts from prestigious collections. It highlights treasures never before published, offering readers an unprecedented opportunity to engage with previously unseen material. The catalogue traces the evolution of Arabic calligraphy, illumination, and manuscript culture, serving as a valuable reference for academic study and general appreciation alike. As the essential companion to the exhibition, the book is expected to attract strong interest from libraries, museums, universities, and collectors.
• A richly illustrated exploration of Islamic art, calligraphy, and intellectual history across centuries and regions.
• From sacred calligraphy to illuminated texts and scholarly traditions, the book reveals how writing was both an act of devotion and a vehicle for knowledge transmission.
Doaa Nounou, Manuscripts Research Lead at the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism.
Size 25 × 29 cm (9¾ × 11½ in.)
English and Arabic editions
496 pages
450 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5000-7 E
ISBN 978-88-572-5001-4 AR
£ 65.00, $ 75.00
BLACK GOLD MUSEUM
edited by Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia texts by Jack Persekian, Christian Janicot, Khalid Al-Ramadan, Philippe Pétriat, Gabriel Bauret, Brian Jacobson, Laura Hindelang, Axel Pierru and Majid Al-Moneef
The catalogue of the first permanent museum on oil provides a narration of the history of oil in human life
Since its discovery and commercial exploitation in the late 1850s, oil has been the commodity that has received the most attention worldwide. This is primarily due to its key role in economic, political, and social development, thereby shaping numerous societies and states’ destinies, structures, and interrelations. Its chemical properties, technical and economic implications, versatility, and easy transportation and storage have all made it an integral part of people’s lives and a key component of energy balances since the beginning of the 20th century. Various aspects of life are all innovations of the Age of Oil. Owing to its uses and the intricate web of connections it establishes between producers and consumers, in times of peace and war, stability and unrest, oil has been labeled a “strategic commodity” and called “black gold.”
Published to celebrate the inauguration of the Black Gold Museum in Riyadh, the catalogue tells the story of the unique relationship that was formed between man and oil through an innovative artistic journey to review the formations of oil from its crude state to all its amazing branches and dimensions.
• The official catalogue of the first museum dedicated to the Black Gold.
Jack Persekian is an artist and curator. Christian Janicot is artistic director, photographer, author. Khalid Al-Ramadan is professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Philippe Pétriat is Lecturer at Sorbonne, Paris and researcher at the French Centre for Archaeology and Social Sciences (Cefas, Kuwait). Gabriel Bauret is an art critic and curator. Brian Jacobson is a historian of modern visual culture and media. Laura Hindelang is assistant professor of architectural history and preservation at the University of Bern. Axel Pierru is the director of KAPSARC’s Energy and Macroeconomics. Majid Al-Moneef is the Secretary General of the Supreme Committee on Hydrocarbon Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
WHEN ENERGY BECOMES FORM
edited by Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia texts by Christian Janicot and Arnauld Pierre preface by Mona Khazindar
The Art of Oil in the works of BP group for the Black Gold Museum’s inaugural exhibition
For its inaugural exhibition, the Black Gold Museum has partnered with curator Christian Janicot in an experiential exhibition on the material nature of petroleum through selected works of the French artist collective BP. Over the last four decades, BP has associated the fetishizing of modern art with the worship of commercial gods in response to the tutelary power of oil. The shifting nature of the dialogue between past and future continues to provide Renaud Layrac – who has continued the collective’s legacy since 2008 – with ever-shifting approaches and reactions to petroleum products and industry. This catalogue conceptualizes and contextualizes discourses on the shifting nature of this vital and world-changing material. Founded in the early 1980s, BP is a French artist collective formed by Renaud Layrac, Frédéric Pohl, and Richard Bellon. The group emerged spontaneously after discovering British Petroleum stickers, which they adopted as their signature. Since then, BP has focused exclusively on the petroleum world, creating installations using industrial objects such as barrels, gas pumps, and automotive materials. Their work explores themes of appropriation, reuse, and environmental critique, often incorporating used oil as a medium. BP’s distinctive practice challenges the aesthetics and ethics of fossil fuel culture through subversive, site-specific interventions rooted in material transformation.
• The catalogue for the inaugural exhibition of the first museum dedicated to the Black Gold.
• Exploring the intersection of petroleum, society, and art, the exhibition catalogue critically examines the essential yet complex role of oil in contemporary life.
Christian Janicot, curator, works as an art consultant for exhibitions and museums, as a curator, and artistic director. Arnauld Pierre is Professor of Art History at Sorbonne University.
Size 25 × 29 cm
English and Arabic editions
(9¾ × 11½ in.)
60 pages
40 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5044-1 E
-5045-8 AR
£ 20.00, $ 35.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Riyadh, KSA, Black Gold
Museum opening in November 2025
Size 25 × 29 cm (9¾ × 11½ in.)
English and Arabic edition
360 pages
380 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4893-6 E
ISBN 978-88-572-4894-3 AR
£ 60.00, $ 75.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
from December 2025
RED SEA MUSEUM
in collaboration with Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia
The Red Sea Museum catalogue embarks the reader on a cross-cultural journey along the Red Sea, exploring its dazzling beauty and rich diversity through time, stories, and coastline cities
Nestled in the heart of Historic Jeddah’s UNESCO World Heritage site of al-Balad, the Red Sea Museum stands as a major cultural landmark celebrating the sea that shaped the region’s history. Housed in the restored heritage building Bab al-Bunt, once the gateway for pilgrims arriving by sea, the museum pays tribute to the enduring legacy of the Red Sea and the people who lived along its shores. This institutional catalogue brings the museum’s collection to life; showcasing artefacts, artworks, and narratives that weave together the cultural, environmental, and historical richness of the Red Sea.
Alongside the collection, an array of texts explores the sea’s remarkable biodiversity, its economic and sociopolitical significance, and its vital role in connecting communities across time.
Through its pages, the Red Sea Museum catalogue invites readers to discover the depth and diversity of Saudi Arabia’s maritime heritage and the shared history of the region and beyond.
• The Red Sea Museum is a cultural and historical window that provides an extraordinary insight into the aesthetic, heritage, and civilizational values of the Red Sea as well as the history of human interactions and cross-cultural encounters that has shaped its identity.
• This catalogue for the Red Sea Museum is produced by Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia to mark its inauguration in December 2025.
Jeddah, Red Sea Museum
THE GATE OF GATES
by Moath Alofi and Philippe Cardinal in collaboration with Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia
An enchanting visual journey through one of the most iconic edifices in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Bab Al-Bunt heritage building
Size 24.5 × 29 cm
(9½ × 11½ in.)
English and Arabic edition
88 pages
60 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4890-5 E
ISBN 978-88-572-4891-2 AR
£ 18.00, $ 22.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Jeddah, Red Sea Museum from December 2025
Curated by writer Philippe Cardinal, Red Sea Museum’s inaugural exhibition The Gate of Gates showcases a unique collection of photographs by renowned Saudi artist Moath Alofi that revives the soul of Bab al-Bunt, in the heart of Jeddah. Located in al-Balad, for decades, Bab al-Bunt represented the main gateway through the Red Sea for millions of Muslim believers from around the world who traveled to Holy Mecca to perform their pilgrimage. Commissioned by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture to photograph Bab al-Bunt prior to its renovation and repurposing as a museum, Moath Alofi not only captures the rich architectural details of the place; he also encapsulates the sense of mystery behind the items he found abandoned in the building, objects of the past that recall another era and stand witness to the vitality of the place for hundreds of years.
The sober yet powerful photographs convey a striking impression of serenity and purity; a serenity that probably evokes the quietude of the millions of pilgrims who landed in Jeddah after a long and perilous journey across the Red Sea, awaiting to reach their final destination in the holy city.
• Through this unique corpus of photographs, Moath Alofi uncovers the genius of the place called Bab Al-Bunt, an architectural and historical jewel in the heart of Arabia.
Moath Alofi is a Saudi Arabian artist, researcher, photographer, and explorer. He is the founder of Almthba, an interdisciplinary studio promoting art and assisting researchers in the region of Medina. Philippe Cardinal is a writer and journalist, and former Cairo correspondent for Libération. Exhibition curator, he is also a researcher in Islamology.
Size 16.5 × 24 cm
(6½ × 9½ in.)
English and Arabic edition
5 volumes, 560 pages
60 colour illustrations paperback in slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-5010-6 E
ISBN 978-88-572-5011-3 AR
£ 65.00, $ 80.00
GENIUS OF A PLACE: AL-BUNT, JEDDAH
in collaboration with Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia
An exceptional immersive journey across time and space to unravel the soul of this iconic building
Located in Al-Balad, Jeddah’s historic old town recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014, Bab Al-Bunt is a magnificent heritage building with a unique aesthetic, architectural, cultural, and historical significance. Serving as Jeddah’s customhouse until the 1950s, the building was an indispensable access point for traders whose dreams of opulence drove them to venture into the Red Sea and enter Arabia through Jeddah. But the over 100-year-old building was also a place where Muslim pilgrims from all over the world gathered before heading to Mecca. Bab Al-Bunt today hosts the Red Sea Museum established by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture to celebrate the aesthetic and heritage values of the Red Sea coastal cities.
Genius of a Place: Al-Bunt book series is an invitation to travel across time and space to unravel the soul of this iconic building. At the invitation of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture, five renown photographers and five international writers and poets from Saudi Arabia, the Arab region, and Europe have mobilized their talent to capture the essence and spirit of Al-Bunt. The result is an astonishing collection of rare images accompanied by a compelling narrative, that take the reader on a visual and historic voyage uncovering the “genius of the place” called Al-Bunt.
• Making sense of a “sense of place,” Genius of a Place: Al-Bunt offers a glimpse into an architectural and cultural trove in the heart of Arabia, giving the reader an opportunity to discover its unique charm.
GENIUS OF A PLACE: IRQAH HOSPITAL, RIYADH
in collaboration with Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia
A tribute and a documentation of Irqah Hospital, a visual and written chronicle of the iconic building’s essence before its transformation
The book tells the story of an abandoned hospital turned into a multidisciplinary art centre. Located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in the capital Riyadh, Irqah Hospital is an iconic building with a mysterious character: standing steadfastly with its imposing marble structure, spacious halls and expansive exterior, this distinctive building built in the 1980s was meant to serve as a state-of-the-art hospital. Abandoned ever since its construction, the Saudi Ministry of Culture has repurposed Irqah Hospital into an all-inclusive arts and culture centre: Irqah Creative Arts Lab. Prior to this endeavor, MoC commissioned five artist photographers and five authors to capture the spirit and memory of this iconic building. The result is an astonishing collection of rare images accompanied by a compelling narrative, that take the reader on a visual voyage uncovering the “genius of the place” called Irqah.
• An invitation to embark on an immersive journey across time and space to unravel the spirit of an iconic building, central to Saudi Arabia’s history and cultural heritage.
GENIUS OF A PLACE: ASEER, ABHA
in collaboration with Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia
The documentation of al-Muftaha Village’s uniqueness, history, characteristic architectural style, environment as well as the stories related to the spirit of the place
The book sheds light on the aesthetic and heritage value of al-Muftaha Village, a cultural edifice located in the province of Aseer. For over thirty years, this heritage village welcomed local and international artists, and evolved into a cultural hub, a platform for creativity and a space for cultural and knowledge exchange. With a view to preserve al-Muftaha Village and its cultural and artistic value, a group of photographers and writers from the Arab region and other parts of the world were commissioned by the Ministry to capture the essence and spirit of the village. As a result, an astounding collection of photographs, accompanied by engaging texts, was produced, offering an enjoyable visual and intellectual journey into understanding the “genius of the place” and the history of al-Muftaha Village.
• An invitation to embark on an immersive journey across time and space to unravel the spirit of an iconic building, central to Saudi Arabia’s history and cultural heritage.
Size 16.5 × 24 cm
(6½ × 9½ in.)
English and Arabic edition
3 volumes, 336 pages
60 colour illustrations
paperback in slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-5037-3 E
ISBN 978-88-572-5038-0 AR
£ 65.00, $ 80.00
Size 16.5 × 24 cm
(6½ × 9½ in.)
English and Arabic edition
4 volumes, 448 pages
60 colour illustrations
paperback in slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-5035-9 E
ISBN 978-88-572-5036-6 AR
£ 65.00, $ 80.00
Size 16.5 × 24 cm
(6½ × 9½ in.)
English and Arabic edition
5 volumes, 560 pages
60 colour illustrations
paperback in slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-5033-5 E
ISBN 978-88-572-5034-2 AR
£ 65.00, $ 80.00
GENIUS OF A PLACE: SAGGAF PALACE, MAKKAH
in collaboration with Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia
The essence and memory of Saggaf Palace in Makkah
In the Genius of a Place: Saggaf Palace series, the Ministry of Culture showcases the historical and aesthetic significance of one of Saudi Arabia’s most iconic palaces – a site that has witnessed key moments in the nation’s history and remains deeply embedded in its collective memory.
Originally, the Saggaf Palace served as the headquarters of the Sharif of Makkah al-Mukarramah before passing into the ownership of the Saggaf family. It was later sold to King Abdulaziz bin Saud, before ultimately being chosen as the headquarters of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
To preserve the essence and spirit of this historic site for future generations, the Ministry of Culture commissioned photographers, writers, and poets from Saudi Arabia, the Arab region, and beyond to document the palace’s architectural and aesthetic significance. The initiative culminated in a unique collection of photographs and creative writings that bring the palace’s story to life, immersing readers in a rich visual and intellectual experience.
• An invitation to embark on an immersive journey across time and space to unravel the spirit of an iconic building, central to Saudi Arabia’s history and cultural heritage.
GENIUS OF A PLACE: QASR KHUZAM, JEDDAH
in collaboration with Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia
An architectural and historical gem in the heart of Arabia
Size 16.5 × 24 cm
(6½ × 9½ in.)
English and Arabic edition
5 volumes, 560 pages
60 colour illustrations
paperback in slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-5039-7 E
ISBN 978-88-572-5040-3 AR
£ 65.00, $ 80.00
Located in the southeast of Jeddah, Khuzam Palace is one of the most important royal palaces in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: built between 1928 and 1932, the palace was central to the founding of the modern Saudi state. Serving as the main residence of King Abdulaziz bin Saud and his son King Saud, the palace witnessed the rise of the Kingdom’s diplomacy, receiving foreign delegations, kings, heads of state, ministers and ambassadors. Turned into a museum in 1983, this iconic building has gradually been abandoned.
In an effort to preserve its unique cultural and historical value, the Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia commissioned five artist photographers and five authors to capture the spirit and memory of this iconic building. The result is an astonishing collection of rare images accompanied by a compelling narrative, that take the reader on a visual voyage uncovering the “genius of the place” called Khuzam Palace.
• An invitation to embark on an immersive journey across time and space to unravel the spirit of an iconic building, central to Saudi Arabia’s history and cultural heritage.
RESTORING HERITAGE: AL-MANOUFY HOUSE TO TARIQ ABDULHAKIM MUSEUM
in collaboration with Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia
The role of architecture in preserving a country’s heritage and culture
At the heart of Historic Jeddah stands Al-Manoufy House (Bayt Al-Manoufy), a silent witness to a city shaped by centuries of cultural exchange and layered histories. Time, however, called for renewal; not as preservation alone, but as reawakening. Through careful restoration, the house is reborn as the Tariq Abdulhakim Museum. A living space where memory, art, and place converge. This book traces the journey of restoration and adaptive reuse, unfolding the delicate balance required to revive a heritage site inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. It tells a story of transformation that safeguards architectural authenticity while allowing new cultural meaning to emerge. By transforming Al-Manoufy House into a museum, the project honors a national artistic legacy and reconnects the public with the building’s enduring value, celebrating heritage in its architectural, historical, cultural, and artistic dimensions.
• This book provides an enlightening account of creative means to preserve heritage buildings while endowing them with a new value.
AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE THE ART OF ARC
in collaboration with Museums Commission, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia
The work by the young emerging Saudi artist
This interactive book features a unique selection of artworks, essays, and interviews by a remarkable Saudi new media artist, Abdullah Rashed AlSahli, famously known in the virtual space as ARC. Born with a rare neuromuscular disorder called SMA that largely shaped his life and his art practices, Abdullah AlSahli found in digital art a passion and a means to escape his harsh reality. He creates refined, intricate, and calculatingly detailed art pieces that defy physics and are whimsical in nature. Inspired by his own experience, Abdullah AlSahli also founded Art Without Limits (AWL), a studio focusing on empowering artists with disabilities to unlock their full artistic potential. By shedding light on his life, work, and story, ARC’s monograph provides an inspirational insight into the practice, methodologies, and philosophies of a successful and popular artist who has sold more than 333 pieces in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
• First monograph on the artist.
Size 21 × 27 cm
(8¼ × 10½ in.)
112 pages
60 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5009-0
£ 48.00, $ 60.00
Size 25 × 29 cm
(9¾ × 11½ in.)
dual-language edition (English-Arabic)
160 pages
120 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5012-0
£ 65.00, $ 80.00
Size 24.5 × 29 cm (9½ × 11½ in.) 88 pages
52 colour illustrations hardcover ISBN 978-88-572-5093-9 £ 35.00, $ 45.00
PICASSO AND THE PROGRESSIVE PROOF LINOCUT PRINTS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
by Richard P. Townsend
On the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, a book devoted to the progressive proofs by the leading Spanish master
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), this book explores in depth an aspect of the Spanish master’s late graphic output: the linoleum block or linocut. Published prints and their related proofs drawn from a notable private collection are examined in the context of themes Picasso developed over his entire career.
Starting with the illuminating set of eight progressive proofs made by Picasso and his printer Hidalgo Arnéra for the artist’s first published linocut, the socalled Cranach II (1958), the volume takes on a decade of work in linocut printmaking inspired by the South of France, where the artist had increasingly spent time since the 1940s. Speaking to the artist’s love affair with the region, he begins a series of linocuts depicting the bullfight. Eight proofs for the Pique II (1959) included in the book attest to this. Likewise, a proof for one of the Bacchanal series demonstrates his love of both the Côte d’Azur as well as for Classical Antiquity.
• Relatively little studied, published and exhibited, these prints provide an extraordinary opportunity to better understand the artistic process of Pablo Picasso, one of the world’s greatest artistic geniuses, and to examine one of printmaking’s most fascinating and demanding mediums, the linogravure.
Independent art historian, former museum director and president of Townsend Art Advisory LLC, Richard P. Townsend has guided the acquisition of major works of art for over thirty years. His experience ranges from old master and 19th-century paintings and drawings to modern and contemporary art, architecture and design. He has advised public and private collections around the US.
ATELIER PICASSO
by Giulia Masia
from a book by Luca Masia introduction by Giancarlo Ascari
A
great painter and his atelier, in which the lives of leading postwar artists intertwine. A remarkable graphic novel devoted to Pablo Picasso
Size 20 × 28 cm
(7¾ × 11 in.)
176 pages
160 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5099-1
£ 22.00, $ 25.00
The graphic novel Atelier Picasso is the true and timeless story of the Spanish artist’s tailor Michele Sapone, whose life was entwined with that of the great master and many other celebrated artists.
Born in Italy in Bellona, near Caserta, Michele had an innate feeling for art. He became a tailor and moved to Turin in the 1930s; after the war, he settled with his family in Nice, France, where he discovered a fascinating world. He enjoyed a fraternal relationship with Picasso, Giacometti and Hartung, trading tailor-made clothes for artworks. As Sapone himself proudly declared: “I never accepted a penny from a painter”.
His daughter Aika inherited her father’s interests and grew up among his artist friends. She and her husband Antonio opened a gallery that was like a second home to the painters and sculptors who were part of the family. The first solo exhibition was devoted to Picasso himself, but he died just before it opened on 8 April 1973.
• A story of the close friendship between the artist and his tailor remains fresh and unexpected, especially if offered in the form of a graphic novel.
• Relatively new in Italy and France; almost totally unknown in other countries.
Giulia Masia is a freelance illustrator. Since completing her studies at IED in Milan, she has worked for several publishing houses and agencies. She was among the 50 award-winning illustrators at the Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition. Luca Masia is an advertising creative and author who works in fiction, television, theatre and corporate communication. He has collaborated with the Milan Triennale for over ten years and has written several texts and books.
Size 23 × 29.5 cm
(9 × 11½ in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
208 pages
150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-272-8
£ 40.00
JEAN MUS
THE JOY OF LIVING
preface by Marina Picasso text by Dane McDowell photographs by Matteo Carassale
A groundbreaking book retracing the gardens created by the famous landscape artist over the last ten years
Jean Mus, Mediterranean landscape gardener, poet of plants and lover of nature, has designed more than 1500 gardens around the world, from Provence to California.
A spiritual heir to Le Nôtre, Ferdinand Bac and Russell Page, he combines rigour, sensuality and naturalness. A patient surveyor, he creates landscapes that respect the genius of the place, the light, the wind and the local species. His gardens combine curving lines, water features, endemic vegetation and harmony of the five senses. Both rooted in tradition and subtly modern, they offer a breath of fresh air in the face of urbanisation.
Each creation celebrates life, beauty, freshness and shade, while telling a story. Mus does not seek to impose his hand, but to reveal nature. For him, a garden is a refuge, a place to share and to marvel. His style, discreet and sensual, enchants and connects man to the earth, with a thoughtful and poetic simplicity. This book, which retraces the last ten years of the landscape artist’s creative work, is a celebration of the beauty of the world and the joy of living.
• This book offers a rare and intimate look at Jean Mus’ most recent ten years of work.
• 30 breathtaking gardens by a master.
• More than a book on gardens, this is a celebration of Mus’ philosophy.
Marina Picasso is a writer and patron of the arts. Dane McDowell, journalist and academic, is former deputy editor-in-chief of a decorating magazine, author of several books on architecture, gardens and the art of living.
FUTURE PRESENT CONTEMPORARY KOREAN ART
edited by Andy St. Louis
texts by Joowon Park and Hyo Gyoung Jeon
An essential resource for readers seeking to discover the brightest young talents from South Korea’s rich and dynamic art scene
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
232 pages
235 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5006-9
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
This generously illustrated volume surveys the most talented artists to emerge from South Korea’s burgeoning art scene in the past decade. The 25 artists introduced in this book collectively foreground the facets of contemporary Korean culture that have enabled the country’s cultural exports to resonate so strongly worldwide. Comprising a representative cross-section of artists at the forefront of a generational shift in Korean art, this book brings readers up to speed on one of the most exciting and least understood segments of the art market today.
Encompassing fields of painting, sculpture, installation, video and photography, this book spotlights the diversity of contemporary Korean art practices while offering manifold points of access for readers. Inside, expansive full-color presentations of each artist’s oeuvre are accompanied by concise and approachable texts situating their artworks amid the global contemporary art conversation. Two newly commissioned essays offer deeper analysis of the social and cultural changes experienced by these artists during their formative years.
• Artists include: Hejum Bä, Jungki Beak, Haneyl Choi, Yun Choi, Heemin Chung, Soyoung Chung, Jongwan Jang, Hyunsun Jeon, Sojung Jun, Suki Seokyeong Kang, Ayoung Kim, Dew Kim, Heecheon Kim, Kyoungtae Kim, Seeun Kim, Sylbee Kim, Eunsae Lee, Eunsil Lee, Heejoon Lee, Kang Seung Lee, Woosung Lee, GaHee Park, Gwangsoo Park, Min Jung Song and Hyangro Yoon.
Andy St. Louis is a Seoul-based writer, editor, curator and consultant with more than a decade of experience in the field of contemporary Korean art.
Size 25 × 32 cm (9¾ × 12½ in.)
424 pages
300 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-294-0 £ 70.00, $ 90.00
ARIK LEVY: INSIDE OUT
texts by Jean-Claude Carme, Tom Fecht, Hans Irrek, Pitsou Kedem and Jérôme Peignot
The latest monograph of the artist, renowned for his iconic Rock sculptures and monumental installations
Arik Levy is a world-renowned multidisciplinary artist whose creative force spans sculpture, industrial design, photography, video, and contemporary art. Born in Tel Aviv in 1963 and based in Paris, Levy is best known for his iconic Rock sculptures and his monumental public installations that transform spaces into emotional landscapes. Levy’s artistic philosophy is rooted in emotional resonance and spatial dialogue. He sees life as a “system of signs and symbols,” and his works often reflect this sense of coded beauty—objects that provoke reflection, emotion, and interaction.
