Bøger af Marco Meneguzzo

A two-volume catalog raisonné devoted to the mid-century sculptural maestroThis is the most up-to-date catalogue raisonné on the sculptures of Italian artist Giò Pomodoro (1930-2002), displaying over 3,000 pieces crafted in metal, bronze and wood. Due to the sheer volume of work and the Pomodoro Archive's careful editorial decisions, the publication is divided into two distinct volumes.

A monograph dedicated to one of the main figures of the Iranian contemporary art scene.Shahriar Ahmadi is one of the leading exponents of the new Iranian art.40-something, he has been able to elaborate a painting that also visually is the crossing between Middle East and West, in the purest spirit of the Persian tradition.The Sufi philosophy of Rumi together with the Existential Western Philosophy meet in the large canvases that Ahmadi has been painting since the mid-nineties: great pictorial cycles of a figurative expressionism Persian that combine imagination with symbols and meanings of a globalize world.Shahriar Ahmadi was born in 1978 in Iranian Kurdistan.Once he moved to Tehran, he studied western modern painting and the philosophical currents related to Sufism. His first solo exhibition dates to 2000 at the Barg Gallery of Tehran.His international recognition was sealed by his participation to the exhibitions at the AB Gallery in Luzern in 2014, at the Etemad Gallery in Dubai and culminated with the Iranian Pavilion at the 56th edition of the Venice Biennal in 2015.

Gathering works by Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Emilio Vedova, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Enrico Castellani, Bruno Munari, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis and many others, Italia Moderna reconstructs the complex artistic fabric of Italy during one of the country's most fertile periods of change.

Bonalumi has overcome the two-dimensionality of painting through the technique of 'extroflexion', which transformed the canvas into a sculpture. This volume accompanies the first great anthological exhibition dedicated to the artist.