Mostra antologica di Tullio Crali

Manlio Rho

Manlio Rho
Galleria del Cavallino

Ron Davis

Ron Davis
Galleria dell'Ariete

Le vie dei canti

Stefano Cattaneo
Arte contemporanea

Mirco Marchelli

Marco Vallora
Edizioni Cardelli & Fontana

Michael Rakowitz

Ella Shohat, Habda Rashid, Nora Razian
Genesi Editrice - Silvana Editoriale d'Arte

The most comprehensive overview of the politically charged work of the Iraqi-American conceptual artist behind the acclaimed cookbook A House with a Date Palm Will Never Starve

Sculptor, draftsman and sometime chef, Chicago-based Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz (born 1973) takes his cue from the histories of buildings and objects to create enthralling environments, objects and interventions. Among his best-known works is his full-scale recreation of a winged bull sculpture from 700 BCE entirely clad in Iraqi date cans, installed in Trafalgar Square in London; another was his Enemy Kitchen, for which Rakowitz compiled Baghdad recipes with the help of his mother and then taught them to public audiences.

This fully illustrated survey of his most important works is accompanied by an essay by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an interview with Michael Rakowitz by Iwona Blazwick and a range of perspectives contributed by Habda Rashid, Nora Razian, Ella Shohat and Marianna Vecellio.

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Bruno Cassinari
BonapArte editrice

Francesco Tabusso

Pier Carlo Santini
Giorgio Mondadori e associati

Il silenzio di Orta

Piero Chiara
Mostra organizzata dal Comune di Orta

Studio la città 2

Vittoria Coen, Anthony Iannacci
Società Editoriale Grafiche AZ

Gherard Richter

Bruno Corà
Gli Ori

Gazzetta ufficiale di Luca Patella

Luca Patella
Sargentini publisher

Muntadas on Translation: I Giardini

AA.VV.
[Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores]

In a year when Spanish curators directed the Venice Biennale for the first time, Antoni Muntadas, representing Spain in the Spanish pavilion, told a reporter that the Biennale "takes its ideas from international fairs. It connotes the theme park. There was exoticism, invention, the new... but by now it is an obsolete structure." Muntadas's On Translation: I Giardini, the latest in a series of often site-specific On Translation projects completed over the last 10 years, is here documented from its inception. Translation is a metaphor, as Muntadas states, "I am not talking about translation in a literal sense, but in a cultural sense--how the world we live in is a totally translated world, everything is always filtered by some social, political, cultural and economic factor... by the media, of course, by context and by history." Accordingly, I Giardini looks into the context and history of the Biennale's Giardini del Castello, delving into the transformations and "translations" it has undergone over time, and investigating Venice's status and the space that frames the Biennale. Muntadas notes, for instance, that a new Italian pavilion built on Mussolini's orders was replaced again after the war.