• Arik Levy’s celebrated Rock series, with its mineral, crystalline forms, has been exhibited and installed in public spaces across the globe—from RockGrowth at the Atomium in Brussels to RockFormationTower in Saint-Paul-de-Vence and major projects in Moscow, Istanbul and Switzerland.
• Levy’s works are included in major collections including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Tom Fecht, artist and scientist. Pitsou Kedem, architect. Hans Irrek, essayist. Jérôme Peignot, poet.
CLÉMENCE VAN LUNEN
texts by Arie Hartog, Harry Bellet and Ludovic Recchia foreword by Nina Childress
This monograph reveals how Clémence van Lunen found her artistic voice in ceramics
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
tri-language edition (French-English-German)
184 pages
150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-288-9 £ 35.00
EXHIBITIONS SCHEDULE
Keramis, Centre de la céramique
Louvière (Belgium)
October 2025 – March 2026
Bremen, Germany
Gerhard-Marcks-Haus March–June 2026
This monograph traces the career of Clémence van Lunen, a sculptor who trained in Belgium with Michel Smolders and then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Although she first explored materials such as wood and metal latticework, it was in ceramics that she found her true artistic fulfilment. Her commitment to this medium was affirmed through a series of important residencies: first in Spain and France and above all in China, at Jingdezhen, where she has worked regularly since 2004 in a converted former state factory. Passionate about teaching, Clémence van Lunen teaches drawing and sculpture at a number of institutions, including the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design of Nancy. She was also the Director of the Ateliers Beaux-arts of Paris. This publication highlights a dense and coherent career, in which ceramics becomes the vehicle for a personal and demanding sculptural language.
• In collaboration with Galerie Polaris, Keramis - Centre de la Céramique and Gerhard-MarcksStiftung Museum.
Arie Hartog is director of the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen. Harry Bellet is a journalist, writer and art historian. Ludovic Recchia is director and curator of the Keramis - Centre de la Céramique in La Louvière (Belgium). Nina Childress is a painter, member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
GUY DE MALHERBE
essays by Cyrille Sciama and Pierre Wat foreword by Olivier Kaeppelin
A painter of the French art de vivre
Born in 1958, Guy de Malherbe lives and works between Paris and his studio in Poncé-sur-Loir, Sarthe. His still-lifes are often inspired by memories of shared, convivial moments. With great humor, they combine gastronomy and painting to maliciously illustrate a French art de vivre. Witness to happiness as well as the ephemeral, they are a philosophical reminder of the brevity of life. At the same time, his still-lifes are also an exploration of an artistic heritage: the oyster are sometimes pop in the manner of Andy Warhol, sometimes classical in the tradition of Jean Siméon Chardin, sometimes almost surreal, recalling the enigmatic landscapes of Giorgio de Chirico. These pictorial allusions are complemented by a play on self-reference: oysters, shores and rocks are part of a series of paintings that respond to each other over the years.
• A comprehensive portrait of a singular artistic voice.
• The book traces the evolution of Guy de Malherbe’s richly personal and multifaceted work.
Cyrille Sciama is director of the Musée des impressionnismes in Giverny. Pierre Wat is a French art historian, art critic and university professor. Olivier Kaeppelin is a French curator, art critic and author.
JITISH KALLAT
A monograph on one of the most famous Indian artists of his generation
Born in 1974 in Mumbai, Jitish Kallat is one of the most profound and insightful Indian artists of his generation. He uses artistic media as varied as painting, collage, sculpture, video, photography and installations to establish a philosophical and poetic dialogue between the cosmos and everyday life. Tender, concerned and ironic, his works are inspired by current Indian politics as well as by sociology, biology, astronomy and archaeology. In 2015, the video The Eternal Gradient featured 365 round Indian buns - rotis - imitating each phase of an annual moon cycle, combining the beauty of the stars with that of everyday life. In 2017, after a five-year break, he returned to painting with Palindrome/Anagram Painting, a mysterious herbarium in which oversized fossils stand alongside delicate vegetation. Time, ritual and nature also drive his latest installation: in early 2023, in front of Somerset House in London, Whorled (Here After Here After Here) unrolls 168 metres of concentric spirals made of biodegradable mesh and printed on one side, like road signs, with the names of worldwide locations threatened by rising waters or already destroyed.
• The book explores the profound artistic journey of Jitish Kallat, one of India’s most influential contemporary artists, represented by Galerie Templon in France and Belgium.
Size 22 × 29 cm
(8½ × 11½ in.)
(dual-language edition)
184 pages
100 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-264-3
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
Size 20 × 26 cm
(7¾ × 10½ in.)
dual-language edition
(English-French)
208 pages
150 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-239-1
£ 45.00
PUBLICATION October 2026
Size 24 × 31 cm (9½ × 12¼ in.)
208 pages
120 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5454-8
£ 50.00, $ 60.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Malta, MICAS Malta
International Contemporary Art Space 25 October 2025 4 April 2026
MILTON AVERY COLOUR FORM & COMPOSITION
edited by Edith Devaney
Milton Avery, the poet of colour
“Why talk when you can paint?” the reticent Milton Avery, grand colourist of modern American art, is reported to have once said. As an aphorism it seems to encapsulate the silent world of this prodigious artist whose method of communication was his canvas. Avery was revered by those who saw in him a master of colour, as his works graduated from early Impressionist landscapes, to the flattened forms of colour that critics say paved the way for the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s. Avery remains an influential painter for today’s generation of contemporary artists.
• The book is published on the occasion of the most comprehensive European survey of Milton Avery’s work to date.
• It includes contributions and works by leading contemporary artists — including March Avery, Henni Alftan, Jonas Wood, and Nicolas Party — responding to Avery’s legacy and use of colour.
Edith Devaney is the artistic director at MICAS. For twenty years she was a senior curator at the Royal Academy of Arts where she was responsible for originating and curating exhibitions.
THE SPACE WE INHABIT
edited by Edith Devaney
The works of six Maltese artists and their relationship with space
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
176 pages
100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5452-4
£ 45.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Malta, MICAS Malta International Contemporary Art Space 14 June 2025 28 September 2025
Throughout the 20th century, Maltese art evolved from traditional academic styles toward modernism, with its artists frequently training in European centres, engaging with global themes while maintaining connections to the island's unique cultural heritage.
The book features the works – including paintings, sculpture, video and sound-based work – of six Maltese artists of different generations, with almost all establishing far-reaching reputations: Caesar Attard, Vince Briffa, Austin Camilleri, Joyce Camilleri, Anton Grech and Pierre Portelli. Arranged around the theme of space – both real and imagined – each of the six artists has responded in different ways, with some evoking a sense of a landscape and others taking a more conceptual view on the idea of space, and by extension, place.
• A celebration of Maltese contemporary art through the works of six renowned Maltese artists offering a distinct perspective on the evolving concept of space.
• The book, and the exhibition, underlines Malta’s rising global presence in contemporary art.
Edith Devaney see above.
OLIVIERO LEONARDI: VITREOUS ENAMEL PAINTINGS
texts by Renato Miracco, Andrea Cortellessa, Stefano Chiodi, Luca Beatrice, Katarina Đošan, Régine Suhas, and Giulia Beatrice
Rediscovering the work of the Italian artist
This comprehensive publication serves as a compelling academic rediscovery of Oliviero Leonardi (1921 – 2019) through the lenses of its most unique medium: vitreous enamel painting on steel plates. With detailed insights from authoritative contributors in the field and an expertly curated selection of works, the book offers a deep dive into the artist’s innovative techniques, themes, and contributions to the evolution of postwar art in Italy and Europe. This unique publication is meant to become the scientific reference on the artist and offers scholars, curators, art enthusiasts and collectors a rare opportunity to revisit an important, yet overlooked, figure of the postwar Italian art scene.
• A unique publication that revisits for the first time in the last 40 years the forgotten legacy of Oliviero Leonardi, a pioneer in vitreous enamel painting on steel.
Renato Miracco is a scholar, art critic, and curator. Andrea Cortellessa is a literary critic and historian of Italian literature. Luca Beatrice was an art critic, curator, and journalist. Katarina Đošan is an art curator at the National Museum of Serbia. Regine Suhas is the President of Association Oliviero Leonardi. Giulia Beatrice is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University of Zurich.
SHAY FRISCH: HALO
edited by Shai Baitel
“A halo can be visible or invisible, yet it is always a manifestation of the inner nature of things.” –Shay Frisch
In Halo Shay Frisch reimagines the traditional notions of the halo for a contemporary audience. By drawing on historical, spiritual, and technological themes, the artist invites viewers to engage with energy as both a physical phenomenon and a metaphor for infinite possibility. Halo highlights the artist’s large-scale, site-specific installations where light becomes a visible manifestation of electricity. Frisch’s work connects sacred and secular realms and explores the enduring power of circular motifs to evoke connection, balance, and transcendence. Using circuits, bespoke electrical components, and industrial materials, the artist arranges these elements into geometric forms that emit light, transforming inert objects into dynamic fields of energy.
• Shay Frisch’s works have been shown in various museums and foundations all around the world.
Shai Baitel, exhibition curator and writer, is the artistic director of The Modern Art Museum (MAM) in Shanghai.
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Italian)
312 pages
350 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5429-6
£ 60.00, $ 80.00
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
English-Chinese edition
152 pages
65 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5431-9
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
Size 27 × 30 cm
(10½ × 11¾ in.)
196 pages
120 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5437-1
£ 50.00, $ 70.00
PUBLICATION September 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Malibu, CA
Frederick R. Weisman
Museum of Art at Pepperdine University 2026
RUTH PASTINE: LIMITLESS
edited by Nancy Zastudil
texts by Shana Nys Dambrot, Andrea Gyorody, Dorothy Kosinski and Julie Perlin Lee
The first comprehensive monograph on the acclaimed artist
Ruth Pastine (b. 1964) is known for her minimalist colour field paintings and multi-panel installations that extend the sensibilities of the 1960s Southern California Light and Space movement. For more than forty years, Pastine has pursued a phenomenological investigation of visual perception, which she explores through the materiality of paint and the elusive and relative qualities of colour, radiance, and depth.
This fully illustrated monograph situates the artist’s work in the context of 20th- and 21-century painting, abstraction, minimalism, and perceptual art in relation to Light and Space through an examination of the tensions that drive her practice: materiality and immateriality, the known and the unknown, the finite and the limitless.
• The book contributes new scholarship from practitioners who demonstrate a longstanding commitment to contemporary painting, Light and Space, post-war abstraction, and minimalism, and to the growing swell of critical interest in women artists who have been historically influential but underrepresented and less known internationally.
Nancy Zastudil has been advocating for artists’ voices for nearly two decades. She has edited numerous exhibition catalogues and monographs.
TERESA MARGOLLES: HOW DO WE GET OUT?
edited by Denise Wendel-Poray texts by Imma Prieto, Zairong Xiang and Udo Kittelmann Contemporary Mexican artist Teresa Margolles and the aesthetics of violence
Size 22 × 28 cm (8½ × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Spanish) 304 pages
150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5439-5
£ 55.00, $ 75.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Monterrey, Mexico
Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo MARCO
13 November 2025 22 March 2026
In Mexico, a country that daily faces the brutal reality of femicide, forced migration, institutional violence and social marginalization, Margolles’ work acquires an urgent relevance. Her artistic approach, which delves into the raw and tangible materiality of trauma, enables the public to directly confront realities that are usually invisible or silenced. The strength of her proposals lies precisely in this ability to transfer structural violence to the space of aesthetic contemplation, forcing the viewer to confront the ethical and emotional complexity of contemporary violence.
The book features works dating from 2004 until today. These range from large installation, including sound installation, mixed media works, a collaborative work with embroidered fabric, and performative works.
• Two decades of powerful work by Teresa Margolles, one of the most important conceptual artists working on themes of violence, death, and social injustice in Latin America.
Denise Wendel-Poray is a Canadian writer, editor and curator. Imma Prieto is a Spanish curator, writer, and researcher. Zairong Xiang is a scholar, curator, and writer. Udo Kittelmann is a renowned German curator and museum director.
ADRIANO AMARAL
edited by Germano Dushá
The first publication entirely devoted to the groundbreaking work of Brazilian artist
Spanning his most significant works from 2017 to 2025, this first monographic publication dedicated to the work of the Brazilian artist Adriano Amaral (b. 1982) features newly commissioned essays by Germano Dushá, Margot Norton, and Tamar Clarke-Brown, alongside an in-depth interview conducted by Sarah Johanna Theurer. More than a retrospective survey, the book is conceived as an extension of Amaral’s artistic method—an object that carries the same atmospheric charge and energetic density as his installations. Beyond documentation, it seeks to synthesize the core pursuits, concepts, and visualities that have defined the artist’s practice over the past 15 years.
• Featuring insightful contributions from leading curators and critics, the book offers an in-depth look at Amaral’s evolving practice.
Germano Dushá is a curator, writer, and cultural agent. In the intersection of aesthetics, critical thinking and esoteric traditions, his practice assumes multiple forms—as curatorial, literature, and hypermedia experiments—to investigate social imaginaries, and dwell on the energy fluxes connected to radical subjective experiences and transmutation processes. With Skira he recently published Paulo Monteiro (2024).
THE FINE ARMS: GEOPOLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY ART
edited by Enrico Mascelloni
Contemporary art and its central role in the global geopolitical landscape
Contemporary art, positioned at the intersection of market forces and cultural trends, has become a crucial marker of national influence and identity. Contrary to the widespread belief that contemporary art possesses a unique capacity to resolve conflicts and promote cross-cultural understanding, this book argues that such assumptions are increasingly misplaced. In a context marked by the resurgence of nationalism and geopolitical tensions, contemporary art functions less as a force for reconciliation and more as a strategic tool within international power dynamics. The first part of the book undertakes a critical examination of contemporary art’s interactions with diverse societal domains, including religion, violence, tourism, globalization, and the art market. The second part offers a series of monographic analyses that trace the growing centrality of contemporary art across twenty-five nation-states.
• Written by the renowned curator, a unique geopolitical lens covering 25 countries.
Enrico Mascelloni is an art critic with an interest in geopolitics. His analysis of the relationship between contemporary art and geopolitics has focused on some of the most daring movements of the Western avant-garde, on the visual renewal of Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Size 24 × 26 cm (9½ × 10¼ in.)
224 pages
170 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5459-3
£ 45.00, $ 65.00
Size 15 × 21 cm (5¾ × 8¼ in.)
288 pages
b/w illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5460-9
£ 30.00, $ 40.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
208 pages
150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-297-1 £ 40.00
PUBLICATION June 2026
NAJIA MEHADJI
edited by Michel Gauthier
A comprehensive retrospective of a unique Franco-Moroccan voice who has been exploring the theme of time for over forty years
Najia Mehadji, Franco-Moroccan painter and artist, explores abstraction, gesture, and spirituality, creating works that span more than forty years of practice.
An expressive and contemplative artist, she draws on both Western avant-garde movements and Mediterranean and Sufi traditions. Her paintings and drawings combine fluid movement, intricate arabesques, and a profound sense of rhythm and space. Each piece is an exploration of the invisible, a dialogue between movement, color, and light. Mehadji’s work is at once deeply personal and universally resonant. It balances intensity and serenity, spontaneity and discipline, inviting viewers to contemplate the inner and outer worlds.
• Co-edited by L’Atelier 21 art gallery, an essential monograph highlighting one of the most prominent Morrocan contemporary art female artists.
• Part of the Figures collection curated by Brahim Alaoui, former director of the Museum of the Institut du monde arabe, exhibition curator, and cultural engineering consultant.
Michel Gauthier is art historian, curator at the Centre Pompidou, author of several books on contemporary art and modern painting, and author of this monograph.
ALYMAMAH RASHED: THE SPIRIT MULTIPLIES FOR YOU AND I TO MEET AGAIN
under the direction of Océane Sailly; texts by Sulayman Al Bassam, Wadha Al-Aqeedi, Elina Sairanen, Julie Bonneric, Genevieve Hyacinthe and Alymamah Rashed
The first publication dedicated to the Kuwaiti artist
Size 21 × 30 cm
(8¼ × 12 in.)
180 pages
180 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5480-7
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
This first monograph offers a comprehensive insight into the practice of Alymamah Rashed (b. 1994), the Kuwaiti visual artist who explores topics of identity and the natural environment through the story of her body. The book explores the central themes that shape her work, presenting the philosophy behind her relationship to painting, watercolors, performance, and time-keeping, while also opening the doors of her studio to the reader. Richly illustrated, the monograph reveals how Rashed’s practice is rooted in the body as a vessel, the spirit’s multiplicity, and the dialogue between natural environments, memory, and mythology.
• A visual and conceptual map of Rashed’s evolving artistic universe, with original essays and poems authored by the artist herself, offering readers an intimate access to her voice.
Océane Sailly is the founder and director of Hunna Art, a gallery dedicated to showcasing emerging women artists from the Arabian Peninsula. Sulayman Al Bassam is a Kuwaiti playwright, theatre director and actor. Genevieve Hyacinthe teaches History of Art and Visual Culture at CCA, San Francisco. Dr. Julie Bonnéric is an archaeologist and researcher at the French Institute of the Near East. Mathqaf is a research-based platform and curatorial collective focused on modern and contemporary art from West Asia and North Africa.
MAKNANA: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF NEW MEDIA ART IN THE ARAB WORLD
edited by Haytham Nawar and Ala Younis
A unique account of Arab New Media Art
New Media art is a dynamic interplay of technology and artistic expression. Organized by Diriyah Art Futures, the first New Media Arts hub in the Middle East and North Africa region, Maknana offers a unique lens into the intersection of art and technology within the Arab world, inviting reflection on both the past and future of artistic expression in a rapidly changing landscape. Maknana is a homage to the collective journey of Arab New Media artists who have found ways to navigate, adapt, and repurpose global technological trends to reflect their unique perspectives.
• Bringing together more than fifty artists from across the Arab world, Maknana highlights a crucial moment in the history of contemporary art
Haytham Nawar is a practicing artist, designer, and scholar in the fields of art and design. He currently serves as Director of Diriyah Art Futures at the Ministry of Culture in Riyadh and a tenured faculty member at the American University in Cairo. Ala Younis is an artist focusing on research, film, and publishing projects. She worked as co-Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale (2022) and research scholar at al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art at NYU Abu Dhabi.
AKADEMY DIALOGUES: INTERVIEWS BY SHAI BAITEL
edited by Shai Baitel
A selection of intimate, thought-provoking interviews with globally influential women
This book presents a curated series of in-depth interviews with a dozen influential members of London’s Akademy Club—a private members club originated in London’s Soho, with extensions in the Emirates and Miami, known for its intellectual rigor and eclectic membership across the arts, sciences, diplomacy, and cultural leadership. The Akademy is a discreet hub for independent thinking, offering an intimate window into contemporary cultural life.
Led by Shai Baitel—artistic director, curator, and cultural interlocutor—Akademy Dialogues serves as a taxonomy of leading women around the world. Each chapter captures a candid conversation with a woman who has reshaped her field.
• From artist Marina Abramović to astronaut Helen Sharman, the book provides a compelling glimpse into London’s Akademy Club.
Shai Baitel, exhibition curator and writer, is the artistic director of The Modern Art Museum (MAM) in Shanghai.
Size 25 × 29 cm (9¾ × 11½ in.)
English and Arabic editions
300 pages
200 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5046-5 E
-5047-2 AR
£ 60.00, $ 75.00
Size 24 × 31 cm (9½ × 12¼ in.)
252 pages
70 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5446-3
£ 70.00, $ 95.00
PUBLICATION September 2026
Size 23 × 29 cm
(9 × 11½ in.)
German edition
224 pages
210 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-295-7 £ 35.00
PUBLICATION April 2026
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Bonn, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
13 March – 9 August 2026
AMAZÔNIA INDIGENOUS CREATIONS AND FUTURES
edited by Leandro Varison and Denilson Baniwa
Discover the riches of the Amazonian worlds
The Amazônia catalogue presents the contemporary nature of Amazonian worlds across time and space, revealing singular historical and aesthetic concepts. Despite its fame, this part of the world remains paradoxically little-known. Beyond the virgin forest fantasised by the West, this publication presents the Amazon as a complex ecosystem, through the eyes of the indigenous peoples living in the region. Diverse and plural, they are both ancient and contemporary. With over 200 illustrations – contemporary art, ephemeral or immaterial art (languages, songs, body art), works from the collections of the Musée du Quai Branly, among others – this book invites readers to discover the Amazon as a place of knowledge, creation, and protest deeply rooted in the present.
• The catalogue centers the voices and visions of indigenous Amazonian peoples, offering a rare and authentic look at their cultures.
Leandro Varison is head of research at the Musée du Quai Branly — Jacques Chirac. Denilson Baniwa is an artist, curator, designer, and activist for the rights of Brazilian indigenous peoples.
MONTRESSO ART FOUNDATION
introduction by the Foundation text by Jean-Louis Haguenauer
Montresso Art Foundation: 16 years of shaping contemporary art in Morocco and beyond
Size 22 × 32 cm
(8½ × 12½ in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
208 pages
180 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-296-4
£ 50.00
PUBLICATION May 2026
Founded in 2009 near Marrakech, the Montresso Art Foundation has been a pioneering force in supporting contemporary art in Morocco. Over the past 16 years, the foundation has fostered artistic creation through its renowned residency program, Jardin Rouge, exhibitions, and a growing collection of contemporary artworks. Jardin Rouge serves as a creative laboratory where international artists can experiment, reflect, and produce new work in a collaborative setting. The foundation's commitment to promoting diverse artistic voices has established it as a key player in the cultural landscape of Morocco and beyond.
• Published to mark the 16th anniversary of the Montresso Art Foundation, one of the few contemporary art foundations in Morocco, and to coincide with the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2025.
• Through a comprehensive timeline and curated selections, the book offers an in-depth look at the foundation's impact and the artists it has supported.
Jean-Louis Haguenauer is the founder of the Montresso Art Foundation. Estelle Guillié is the artistic director of the Montresso Art Foundation.
PAULO MONTEIRO
edited by Germano Dushá
The work by the Brazilian visual artist
Paulo Monteiro (São Paulo, 1961) began his artistic journey at sixteen, drawn to comic strips. In 1982, he co-founded Casa 7, a group that sought to revitalize Brazilian painting while embracing outside influences. Following the dissolution of Casa 7, Monteiro explored new techniques and formal solutions, deepening his investigation into the boundaries between drawing, painting, and sculpture, in dialogue with the legacy of the Neo-Concrete movement. Exploring the limits of form, Monteiro investigates the line as both choreographic trace and dividing boundary. 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.
• Monteiro’s work is part of permanent museum collections aroun the world.
• Paulo Monteiro was included in two editions of the São Paulo Biennial, in 1985 and 1994, in the Habana Biennial (1986), and the Cuenca Biennial (1997).
Germano Dushá, curator, writer and cultural agent, was the cocurator of the 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art of the Modern Art Museum, São Paulo (October 2024/January 2025).
ZHANG ZHAOYING
by Lü Peng
A leading figure of the new generation of Chinese contemporary artists
This book focuses on the rising star Zhang Zhaoying (b. 1988), whose work blends influences from the Renaissance, European modern art and the avant-garde movements. Drawing on the evolution of Chinese painting since the 1980s, his art spans Realism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and Pop Art, yet breaks away from traditional frameworks to create a distinctive methodology marked by both free technique and controlled execution. His diverse visual language reflects China’s rapid transformation and captures the contradictions of modern life, offering a complex, multifaceted narrative that transcends personal storytelling.
• Represented by the prestigious Yibo Gallery in China, Zhang Zhaoying’s works have garnered the attention of prominent collectors, including luminaries such as Wang Guangyi and Zeng Fanzhi, and are housed in esteemed institutions such as the MART Museum of Trento and Rovereto.
Lü Peng is a leading Chinese art curator, critic, and historian. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Theory at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, as well as at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2017, he has served as President of L-Art University.
Size 22 × 28 cm (8½ × 11 in.)
224 pages
150 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5295-7
£ 55.00, $ 70.00
Size 19 × 26 cm (7½ × 10¼ in.)
