Michal Rovner. Against Order? Against Disorder?

Gherard Richter

Bruno Corà
Gli Ori

Wald/Bosco

Franca Ghitti
Grafo

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.

Art of the world

AA.VV.
Art for the world

Mai dire Mao. Servire il pop

Gherardo Frassa
Edizioni Nuages

Omaggio a Maccari

Sergio Pautasso
Edizioni Pananti

Antonio Possenti

s.a.
Galleria Gian Ferrari

Francesco Casorati: pittore

s.a.
Galleria Gian Ferrari

Marmarmonia

Luigi Ontani
Edizioni Charta

Reviewing Luigi Ontani's recent New York retrospective at P.S. 1 for "Artforum," Brooks Adams wrote, "Luigi Ontani is that rare bird of art: an unforgettable face, a world-class dandy and a redoubtable if lovably eccentric presence on the international art-world circuit Ontani's work makes his own self-portrait-as-androgyne central to the myth of all creation: This is narcissism transformed into a powerful-and redemptive-force of nature, a kind of male fecundity." "Marbleharmony" documents new sculptural works that Ontani produced for his 2007 exhibition at the historically important Gallery Gian Ferrari in Milan. Its title borrows from one of the key pieces in the show, a marble sculptural portrait of artist sitting on a book, with another in his hand, and a rainbow surrounding him from behind. Ontani was born in Vergato, Italy, in 1943. He has been considered one of Italy's most important artists since the 1970s. His work was most recently shown at Bortolami Gallery, New York.

Sandro Chia

Sandro Chia
De Luca Edizioni d'Arte

Di Salvatore

Luigi Lambertini
Electa