144 pages
170 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5346-6
£ 20.00, $ 25.00
CONTEMPORARY ART FROM QATAR THE ABDULLA BIN ALI AL THANI COLLECTION
edited by Brahim Alaoui; text by Charbel Dagher
Masterpieces of contemporary art from an extraordinary collection
The Al Thani Collection contains an exceptional array of artworks spanning the ancient world to the present day. Encyclopaedic in its approach, and representing a diverse range of cultures and civilisations, this extraordinary collection celebrates creativity and the universal power of art through the ages.
The book includse a preface by Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani and an important and rich essay by Charbel Dagher.
• This catalogue brings together the works of contemporary Qatari art in the Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani collection.
Initially a researcher at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, art historian Brahim Alaoui was director of the museum of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, between 1987 and 2007. He is the author of many written works and catalogues, notably on contemporary Arab artists. Charbel Dagher is a Lebanese professor at the University of Balamand, Koura, Lebanon. He has been an active and prominent voice on the Arab cultural scene, mainly in the fields of poetry, Arabic language and Arab and Islamic arts.
COLLECTING THE FUTURE. VISIONS OF ITALIAN MODERN ART IN THE WORKS OF FONDAZIONE DE FORNARIS
edited
by Francesco Guzzetti; editorial coordination Paola Gribaudo
An original insight into Italian art of the 20th century
This book offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century Italian art, focusing on the works acquired by the Fondazione Guido ed Ettore De Fornaris in Turin over its first forty years, from 1982 onwards. Each chapter addresses a topic central to the global cultural debate, such as the question of the monument, the significance of material in painting, and the concept of representation. The themes are explored through their development by different generations of artists featured in the collection. Particular attention is given to the work of Alberto Burri, Giorgio de Chirico, Arturo Martini, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, and Enrico Prampolini.
• Major masterpieces by leading artists of 20th century divided into five chapters: Matter, Monument, Nature, Perspective, Performance.
Francesco Guzzetti is assistant professor of Modern and contemporary art at the University of Florence. Specialised in Italian art from the post-war years to early 1980s and its relationship with that of the United States, he published several essays and curated exhibition both in Italy and the United States.
THE MUSÉE D’ORSAY IN 365 WORKS
with a preface by Paul Perrin
A new, expanded version of the guide to the permanent collections of the Musée d’Orsay, one of France’s greatest museums
A unique opportunity to discover the Musée d’Orsay, recognised as the world’s largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, with a “360-degree” presentation of the 365 works carefully selected to represent the collections and reproduced in this book. Each work is accompanied by a technical sheet and a note written by a curator describing the artist, the context in which it was produced, its description and an aesthetic analysis. This didactic work has become a reference in art history: the works are presented in chronological order, demonstrating the artistic wealth of the period from 1830 to 1930. Whether paintings, sculptures, photographs or objects, these works have earned the institution an international reputation, and its compact format means that it accompanies visitors throughout their visit, enabling them to discover the works in an enlightened way.
• A guide to the world’s largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.
Paul Perrin is Head of Curatorial and Director of Collections at the Musée d’Orsay.
COLOURS!
forewords by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and Laurent Le Bon; introductory text by Didier Ottinger; 13 essays by art, musicology and olfactology specialists
The art and science of chromaticism, featuring masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou Collection
Colours!, which relies on the Centre Pompidou’s collections, was designed from a surprising observation: as obvious as such a subject may seem, there are very few works devoted to the modern artistic use of colour. Through an original itinerary evoking the chromatic disks that fascinated artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Colours! also explores the notion of synesthesia, that mysterious dialogue between sound, smell and visual perception. About one hundred masterpieces – from the early 20th century to the present day – punctuate this journey, raising the question of the “decorative”, inherent in the pictorial use of colour.
• Enriched by 13 essays written by researchers, historians, art historians, musicologists, art critics and Maison Fragonard’s nose, it rigorously explores the iconographic, symbolic and cultural reasons for modern chromaticism, relying on analyses by these specialists.
• Full-page reproductions of each of the works on display, created by Matisse, Magritte, Dalí, Dubuffet, Kooning, Delaunay or Picasso, foster a sensitive experience of colour.
Didier Ottinger is General Curator and Deputy Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Laurent Le Bon is President of the Centre Pompidou.
Size 16 × 20 cm
(6¼ × 7¾ in.)
352 pages
350 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-285-8
£ 20.00
Size 19 × 26 cm
(7½ × 10¼ in.)
256 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-283-4
£ 30.00, $ 35.00
Size 24.5 × 29 cm
(9½ × 11½ in.)
256 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5270-4
£ 60.00, $ 75.00
HANS JOSEPHSOHN
edited by Cornelius Tittel
The work of the Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012), one of the great masters of sculpture of the second half of the 20th century
Born in 1920 in Eastern Prussia from Jewish parents, Hans Josephsohn left Germany in 1937 and settled in Florence with the aim of studying art. Forced to leave due to fascist racial laws, he moved to Switzerland, which became his adoptive country. Josephsohn’s oeuvre has been defined as “existential sculpture”: in a time that was strongly characterised by the physical and moral devastation left by World War II, Hans Josephsohn developed a language capable to talk about the fragile relationship of mankind with the surrounding world. He was concerned with representing the human being as a figure in space throughout his life. His sculptures are characterised by an ambivalence of the almost abstract figure whose individuality is secured by its form, material and surface.
• Designed by the acclaimed art director Mike Meiré, the book includes a foreword by Fabrice Hergott, an introduction by the exhibition curator, the artist Albert Oehlen, essays by Thomas Houseago, Danièle Cohn and a photo essay François Halard.
Cornelius Tittel is editor-in-chief of Blau International, a large-format art magazine whose contributors include the French interiors photographer François Halard, the French fashion stylist Marie Chaix and the German astrologer Alexander von Schlieffen.
GLORY OF THE WORLD COLOR FIELD PAINTING (EARLY 1950S TO 1983)
by Bonnie Clearwater
A New Look at mid-twentieth century Color Field painting
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
168 pages
85 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5221-6
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
This book casts new light on mid-twentieth century Color Field painting from the perspective of the artists’ ambitions for the future of abstract painting. Color Field was not an art movement, rather it was a cohort of likeminded artists. While the American Abstract Expressionists cleared a path for this postwar generation to forge ahead with abstract painting, their achievements also challenged artists such as Frank Bowling, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, Alma Thomas to create abstraction anew. The book’s title Glory of the World takes its cue from the writings of Frank Stella on the influential artist and teacher Hans Hofmann whose glorious and exalted abstract paintings, produced solely through the straightforward manipulation of pigment, set a high bar for this generation’s aspirations.
• The selection of paintings focuses primarily on the earlier years of Color Field beginning in the 1950s with Frankenthaler’s large stain paintings and ends 1983.
Bonnie Clearwater is Director and Chief Curator, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Formerly she was curator of The Mark Rothko Foundation, New York, and has organized major exhibitions of Frankenthaler, Lichtenstein, Rothko, and Stella.
BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS: SOLID!
edited by Zoé Whitley; co-published by Skira and Jack Shainman Gallery
A comprehensive monograph which traces the artist’s evolution for the entirety of his career
From revolutionizing portraiture to redefining the nude, Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017) is rightly known among the foremost American figurative painters of the late 20th century. Yet his six-decade artistic oeuvre encompasses not only large-scale canvases of distinctively dressed (or undressed) individuals, but also includes evocative landscapes, hard-edged geometric abstractions, lush watercolours on paper, and singular photographs informed by his studies with Walker Evans. This definitive volume spans all aspects of the artist’s practice, probing his photographic experimentation, celebrating his great sensitivity as a colourist, highlighting the observational genuineness in his provocative and personal interpretations of women. Socially urgent and aesthetically powerful, Barkley L. Hendricks: solid! is lavishly illustrated by dozens of previously unpublished works and accompanied by original essays by scholars and curators.
• After the four first booklets (Works on Paper; Landscape Paintings; Basketball Paintings; Photography), the complete monograph on the artist.
Zoé Whitley is an American art historian and curator who has been director of Chisenhale Gallery, London since 2020.
MASTERPIECES. THE WILLIAM RUBIN COLLECTION DIALOGUE OF THE TRIBAL AND THE MODERN
by Phyllis Hattis
Masterpieces of modern and tribal art from the Rubin Collection
This monograph celebrates William Rubin (1927-2006) and his impact on the world of modern art. Renowned as the Director of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art from 1967 to 1988, Rubin is remembered for his unprecedented acquisitions for MoMA’s collection and the ground-breaking exhibitions that showcased them, accompanied by monographs that have become essential readings to art students and historians.
In contrast to previous volumes, this publication focuses on Rubin’s private collection, providing rare introspections on how he lived, what he wrote, and the objects with which he surrounded himself. Portrayals of his personal relationships written by artists Frank Stella and Richard Serra, art historians Francis Naumann, Fred Lamp, Bernard de Grunne, and Ulf Küster, writer Adam Gopnik, and fellow collector Ronald Lauder all contribute to our understanding of Rubin’s vision. Phyllis Hattis Rubin, art historian and wife of Rubin, contributes the principal essay: “Living with Bill: an Artful and Art-filled Life.”
• Masterpieces of modern and tribal art from Rubin’s private collection.
Phyllis Hattis is an art historian, author, and advisor in the Fine Arts.
Size 24 × 30 cm (9½ × 12 in.)
296 pages
250 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4149-4
£ 55.00, $ 70.00
The book is also available in a box including the 4 booklets
WORKS ON PAPER (Vol. 1)
LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS (Vol. 2)
BASKETBALL PAINTINGS (Vol. 3)
PHOTOGRAPHY (Vol. 4)
ISBN 978-88-572-4152-4
£ 120.00, $ 150.00
Size 25.5 × 29 cm (10 × 11½ in.)
368 pages, 650 colour and b/w illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5145-5
£ 70.00, $ 75.00
MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ
Fate and Art
edited by Mary Jane Jacob; editorial coordination Paola Gribaudo
Size 16.5 × 24 cm (61 2 × 91 2 in.)
304 pages, 250 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4395-5
£ 36.00, $ 45.00
AYDIN AGHDASHLOO
edited by Marco Meneguzzo and Takin Aghdashloo
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 12 in.)
304 pages, 260 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4888-2
£ 58.00, $ 70.00
MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ
Writings and Conversations
co-editors M.J. Jacob and Jenny Dally; published by Skira with the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation
Size 16.5 × 24 cm (61 2 × 91⁄2 in.)
320 pages, 50 colour and 10 b/w illustrations, paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4639-0
£ 35.00, $ 48.00
SHIVA AHMADI
Michelle Yun and Talinn Grigor
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 113⁄4 in.)
128 pages, 80 colour and 400 b/w illustrations, paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-3426-7
£ 36.00, $ 45.00
MARCELLINA OSEGHALE AKPOJOTOR
texts by Marla C. Berns, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Frank Ugiomoh; with a conversation between Renée Uba and the artist
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
144 pages, 100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-246-9
£ 30.00, $ 35.00
ZAINUL ABEDIN
Great Masters of Bangladesh
edited by Rosa Maria Falvo; texts by Abul Mansur, Nazrul Islam, Rosa Maria Falvo and Abul Hasnat
Size 25 × 30 cm (93⁄4 × 113⁄4 in.)
336 pages, 315 colour and 14 b/w illustrations, hardcover
ART MUST BE ARTIFICIAL. PERSPECTIVES OF AI IN THE VISUAL ARTS
edited by Jérôme Neutres in collaboration with the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Culture
Size 29 × 25 cm (11½ × 9¾ in.)
English and Arabic edition
180 pages, 115 colour illustrations hardcover, 978-88-572-4782-3 E
-4783-0 AR, £ 35.00, $ 45.00
THE ART OF KATE MALONE FORCE OF NATURE with a text by Dr. James Fox and a conversation by Emma Crichton-Miller with Kate Malone
Size 28 × 30 cm (11 × 12 in.)
260 pages, 195 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4875-2
£ 50.00, $ 60.00
THE ATLANTIC OCEAN Myths, Art, Science edited by Susanne Østby Sæther, Stefanie Hessler, and Knut Ljøgodt
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
160 pages, 140 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5223-0
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
AT HOME IN THE WORLD: A MEMOIR
Ibrahim El-Salahi co-published by Skira and The Africa Institute
Skira / The Africa Institute
Size 16.5 × 24 cm (61⁄2 × 91 2 in.)
256 pages, 100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4652-9
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
THE ARTISTIC CULTURE BETWEEN THE WARS 1920–1945 (VOL. 2)
Size 21 × 28 cm (81⁄4 × 11 in.)
432 pages, 400 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-7624-804-7
£ 34.00, $ 60.00
THE ART OF PG THELANDER Made with No Loss of Time edited by Necmi Sönmez and Louise Lidströmer
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
264 pages, 300 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3784-8
£ 48.00, $ 65.00
L’ATLAS
Paul Ardenne
Size 21 × 28 cm (81⁄4 × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French), 208 pages
150 colour and b/w illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-185-1
£ 32.00
AHMED MORSI A Dialogic Imagination
edited by Hoor Al Qasimi, and Salah M. Hassan; co-published by Skira, The Africa Institute, and Sharjah Art Foundation
Skira / The Africa Institute
Size 16.5 × 23.5 cm (61⁄2 × 91 4 in.)
336 pages, 172 colour illustrations hardcover, ISBN 978-88-572-4565-2
£ 42.00, $ 59.00
PABLO ATCHUGARRY
The Life of Matter edited by Marco Meneguzzo
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
328 pages, 215 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4669-7
£ 38.00, $ 50.00
FRANÇOIS AVRIL Paintings
Size 23 × 30 cm (9 × 12 in.)
dual-lnguage edition (English-French)
192 pages
120 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-250-6
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
BEYOND THE DOOR OF NO RETURN Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories through Contemporary Art by Selene Wendt; co-published by Skira and The Africa Institute
Skira / The Africa Institute
Size 18 × 24 cm (7¼ × 9½ in.)
144 pages, 69 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4560-7
£ 25.00, $ 35.00
OMAR BA with texts by Simon Njami and Juliette Singer
Size 23 × 29.5 cm (9 × 111⁄2 in.)
192 pages, 110 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-199-8
£ 33.00, $ 42.00
“the eye, the eye & the ear” edited by Lucia Aspesi and Fiammetta Griccioli
CHRISTOPH DAHLHAUSEN Lightborn with texts by Sophie Rose, Dr. Reinhard Ermen and Dr. Melanie Ardjah preface by Carl-Jürgen Schroth
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
192 pages, 130 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4548-5
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
COMMON PRACTICE
Basketball & Contemporary Art edited by Carlos Rolón, Dan Peterson and John Dennis
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
344 pages, 300 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4397-9
£ 55.00, $ 70.00 back in print
SOMAYA CRITCHLOW
Paintings with an essay by Amanda Renshaw
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
144 pages, 100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4481-5
£ 32.00, $ 40.00
THE CONDÉ MUSEUM AT THE CHÂTEAU DE CHANTILLY
The Paintings Collection Nicole Garnier-Pelle
Size 24 × 31 cm (91⁄2 × 121⁄4 in.)
296 pages, 230 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-005-2
£ 55.00, $ 85.00
LINDA CUMMINGS: SLIPPAGES edited and with an essay by Kathy Battista contributing essays by Elise Morrison, Nancy Princenthal and Emna Zghal
Size 23.5 × 28.5 cm (9¼ × 11¼ in.)
160 pages, 77 duotone illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5352-7
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
DANHÔO. PAINTINGS with a foreword by Robert Combas; concept and direction by David Rosenberg coordination by Tatiana Phuong production by Evia Production
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
120 pages, 80 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4484-6
£ 32.00, $ 40.00
CONTEMPORARY VOICES from the Asian and Islamic Art Worlds Olivia Sand
Size 16.5 × 24 cm (61 2 × 91⁄2 in.)
800 pages, 265 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3476-2
£ 58.00, $ 75.00
WANDA CZEŁKOWSKA Art Is Not Rest edited by Matylda Taszycka
Size 16.5 × 24 cm (61⁄2 × 91 2 in.)
192 pages, 105 colour illustrations Dutch binding
ISBN 978-88-572-4995-7
£ 35.00, $ 40.00
DARK LIGHT
Realism in the Age of Post-Truths Selections from the Tony and Elham Salamé Collection–Aïshti Foundation text by Massimiliano Gioni
Size 24.8 × 28.6 cm (93⁄4 × 111⁄4 in.)
464 pages, 200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4885-1
£ 50.00, $ 60.00
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
The Changing Face of Metaphysical Art edited by Victoria Noel-Johnson
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
264 pages, 209 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4058-9
£ 29.95, $ 40.00
JACQUELINE DE JONG VICIOUS CIRCLES
edited with text by Ariella Wolens texts by Alison M. Gingeras and Margriet Schavemaker foreword by Bonnie Clearwater
Size 21.5 × 28 cm (8½ × 11 in.)
218 pages, 130 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5386-2
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
ESPEN DIETRICHSON
Seven Years
edited by Demetrio Paparoni
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
152 pages, 140 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3818-0
£ 32.00, $ 45.00
DEMI
texts by Oksana Salamatina and Lynette Bosch
editorial coordination
Paola Gribaudo
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
208 pages, 175 colour and 3 b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3909-5
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
DOKOUPIL
texts by Reiner Opoku, Luca Marenzi and Magda Dokoupilova
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 113⁄4 in.)
256 pages, 283 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3615-5
£ 45.00, $ 60.00
JOANNA DREW and the Art of Exhibitions
Caroline Hancock
Size 16.5 × 24 cm (61⁄2 × 91⁄2 in.)
224 pages, 80 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-3952-1
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
VIRGINIA DWAN and Dwan Gallery edited by Germano Celant
Size 16.5 × 24 cm (61⁄2 × 91 2 in.)
404 pages, 216 colour and 208 b/w illustrations, paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-2249-3
£ 42.00, $ 55.00
MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS SILHOUETTES
edited by Pauline Nobécourt
Size 24 × 32 cm (91⁄2 × 121⁄2 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French), 160 pages
100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-208-7
£ 35.00, $ 40.00
JIRI GEORG DOKOUPIL VENETIAN BUBBLES
edited by Reiner Opoku
Size 20,5 × 28 cm (8 × 11 in.)
96 pages
45 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5305-3
£ 28.00
BOB DYLAN
Retrospectrum
edited by Shai Baitel
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 12 in.)
256 pages, 150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4902-5
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
DANIEL DEZEUZE
Drawings
texts by Olivier Kaeppelin, and Pierre Manuel co-published with Galerie
Daniel Templon
Size 23.5 × 30 cm (91⁄4 × 113⁄4 in.)
304 pages, 300 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-105-9
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
PASCAL DOMBIS
texts by Céline Berchiche, Paula Braga, Clara Figueiredo, Dominique Moulon; interview of the artist by Franck James Marlot
edited by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi and Suheyla Takesh
Size 4 × 25 cm (9½ × 9¾ in.)
320 pages, 125 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5339-8
£ 50.00, $ 60.00
DAMIAN ELWES SECRETS OF THE STUDIOS
From Monet to Ai Weiwei text by Sylvie Girardet co-published with the Musée en Herbe
Size 22 × 24.5 cm (81⁄2 × 91⁄2 in.)
80 pages, 40 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-070-0
£ 12.95
ESCHER
edited by Federico Giudiceandrea, Mark Veldhuysen
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 12 in.)
288 pages, 350 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5143-1
£ 38.00, $ 50.00
JORGE EIELSON Matter, Sign, Space edited by Francesca Pola
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Italian), 96 pages
50 colour illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4075-6
£ 30.00, $ 40.00
EMERGENCE OF THE PATRIARCH THE MAO XUHUI STORY by Lü Peng
Size 18,5 × 25 cm (7¼ × 9¾ in.)
360 pages
290 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5184-4
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
JAN FABRE. STIGMATA Actions & Performances 1976-2013
Germano Celant
Size 21 × 29.7 cm (81 4 × 113⁄4 in.)
648 pages, 755 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-2124-3
£ 65.00, $ 100.00
JAN FABRE. TRIBUTE TO HIËRONYMUS BOSCH IN CONGO. TRIBUTE TO BELGIAN CONGO with an introduction by Eckhard Schneider
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 113 4 in.)
2 volumes, 260 pages
110 colour illustrations hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-2300-1
£ 55.00, $ 95.00
BRENDAN FERNANDES. RE/FORM with texts by Dr. Juliet Bellow, Andrew Campbell, Hendrik Folkerts and Dakin Hart design by Platform
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
152 pages, 100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4559-1
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
FOOD
edited by Adelina von Fürstenberg
Size 20 × 24 cm (73⁄4 × 91⁄2 in.)
188 pages, 114 colour and 17 b/w illustrations, paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-2498-5
£ 34.95, $ 55.00
A FALCON’S EYE
Tribute to Sheikh Saoud Al Thani edited by Hubert Bari and Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya
Size 22 × 28 cm (81⁄2 × 11 in.)
English and Arabic edition
216 pages, 212 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4346-7 E
ISBN 978-88-572-4347-4 A
£ 42.00, $ 50.00
STANISŁAW FIJAŁKOWSKI
edited by Adam Jas´kiewicz texts by Christina Lodder, Marta Smolin´ska and Post Brothers
Size 24 × 30 cm (9½ × 12 in.)
184 pages, 160 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5311-4
£ 42.00, $ 55.00
FOOD in the Louvre Yves Pinard and Paul Bocuse
Size 19 × 19 cm (71⁄2 × 71⁄2 in.)
80 pages, 40 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-009-0
£ 9.95, $ 19.95
FENDRE L’AIR
Art of Bamboo in Japan texts by Stéphane Martin, Naoko Tomonaga, Masanori Moroyama, Andreas Marks, Shinya Maezaki, Satomi Suzuki, Maiko Takenobu
Size 21 × 32 cm (81⁄4 × 12½ in.)
304 pages, 220 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-106-6
£ 50.00, $ 70.00
5-MINUTE BEDTIME STORIES NOW CLOSE OPEN YOUR EYES AND LISTEN by Maria Gvardeitseva; critical essays by Boris Groys, Dr Bernadette Buckle
Size 16.5 × 22 cm (6½ × 8½ in.)
144 pages, 24 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5149-3
£ 38.00, $ 49.95
GEORGY FRANGULYAN
Off-Modern Clayton Press contributions by Ruth Addison and Valentin Diaconov
Size 28 × 27.3 cm (11 × 103 4 in.)
220 pages, 139 colour and b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4920-9
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
BRENDAN FERNANDES: INACTION edited by Alhena Katsof
Size 22 × 28 cm (81⁄2 × 11 in.)
160 pages, 100 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5110-3
£ 38.00, $ 50.00
FLOWERS in the Louvre
Béatrice Vingtrinier and Michel Lis
Size 19 × 19 cm (71⁄2 × 71⁄2 in.)
80 pages, 40 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-008-3
£ 9.95, $ 19.95
JESSIE HOMER FRENCH Fish, Fire, and Death with texts by Francesco Bonami, Louise Farr and Jen Sudul Edwards
Size 28 × 33 cm (11 × 13 in.)
128 pages, 95 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5024-3
£ 35.00, $ 40.00
JULIEN FRIEDLER
The Comedy Has Ended edited by Dominique Stella
Size 22 × 26 cm (81 2 × 101⁄4 in.)
tri-language edition (English-French-Italian)
128 pages, 50 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4784-7
£ 25.00
GEOMETRY AND ART in the Modern Middle East edited by Roxane Zand texts by Roxane Zand and Sussan Babaie
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
168 pages, 72 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4016-9
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
WILLIAM J. GLACKENS AND PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
Affinities and Distinctions
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; essays by A. Berman, B. Clearwater, M.a Lucy and B. Buhler Lynes
Size 21 × 28 cm (81⁄4 × 11 in.)
144 pages, 101 colour and 148 b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3950-7
£ 28.00, $ 35.00
FUTURBALLA
Life Light Speed
edited by Ester Coen
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
232 pages, 216 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3386-4
£ 32.00, $ 45.00
HAROUTIUN GALENTZ. THE FORM OF COLOUR: FEATURING THE JANIBEKYAN COLLECTION edited by Vartan Karapetian, Marie Tomb; with texts by Vartan Karapetian, Marie Tomb, Silvia Burini and Armen Yesayants
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
224 pages, 160 colour illustrations hardcover, ISBN 978-88-572-5327-5
£ 35.00, $ 40.00
STEFAN GIEROWSKI texts by David Anfam, Michel Gauthier and Stach Szablowski
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 113⁄4 in.)
208 pages, 188 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4482-2
£ 32.00, $ 40.00
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI Le réel merveilleux / Marvellous Reality edited by Catherine Grenier and Émilie Bouvard
Size 21 × 32 cm (81⁄4 × 121 2 in.)
256 pages, 230 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-159-2
£ 30.00, $ 40.00
GOETHES ITALIENISCHE REISE
Eine Hommage an ein Land, das es niemals gab
edited by Peter Assmann, Johannes Ramharter, Helena Pereña in collaboration with Ralf Bormann
Size 21 × 26 cm (81 4 × 101⁄4 in.)
dual-language edition (I-G)
384 pages, 400 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4407-5
€ 30.00, £ 28.00
GOOD DREAMS, BAD DREAMS
American Mythologies. Selections from the Tony and Elham Salamé Collection Aïshti Foundation edited by Massimiliano Gioni
Size 24.8 × 28.6 cm (93 4 × 111 4 in.)
416 pages, 242 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3238-6
£ 45.00, $ 65.00
NANCY GENN Architecture from Within edited by Francesca Valente
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
144 pages, 105 colour and 19 b/w illustrations, paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-3785-5
£ 32.00, $ 45.00
LOUIS M. GLACKENS PURE IMAGINATION
edited by Ariella Wolens preface by Avis Berman; texts by Bonnie Clearwater, Richard Samuel West and Ariella Wolens
Size 16.5 × 24 cm (6½ × 9½ in.)
176 pages, 100 colour illustrations Dutch cover
ISBN 978-88-572-5328-2
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
SOFIA GOSCINSKI
conversation with Jasper Sharp essays by Hubert Klocker and Denise Wendel-Poray
Size 24 × 30 cm (91 2 × 113⁄4 in.)
146 pages, 100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4349-8
£ 32.00, $ 40.00
SHEELA GOWDA
Remains
edited by Nuria Enguita, Lucia Aspesi and Sheela Gowda
Size 21.5 × 27 cm (81⁄2× 101⁄2 in.)
240 pages, 153 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4164-7
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
JENNIFER GUIDI
Full Moon
Size 24 × 32 cm (91 2 × 121 2 in.)
144 pages, 90 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5107-3
£ 26.00, $ 30.00
GREENHOUSE
ART, ECOLOGY AND RESISTANCE
edited by Mónica de Miranda and Sónia Vaz Borges
Size 20,5 × 28 cm (8 × 11 in.)
168 pages, 60 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5309-1
£ 30.00, $ 40.00
AMIN GULGEE NO MAN’S LAND
edited by John McCarry
Size 24 × 30,5 cm (9½ × 12 in.)
416 pages
330 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5292-6
£ 55.00, $ 70.00
JÓZEF HAŁAS
texts by Marjolaine Lévy, Michel Gauthier and Magdalena Howorus-Czajka
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
144 pages, 80 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-210-0
£ 30.00, $ 35.00
PETER HALLEY
Europe
text by Domitille d’Orgeval
Size 24 × 30 cm (91 2 × 12 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French), 192 pages
100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-226-1
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
YUSUF GRILLO
Paintings. Lagos. Life
edited by Chika Okeke-Agulu
Size 24.1 × 29.2 cm (91 2 × 111⁄2 in.)
200 pages, 150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4280-4
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
GROUP SPIRIT – WILD STYLE
edited by Peres Projects
Size 20.5 × 30.5 cm (8 × 12 in.)
120 pages, 113 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3350-5
£ 38.00, $ 50.00
HA HA HA!
The Humour of Art edited by Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov
Size 23 × 31 cm (9 × 121⁄4 in.) dual-language edition (French-Dutch) with English texts leaflet, 208 pages, 150 colour illustrations, paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-151-6
£ 32.00, $ 45.00
MOHAMED HAMIDI
Michel Gauthier
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 12 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French), 208 pages
150 colour illustrations, paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-161-5
£ 35.00, $ 48.00
HAEGUE YANG FLAT WORKS
texts by Orianna Cacchione exhibition by Janine Mileaf
Size 16.5 × 24 cm (6½ × 9½ in.)
96 pages
110 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5326-8
£ 25.00, $ 35.00
PASCAL HAUDRESSY
edited by David Rosenberg
Size 24 × 32 cm (91 2 × 121 2 in.)
160 pages, 100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-206-3
£ 35.00, $ 40.00
WILLIAM L. HAWKINS
An Imaginative Geography
Susan Mitchell Crawley, co-published by the Figge Art Museum and The Columbus Museum of Art (Ohio)
Size 30 × 28 cm (113 4 × 11 in.)
136 pages, 78 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3634-6
£ 39.95, $ 55.00
LENA HERZOG by Giuseppe Barbieri and Silvia Burini
Size 24 × 31 cm (9½ × 12¼ in.)
240 pages
210 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5163-9
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
HOGARTH, REYNOLDS, TURNER
British Painting and the Rise of Modernity edited by Carolina Brooks and Valter Curzi
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
304 pages, 111 colour and 75 b/w illustrations, paperback
BRAD HOWE. A DANCE OF ATOMS designed by Michelle Edelman introduction by Asher Edelman essays by Charles A. Riley II and Anthony Haden-Guest edited by Peter Frank
Size 34 × 30 cm (131 4 × 12 in.)
344 pages, 350 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4258-3
£ 50.00, $ 70.00
CB HOYO I didn’t know how to name this edited by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi and Jack Kyle Franklin
Size 16.5 × 21 cm (61⁄2 × 81⁄4 in.)
208 pages, 170 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4567-6
£ 28.00, $ 35.00
VOLKER HÜLLER texts by Scott Indrisek editorial coordination Paola Gribaudo
Size 20.5 × 28 cm (73 4 × 11 in.)
96 pages, 81 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3284-3
£ 25.00, $ 35.00
IGOR & MARINA
with a text by Ilya Kutik editorial coordination Paola Gribaudo
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 113 4 in.)
96 pages, 70 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3126-6
£ 28.00, $ 40.00
IN VESTED INTERESTS: FROM PASSION TO PATRONAGE
The AbdulMagid Breish Collection of Arab Art edited by Louisa Macmillan texts by AM Breish, N. Sagharchi, S.M. Yassukovich and M. Kafil-Hussain
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
264 pages, 325 colour illustrations hardcover, ISBN 978-88-572-4267-5
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS
Works on Paper (Vol. 1)
co-published by Skira and Jack Shainman Gallery
Size 16.5 × 23.7 cm (61⁄2 × 91⁄4 in.)
96 pages, 50 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4147-0
£ 22.50, $ 25.00
IMAGINE PICASSO
edited by Androula Michael
Size 23 × 27 cm (9 × 101⁄2 in.)
64 pages, 50 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-177-6
£ 25.00, $ 30.00
ANNE IMHOF. SEX
texts by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Beccaria, Hendrik Folkerts and Catherine Wood photo by Nadine Fraczkowski
120 colour and 20 b/w illustrations hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-4527-0
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
PARALLELS
Gustav Vigeland and his Contemporaries. Bourdelle, Maillol, Meunier, Rodin
edited by Guri Skuggen and Jarle Strømodden
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
English and Norwegian edition
224 pages, 149 colour illustrations
ISBN 978-88-572-4039-8 E, PB
ISBN 978-88-572-4038-1 NORW, HC
£ 42.00, $ 55.00
PHILIPPE PASQUA
Paradise
edited by David Rosenberg editorial coordination by Paola Gribaudo
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
Russian edition, 160 pages
117 colour and 15 b/w illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-0488-8
£ 42.50, $ 65.00
FRIDA ORUPABO ON LIES, SECRETS AND SILENCE edited by Yuvinka Medina and Owen Martin; texts by Portia Malatjie, Mai Takawira, Nina Cramer and C. LeClaire
Size 21 × 28 cm (8¼ × 11 in.)
160 pages, 205 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5310-7
£ 25.00, $ 35.00
ROXY PAINE Dioramas
edited by Saul Anton texts by Mia Kang, Steven Matijicio and Michael Goodman
Size 30 × 28 cm (113 4 × 11 in.)
176 pages, 98 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4361-0
£ 42.00, $ 60.00
EVAN PENNY
Ask Your Body
edited by Michael Short
Size 21 × 26 cm (81⁄4 × 101⁄4 in.)
112 pages, 80 colour illustrations dutch binding
ISBN 978-88-572-3559-2
£ 36.00, $ 45.00
GIUSEPPE PENONE IMPRINTS OF LIGHT
edited by Francesco Guzzetti, Ruggero Penone and Jonas Storsve
240 pages, 140 illustrations and 130 vignettes, paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-128-8
£ 29.95, $ 39.95
MAYA RUIZ-PICASSO
Daughter of Pablo
edited by Emilia Philippot and Diana Widmaier-Picasso
Size 23 × 30 cm (9 × 12 in.)
288 pages, 400 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-179-0
£ 40.00, $ 54.00
SAMARAS
Album 2
edited by Donald Kuspit
Size 35 × 20.5 cm (133 4 × 73⁄4 in.)
2 volumes, 752 pages
720 colour illustrations hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-3271-3
£ 210.00, $ 250.00
PETER SCHUYFF
Works on paper 1984–2018 edited by Edoardo Bonaspetti
text by Richard Hell
Size 21 × 27 cm (81 4 × 101⁄2 in.)
128 pages, 75 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4104-3
£ 28.00, $ 35.00
FAISAL SAMRA
Roxana Azimi, Gilles de Bure
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French), 160 pages
187 colour illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1097-1
£ 34.00, $ 55.00
TOMÁS SARACENO
Aerocene
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Eva Horn, Timothy Morton and Tim Ingold
Size 20 × 25 cm (73⁄4 × 93 4 in.)
108 pages, 90 colour illustrations dutchbinding
ISBN 978-88-572-3473-1
£ 28.00, $ 35.00
SEAN SCULLY. HUMAN
exhibition curated by Javier Molins texts by Carmelo Grasso, Abate Norberto Villa, Kelly Grovier and Javier Molins
Size 22 × 27 cm (81 2 × 101⁄2 in.)
320 pages, 124 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4123-4
£ 45.00, $ 60.00
KAY SAGE AND YVES TANGUY
Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool edited by Victoria Noel-Johnson and Marzina Marzetti in collaboration with Derek Des Islets, Matthew Foster and Lorenza Possati
Size 23 × 30 cm (9 × 12 in.)
168 pages, 164 colour illustrations hardcover, ISBN 978-88-572-5061-8
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
NEJAT SATI
Color as Psychological Balance edited by Necmi Sönmez
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
104 pages, 80 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4592-8
£ 30.00, $ 40.00
SEAN SCULLY Land Sea
edited by Danilo Eccher
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
168 pages, 200 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-2758-0
£ 28.00, $ 45.00
THE SEA IS HISTORY
edited by Selene Wendt
Size 22 × 28 cm (81 2 × 11 in.)
120 pages, 44 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4017-6
£ 25.00, $ 35.00
MASSINISSA SELMANI
texts by Kaveh Akbar, Mouna Mekouar and Stéphanie Straine foreword by Catherine David
Abstract Explorations: History and Contemporary Research
Adriano Abbado
Size 20 × 25 cm (73 4 × 93⁄4 in.)
224 pages, 120 colour and 38 b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-2223-3
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
MORTEN VISKUM
Works 1993–2016
Demetrio Paparoni
conversation with Jean Wainwright text by Tone Lyngstaad Nyaas
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
384 pages, 565 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-2866-2
£ 55.00, $ 70.00
JOANA VASCONCELOS TRANSCENDING THE DOMESTIC exhibition by Edith Devaney edited by Matthew Vella text by Jonathan Jones, with a conversation with Joana Vasconcelos by Edith Devaney
Size 24 × 30 cm (9½ × 12 in.)
224 pages, 100 colour illustrations hardcover, ISBN 978-88-572-5345-9
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
VER SACRUM
The Vienna Secession Art Magazine 1898–1903
Valerio Terraroli
Size 28 × 29 cm (11 × 111⁄2 in.)
224 pages, 484 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3876-0
£ 48.00, $ 65.00
WALASSE TING: PARROT JUNGLE
edited by Ariella Wolens introduction by Bonnie Clearwater additional texts by Pierre Alechinsky
Xiao (Amanda) Ju and Mia Ting
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
176 pages, 150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5135-6
£ 30.00, $ 35.00
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
At the Heart of the Carmignac Collection texts by N. Bourriaud, F. Bousteau, E. Carmignac, C. Carmignac, D. Cronenberg, L. Ferry, C. Millet, A. Jodorowsky, C. Morineau, B. Soyer
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
284 pages, 250 colour illustrations hardcover, ISBN 978-2-37074-041-0
£ 55.00, $ 75.00
ROBYN WARD
Walking in the Dark edited by Shai Baitel
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
112 pages, 75 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5087-8
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
WANG GUANGYI
Obscured Existence edited by Eike Schmidt and Demetrio Paparoni
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
144 pages, 125 colour illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5141-7
£ 30.00, $ 35.00
WE DO NOT DREAM ALONE Asia Society Triennial edited by Boon Hui Tan and Michelle Yun
Size 23 × 27 cm (9 × 111⁄2 in.)
256 pages, 65 colour and 20 b/w illustrations, paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4383-2
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
XAWERY WOLSKI
texts by Edward Sullivan, Patryk Pawel Tomaszewski and Fernando Vallejo
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
280 pages, 260 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4353-5
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
WORKING THROUGH THE PAST Nordic Conceptual Art as a Tool for re-Thinking History edited by Kjetil Røed
Size 16.5 × 24 cm (61⁄2 × 91⁄2 in.)
168 pages, 100 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-3297-3
£ 25.00, $ 30.00
WANG GUANGYI
Works and Thoughts 1985−2012 Demetrio Paparoni
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
416 pages, 542 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1567-9
£ 60.00, $ 95.00
THILO WESTERMANN Migrations curated by and in collaboration with the artist
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 12 in.)
244 pages, 113 colour and 113 b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4800-4
£ 40.00
WRITING BY DRAWING When Language Seeks Its Other
edited by Andrea Bellini and Sarah Lombardi
Size 21 × 30 cm (81⁄4 × 113⁄4 in.)
288 pages, 200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4350-4
£ 60.00, $ 75.00
WANG LUYAN
Visual Thinking and Measured Painting edited by Huang Du editorial coordination Paola Gribaudo
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
240 pages, 193 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1128-2
£ 36.00, $ 60.00
A WINDOW ON THE WORLD From Dürer to Mondrian and Beyond Marco Franciolli, Giovanni Iovane and Sylvie Wuhrmann
Size 22 × 28 cm (81⁄2 × 11 in.)
336 pages, 311 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-1697-3
£ 38.00, $ 60.00
CERITH WYN EVANS “....the Illuminating Gas” edited by Roberta Tenconi and Vicente Todolí
Bigger, Better, and Cheaper preface by Judith Neilson texts by Rosa Maria Falvo, Bai Jiafeng and Menene Gras Balaguer
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
240 pages, 190 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3083-2
£ 32.00, $ 45.00
ELIAS ZAYAT
Cities and Legends edited by Salwa Mikdadi texts by Salwa Mikdadi and Donald Kunze
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
368 pages, 350 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3264-5
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
Skira / Archivio Mario Schifano
Size 28 × 28 cm (11 × 11 in.)
2 tomes, 928 pages
1130 colour and b/w illustrations hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-5070-0
£ 290.00, $ 360.00
NO RIGHTS OF RETURN
MARIO SCHIFANO CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF THE PICTORIAL WORK 1960-1969
by Monica De Bei Schifano and Marco Meneguzzo
The first volume of the catalogue raisonné dedicated to Mario Schifano’s pictorial work explores the artist’s 1960s-production
The result of an over 14-year research conducted by Archivio Mario Schifano, the catalogue raisonné of the pictorial work of Mario Schifano (1934-1998) is the first and only scientific publication authorized by S.I.A.E. (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers) and recognized by the Heirs and the Archive that serves as the general catalogue of the Master’s works. This volume presents the artist’s works from 1960 to 1969 and includes more than 1,600 images and photographs, mostly unpublished, from Mario Schifano’s private archive as well as from all the most authoritative archives related to those years.
Besides being a catalogue raisonné scientifically compiled according to the strictest archival standards, the publication traces not only the artist’s work, but also his life, and the international atmosphere around him in Rome. Studio photographs, images of action and performance, alongside private photos with people he met and frequented during those years – such as the poet Frank O’Hara, Andy Warhol, Rolling Stones, Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull, Alberto Moravia, Dacia Maraini, Sandro Penna – contribute to make the excursus through the decade complete, rich and engaging. This is the period when Schifano created the series of so-called Monocromi, Esso and Coca Cola, Paesaggi anemici, Futurismo rivisitato, Vero amore, Tuttestelle, Oasi, Compagni Compagni. In addition, the “narrative” captions in the volume analyse the execution details, the artistic intents, and the stories behind the works and photos.
• The first and only authorized and recognized scientific publication on the artist’s work.
Monica De Bei Schifano, the artist’s wife, is President of Archivio Mario Schifano. Marco Meneguzzo, historian and critic of contemporary art, exhibition curator, is specialized in Italian art from the post-World War II period.
LUCIO FONTANA CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF CERAMIC SCULPTURES
edited by Luca Massimo Barbero in collaboration with Silvia Ardemagni and Maria Villa
The first complete catalogue of the ceramic works by the great 20th-century artist
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Italian)
2 volumes
720 pages, 250 colour and 2108 b/w
illustrations
hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-3409-0
£ 250.00, $ 335.00
NO RIGHTS OF RETURN
Finally on the way, the Catalogue Raisonné of Ceramic Sculptures is the most complete and updated publication exploring this fundamental ambit of Lucio Fontana’s research and production. The result of a project shared with Enrico Crispolti, curator of the entire Catalogue Raisonné collection of Fontana’s work, this impressive publication is edited by Luca Massimo Barbero – eminent scholar specializing in Fontana’s oeuvre and curator of the Catalogue Raisonné of Works on Paper – in collaboration with Silvia Ardemagni and Maria Villa.
An essential and updated research tool, the volume is the result of the painstakingly accurate archiving and cataloguing activities carried out by Fondazione Lucio Fontana over more than 50 years, presenting a selection of about 2,000 ceramic works made between 1929-30 and 1966. Organized in chronological and thematic order, within the two formal “hemispheres” explored by Fontana’s extraordinary earthenware production – the Figurative and the Spatial –, works are accompanied by entries offering a precise listing of bibliographical and exhibition references.
• After the Catalogue Raisonné and the Catalogue Raisonné of Works on Paper, the complete catalogue of ceramic sculptures by Lucio Fontana.
Luca Massimo Barbero, curator and art historian, is Director of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Istituto di Storia dell’Arte and Scientific Advisor for Fondazione Lucio Fontana. He has extensively studied post-war Italian and international art and curated numerous exhibitions and publications for major international museums.
LUCIO FONTANA
Catalogue raisonné Enrico Crispolti in collaboration with Nini Ardemagni Laurini and Valeria Ernesti
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (E-I)
2 volumes, 1200 pages, 250 colour and c. 4,000 b/w illustrations
hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-7624-058-4
£ 330.00, $ 510.00
LUCIO FONTANA
Catalogue raisonné of the works on paper
edited by Luca Massimo Barbero
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (E-I)
3 volumes, 1316 pages, 339 colour and 5885 b/w illustrations
hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-0482-6
£ 335.00, $ 500.00
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
768 pages, 200 colour and 2500 b/w illustrations
2 volumes hardcover in slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-4581-2
£ 300.00, $ 370.00
NO RIGHTS OF RETURN
CAROL RAMA CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 1936–2005
edited by Maria Cristina Mundici with Raffaella Roddolo and Maria Grazia Messina
The first catalogue raisonné of the work of the provocative artist, awarded a Leone d’Oro alla Carriera in 2003
Edited by Maria Cristina Mundici, with Raffaella Roddolo and Maria Grazia Messina, the catalogue raisonné of the works of Carol Rama analyzes fully, for the first time, the artist’s 70-year career, from 1936 to 2005.
A central and unique figure in the context of Italian art history, Carol Rama (Turin, 1918–2015) spanned the 20th century in a quest for experimentalism in both subject-matter and materials. Since the 2000s she began to be appreciated beyond Italy’s borders and her fame grew after 2015 also thanks to important retrospectives in Europe and the United States.
The catalogue would not have been possible without the vital support of the Fondazione Sardi per l’Arte. The first volume is devoted wholly to historical and critical writings by important scholars of the artist (Fabio Belloni, Maria Cristina Mundici, Raffaella Roddolo, Federica Rovati and Elena Volpato), who analyze her production with new ways of seeing. It is completed by a collection of 200 full-page colour images. The second volume consists in a complete set of illustrated technical and historical descriptions of the works, compiled by Raffaella Roddolo, as well as the accompanying reference sections (appendices, biography, exhibitions, bibliography).
• The most comprehensive catalogue of the artist’s work.
Maria Cristina Mundici, art historian, independent curator and author, is Scientific Director of the Archivio Carol Rama. From 1985–92 she was Head Curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Art historians, Raffaella Roddolo and Maria Grazia Messina are both members of the scientific committee of the Archivio Carol Rama.
ENRICO CASTELLANI CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ. VOLUME III
edited by Lorenzo Wirz Castellani and Federico Sardella with an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist
The third volume of the artist’s Catalogue Raisonné presents his works on canvas, high reliefs, sculptures from 2006 to 2016, and the catalogued works that were not included in the two previous volumes
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Italian)
272 pages
567 colour illustrations
hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-4403-7
£ 135.00, $ 179.00
NO RIGHTS OF RETURN
Volume III of Enrico Castellani’s Catalogue Raisonné follows the two volumes published in 2012 documenting his production from 1955 to 2005 and completing the cataloguing of the production of the artist, who passed away in 2017. Organized in multiple sections, this volume collects works on canvas, sculptures, high reliefs, and installations registered at the Fondazione Enrico Castellani Archives, and not included in the first two volumes of the Catalogue Raisonné (Skira, 2012). Promoted by Fondazione Enrico Castellani and edited by Lorenzo Wirz Castellani and Federico Sardella with an interview with Enrico Castellani by Hans Ulrich Obrist, this publication, along with the two previous ones, represents the most comprehensive monograph dedicated to the artist’s work and, besides being an essential tool for the identification of his pieces, fully reflects the spirit and the practice of Enrico Castellani, whose final 10 years of work were particularly prolific.
• This third volume completes the cataloguing related to the works of the artist, who died in 2017.
Established in 2013 in compliance with the artist’s testamentary directions, Fondazione Enrico Castellani conducts study, expertise, and research activities to ensure the protection and preservation of Enrico Castellani’s artistic heritage. Chaired by Lorenzo Wirz Castellani and directed by Federico Sardella, the foundation partners with scholars, institutions, and museums in organizing exhibitions in Italy and abroad and in the realization of books about the artist.
ENRICO CASTELLANI CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 1955–2005
Archivio Castellani, contributions by B. Corà and M. Meneguzzo
Size 24 × 28 cm
(91/2 × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (E-I)
2 volumes, 656 pages, 178 colour and 1177 b/w illustrations
hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-1168-8
£ 240.00, $ 390.00
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
496 pages
710 colour illustrations hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-5366-4
£ 180.00, $ 230.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
New York, Albertz Benda Gallery and Leila Heller Gallery January 2026
WASSEF BOUTROS-GHALI: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ
edited by Lesley Campoy; texts by Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Barbara MacAdam, Glenn Adamson, Sumayya Vally and Donna Honarpisheh
The first complete catalogue raisonné of the Egyptian artist
This is the first comprehensive book dedicated to Egyptian artist Wassef Boutros-Ghali, tracing his artistic evolution across Cairo, Paris, and New York. Working privately and exhibiting selectively, he left behind a body of work that until now has remained largely unexamined. This catalogue brings coherence to that dispersed legacy, presenting a definitive timeline of his artistic evolution.
Wassef Boutros-Ghali (1924–2023) was an Egyptian painter and architect whose late-blooming artistic career spanned decades and continents. Though trained in architecture, he painted throughout his life, developing a unique visual language; rooted in abstraction, his bold, geometric works blend vibrant color with architectural precision, reflecting a lifelong pursuit of harmony—what he described as a “visual equilibrium of geometric shapes and colors.” His practice evolved over decades into increasingly lyrical and expressive works.
• Since Boutros-Ghali’s passing in 2023, his work has gained increased institutional attention.
• The publication also reflects extensive archival research, brought to life through commissioned texts by a distinguished group of contributors.
Lesley Campoy oversees the art collection of Egyptian painter and architect Wassef Boutros-Ghali—her father-in-law—as its Collection Director. Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi is a prominent Emirati commentator, cultural advocate, and founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, known for promoting modern Arab art. Barbara A. MacAdam is an esteemed American art critic, editor, and writer. Glenn Adamson, curator, writer and historian, is the Artistic Director for Design Doha and curator at large for the Vitra Design Museum. Sumayya Vally, South African architect, co-curated the 2023 Islamic Arts Biennale and designed the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion. Donna Honarpisheh, Knight Foundation Associate Curator at ICA Miami, is a scholar and 2025 Vilcek Prize winner for Curatorial Work.
ALBERTO ABATE
Works 1960–2011 by Emma Abate and Cesare Biasini Selvaggi
Chinese Addendum, 690 colour and 260 b/w illustrations, hardcover in a box, ISBN 978-88-572-3239-3
£ 210.00, $ 285.00
PAUL GAUGUIN
A Savage in the Making. Catalogue raisonné of the Paintings (1873–1888)
edited by Daniel Wildenstein
Skira / Wildenstein Institute
Size 25 × 30 cm (93⁄4 × 113⁄4 in.)
2 volumes, 649 pages, 500 colour and 750 b/w illustrations hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-8491-137-7
£ 225.00, $ 440.00
MIMMO ROTELLA
Catalogue raisonné
Volume Two 1962–1973
edited by Germano Celant
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (Italian-English), 688 pages, 2050 colour and 300 b/w illustrations hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-4270-5
£ 280.00, $ 350.00
Size 24 × 30 cm (9½ × 12 in.)
MAMA: TRADITIONAL ARTS OF GABON AND AFRICA
foreword by Christel Bories; texts by Léod-Paul Batolo, Safi Virginius and Yves Le Fur; essays by Alphonse Ndinga, Fabrice Agyune Ndone, Florence Bikoma and Paulin Kialo
A new lens on African Art in the book accompanying the launch of the Gabonese art museum
While the arts of Gabon and sub-Saharan Africa are often presented in terms of ethnic classifications, this book takes a different approach, highlighting the contacts, borrowings and, more broadly, the porosity between cultures, based on around a hundred works from the Comilog Foundation for Gabonese Art and Culture. Comilog, a subsidiary of the French group Eramet, is a mining company and the world’s leading producer of manganese, based in Moanda in south-east Gabon. In 2023, it is launching a project to create a museum for Gabonese art and culture, bringing together works of contemporary art (sculpture, painting, photography).
This book, which accompanies the opening of the museum, brings together authors from different disciplines: philosophers, ethnologists and art historians, mainly from Gabon and its cultural area. It highlights the continuum between Gabonese cultures, which is apparent in both tangible and intangible production, without erasing their specificities and identities.
• Challenging conventional ethnic classifications, the book offers a dynamic perspective on Gabonese and sub-Saharan African art.
• The publication marks the opening of a major new museum in Moanda, dedicated to both traditional and contemporary Gabonese art.
Christel Bories is Chairman and CEO of Eramet-Comilog. Léod-Paul Batolo is Director and CEO of Comilog SA. Safi Virginius is Project Manager and Director of Human Resources at Comilog SA. Yves Le Fur is Scientific Adviser. Alphonse Ndinga is Dr. in Philosophy, Plastic Arts and Art sciences. Fabrice Agyune Ndone is Dr. in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Florence Bikoma is anthropologist and Paulin Kialo is Humanities researcher.
PAINTING IN THE CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN MUSEUM
by Luísa Sampaio
Five centuries of great European painting in the revised edition of the catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisboa
In April 1899, Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian acquired his first painting. Between then and 1953, the year in which he added the last canvas to his Collection, over half a century elapsed. The range of works contained in this section of the Collection spans almost five hundred years of art history and reveals a particularly eclectic taste, something that in fact extends to the great diversity of works exhibited at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
A dominant theme of the set of two hundred and twenty-nine paintings acquired and kept by the Collector, of which more than half are in storage, reflects the special interest that he had for portrait and landscape painting. Indeed, these genres are given particular preponderance in the exhibition open to the public at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon since October 2nd, 1969. The one hundred and twelve paintings on permanent exhibition in the museum’s galleries, which are published in full here, also confirm this preference.
• The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisboa presents a group of over 100 paintings dating from the 15th to the late 19th century: from Venetian masters like Ghirlandaio and Carpaccio to the golden age of Dutch painting, from 18th-century French painting to the great French masters Manet, Monet, Renoir and Degas.
• The book offers a sort of visual visit in which each painting is reproduced in its entirety and in close-ups of smaller details.
• An introductory essay provides depth and background to one ofEurope’s most distinct and important collection of classic and modem art.
Luísa Sampaio is head of collections and curator of the Painting Department at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. She has organized a number of exhibits and collaborated in the publication of various catalogues.
Size 23.5 × 30 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
248 pages
150 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5479-1
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
NEW EDITION
Size 28 × 30.5 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
276 pages
220 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5462-3
£ 60.00, $ 80.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Tallahassee, Florida
Agriculture & Mechanical University
12 April 2025 February 2026
Harrisburg, Ella
Elizabeth Hise Museum 14 May 2025 September 2025
Los Angeles, Leica Gallery
5 June – 1 September 2025
SANDRO MILLER ON EARTH AS IT IS NOT IN HEAVEN
An impressive, emotional tribute to humankind by the leading photographer
“A life behind the camera, dedicated to my craft of photography. I live under the notion, ‘If my portraits are not moving you emotionally in some way, a feeling of empathy, confusion, surprise, joy, fear, or just a gut wrenching feeling of awkwardness, then I haven’t done my work as a portrait artist.’
On Earth As It Is Not In Heaven is my tribute to humankind from birth to death. These portraits are of real people, celebrities, and athletes of every culture, race and gender – all of which are experiencing life as it has been dealt to them. In our journeys from birth to death we will all struggle and will all suffer, and the moments in between may be joy, excitement and even orgasmic. These images are caught at 125th of a second document and provide evidence of one’s journey through life; they are little secrets about a secret. You will find I reveal as much as I don’t reveal and, in the portrait, the more it tells the less you will know. Welcome to a book that I have sunk my heart, soul, blood and tears into. These portraits were not made for me, and they were not made for my sitters, these portraits were created for you, the viewer. To help you feel deeper the joys, the struggles and everything else we feel during that short time we call a life.” –Sandro Miller
• Sandro Miller’s photography captures the raw essence of the human condition—spanning cultures, identities and emotions.
• A powerful photographic storytelling through light, expression and form.
Sandro Miller is a Chicago-based photographic and video artist with an especial sensitivity to people and cultures. Known for his mastery of light and emotional depth, Sandro Miller’s work spans the globe and explores truth, identity and the human condition. With Skira he published Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Homage to the Photographic masters (2020), and Crowns. My Hair, my Soul, My Feedom (2021).
BRIONI ISLANDS
edited by Sabina and Reiner Opoku texts by Jan Eike Dunkhase, Thomas Kellein, Josef Mugler, Mira Pavletic´, Luca Pizzaroni and Rade Šerbedžija photographs by Tom Wagner
The first book revealing the full history of the Brioni islands
Size 23 × 27 cm
(9 × 10½ in.)
324 pages
270 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5468-5
£ 75.00, $ 100.00
This book is a heartfelt tribute to the Brioni Islands, a place where lush Mediterranean landscapes meet the enduring legacy of Roman villas, Austro-Hungarian elegance, and Tito’s bold socialist experiments. More than a celebration of breathtaking beauty, it explores Brioni as a cultural and ecological landmark— alive with stories, contrasts, and possibility. Through vivid storytelling and striking imagery, the authors invite readers to rediscover the islands not only as a historical treasure but as a living laboratory for dialogue, sustainability, and the reimagining of our shared future. Once a stage for diplomacy and utopian ideals, Brioni may yet inspire a new era of nonalignedthought – where nature and culture speak in harmony.
• The first comprehensive history of the Brioni Islands, from ancient Roman splendor to Tito’s unique socialist vision.
• With captivating imagery and evocative essays, the book brings the islands to life, inviting readers on a sensory and intellectual journey.
• Endpaper created by Julian Schnabel. Photographs by Tom Wagner.
Reiner Opoku is an esteemed international art consultant and producer with deep expertise in the art world and market. With a career spanning back to the early 1980s, Reiner has curated numerous art exhibitions and spearheaded an array of publications, cultural projects, and initiatives. With Skira he recently published Jiri Georg Dokoupil. Venetian Bubbles (2024). Sabina Opoku is a passionate globetrotter and connoisseur of multiple cultural backgrounds. Her Yugoslavian heritage has cultivated a deep appreciation for travel and culture, inspiring her to merge these passions into meaningful initiatives.
Size 23 × 29 cm
(9 × 11½ in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
208 pages
110 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-275-9
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
SILVER HAIKUS
ASIA PHOTOGRAPHED BY MICHAEL KENNA
foreword by Pico Iyer, with a text by Haely Chang and an interview between Michael Kenna and Édouard de Saint-Ours
This book explores Michael Kenna’s minimalist photography and its deep connections to Asian art and philosophy
Photographer Michael Kenna, internationally renowned as one of the contemporary masters of minimalist photography, has a deep attachment to Asia. Since his first visit to Japan in 1987, he has returned time and time again to capture the continent’s landscapes, examining them with his own distinctive, recognisable eye. What’s more, these numerous trips to Asia have had a significant impact on Michael Kenna’s photography.
This book provides a thematic retrospective of Michael Kenna’s work in Asia over the last 40 years. It explores the connection between his aesthetic and Asian art through formal dialogues between his photographs and works from the Chinese, Korean and Japanese collections of the Musée Guimet. More specifically, this book observes the influence of Asian arts in the photographer’s work, which is first and foremost stylistic: the choice of monochrome, the economy of means, the use of emptiness and the desire to suggest rather than describe evoke the ink paintings of Chinese scholars and Japanese Zen monks. It is also philosophical, with the same acceptance of slowness, the quest for perfection, the repetition of motifs, the asceticism of work and the spiritual dimension.
• A thematic retrospective of Michael Kenna’s 40-year journey through Asia.
• It explores the cultural and philosophical connections between Asian art and Kenna’s photography.
Édouard de Saint-Ours is curator of photographic collections at the Musée Guimet in Paris and curator of the exhibition. Haely Chang is curator of Asian art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth.
CONSTELLATION MICHAEL KENNA
edited by Sabine Troncin-Denis preface by Stéphane Tallon foreword by the editor and text by Matthieu Rivallin
A retrospective of Kenna’ s fifty-year career
Size 26 × 30 cm
(10¼ × 12 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
176 pages
122 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-284-1
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
For more than fifty years, Michael Kenna has tirelessly travelled the globe to capture its fragile beauty in strikingly intense black-and-white photographs. From England to France, Japan to the United States, the 122 photographs in this book constitute a perceptive and poetic constellation of his work.
Born to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Michael Kenna’s artistic career, Constellation features a curated selection of geographical subjects spanning the years from 1973 to 2024, a collection of photographic gems drawn from the artist’s extensive oeuvre, which has taken him across the globe over the course of his career.
• During Kenna’s fifty year career, his photographic prints have been shown in almost five hundred one-person exhibitions and over four hundred group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the world.
• Kenna’s photographs are also included in well over a hundred permanent institutional collections.
• The book is the catalogue of the fifty-year retrospective curated by Sabine Troncin-Denis in Nice.
Stéphane Tallon is the Director of the Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre. Matthieu Rivalin is Head of the Photography Department at the Médiathèque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie (MPP). Sabine Troncin-Denis is Michael Kenna’s European agent.
Size 28 × 30 cm
(11 × 12 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Italian)
160 pages
110 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5243-8
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
MICHAEL KENNA VENICE. MEMORIES AND TRACES
edited by Sandro Parmiggiani
The magic of Venice through the stunning images by the great photographer
Discover Venice anew through the lens of Michael Kenna. This stunning book offers an in-depth exploration of the British virtuoso’s black-and-white masterpieces, most of which are reproduced with the same format as the original prints. Kenna’s practice is characterised by long exposure times, which can last up to several hours, thus revealing unseen details within the Venetian landscape. His lens captures a wide array of subjects: mist-shrouded chapels and attics, falling stars above bell towers, palace arches, laundry threads, gondola prows, bridges, garden statues, twisted poles emerging from the black lagoon and reminiscent of ancient figures. Michael Kenna’s photographs skilfully play with light, shadow, and reflection to show the poetic intensity of Venice.
From solo exhibitions in prestigious museums to retrospectives that span continents, this compilation of Venetian imagery adds a new chapter to Kenna’s illustrious career. It stands as a testament to his unparalleled ability to capture the timeless allure of Venice, offering viewers a unique and immersive experience through the lens of an exacting master.
• First compilation of Michael Kenna’s photographs of Venice.
Sandro Parmiggiani, art critic and curator, writer for newspapers and magazines (including Il Giornale dell’Arte), is author of essays in volumes and catalogues and curator of catalogues raisonnée of the work of various artists.
MITCH EPSTEIN
AMERICAN NATURE
edited by Brian Wallis
Twenty
years
of images
by the acclaimed American photographer, pioneer of 1970s fine-art colour photography
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
176 pages
120 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5312-1
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
The book American Nature is the culmination of a twenty-year odyssey by one of America’s leading photographers. It represents both a political portrait of the nation during this pivotal time and an existential warning about a potentially cataclysmic future. Even though the threat of climate change is very real and it affects us daily, the causes and consequences are often hard to articulate, much less represent.
Mitch Epstein’s monumental achievement in his overarching work of the past two decades has been to communicate the intangible networks of production and power that threaten our environment and to listen to and record the visions of people in protest, as well as the gentle thrum of the enduring forest. American Nature features key selections from his three most recent projects: American Power (2003–09), Property Rights (2017–20), and Old Growth (2020–24). In each of these ambitious, multiyear series, Epstein’s goal was to describe the conflicts between American society and wilderness in the context of global climate change. In addition to these three major photographic projects, there are two new multimedia works: the monumental installation Forest Waves, devoted to the virgin forest of Massachusetts, and Clear Cut, a compilation of still images by early-twentieth-century photographer Darius Kinsey on the deforestation in the American Northwest.
• Epstein’s photographs are in major museum collections all over the world.
Brian Wallis, former Chief curator and director of exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York, is executive director of The Center for Photography at Woodstock.
GALLERIE D’ITALIA | SKIRA
Size 22.5 × 26 cm (9¼ × 10¼ in.)
200 pages
115 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5406-7
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ ARTHUR RIMBAUD IN NEW YORK
edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa
One of David Wojnarowicz’s few incursions into photography is a testimony of urban, social and political change in New York in the late 1970s
During his first trip to France in 1978, David Wojnarowicz was keen to immerse himself in the Parisian environs where a century earlier the poet Arthur Rimbaud had tried to live as a runaway teenager in the hope of becoming a poet. Rimbaud’s short and peripatetic youth was memorialized in two volumes of poetry which, in addition to propelling French literature into modernity, have become obligatory reading to young poets across the globe, who, like him, find in poetry a path to transcend the ordinary. Rimbaud was an early model for Wojnarowicz, both for his experiments with poetic form and for his courage in defying the mores of his epoch. Upon his return to the United States, Wojnarowicz was able to put in historical perspective the situation of decay and economic depression that had spread aver the greater New York City starting in the mid-1960s, bringing the city to the brink of collapse. He could intuitively make a parallel between the situation that New York was going through and the state of anarchy that took over Paris during the years of the Commune in the early 1870s. This parallel also allowed him to understand his own predicament as the child of a disrupted household in the streets of New York at a very young age. Considered in this context, the series of photo-performances that Wojnarowicz produced in collaboration with a small coterie of friends between 1978 and 1979 stands as an important document of the era that not only gives us entry into the artist's state of mind at a turning point in his life-as he was making a transition from writing onto the visual arts-but also documents areas of New York City that have been radically transformed.
• A profound exploration of Wojnarowicz’s transition from writer to visual artist.
Antonio Sergio Bessa is chief curator emeritus at The Bronx Museum, New York, where he has organized several exhibitions, including Darrel Ellis: Regeneration (2023, in collaboration with Leslie Cozzi) and Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street (2022).
REEM AL FAISAL STATES OF LIGHT
texts by Haitham Fathallah, Gregory Buchakjian and Laetitia Guillemin
An in-depth analysis of the photography of the acclaimed Saudi artist and an glimpse into her innermost feelings
Size 35 × 41 cm
(13¾ × 16 in.)
208 pages
170 b/w illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5403-6
£ 65.00, $ 80.00
Reem Al Faisal is a pioneering Saudi documentary photographer whose home is Jeddah, yet whose true studio is the world. Through her lens, she captures moments that transcend geography, revealing profound spirituality, human connection and the divine presence woven into both nature and daily life. Her career has been defined by a series of historic firsts: she was the first female photographer to document the entire Hajj, the first Saudi photographer to conduct extensive work on the Muslim community in America, the first Saudi to exhibit in Palestine, and the first Arab photographer to exhibit in China. She has also documented life in China, Japan, Korea and Iran. Her work explores the intersection of Islamic philosophy and photography and the influence of Arabic poetry.
With each project, Reem Al Faisal continues to expand the boundaries of Saudi art, blending culture, spirituality and innovation into a visual language that resonates with audiences worldwide.
• Featuring a wide selection of Reem Al Faisal’s b/w photographs, the book highlights the diversity in the subjects of her photographs as she attempts to highlight human feelings in most of her images, along with the historical, artistic architecture of Arab and Islamic culture.
• Her work has been exhibited in many countries around the world.
Haitham Fathallah is an Iraqi author and photographer. Gregory Buchakjian is a Lebanese photographer. Laetitia Guillemin is a Paris-based photography specialist, educator, and editor.
Size 28 × 28 cm (11 × 11 in.)
160 pages
80 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4760-1
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
VILLA D’ESTE
text by Andrea Bruciati
The magnificent Italian gardens and water features of the famous 16th-century villa in a spectacular photo book
Villa d’Este in Tivoli is the ultimate expression of an antiquarian garden in the Renaissance, the result of the genius of artists and intellectuals who conceived and realised monumental fountains, extraordinary grottoes, nymphaeums, basins, and luxuriant decorations.
The residence of Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este, designed by Pirro Ligorio, was built from 1550 onwards on the foundations of an earlier Roman abode. The complex owes its majesty and importance to the presence of the Aniene River, whose flow has allowed human genius to explore the infinite artistic potential of water with marvellous visual and acoustic effects set in a unique context. All these characteristics have made the site of Villa d’Este, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001, the most famous of the “Gardens of Wonders”.
With the text by Andrea Bruciati, this spectacular photo-book presents stuning photographs documenting in detail this unique masterpiece of the Italian Garden as well as the interiors of the Villa, spread over two levels with grand rooms with unique designs, considered one of the finest examples of Italian Renaissance.
• A stunning coffee-table book on an Italian masterpiece, its history and magnificent Italian gardens.
Andrea Bruciati is an art historian and director of Villa d’Este
HIDDEN ITALY UNVEILING ART, NATURE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
edited by FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano
The extraordinary Italian heritage of art and nature
Size 24 × 28 cm
(91⁄2 × 11 in.)
392 pages, 300 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4260-6
£ 50.00, $ 60.00
The volume is published in a completely revised edition, updated and extended with the inclusion of all new properties, illustrating places and monuments that over the years have become part of the heritage of FAI, the association that takes deals with their conservation and restoration.
This extensive collection of images and critical articles on the various locations and monuments covers the numerous stages of the acquisition of historical mansions, castles, monasteries and citadels with important frescos, art collections and natural reserves in some of the most suggestive corners of the Italian peninsula: from the castles of Avio, Manta and Masino, to the Abbey of San Fruttuoso, from the Bay of Ieranto to the Torba Monastery, from Villa del Balbianello to Villa Della Porta Bozzolo, Villa Necchi Campiglio and Villa Panza in Biumo (with the prestigious collection of contemporary art), from the historic Olivetti Shop in Venice (a Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece) up to the latest acquisitions such as the millenary Abbey of Santa Maria in Cerrate.
• A stunning photographic book to discovery the hidden treasures of Italy.
• New updated, revised and extended edition
Conceived by Elena Croce, daughter of the great philosopher Benedetto Croce and based on the illustrious model of the British National Trust, the FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano was founded on 28 April 1975 with the specific aim of helping to protect, conserve and make the most of Italy’s artistic and natural heritage.
Size 26.75 × 35.5 cm (10½ × 14 in.)
344 pages
420 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4768-7 £ 49.00, $ 65.00
NEW YORK 1962–1964
conceived, curated and edited by Germano Celant co-published by the Jewish Museum, New York
The book explores a pivotal moment in art and culture in New York City
The radical changes that occurred in the three years between January 1962 and December 1964 had a profound effect on creative life in New York and around the world, altering not only the fine arts but everything from performance to music to design. Together with these creative innovations, the period from 1962 through 1964 saw a shift in the centre of artistic gravity from Europe to the United States and the rise of a new leadership in the arts, centred on a number of New York-based curators, gallerists, and other impresarios. Inspired by the scale and format of widely read magazines of the time such as Life and Look, this lavishly illustrated oversize paperback traces a detailed itinerary of artists and curators, experimental exhibitions and groundbreaking happenings, as well as historical and political events that transformed society during this explosive moment.
• The volume was conceived by the lead curator of the accompanying exhibition, Germano Celant, Artistic and Scientific Superintendent of the Prada Foundation, Milan. The book features interviews by Celant with Christo and Jim Dine with tributes by Claudia Gould and Michael Rock.
Germano Celant (1940-2020), widely influential Italian art historian, critic, and curator who coined the term Arte Povera, wrote more than one hundred publications, including both books and catalogues and curated hundreds of exhibitions in the most prominent international museums and institutions worldwide.
THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES THE DAY MAY BREAK. CHAPTER FOUR
by Nick Brandt;
edited by Nadine Barth foreword by Samar Yazbek; introduction by Arianna
Rinaldo
The fourth chapter of the celebrated series The Day May Break
The book is the fourth chapter of The Day May Break, Nick Brandt’s global series portraying people and animals impacted by climate change and environmental degradation. The series was photographed in Jordan, one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. It features rural Syrian refugee families currently living there, whose lives have been seriously impacted by droughts intensified by climate change. The photographs show the families’ connection and strength in the face of adversity, that when all else is lost you still have each other. The boxes on which the families gather aim skyward, pedestals for those that in our society are typically unseen and unheard.
• As part of Nick Brandt’s The Day May Break series, this volume powerfully documents the human cost of environmental degradation.
Nick Brandt has had solo museum and gallery exhibitions around the world, including New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Paris and Los Angeles. Syrian novelist Samar Yazbek is the author of Where the Wind Calls Home and Planet of Clay Arianna Rinaldo is a photography curator and editor. Nadine Barth has been the editor for over 100 books on fashion, art, architecture, and photography.
JOEL MEYEROWITZ . A SENSE OF WONDER PHOTOGRAPHS 1962–2022
edited by Denis Curti
The entire career of the American photographer
Devoted to Joel Meyerowitz (New York, 1938), one of the protagonists of contemporary photography, and produced in collaboration with the Joel Meyerowitz Photography Archive in New York, the book presents over ninety images organised in thematic sections and includes many of the photographs that have contributed to the redefinition of the concept of street photography, a genre in which Joel Meyerowitz introduces the use of colour to interpret and capture the complexity of the modern world. In the 1960s Meyerowitz emerged as one of the most interesting young avant-garde photographers in New York. The book also features Meyerowitz’s 1980s work, when he gradually shifted his gaze from the street to nature, or his evocative Still lives, or the photos he took in 2001 in the days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, up to the selfshots taken during the 2020 lockdown.
• An authoritative resource for both photography enthusiasts and scholars.
Artistic director of Stanze della fotografia, Denis Curti for more than fifteen years was the photographic critic for Corriere della Sera and he currently runs Black Camera on the Rolling Stone Italia digital platform.
Size 38.3 × 30.5 cm (15 × 12 in.)
132 pages
70 tritone illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5394-7
£ 60.00, $ 75.00
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Turin, Gallerie d'Italia
18 March – 6 September 2026
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Italian)
224 pages
110 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5392-3
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
260 pages
170 colour illustrations hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-5376-3
£ 60.00, $ 75.00
THE BEAUTY OF ITALIAN LIVING
text by Luca Masia and Davide Rampello
photographs by Gabriele D’Agostino
A new destination for the monumental 16th-century palace in Milan
A masterpiece of Lombard Baroque, the former Archiepiscopal Seminary was one of the oldest seminaries in Europe and the world. Today, thanks to the careful renovation by Lungarno Collection, designed by architects Michele De Lucchi and Michele Bonan, the former Seminary reopens to the city as an inspiring place: Portrait Milano. Rooted in an Italian family vision of living, shaped by craft, beauty, and instinctive style, this project continues a story where hospitality becomes part of a wider cultural way of life. And so, with the right measure of humilitas, a 16th-century seminary has been transformed into an urban destination for the third millennium.
• Stunning photographs highlight the harmonious balance between historical architecture and contemporary interventions.
Luca Masia, an advertising creative and writer, works in fiction, television, theater dramaturgy, and corporate communication. He collaborated for nearly ten years with the Triennale di Milano and has written texts and books on art, design, and architecture. Davide Rampello, curator, artistic director, creative consultant, is a lecturer at the University of Padua, IULM, and the Politecnico di Milano.
DISCOVERING UZBEKISTAN
by Dariya Sirotina
A book to discover the soul of Uzbekistan
This is a beautifully illustrated guidebook, a fascinating story about history and modernity, monuments that have become the heritage of world culture, nature and amazing people, and the unique multicolored nature of Uzbekistan.
The book consists of six chapters dedicated to ancient cities and regions of Uzbekistan and their surroundings: Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khorezm, Karakalpakstan and Fergana Valley. Each chapter opens with an essay where the author introduces the reader to the fascinating history of the region and its peculiarities. Each chapter tells several stories of the region’s best artisans, chefs, restaurant owners, and artists. The book also provides the most up-to-date information about museums and craft workshops, designer stores and markets, as well as hotels to stay in, restaurants and teahouses to visit, food and wine to try.
• A fully illustrated and well-structured guide with up-to-date information, including information on Uzbek wine industry and regional cuisine.
Dariya Sirotina is a traveller and travel blogger, author, photographer, and food and wine connoisseur.
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE: THE ULTIMATE ROLE MODEL
by Fadil Berisha
A highly illustrated memoir on the figure of Carmen Dell’Orefice, the world’s oldest working supermodel and actress
Carmen Dell’Orefice began her career at the tender age of fourteen when she appeared in Vogue. When she was fifteen, Salvador Dalí painted a portrait of her.
Carmen has been a force in fashion ever since, working for the greatest photographers of all time, including Horst P. Horst, Richard Avedon, Lilian Bassman, Norman Parkinson, and Francesco Scavullo.
Born in New York City on June 3, 1931, she was discovered by photographer Irving Penn, becoming a prominent figure in the fashion industry. Known for her striking beauty and timeless elegance, Carmen has graced the covers of major magazines, including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. She is often regarded as one of the longest-serving models in fashion history, having worked continuously for more than 70 years. Despite her age, Dell’Orefice has remained a symbol of grace and sophistication, challenging conventional notions of beauty in the modeling world. Throughout her career, she has represented brands, walked in runway shows, and remained an inspiration for many generations of models.
• A magazine-inspired book devoted to the iconic American model.
• A simple, modern, and yet elegant edition, iconic as the woman it is celebrating.
Fadil Berisha, photographer and long-time collaborator of Carmen Dell’Orefice, will guide the reader through this testament to their creative collaboration, focusing on Carmen from her 60s to her 90s and their prolific professional collaborations. Fadil is the former official cameraman for Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Rolex, and in his career, he has captured some of the world’s most breathtaking women and actresses, such as Halle Berry, and Sharon Stone, but none of them has ever beaten Carmen as his muse and model.
AFRICA
Discovering Wildlife Parks edited by Massimo Zanella
Size 30 × 25 cm (113 4 × 133⁄4 in.)
224 pages, 200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4857-8
£ 42.00, $ 60.00
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
224 pages 135 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5389-3 £ 45.00, $ 55.00
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
160 pages, 105 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1787-1
£ 30.00, $ 50.00
Size 28 × 30 cm (11 × 113 4 in.)
224 pages, 217 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-2218-9
£ 37.50
ARAKI
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
200 pages, 320 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4195-1
£ 38.00, $ 50.00
THE
EFFECT edited by Filippo Maggia
ARAB
Bedouin of the Desert Megumi Yo
ELEONORA ABBAGNATO photographed by Massimo Gatti preface by Giuseppe Tornatore with an interview by Valeria Crippa
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI
Polarnography
edited by Filippo Maggia
Special edition
100 colour photographs
8.7 × 10.8 cm in a 9 × 11.5 cm
box nestled in a 30 × 38 cm canvas and acetate container
ISBN 978-88-572-3488-5
£ 75.00, $ 100.00
JACOPO BENASSI. THE BELT
edited by Antonio Grulli and Maria Luisa Frisa
Skira / Archivio Manteco
Size 24 × 30 cm (91 2 × 12 in.)
English edition with Italian texts in appendix , 224 pages
142 colour illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4382-5
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
ADRIAN BURNS PAREIDOLIA
edited by Denise Wendel-Poray, with a text by Éric Garandeau
Size 24 × 30 cm (9½ × 12 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French), 208 pages
120 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-260-5
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
RICHARD AVEDON Relationships
edited by Rebecca A. Senf
Size 24.5 × 32 cm (91⁄2 × 121⁄2 in.)
196 pages, 116 colour and b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4840-0
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
GABRIELE BASILICO
Metropoli
edited by Giovanna Calvenzi and Filippo Maggia
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.) dual-language edition (Italian-English), 224 pages 225 duotone and colour illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4315-3
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
HANS GEORG BERGER
Discipline and Senses
Photographs 1972–2020 edited by Francesco Paolo Campione
Size 22.5 × 26.6 cm (83⁄4 × 101⁄2 in.)
400 pages, 215 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4664-2
£ 42.00, $ 60.00
CANOVA E VENEZIA
Photographs by Fabio Zonta edited by Camilla Grimaldi
photographs by Thomas Fuesser edited by Rosa Maria Falvo texts by Lorenz Helbling, Shen Qilan, Rosa Maria Falvo, Jean Loh
Size 21 × 28 cm (81⁄4 × 11 in.)
528 pages, 418 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1486-3
£ 48.00, $ 75.00
REGENERATION3
edited by Anne Lacoste and Lydia Dorner
Size 22 × 30 cm (81⁄2 × 113 4 in.)
176 pages, 156 colour and 25 b/w illustrations, paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-2824-2
£ 39.95, $ 60.00
ROME ETERNAL CITY in the Photographs Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects edited by Marco Iuliano and Gabriella Musto
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
248 pages, 209 colour and b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3919-4
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
THE STRANGER
photographs by Preben Holst edited by Joakim Borda-Pedreira
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 12 in.)
168 pages, 90 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4996-4
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Le Notti Bianche
Size 30 × 40 cm (113 4 × 153⁄4 in.)
dual-language edition
(English-Italian), 56 pages
20 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3638-4
£ 85.00, $ 120.00
MAX VADUKUL. THROUGH HER EYES. TIMELESS STRENGTH with Ludmilla Voronkina Bozzetti
Gallerie d’Italia | Skira
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 12 in.)
dual-language edition (English-Italian), 76 pages
50 colour illustrations codex binding
ISBN 978-88-572-5136-3
£ 20.00, $ 25.00
WHY PHOTOGRAPHY?
edited by Bjarne Bare, Behzad Farazollahi, Christian Tunge together with Susanne Østby Sæther
Size 17 × 24 cm (61⁄2 × 91⁄2 in.)
288 pages, 185 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4266-8
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
A TIME OF DISTANCE
The COVID-19 Visual Project edited by Arianna Rinaldo
Gallerie d’Italia | Skira
Size 17 × 22.8 cm (61 2 × 9 in.)
456 pages, 410 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4793-9
£ 42.00, $ 52.00
VENICE 1948–1986
The Art Scene
Luca
Size 24.5 × 29.5 cm (10 × 111⁄2 in.)
336 pages, 900 colour and b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-7624-744-6
£ 36.00, $ 65.00
THE TRAP Trafficking of Women in Nepal
Size 30 × 28 cm (113⁄4 × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French), 112 pages
60 colour illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-061-8
£ 40.00
TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Flags of America
Filippo Maggia
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
136 pages, 68 colour and b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1738-3
£ 34.95, $ 50.00
THE WAY OUT
New York Beyond Manhattan Riding Away on a Ducati photographs by Marco Campelli; text by Giulietta Cozzi
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
dual language edition (English-Italian), 160 pages
100 colour illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4277-4
£ 32.00, $ 39.95
WESTON. EDWARD, BRETT, COLE, CARA
The Weston Photographers edited by Filippo Maggia
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
128 pages, 100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4770-0
£ 30.00, $ 45.00
WOW GILLES!
Villeneuve. The Undying Legend photographs by Ercole Colombo texts by Giorgio Terruzzi
Size 30 × 20 cm (113 4 × 73⁄4 in.)
208 pages, 196 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3605-6
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
WRECKS photographs by Stefano Benazzo edited by Jean Blanchaert
Size 28 × 24 cm (11 × 91⁄2 in.)
144 pages, 110 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3496-0
£ 28.00, $ 35.00
Massimo Barbero
A MOROCCAN PASSION MOROCCAN EMBROIDERY, CAFTANS, BELTS FROM THE SEFRIOUI FAMILY COLLECTION
text by Rachida Alaoui
Caftans, embroidery and belts: three timeless pillars of Moroccan heritage
The caftan, embroidery and belts are an integral part of Morocco’s heritage, embodying its identity and expressing its uniqueness and permanence throughout history. The caftan, an emblematic ceremonial garment worn by Moroccan women, represents refinement and authenticity. Made from sumptuous fabrics and embellished with silks and brocades, it is adorned with a profusion of original embroidery, which each region has personalised according to its own style and technique. The richness and diversity of the caftan, embroidery, belts and Moroccan costume in general have never failed to arouse the admiration of travellers, Western ambassadors from the 16th to the 18th century and Orientalist painters of the 19th century, attesting to their timeless aesthetics. Moroccan costume provides a concrete insight into the art of living and way of life of the inhabitants, revealing the ingenuity and talent of the artisans and their ability to open up to the outside world without ever denying their roots.
This box set comprising three books will reveal for the first time the richness of an exceptional collection. A vibrant tribute to Moroccan craftsmanship and art de vivre.
• Three exclusive books in a luxurious box set, revealing the most important collection of Moroccan textile art.
• The first comprehensive presentation of an exceptional private collection, capturing the depth and diversity of traditional Moroccan garments.
• Each volume pays tribute to the refinement, ingenuity and authenticity of Moroccan artisans.
Rachida Alaoui, art historian, specialised in Arab-Muslim costume history, author of various publications on the subject. She is also an exhibition curator and in 2008 organised the exhibition “A Moroccan Passion: Caftans, Embroidery, Jewellery” at the Yves Saint Laurent Foundation in Paris.
Size 25 × 32 cm
(9¾ × 12½ in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
3 volumes in a box
912 pages
600 colour illustrations hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-2-37074-298-8
£ 90.00, $ 120.00
PUBLICATION
December 2026
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
192 pages
100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5430-2
£ 45.00, $ 60.00
PUBLICATION June 2026
MOISSAN: DIAMONDS FROM THE STARS
edited by Denise Wendel-Poray introduction by Denise Wendel-Poray texts by Mwape Chama, Olivier Lafont and Bianca Cappello
This publication aims to deepen awareness of Henri Moissan’s legacy and the jewelry inspired by his work
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1906, Henri Moissan discovered a new mineral—silicon carbide—while studying meteorites from Diablo Canyon, Arizona. This mineral, later named moissanite, is extremely rare in nature, composed of pre-solar grains. Moissan also developed the electric arc furnace, enabling the synthesis of artificial diamonds.
This book highlights the devastating environmental impact of traditional diamond mining. In contrast, lab-created Moissan diamonds offer an eco-friendly, conflict-free solution—appealing to environmentally conscious consumers without compromising beauty or heritage. The editor Denise Wendel-Poray outlines the vision behind the Moissan Company, founded by Jos Sacre and Ernesto Ibarra, rooted in ecological, artistic, and entrepreneurial values. Olivier Lafont reveals Moissan as not just a scientific genius, but also a passionate art collector—combining the minds of a scientist and artist. Mwape Chama critiques traditional diamond mining’s environmental toll: deforestation, biodiversity loss, toxic waste and massive landscape damage, while Moissan diamonds—lab-created and eco-friendly—offer a sustainable alternative, challenging the romanticized view of natural diamonds. Jewelry historian Bianca Cappello explores moissanite’s role in design from the early 20th century onward, including iconic pieces like the Tennis Bracelet and other classic forms such as Cuban Link Chains and engagement rings.
• Science, history, ethics and art in a compelling case for sustainable luxury.
Denise Wendel-Poray is a Canadian writer, editor and curator. Mwape Chama is a legal researcher and policy advocate based in Peterborough, UK. Olivier Lafont, a leading chemist and historian of pharmacy, is renowned for his work on Henri Moissan and medicinal chemistry. Bianca Cappello is an art and jewellery historian, curator and author specializing in 18th–20th century jewellery.
DIAMONDS OF GOLCONDA
by Capucine Juncker
A selection of the most extraordinary diamonds of Golconda
Size 23 × 30 cm
(9 × 12 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
208 pages
125 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-2-3707-4217-9
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
The first publication to be exclusively dedicated to the diamonds of Golconda, this book presents a captivating, in-depth study combining history, geography, gemmology and mythology. The precious stones yielded over the centuries by India’s legendary Golconda mines have fascinated and intrigued the entire world. They are certainly among the most coveted gems by collectors today. This work reviews in detail Golconda’s most famous diamonds, including the Koh-iNoor, the Hope and the Sancy, exploring the stories and secrets of each. Through meticulous research and exciting stories, Capucine Juncker takes us on a unique and dazzling journey that begins in ancient India, continues to the European courts and ends with a magnificent panorama of contemporary creations.
• Despite the uniqueness of Golconda diamonds, due to their ancient cut, they have never been fully studied. This book fills that editorial gap.
• It also focuses on the region’s most famous gems, those in major public and private collections, as well as on pieces that have disappeared.
Capucine Juncker, lecturer and teacher in jewellery history and gemmology. She contributed to publications for experts and the general public on gemstones, jewellery history and designers.
Size 21.5 × 27.5 cm (8½ × 10¾ in.)
248 pages
320 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-235-3 £ 38.00, $ 50.00
CARTIER ISLAMIC INSPIRATION AND
MODERN
DESIGN
edited by Judith Henon-Raynaud and Évelyne Possémé
Jewellery and Islamic art, the interweaving of masterpieces
The book explores the influence of Islamic art on the production of jewellery and precious objects by Cartier, from the early 20th century to the present day. Jewellery and objects from the Cartier collection, masterpieces of Islamic art, drawings, books, photographs and archival documents trace the diversity of sources that inspired the forms and motifs used in Cartier creations. Sometimes easily identifiable, at other times decomposed and recomposed to the point of rendering their source untraceable, motifs and forms from Islamic art and architecture have integrated the stylistic language of designers to the point of constituting part of Cartier’s repertoire to this day, illustrated by contemporary jewellery pieces that complete this journey. The mandorlas, palmettes, fleurons, rinceaux, sequins of Cartier jewellery are inspired in turn by motifs found in book bindings, oriental architecture and antique and contemporary jewellery purchased by Jacques Cartier during his expeditions to India.
A true immersion in Cartier’s creative process, this book documents the renewal of the iconic jewellery house’s forms and manufacturing techniques.
• A survey of the ways Islamic art has inspired Maison Cartier from the early 20th century to today.
Judith Henon-Raynaud is Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Department of Islamic Art at the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Évelyne Possémé is Former Chief Curator of the Ancient and Modern Jewellery Department at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
PULLMAN A LIFE IN MOTION
Today the word “pullman” has come to mean “a railroad passenger car with especially comfortable furnishings for day or night travel.” But before the word entered the mainstream, it was a name, that of George Mortimer Pullman (1831–1897), a serial entrepreneur, an extraordinary innovator, and one of the cleverest businessmen of America’s Gilded Age. Pullman gave his name first to a coach, then to a train, and finally to a notion, that of luxury travel.
This book retraces the history of Pullman, from the genius innovation of overnight travel, dining wagons, and sleeper beds to a globally recognized brand synonymous with pioneer engineering, premium mobility, and lavish “hotels on wheels.” Pullman’s history is closely tied with the history of 20th-century United States, yet it extended its influence across the world.
• The history of an iconic brand for traveling in style and comfort.
• Pullman became synonymous with the golden age of US railroad travel in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• The 19th-century definition of luxury long-distance travel.
Size 21 × 29.5 cm
(8¼ × 11½ in.)
304 pages
300 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-187-5
£ 45.00, $ 60.00
Luxury in innovation
Size 24 × 29 cm
(9½ × 11½ in.)
dual-language edition
(English-French)
256 pages
300 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-196-7
£ 37.00, $ 45.00
DOWNTOWN STYLE LAFFANOUR GALERIE
DOWNTOWN PARIS
with an interview between Anne Bony and François Laffanour
Celebrating the opening of the gallery 40 years ago, this book delves into the major design exhibitions organized at Laffanour Galerie
Downtown Paris
Having exhibited the most iconic works by famous designers – from Charlotte Perriand, Serge Mouille, Jean Prouvé, Le Corbusier, and Ettore Sottsass to Ron Arad, Isamu Noguchi, and Choï Byung –, Laffanour Galerie Downtown Paris has imposed itself locally and internationally as a major reference in design. Focusing on showing a selection of the best objects and pieces of furniture ever designed, this book also testifies to the high-level quality of the gallery’s curatorial work. With exhibitions recreating entire spaces of living, smart staging allows a wonderful immersive experience through the most refined interiors. As the gallery participates in the most renowned art fairs, pictures of its booths are also displayed in the book.
• A book recounting 40 years of activity of the leading design gallery and gathering works by the most famous and iconic designers.
• Laffanour Galerie Downtown Paris is specialized in the work of 20th-century European and American masters of architecture and design. Since its opening in the early 1980s, the gallery has been organizing thematic and monographic exhibitions on designers such as Le Corbusier, Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Serge Mouille, Pierre Jeanneret, and Jeanne Royère.
Anne Bony is a French art historian specialized in design. François Laffanour is the founder of Laffanour Gallery Downtown Paris.
MURANO GLASS AND THE VENICE BIENNALE 1912–1930
edited by Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego
The presence of Murano glass at the Venice Biennale dates back to the early twentieth century when these precious, fragile artefacts were occasionally exhibited at the event. It was only from the 1910s onwards that glass works were exhibited on a regular basis as objects in their own right, appearing in the rooms of the central pavilion from 1912 to 1930. It was not until 1932 that glass and the decorative arts were given their own dedicated space in the Giardini with the construction of the Venezia pavilion.
This volume examines this significant period which saw Murano glass gradually finding its place at the Venice Biennale, first through the artists choosing to use this material for their works, and later through the glassworks, sometimes drawing upon the creativity of painters and sculptors.
THE M.V.M. CAPPELLIN GLASSWORKS and the Young Carlo Scarpa 1925–1931
texts by Bruno Racine, Marzia Scalon, photographs by Alessandra Chemollo and Luigi “Gigi” Ferrigno
Size 28 × 30 cm (11 × 12 in.)
tri-language edition (French-English-Italian)
176 pages, 150 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-224-7
£ 38.00, $ 50.00
ANDREA VALLICELLI
Yatch Design edited by Valerio Paolo Mosco
Size 28 × 24 cm (11 × 91⁄2 in.)
312 pages, 216 colour and 140 b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4194-4
£ 60.00, $ 75.00
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
Time, Nature, Love Alba Cappellieri
contributions from Nicolas Bos, Franco Cologni, Vivienne Becker and Stefano Papi
Size 23.5 × 31 cm (91⁄4 × 121⁄4 in.)
272 pages, 386 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4177-7
£ 45.00, $ 55.00
JEAN-MICHEL WILMOTTE
Design texts by Anne Bony
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French), 720 pages
1500 colour illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-189-9
£ 90.00, $ 99.00
WILMOTTE & ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS
Taco Dibbits and Françoise Madrus
Size 22 × 30 cm (81⁄2 × 113⁄4 in.)
dual-language edition (English-French), 368 pages
315 colour illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-132-5
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
PIERO PORTALUPPI
edited by Piero Maranghi photographs by Ciro Frank Schiappa
An
exhaustive monograph on the eminent architect, emblematic of Milanese, and also Italian, 20th-century architectural and figurative culture
Size 26 × 34 cm
(10¼ × 13¼ in.)
dual-language edition (English-Italian)
400 pages
350 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4746-5
£ 80.00, $ 95.00
Celebrated in the 1930s, controversial and forgotten during the postwar period, and finally rediscovered today, Piero Portaluppi was an undisputed protagonist of 20th-century Italian architecture. An eclectic protagonist who steered clear of specific styles and schools, a master of hydroelectric architecture, and a great town planner whose projects changed the face of Milan.
Produced in collaboration with the Fondazione Piero Portaluppi, this new exhaustive monograph comprises a large photo album with new colour images of Portaluppi’s architectural projects and interiors, taken by the well-known photographer Ciro Frank Schiappa; three previously unpublished essays, illustrated with vintage photos by Antonio Paoletti; views and models of Portaluppi’s projects; items documenting his personal interests (cartoons, diagrams, sundials, postcards, newspaper cuttings). The volume also features an interview with Portaluppi’s nephew, architect Piero Castellini, by the famous film director Luca Guadagnino; an unpublished essay by architect Paolo Portoghesi; a biography of Piero Portaluppi by Jacopo Ghilardotti; a list of works and a bibliography compiled by Ferruccio Lupi, conservator at Fondazione Piero Portaluppi.
• This monograph, produced in collaboration with Fondazione Portaluppi, features a new photographic campaign and previously unpublished essays.
Piero Maranghi, great-grandson of Piero Portaluppi, is Director of the Fondazione Portaluppi. Ciro Frank Schiappa (Dublin, 1971) is an Italian photographer. His works have been displayed in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide.
Size 21.5 x 28 cm
(8½ x 11 in.)
dual-language edition
(English-Italian)
320 pages
580 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4172-2
£ 50.00, $ 69.00
PUBLICATION
June 2026
BENEDETTO CAMERANA. PROJECTS AND VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE
edited by Luca Molinari
Over twenty years of work by the Turin-based architect: a narrative between the past and the future and an opportunity to reflect on the role of the architect in the transformation of the city, public space and the landscape
What is the future of architecture? Turin-based architect Benedetto Camerana explores this question by reflecting on over two decades of work, blending past projects with a contemporary vision of cities and landscapes.
The book is structured into four key sections, covering his perspectives on architecture, urban spaces, interiors, and landscape. Landmark projects such as EnviPark (1998–2000) and the Torino 2006 Olympic Village showcase his environmentally driven design approach and use of innovative technologies. Turin has represented the main testing ground for Benedetto Camerana, with restoration and redesign operations on historical heritage works, such as the Church of Maria Madre dei Giovani (2008-2012), as well as contemporary cultural centers like the Juventus Museum (2009-2012) and Camera – Italian Center for Photography (2014-2015) and a series of significant buildings for the workplace. Camerana’s work for iconic Italian automotive brands, such as the complete redesign of the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese (2014-2015) and Ferrari Museum in Maranello (2018), emphasizes beauty, emotion and speed.
The volume ends with broad overview of the international scene, featuring projects for several Chinese metropolises, the Port of Hamburg and some major Italian cities, reaffirming the centrality of contemporary design and the search for new forms of environmental sustainability for our future.
• Integration between architecture and landscape in the projects designed and built in over twenty years by Benedetto Camerana and his studio.
A curator, critic and historian of architecture, Luca Molinari is a full professor of Theory and Architectural Design at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli.” He is the editorial director of the magazine Platform Architecture and Design and works as an independent author with Italian and international newspapers and magazines.
CROSSED HISTORIES
GAE AULENTI, ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE,
PHYLLIS LAMBERT ON ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY
texts by Catherine Bédard and Léa-Cathérine Szacka
The transformative influence of three pioneering women on the development of the postmodern city
Size 17 × 24 cm
(6½ × 9¾ in.)
dual-language edition (English-French)
144 pages
50 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-253-7
£ 30.00, $ 35.00
The book focuses on the impact of women on the postmodern city. To do so, it focuses on the personal and professional trajectories of three protagonists who, each in their own way, shaped the intellectual and physical environment of their city: American journalist and architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable and Canadian and Italian architects Phyllis Lambert and Gae Aulenti. All three share an ambivalent relationship with the concrete-and-steel architecture of the post-World War II modern movement, which was widely criticized in the 1960s for being alienating, standardized and anhistorical. Ada Louise Huxtable, through her articles in the New York Times architecture column; Gae Aulenti, with her conversion of the Gare d’Orsay into a museum and the Piazzale Cadorna in Milan; and Phyllis Lambert, with her philanthropic work and the founding of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 1979. Architecture is no longer seen through the prism of aesthetics, but through that of the cultural and environmental enhancement of public spaces. Through documentary and archival images, this catalogue documents this turning point in architectural history, when modernity returned to the architectural values of the past and the existing built environment. It also takes a more individual and biographical approach, crossing the paths of three women who played a major role in the construction of the post-modern city.
• Through the personal and professional journeys of Ada Louise Huxtable, Phyllis Lambert and Gae Aulenti, the book sheds light on how these women shaped the environments of their respective cities, challenging and redefining architectural norms.
Catherine Bédard is an art historian, curator and art critic, and a specialist in contemporary Canadian art. Léa-Catherine Szacka is associate professor in architectural studies at the University of Manchester.
Size 24 × 29 cm
(9½ × 11½ in.)
dual-language edition
(English-French)
368 pages
300 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-286-5
£ 60.00
ALAIN SARFATI ARCHITECTURE
texts by Thierry Grillet, Christophe Leray and Jean-Claude Ribaut with an interview by Francis Rambert
A monograph on Sarfati’s entire architectural output
Alain Sarfati is one of the leading figures in modern-day architecture. He excels in working imaginatively within strict constraints – the secret of his success. He breaks new ground, dazzling us with his dexterity again and again. He exalts diversity, never allows himself to be confined to any one trend. His freedom of expression catches us off guard, his style is bursting with creativity, and his architectural designs flow from deep reflection, are eclectic, observing no formal limits. His vision is all-encompassing: he is as interested in places as in landscapes or buildings; nevertheless, his self-discipline still leaves room for fantasy.
• Sarfati’s work is a celebration of diversity and freedom, never bound by a single architectural trend.
• His architectural philosophy goes beyond buildings to embrace landscapes and places.
Francis Rambert is a French architecture critic. Jean-Claude Ribaut is an architect. Thierry Grillet is the Director of Cultural Affairs at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Christophe Leray is the founder of Chroniques d’Architecture.
WHAT ELSE COULD IT MEAN? DRAWINGS & WRITINGS BY JAMES WINES / SITE
edited by Phillip Denny
More than fifty years of work by the American artist and architect
Size 25 × 26 cm
(9¾ × 10¼ in.)
332 pages
439 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5372-5
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
PUBLICATION June 2026
The book presents more than five decades of visionary work in art, design, environment, and education by James Wines— artist, architect, and founder of SITE, an environmental arts organization established in New York City in 1970. Featuring rarely seen archival photography, drawings, and essays, this richly illustrated book invites readers to explore Wines’ and SITE iconoclastic critiques and creative redefinitions of art, architecture, and urbanism. More than a retrospective monograph, What Else Could It Mean? is a forward-thinking call to action to address the challenges of our time with wit and imagination. Wines’ work spans visual art, architecture, landscape, and public space design, all rooted in a creative response to their surrounding contexts.
• The book offers an in-depth look at over five decades of James Wines’ groundbreaking work in art, architecture, and environmental design with his practice – SITE.
Phillip Denny is an architectural historian and editor; his writing on architecture and design has been featured in Volume, Metropolis, Harvard Design Magazine, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, and other publications.
AEB 1966–2016
Fifty years of architectural design in Qatar
Luca Molinari
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
328 pages, 229 colour and 204 b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-2880-8
£ 49.95, $ 75.00
CHINA GOES URBAN
The City to Come
edited by Michele Bonino, Francesco Carota, Francesca Governa and Samuele Pellecchia
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
dual-language edition (E-I) with Chinese texts, 256 pages
160 colour illustrations, paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4487-7
£ 36.00, $ 45.00
FENIX MUSEUM
THE MUSEUM AS METAPHOR
texts by Ma Yansong, András Szántó, Andrea D’Antrassi and Anne Kremersand Wim Pijbes. photography by Rubén Dario Kleimeer and Iwan Baan
Imam Mohammed bin Abdul Wahab Mosque edited by Ibrahim Jaidah
Size 25 × 30 cm (93 4 × 113 4 in.)
200 pages, 180 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-2278-3
£ 34.95, $ 50.00
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN THE FOUNTAIN OF WISDOM
ARITHMETIC, GEOMETRY, MUSIC, ASTRONOMY
by Sara Salvadori
The third volume in the series dedicated to the multifaceted figure of Hildegard von Bingen, following the success of A Journey into the Images and In the Heart of God
Size 9½ × 12½ in.
(24 × 32 cm)
224 pages
185 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5417-3
£ 42.00, $ 55.00
It is the year 1170 when Hildegard, now elderly, embarks on her final journey to recount what she has seen and heard. It a prophetic time when the written word takes form, resonating in great cathedrals, and the Vision becomes the painted word. A journey into the images visually narrates the way that leads to the heart of God, in the great sphere of creation. The living fountain of wisdom is imprinted in images and numbers, in shapes, colors, sounds, and in the movement of the stars. It sings the wonder of the divine order, imitating the creative act of composing an image by “first drawing it with a compass and only later painting it with colours”.
The richly illustrated volume combines the original format reproductions of the images of the two Hildegard codices with new images, never seen before, hidden within the miniatures. The work, divided into three parts, shows the story of the journey through the cosmos through the sphere of creation until it reaches the sphere of the soul; in the second part, the process of writing and composing hidden images; in the third part, the sapiential code used for the construction of the work and images thanks to the arts of quadrivium, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy.
• This book invites the reader on a visionary journey inspired by Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th-century mystic, artist, and prophet.
• In her final years, Hildegard entrusted her spiritual insights not only to written words but to painted images, luminous visions where divine wisdom flows through form, colour, sound, and symbol.
Sara Salvadori, a scholar and musician, has given life to a seminal research approach making the visionary work of Hildegard von Bingen accessible. This volume completes the trilogy begun with the two works already published by Skira, A journey into the images (2019) and In the heart of God (2022).
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN A JOURNEY INTO THE IMAGES by Sara Salvadori
Size 9½ × 12½ in.
(24 × 32 cm)
224 pages, 136 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4015-2
£ 42.00, $ 55.00 back in print
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN IN THE HEART OF GOD by Sara Salvadori
Size 9½ × 12½ in.
(24 × 32 cm)
144 pages
474 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4659-8
£ 28.00, $ 35.00
BIOMIMICRY. TAKING INSPIRATION FROM NATURE, FROM LEONARDO DA VINCI TO THE PRESENT DAY
edited by Pascal Brioist and Andrea Bernardoni;
texts by 13 specialists The connection between Leonardo da Vinci’s visionary designs, Renaissance engineering, and modern biomimicry, highlighting how nature has inspired technological innovation across centuries
The book explores the concept of biomimicry by establishing a dialogue between the work of Leonardo da Vinci and Renaissance engineers on the one hand, and contemporary researchers on the other. It shows the way in which the living can be a source of inspiration for our technological future, and the extent to which the Renaissance, with its innovative vision and deep connection to nature, understood this. Biomimicry brings together original drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance manuscripts, biomimetic robots. In this way, it highlights the extraordinary modernity of Leonardo da Vinci’s work on materials, animal anatomy, bird and fish behaviour, physics and fluid dynamics, and locomotion techniques. It brings together history, art, technology and current scientific developments in a crossdisciplinary approach.
• This book connects the groundbreaking work of Renaissance masters like Leonardo da Vinci with contemporary research in biomimicry, offering a unique perspective on how nature can inspire modern technology.
• The book presents essays by curators, historians, engineers, biologists and architects.
Pascal Brioist is Professor of Modern History at the University of Tours. Andrea Bernardoni is historian of technology at the Museo Galileo in Florence.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
AND THE PERFUMES OF THE RENAISSANCE
edited by Pascal Brioist and Carlo Vecce; texts by 17 specialists
Leonardo da Vinci ’s works, the Renaissance and its perfumes
This exhibition catalogue is a journey into the perfumes of the Renaissance, through the daily life of Leonardo da Vinci and the legacy of his mother Caterina, who came from the shores of the Black Sea where she was sold as a slave. The book delves, among other things, into the scents of this brilliant era: the spices, incense and musks of Constantinople, the perfumed costumes of Venice, Florence, Milan and the court of Francis I of France. The book highlitghts the plants of the Tuscan master’s childhood, such as olive, jasmine, juniper, lemon and orange tree, as well as the smells of the workshop, walnut and linseed oils, rabbitskin glue, resins, waxes and fats. Leonardo himself concocted fragrant recipes, from the most delicate to the most intense, using enfleurage and distillation techniques.
• A dialogue between perfumes, paintings, costumes, statues and reconstitutions of objects designed by Leonardo, such as an alambic or the famous amber necklace from The Lady with an Ermine.
• The book includes texts by seventeen contributors who are art historians, historians and 3D-reconstruction experts.
Pascal Brioist is professor of Modern History at the University of Tours. Carlo Vecce is professor of Italian Literature at l’Orientale University of Naples.
LEONARDO DA VINCI AND ANATOMY THE MECHANICS OF LIFE
edited by Dominique Le Nen and Pascal Brioist; texts by 16 specialists
Leonardo anatomist and relevance of his great Renaissance mind
This publication on Leonardo da Vinci the anatomist highlights the mystery of a thought that was both anchored in its time and, combined with a totally new practice (dissection), leading to a new understanding of the nature of life.
Da Vinci was not content with a passive description of the human body; he sought to penetrate the secrets of its functioning by first studying the mechanics of humans (bones, muscles, tendons), then the logic of the senses, and finally all the bodily functions, which led him to use qualitative reasoning. Contrary to popular belief, Leonardo did not carry out his dissections in secret, but in complete agreement with the political and religious authorities, until his materialistic ideas came into conflict with the pontifical authorities, particularly with regard to embryology. The originality of the book is to show how Leonardo’s work as an anatomist and his work as a painter are inseparable.
• The book features originals or copies of Leonardo’s sheets with objects (anatomical waxes, facsimiles of dissecting instruments), books studied by the artist and 3D reconstructions.
Dominique Le Nen is professor at the University of Nantes and orthopaedic surgeon. Pascal Brioist, historian, is professor at the University of Tours.
Size 20 × 26 cm
(7¾ × 10¼ in.)
192 pages
100 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-245-2
£ 25.00, $ 30.00
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
192 pages
100 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-214-8
£ 25.00, $ 30.00
GIOVANNI BELLINI
The Last Works
David Alan Brown
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
400 pages, 368 colour and 32 b/w illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3996-5
£ 65.00, $ 85.00
CUADERNO C
Francisco de Goya with a text by José Manuel Matilla Rodríguez
Size 16.5 × 22.5 cm (61⁄2 × 83 4 in.)
text in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, 288 pages
133 colour illustrations paperback in eco-leather
ISBN 978-88-572-4362-7
£ 32.00, $ 45.00
LEONARDO and the Litta Madonna edited by Andrea Di Lorenzo and Pietro C. Marani
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
152 pages, 135 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4247-7
£ 25.00
BRAMANTINO
The Renaissance in Lombardy edited by Mauro Natale
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
400 pages, 259 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-2369-8
£ 34.95, $ 60.00
I CARAVAGGESCHI. THE CARAVAGGESQUE PAINTERS
A catalogue of the Artists and Works edited by Alessandro Zuccari
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
Italian edition, 2 volumes 864 pages
700 colour and b/w illustrations hardcover with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-8491-282-4
£ 315.00, $ 500.00
AN EVOCATION OF THE BASILICA OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI by Margaret Jean Pont edited by Rosa Maria Falvo
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
184 pages, 80 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4643-7
£ 42.00, $ 59.00
LEONARDO 1452–1519
The Design of the World edited by Pietro C. Marani and Maria Teresa Fiorio
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
616 pages, 440 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-2909-6
£ 40.00, $ 50.00
CARAVAGGIO
edited by Rossella Vodret and Francesco Buranelli
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
248 pages, 70 colour and 4 b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-0458-1
£ 43.00, $ 70.00
THE LADIES OF ART Stories of Women in the 16th and 17th Centuries edited by Annamaria Bava, Gioia Mori and Alain Tapié
Size 22 × 28 cm (81⁄2 × 11 in.)
240 pages, 250 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4682-6
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
LEONARDO DA VINCI’S LAST SUPPER FOR FRANÇOIS I A Masterpiece in Gold and Silk edited by Pietro Marani
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
240 pages, 100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-126-4
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
LEONARDO and the artes mechanicae edited by Romano Nanni
Size 24 × 28 cm (91 2 × 11 in.)
320 pages, 253 colour and 65 b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-7624-574-9
£ 50.00, $ 80.00
OVERSHADOWED
Leonardo da Vinci and Bernardino Luini
David Alan Brown
Size 22 × 28 cm (81⁄2 × 11 in.)
English and Spanish edition
96 pages, 40 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4805-9 E
ISBN 978-88-572-4806-6 SPA
£ 30.00, $ 35.00
ANTONIO AND PIERO DEL POLLAIUOLO
“Silver and Gold, Painting and Bronze...”
edited by Andrea Di Lorenzo and Aldo Galli
Size 21 × 29.7 cm (81 4 × 113⁄4 in.)
288 pages, 184 colour and 19 b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN978-88-572-2474-9
£ 29.00, $ 50.00
THE SCROVEGNI CHAPEL
Giotto’s Revolution
Giuliano Pisani
Size 16 × 24 cm (61 4 × 91 2 in.)
English and German edition
176 pages
197 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4452-5 E
ISBN 978-88-572-4532-4 G
£ 18.00, $ 20.00
VILLA MARGON
The Renaissance in Trento edited by Michelangelo Lupo photographs by Massimo Listri
Size 24 × 30 cm (91⁄2 × 12 in.)
224 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4779-3
£ 40.00
RAPHAEL 1520–1483
edited by Marzia Faietti, Matteo Lafranconi with Francesco P. Di Teodoro, Vincenzo Farinella president of the Scientific Committee, S. Ferino-Pagden
Size 24 × 28 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
544 pages, 464 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4309-2
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
THE SECRET OF THE GONDOLA
David Alan Brown
Size 12.5 × 17 cm (5 × 61 2 in.)
56 pages, 7 colour and 4 b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1593-8
£ 7.99, $ 12.95
THE RENAISSANCE CARTOONS OF THE ACCADEMIA ALBERTINA edited by Paola Gribaudo
Size 24 × 31 cm (91⁄2 × 121⁄4 in.)
160 pages, 128 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4475-4
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
SARDINIA. MEGALITHIC ISLAND
From Menhirs to Nuraghi: Stories of Stone in the Heart of the Mediterranean edited by F. Doria, S. Giuliani, E. Grassi, M. Puddu and M.L. Pulcini
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
English and German ed., 320 pages
250 colour illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4556-0 E
£ 32.00, $ 45.00
TIEPOLO
Venice in the North edited by Hanna-Leena Paloposki, contributors: Pavanello, Craievic, Artemieva, Olausson and others
Size 24 × 28 cm (91⁄2 × 11 in.)
144 pages, 120 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4356-6
£ 30.00
MANTEGNA
SkiraMiniARTbooks
Size 13.5 × 17 cm (51 3 × 61⁄2 in.)
96 pages, 50 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-0540-3
£ 4.99
RAPHAEL SkiraMiniARTbooks
Size 13.5 × 17 cm (51 3 × 61⁄2 in.)
96 pages, 50 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-0537-3
£ 4.99
TITIAN’S VISION OF WOMEN BEAUTY – LOVE – POETRY concept by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden edited by S. Ferino-Pagden, F. Del Torre Scheuch and W. Deiters
Size 24 × 30 cm (9½ × 11 in.)
English and German edition
360 pages, 230 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4392-4 E
£ 36.00, $ 45.00
UTAMARO, HOKUSAI, HIROSHIGE GEISHA, SAMURAI AND THE CULTURE OF PLEASURE
edited by Francesco Paolo Campione, Marco Fagioli and Moira Luraschi
Size 91 2 × 11 in. (24 × 28 cm)
304 pages, 244 colour and 203 b/w illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-0106-1
£ 49.95, $ 75.00
The ukiyo-e masters brought together in a volume that illustrates Japan’s “floating world” between the 17th and 19th century
The so-called Edo period (1603–1868) was extremely productive for Japan from a historical and artistic standpoint; later its influence would extend beyond the archipelago, as far as the West, where it gave rise to a real passion for Japanese aesthetics and culture. The term ukiyo-e, which translates as “pictures of a floating world,” refers to the woodblock colour prints that were first created in the Edo period by combining the talents of painters like Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige with the absolute mastery of block carvers and printers. These prints are the highest aesthetic expression of what could be called a “culture of pleasure,” pervaded by the awareness that the beauties of life must be enjoyed to the full because they are bound to end. The book offers a chance to discover the world of Japanese ukiyo-e prints through over 300 works by some of the most important artists, and the themes that characterize them: from elegant female beauties to delicate flowers and birds, famous kabuki actors, valiant samurai, and even erotic subjects with their insouciant celebration of love.
• From nature to theatre, from samurai to geisha and erotic subjects, a detailed survey of famous ukiyo-e artists along with over 300 masterpieces.
Francesco Paolo Campione teaches Cultural Anthropology at the University of Insubria (Como, Italy, since 2001) and he is the Director of the Museo delle Culture (Lugano, Switzerland, since 2005). Marco Fagioli, art historian and critic, has edited many books and essays on Chinese and Japanese painting, shunga, and Post-Impressionist artists. Moira Luraschi, anthropologist, is curator of the Oriental Collections of the Museo delle Culture in Lugano, for which she has edited several publications on Japanese art.
HIROSHIGE
THE MASTER OF NATURE
Gian Carlo Calza
KAKEMONO FIVE CENTURIES OF JAPANESE PAINTING
edited by Matthi Forrer
A comprehensive survey of the art of the kakemono, classic Japanese paintings on vertical scrolls.
The book presents a selection of 120 kakemono offering a unique opportunity to discover Japanese painting between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Most of the subjects are drawn from nature (flowers, birds and fish), painted realistically in extraordinarily precise detail. They include works of rare beauty by artists such as Maruyama Okyo, Kishi Ganku, Kusumi Morikage.
• First publication on the subject
Matthi Forrer, author and expert on Japanese art and culture, is professor of Material Culture of Pre-Modern Japan at the University of Leiden.
Y O ¯ KAI. THE ANCIENT PRINTS OF JAPANESE MONSTERS
by Paolo Linetti
A fantastic journey of discovery into the Japanese imagination, ranging from the famous manga notebooks by Hokusai (alongside other masterpieces of his) to prints, rare antique books, clothes, swords, and even a samurai suits of armour, in addition to precious netsukes. Stories blending myth, mystery, and thrill in around 200 works of “horror” by the greatest Japanese artists of the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Fantastic Japanese creatures and terrible monsters at the origins of modern manga.
Paolo Linetti, director of the Museo d’Arte Orientale Mazzocchi Collection, in 2019 he curated the exhibition Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro. Masterpieces of Japanese Art
JAPAN. ARTS AND LIFE THE MONTGOMERY COLLECTION
edited by Francesco Paolo Campione in collaboration with Moira Luraschi
This volume presents 170 works from the period between the 12th and 20th centuries – including textiles, furniture, paintings, religious and everyday-objects – carefully selected from the over one thousand objects collected over a lifetime by Jeffrey Montgomery.
• An inner journey into the beauty of simplicity through the masterpieces of one of the largest and best-known collections of Japanese art outside Japan.
Francesco Paolo Campione teaches Cultural Anthropology at the University of Insubria and he is the Director of the MUSEC – Museo delle Culture, Lugano. Moira Luraschi, anthropologist, is Curator of the Japanese Collections and the Photographic Collection of the Yokohama School at MUSEC, Lugano.
Size 8¾ × 10½ in.
(22.5 × 26.5 cm)
208 pages, 210 colour and b/w illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4379-5
£ 30.00, $ 40.00
Size 9½ × 12 in.
(24 × 30 cm)
208 pages
100 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4816-5
£ 38.00, $ 45.00
Size 8¾ × 10½ in.
(22.5 × 26.5 cm)
288 pages
191 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4772-4
£ 40.00, $ 54.00
Size 24 × 28 cm
(9½ × 11 in.)
English and Arabic editions
300 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5199-8 E
ISBN 978-88-572-5201-8 AR
£ 55.00, $ 65.00
PUBLICATION June 2026
LOUVRE ABU DHABI BIRTH OF A COLLECTION
edited by Guilhem André
The book reveals the next chapter in the evolution of the collection of the Arab world’s first universal museum
The title Birth of a Collection was conceived as a follow-up volume to Birth of a Museum (published 2013) and provides insight into the development of the Louvre Abu Dhabi collection over the past decade. Featuring the most exceptional recent acquisitions, the book is divided into four chronological chapters which follow the order of the museum’s permanent galleries: The Ancient World; The Medieval World; The Early Modern World; The Modern and Contemporary World. It explores topics such as the birth of the figure in art, the crossroads of civilisations and cultural exchanges, objects and representations of power, and emerging art scenes. This 300-page book presents over 200 artworks and objects with scholarly essays and descriptions from approximately 35 different authors – all specialists in their respective fields as art historians, archaeologists, curators and museum professionals. Showcasing 10 years of meticulously curated acquisitions that reinforce Louvre Abu Dhabi’s universal narrative, this beautifully illustrated volume offers a new way to engage and connect with the artworks, providing a deeper understanding of the collection.
• A unique exploration of Louvre Abu Dhabi’s innovative presentation of human creativity from the dawn of time to the present day.
• An in-depth presentation of how masterpieces from around the globe are brought together in dialogue, rather than separated by geography.
• The publication is a co-edition between Louvre Abu Dhabi and Skira.
Guilhem André is a curator of Asian art and serves as Scientific, Curatorial and Collection Management Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi. He previously worked as a curator at the Musée national des arts Asiatiques in Paris. André holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Sorbonne and studied at the Universities of Peking and Sichuan.
LOUVRE ABU DHABI
A WORLD VISION OF ART
edited by Jean-François Charnier
A reflection on art history in its most current and global aspects
Size 9¾ × 12½ in. (25 × 32 cm)
English and Arabic edition
400 pages
300 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-100-4 E
ISBN 978-2-37074-116-5 A
£ 89.00, $ 110.00
BACK IN PRINT
This reference book serves as a manifesto for the Louvre Abu Dhabi. It offers analyses and reflections based on the artworks from the museum collections that are written by world-famous art historians. These essays discuss topics specific to art history, as well as issues of representation, from the Neolithic times until today, across all continents. In other words, this book puts the Louvre Abu Dhabi in its 21st-century framework, while expanding on its role as a universal museum.
LOUVRE ABU DHABI
The Complete Guide direction Jean-François Charnier
Size 61⁄4 × 9 in. (16 × 23 cm)
English and Arabic edition
384 pages, 550 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-072-4 E
ISBN 978-2-37074-073-1 A
£ 28.00, $ 34.95
LOUVRE ABU DHABI
Masterpieces from the Collection direction Jean-François Charnier
Size 81⁄4 × 111⁄2 in. (21 × 29 cm)
English and Arabic edition
128 pages, 150 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-074-8 E
ISBN 978-2-37074-075-5 A
£ 28.00, $ 34.95
LOUVRE ABU DHABI
The Story of Jean Nouvel’s Architectural Project Olivier Boissière
Size 81⁄4 × 111⁄2 in. (21 × 29 cm)
English and Arabic edition
128 pages, 150 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-081-6 E
ISBN 978-2-37074-082-3 A
£ 28.00, $ 34.95
Size 9¾ × 12 in.
(24.5 × 30 cm)
English and Arabic edition 192 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-200-1 E
ISBN 978-2-37074-231-5 AR
£ 30.00, $ 35.00
ALULA WONDER OF ARABIA
edited by Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani and Laïla Nehmé
A crossroads of civilisations
Located at the crossroads of continents, AlUla has been a fantastic meeting point for civilizations who left behind an abundant heritage. For centuries, its oasis has been a crossing point for caravans on the Incense trade route connected Asia, Africa and Europe, transiting spices, myrrh, cotton, ebony and silk.
The oasis city, once named Dedan, has successively been ruled by Ancient North Arabian Kingdoms, then by the Nabataeans, an ancient civilization of Arabian merchants, founded the ancient city of Hegra – sibling of Petra – whose flagship site Madain Saleh, listed as Unesco world heritage since 2008, houses 138 rocky tombs, sanctuaries, wells, decorated frontages, etc.
Then the Roman Empire annexed the Kingdom and marked AlUla Valley with Greek and Latin influence, before Muhammad’s arrival in 630 A.D. during his campaign against the Byzantine army.
Carrying the memory of their predecessors, in the 13th century Muslims reused the stones of the Dedanite and Lihyanite ruins to build what we call today the Old Town of AlUla. All these civilizations stamped the region with their unique culture, leaving exceptional archaeological sites for posterity.
• Discovery of a spectacular archaeological site, first Saoudi site to join the UNESCO in 2008.
Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani Associate Professor of Archaeology at King Saud University, Acting executive director of Collections at Royal Commission for AlUla. Laïla Nehmé, archaeologist and epigraphist, a specialist in Near Eastern archaeology, and a member of the Orient & Méditerranée research team at CNRS. She was the co-curator of AlUla, Wonder of Arabia at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.
AFRICAN ART
Ezio Bassani
Size 81⁄2 × 121⁄4 in. (21 × 31.2 cm)
304 pages, 297 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-0869-5
£ 45.00, $ 70.00
EGYPT
Millenary Splendour
The Leiden Collection in Bologna edited by Paola Giovetti and Daniela Picchi
Size 91⁄2 × 121 2 in. (24 × 31.5 cm)
592 pages, 531 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3015-3
£ 55.00, $ 80.00
THE FORBIDDEN CITY IN MONACO
Imperial Court Life in China
edited by Jean-Paul Desroches texts by Wang Yuegong, Lyiong Liu and Elisseeff Danielle
Size 111⁄4 × 83⁄4 in. (28.5 × 22.5 cm)
dual-language edition (English-French), 320 pages
300 colour illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-056-4
£ 29.95, $ 40.00
KNOTS. ART & HISTORY
The Berlin Carpet Collection edited by Anna Beselin
Size 81⁄2 × 113⁄4 in. (21 × 29.7 cm)
224 pages, 155 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3912-5
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
EGYPT AND THE PHARAOHS edited by Patrizia Piacentini
Size 91⁄2 × 12 in. (24 × 30.5 cm)
2 volumes, 416 pages
370 colour and b/w illustrations paperback with slipcase
ISBN 978-88-572-0834-3
£ 70.00, $ 105.00
GALLOPING THROUGH DYNASTIES by Hou-mei Sung
Size 91⁄2 × 11 in. (24 × 28 cm)
132 pages, 90 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4729-8
£ 35.00, $ 49.95
GUIDE TO HEGRA Archaeology in the Land of the Nabataeans of Arabia by Laïla Nehmé; translated from the French by Helen Knox
Size 61⁄2 × 9 in. (16.5 × 23 cm)
English and Arabic edition
272 pages, 300 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-2-37074-154-7 E
ISBN 978-2-37074-160-8 A
£ 22.00, $ 30.00
THE MAJLIS
Cultures in Dialogue texts by Faisal Bin Qassim Bin
Faisal Al Thani, Kee Wieringa, Moain Sadeq, Jacob Van Gulik, Hamda Al-Sulaiti, Anna Paolini
Size 91 2 × 11 in. (24 × 28 cm)
96 pages, 80 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-102-8
£ 18.95
MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY
The Collection. Art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas edited by Yves Le Fur
Size 91⁄2 × 113⁄4 in. (24 × 30 cm)
480 pages, 300 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-2-37074-007-6
£ 50.00, $ 95.00
FASHIONING AN EMPIRE. TEXTILES FROM SAFAVID IRAN texts by Nicoletta Fazio, Massumeh Farhad, Sumru Belger Krody,Tara Desjardins and Tatiana Zhdanova
Size 7 × 9½ in. (18 × 24 cm)
English and Arabic editions
176 pages, 100 colour ill.,paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5162-2 E -5175-2 AR, £ 35.00, $ 40.00
HERITAGE OF ART DIPLOMACY Memoirs of an Ambassador edited by Olga Nefedova
Size 91⁄2 × 11 in. (24 × 28 cm)
English and Arabic edition 160 pages, 162 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1841-0 E
ISBN 978-88-572-1843-4 A
£ 55.00
ON THE MOVE
Reframing Nomadic Pastoralism
edited by Lila Abu-Lughod
Size 81⁄2 × 11 in. (22 × 28 cm)
English and Arabic edition
208 pages, 189 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4802-8 E
ISBN 978-88-572-4803-5 AR
£ 35.00, $ 45.00
PERFUMES OF THE ORIENT edited by Hanna Boghanim and Agnès Carayon
Size 20 × 26 cm (7¾ × 10¼ in.)
Arabic edition
168 pages, 120 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5279-7
£ 30.00
POWER AND PRESTIGE
The Art of Clubs in Oceania edited by Steven Hooper
Size 81⁄4 × 12 in. (21 × 29.5 cm)
320 pages, 308 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4640-6
£ 48.00, $ 66.00
SCRIPTS AND CALLIGRAPHY PATHS TO THE SOUL edited by the Ministry of Culture, Saudi Arabia
Size 8¾ × 11½ in. (25 × 29 cm)
English and Arabic edition
272 pages, 200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4881-3 E
ISBN 978-88-572-4882-0 AR
£ 43.00, $ 50.00
VISIONS FROM ABROAD Historical and Contemporary Representations of Arabia
Mona Khazindar
editorial coordination
Paola Gribaudo
Size 91⁄2 × 11 in. (24 × 28 cm)
264 pages, 342 colour and b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3946-0
£ 60.00, $ 80.00
CHANAKYA COLLECTION TO COLLABORATION
edited by Jesal Thacker and Uthra Rajgopal texts by Jesal Thacker, Uthra Rajgopal, Glenn Adamson, Isabella Rosner, Amin Jaffer, Mayank Mansingh Kaul and Karishma Swali
The first comprehensive book about Chanakya and its journey through art, couture and cultural innovation
Size 24 × 30 cm
(9½ × 12 in.)
352 pages
180 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5398-5
£ 50.00, $ 65.00
PUBLICATION
September 2026
This book is the first comprehensive publication on Chanakya, tracing its four-decade legacy of craftsmanship and its enduring collaborations across art and couture. Growing from its own collections, this book situates Chanakya’s pivotal role of how Indian heritage skills have elevated the value of embroidery-based collaborations, prising open critical discourses of textiles, fashion and art. It highlights Chanakya’s role which isn’t limited to just preservation of traditional embroidery, instead engages a critical inquiry into material and methodology, intuitively charting a cross-cultural global discourse. Under the direction of Karishma Swali, Creative Director of Chanakya, the artistic practice is conceived as an archive of cultural ethos, where materials and motifs are reimagined as metaphors, shaping a contemporary and discursive visual language. Not just a cultural preservation and revival but a cultural expansion and evolution into newer collaborative forms of artistic expression, has been the effort of Chanakya which the book will accentuate.
• The books brings together leading scholars and curators in the multiple fields of art and textile history, combining interviews and encounters with the artisans.
Jesal Thacker, artist by training, engages with research on modern and contemporary Indian art. Uthra Rajgopal is a curator with expertise in South Asian textiles. Glenn Adamson, curator, writer and historian, is currently Curator at Large for the Vitra Design Museum, Germany, Isabella Rosner is the Curator of the Royal School of Needlework and Research Associate at Witney Antiques. Amin Jaffer is Director of The Al Thani Collection. Mayank Mansingh Kaul is a researcher and curator with a focus on post-independence histories of textiles in India. Karishma Swali is the Creative Director of Chanakya International and Chairperson of the Chanakya Foundation.
FASHION4DEVELOPMENT: AN EMPOWERING JOURNEY
by Stephanie Dillon
The 15-year journey of Fashion4Development, a movement that celebrates the power of fashion to transcend boundaries, bridge cultures, and inspire creativity
This book chronicles the transformative 15-year journey of Fashion4Development (F4D), a pioneering initiative founded by Evie Evangelou that redefined the intersection of fashion, diplomacy, sustainability, and global empowerment. At the heart of this narrative is The First Ladies Luncheon, F4D’s iconic annual event held during the UN General Assembly in New York City, where world leaders, humanitarians, and visionaries converge to celebrate fashion as a force for good. Through exclusive interviews, personal stories, and archival images, Fashion4Development traces the evolution of the organization from a bold concept to a powerful global platform that aligns fashion with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each chapter delves into a different dimension of F4D’s impact from elevating indigenous artisanship and fostering ethical supply chains to creating cross-cultural partnerships that uplift women, preserve culture, our environment and communities across continents. The book also explores the visionary work of Moda Cares, F4D’s Foundation, spotlighting humanitarian projects and frontline initiatives that blend beauty with purpose. In a world where the fashion industry often oscillates between extravagance and exploitation, this is a story of reclamation of a movement to return fashion to its highest calling: as a language of dignity, progress, and unity.
• With the foreword written by Ban Ki-moon, this book is both a retrospective and a roadmap. It is a celebration of fashion’s potential not only to reflect the world, but to rebuild it.
Stephanie Dillon is an artist, writer, and cultural provocateur. A member of Rolling Stone Culture Council and Forbes Council, she blends activism, art, and storytelling. Writer of Fashion4Development, she explores fashion as diplomacy—where beauty meets purpose, and style becomes a strategy for global change.
BACKLIST - FASHION
POWER MODE. THE FORCE OF FASHION
by Emma McClendon
The power and role of fashion from the 18th century to the present
The book explores the multiple roles which fashion plays in establishing, reinforcing, and challenging power dynamics within society. Published in tandem with The Museum at FIT exhibition of the same title, Power Mode: The Force of Fashion is divided thematically into five chapters that focus on the impact of military uniforms, suits, status dressing, resistance, and sex on the power of fashion. It takes an object-based approach to investigate how certain garments have come to be culturally associated with power, as well as how their meanings have evolved over time. It also examines how fashion designers have interpreted these stylistic archetypes – both to convey and to subvert power. Texts by exhibition curator Emma McClendon are joined by object-based essays from renowned fashion scholars Valerie Steele, Christopher Breward, Jennifer Craik, and Peter McNeil, as well as Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Robin Givhan. The book also includes an essay by Kimberly M. Jenkins on the intersection of race, fashion, and power. This collection of texts offers readers a variety of perspectives to help form a theoretical framework for considering the power dynamics inherent in fashion objects.
• Founded in 1969 by the Fashion Institute of Technology, The Museum at FIT is a specialized fashion museum famous for its innovative and award-winning exhibitions.
• MFIT is one of the few university museums to receive accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums.
EXHIBITIONISM:
50 Years of The Museum at FIT edited by Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill
Size 9½ × 11¾ in. (24 × 30 cm)
128 pages
117 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3987-3
£ 34.00, $ 45.00
Size 91⁄2 × 11 in. (24 × 28 cm)
240 pages, 416 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4241-5
£ 50.00, $ 60.00
Size 91 2 × 113 4 in. (24 × 30 cm)
300 pages, 250 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-2482-4
£ 48.00, $ 80.00
Size 91 2 × 111 2 in. (24 × 29 cm)
104 pages, 87 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3972-9
£ 22.50, $ 30.00
Size 121 2 × 15 in. (32 × 38 cm)
64 pages, 30 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-2032-1
£ 48.00, $ 80.00
Emma McClendon is Associate Curator of Costume at MFIT.
OSCAR CARVALLO Fashion. Art & Nature
Hélène Farnault
ELECTRIC FASHION photographs by Frederic Aranda texts by Christine Suppes foreword by Ken Downing
THE FABRIC Vitale Barberis Canonico, 1663–2013
Bruce Boyer photographs by Fredi Marcarini
SALVATORE FERRAGAMO
Equilibrium
edited by Stefania Ricci and Sergio Risaliti
Size 91⁄2 × 11 in. (24 × 28 cm)
312 pages, 317 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-2229-5
£ 34.95, $ 60.00
ITALIAN PORTRAITS
Tod’s
Donatella Sartorio
Size 121 2 × 15 in. (32 × 38 cm)
148 pages, 154 colour and b/w illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1599-0
£ 50.00, $ 80.00
GIANFRANCO FERRÉ
Under Another Light Jewels and Ornaments edited by Rita Airaghi artistic direction by Luca Stoppini
Size 61 2 × 113 4 in. (16.6 × 30 cm)
dual-language edition
(English-Italian), 276 pages
100 colour illustrations, paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-3669-8
£ 40.00, $ 55.00
ITALIAN TAILORING
A Glimpse into the World of Sartorial Masters
Yoshimi Hasegawa; photographs by Luke Carby
Size 81⁄2 × 111⁄2 in. (21 × 28.7 cm)
212 pages, 192 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3828-9
£ 36.00, $ 50.00
BABY CASHMERE
The Long Journey of Excellence
Loro Piana photographs by Bruna Rotunno
Size 11 × 113 4 in. (28 × 30 cm)
184 pages, 116 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-0369-0
£ 60.00, $ 100.00
THE GIFT OF KINGS
The Noblest of Wools
Loro Piana photographs by Bruna Rotunno
Size 11 × 113⁄4 in. (28 × 30 cm)
156 pages, 118 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3855-5
£ 60.00, $ 85.00
FUTURE ROOTS
Hogan edited by Donatella Sartorio photographs by Ornella Sancassani
Size 113⁄4 × 153⁄4 in. (30 × 40 cm)
144 pages, 56 b/w illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1257-9
£ 50.00, $ 80.00
ITALY IN HOLLYWOOD edited by Stefania Ricci
Size 91 2 × 11 in. (24 × 28 cm)
480 pages, 630 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-3887-6
£ 50.00, $ 70.00
ITALIAN GLAMOUR
The Essence of Italian Fashion. From the Postwar Years to the Present Day. The Enrico Quinto and Paolo Tinarelli Collection
Size 93⁄4 × 11 in. (25 × 28 cm)
320 pages, 700 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-2428-2
£ 39.95, $ 65.00
LIFE IS A VORTEX by Linda Loppa ideated by Polimoda
Size 6 × 81⁄4 in. (15 × 22 cm)
240 pages, 32 colour illustrations paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-4062-6
£ 25.00, $ 30.00
THE LOTUS FLOWER A Textile Hidden in the Water Loro Piana photographs by Bruna Rotunno
Size 11 × 113⁄4 in. (28 × 30 cm)
144 pages, 100 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-0887-9
£ 60.00, $ 95.00
The Queen of the Andes Loro Piana photographs by Bruna Rotunno
Size 11 × 113 4 in. (28 × 30 cm)
180 pages, 117 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1386-6
£ 60.00, $ 95.00
VICUÑA
SCHOOL PROJECTS
Alberto Lattuada
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Size 71⁄2 × 13 in. (19 × 33 cm)
184 pages, 144 colour and 13 b/w illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-1846-5
£ 40.00, $ 65.00
THEOREM[A]
The Body, Emotion + Politics in Fashion
Filep Motwary ideated by Polimoda
Size 61⁄2 × 91⁄2 in. (16.5 × 24 cm)
192 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-3913-2
£ 20.95, $ 29.95
Size 91⁄2 × 113⁄4 in. (24 × 30 cm)
352 pages, 420 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-2688-0
£ 45.00, $ 70.00
TIRELLI 50
The Wardrobe of Dreams edited by Masolino d’Amico, Silvia d’Amico, Caterina d’Amico and Dino Trappetti
Size 11 × 11¾ in.
(28 × 30 cm)
184 pages
190 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4554-6
£ 50.00, $ 60.00
CAMPARI AND THE CINEMA
edited by Gianni Canova
The book describes how Campari’s passion for art and its creativity are closely bound up with its need and desire to communicate and innovate. From the outset, the brand’s predilection for the cinema has constituted the engine of its experimental approach, which has seen it come up with ever-changing, unexpected projects. The essays in the book encapsulate Campari’s cinematic experiences from a wide-ranging perspective that pans out to take in the history of film.
• From Fellini to Sorrentino: Campari and the world of Cinema.
Gianni Canova, film critic, television author, art director and writer, is Full Professor of Film History and Filmology and Rector of IULM University in Milan.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK CINEMA ON THE EDGE OF NOTHING
edited by Gianni Canova
Size 8½ × 11 in.
(22 × 28 cm)
152 pages
81 colour and b/w illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4093-0
£ 29.95, $ 40.00
The book is a fascinating journey through the portrait of this famous filmmaker, the master of suspense and thrillers. It explores the psychology of the characters, the most memorable scenes and Alfred Hitchcock’s personality. What emerges is the portrait of an extraordinary filmmaker who was able to tackle gloomy topics and manage our fears without forgetting irony, a fundamental component to his entire existence.
• An analysis in search of the person who was able to create some of the most important iconic moments in film history.
Canova, see above.
MINIMAL FILM VOLUME THE CINEMATIC WORLD. REIMAGINED THROUGH GRAPHIC DESIGN
Matteo Civaschi
Size 9 × 12½ in.
(22.8 × 32.6 cm)
256 pages
200 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-3967-5
£ 24.95, $ 35.00
A book on film narrated through the visual magic of graphic design or a graphic design book told through the evocative magic of cinema. The goal of Minimal Film lies in representing the emotion of cinema through extreme synthesis and simplicity of forms. Shortology is a direct language that can narrate anything through pictograms. This has allowed the author to see cinema from a different perspective, reinterpreting and reviewing it up to isolating its very essence.
• A small “gem” for all film lovers.
Matteo Civaschi, art director and graphic designer, created Shortology, with sixteen books published across the world.
Gianni
ALWAYS MILAN! 1899–2019
edited by Carlo Pellegatti and Umberto Zapelloni
The book traces the history of the leading Italian soccer team AC Milan, from its beginnings to the present. Always Milan!, a team of joys and emotions, victories and triumphs on pitches around the world, a club of players who have brought honour to the shirt, an infinite number of champions who have given us so much entertainment and enjoyment, for that is the story told in these pages that overflow with love for our colours, for the red and black of AC Milan!
Carlo Pellegatti is a sports journalist and commentator. Umberto Zapelloni, sports journalist, has been deputy director of La Gazzetta dello Sport
BARÇA. MÉS QUE UN CLUB 120 YEARS 1899–2019
FC Barcelona is a club like no other. A club with 120 years of history that has become the reference sports center in the world. Barça has some signs of identity that have lasted over time and have become strong through successes and adversities.
Through the book’s pages and images, the reader will delve into the victories obtained by its most emblematic players and coaches, and will discover the evolution and social impact of a club that has managed to transcend the sports field and become a global phenomenon. Endowed with a great visual content and luxuriously produced, the volume portrays in a different and innovative way the complete history of FC Barcelona, from its origins to our days.
INTER 110. FC INTERNAZIONALE MILANO. 110TH ANNIVERSARY 1928–2018: THE OFFICIAL SOCCER STORY OF INTER’S ELEVEN DECADES
edited by Javier Zanetti and Nicolas Ballario
On March 9 1908 the Internazionale F.C. was born from its archrival: Milan. The colours chosen for its shield were gold, black, and light blue, like the stars and the skies. On the occasion of the team’s 110th anniversary, this publication celebrates its most important moments from the past, as well the key players, trainers, and presidents who have made these first 110 years unforgettable.
Javier Zanetti, an extraordinary champion who played a record number of games for Inter, was its captain from 2001 to 2014. Nicolas Ballario is a journalist and editor of the art section for Rolling Stone. He is also a writer and host for RadioUnoRai.
Size 11¼ × 14¾ in.
(28.5 × 37.3 cm)
400 pages
900 colour illustrations dutch binding
ISBN 978-88-572-4116-6
£ 48.00, $ 60.00
Size 11¼ × 14¾ in.
(28.5 × 37.3 cm)
English, Catalan and Spanish edition, 496 pages
500 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4095-4 E -4096-1 CAT, -4097-8 S
£ 48.00, $ 60.00
Size 11¼ × 14¾ in.
(28.5 × 37.3 cm)
432 pages
705 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-3827-2
£ 48.00, $ 65.00
GALLERIE D’ITALIA | SKIRA
Size 7½ × 10¼ in. (19 × 26 cm)
48 pages
48 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4668-0 £ 19.00
ON A MISSIONS IN... ITALY
concept and realization by Martina Fuga in collaboration with Arte, Cultura e Beni Storici of Intesa Sanpaolo texts by Stefano Zuffi; illustrations by Zelda was a writer
Italy and its art explained by a European 18th-century traveller
• For kids from 8 years old.
Did you know that from the 1700s onwards travelling to Italy was an important stage in the cultural and human development of young Europeans? The Italian cities – Rome in particular, but also Venice, Florence, and Sicily – were destinations for all those who wanted to complete their education through direct contact with art and classical culture. This travel was called the Grand Tour and we want to introduce it again to our younger readers through this book with captivating illustrations, interesting activities, and unexpected discoveries.
Stefano Zuffi is an art historian, exhibition curator, and writer. He has curated over a hundred books and several cultural series for the general public, especially focusing on the artists and works of both the Renaissance and the Baroque ages. A feature writer in specialized magazines and a guest on radio shows, he has curated numerous exhibitions of modern and ancient art.
ICE THE BEAR and the Boiling Breath text by Valentina Agnesi illustrations by Zelda was a writer
Size 71 2 × 101⁄4 in. (19 × 26 cm)
80 pages, 40 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4572-0
£ 15.00, $ 19.95
ICE THE BEAR and the Burning Land text by Valentina Agnesi illustrations by Zelda was a writer
Size 71⁄2 × 101⁄4 in. (19 × 26 cm)
80 pages, 40 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4573-7
£ 15.00, $ 19.95
Size 71⁄2 × 101 4 in. (19 × 26 cm)
80 pages, 40 colour illustrations hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-4574-4
£ 15.00, $ 19.95
Gallerie d’Italia | Skira
Size 71 2 × 101⁄4 in. (19 × 26 cm)
48 pages, 20 colour illustrations hardcover with audiobook
ISBN 978-88-572-4436-5
£ 15.00, $ 19.95
ICE THE BEAR and the Evil Sorcerer text by Valentina Agnesi illustrations by Zelda was a writer
ON A MISSION WITH… GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO by Martina Fuga with Arte, Cultura e Beni Storici of Intesa Sanpaolo; texts by Stefano Zuffi illustrations by Zelda was a writer
IN THE HEART OF THE RED SEA
text
by
Raja Alem
illustrations by Giulia
Masia
in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Saudi Arabia
The
wonders of the Red Sea in a wonderful children’ s picture book
Size 20 × 24 cm
(7¾ × 9½ in.)
English and Arabic editions
80 pages
40 colour illustrations
codex binding
ISBN 978-88-572-4892-9 E
-5137-0 AR
£ 20.00
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.
• A children’s book to discover the magic underwater world of the Red Sea.
Raja Alem, Saudi journalist, novelist and author of children’s books, is considered one of the most important Arabic-language writers of her generation and was awarded several prizes, including the Arabic Women’s Creative Writing Prize on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of UNESCO in 2005, the Lebanese Literary Club Prize, in Paris in 2008 and the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2011. Giulia Masia, illustrator, has been nominated for some important illustration awards, such as the Annual Illustratori Italiani, 3x3 Annual (USA) and CQ Journal awards. She was among the 50 award-winning illustrators at the Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition. With Skira she published the graphic novel Atelier Picasso.
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