Little is known about Walter Leblanc (1932-1986), one of the key representatives of kinetic and optical art in the mid-20th century. This comprehensive monograph, the first on this artist for an international audience, includes unpublished materials, which provide insight not only into the art of LeBlanc, but also into the ZERO artist movement to which he was connected and with which he was in close dialogue beginning in the 1950s. Walter Leblanc is based on extensive studies of the artist's work: with about 150 images of his paintings and sculptures, comparative works, historical photos and documents, it includes a selection of Leblanc's writings, an iconographic mapping of selected works in museums around the world, and a bio-bibliographical appendix. Demonstrating the wealth of his creative output, the book reaffirms the enduring role Leblanc played in the development of modern and contemporary art on a global scale. Distributed for Mercatorfonds

The book retraces the inventive richness of Pietro Consagra (Mazara del Vallo, 1920 - Milan, 2005), one of the most seminal figures on the international art scene of the 20th century. It proposes a comparison between different moments in the artist's creative path, thus making it possible to emphasise both the elements of continuity in his work, but also and above all the specificities of the individual periods, offering a varied panorama of his continuous reinventions of forms and his experimentation with materials. Francesca Pola identifies Consagra's path not in a purely chronological sense, but rather according to a reading key highlighting the importance of the relationship between sculpture, space and observer: a specific focus on the "location" of the plastic presence in relation to the observer, the fulcrum of the characteristic "frontal sculpture" codified by Consagra starting from his famous Colloqui of the early 1950s and contextually theorised as early as his book Necessita della scultura (1952). Text in English and Italian.

A stunning volume celebrating the work of Agostino Bonalumi during the 1960s and 1970s and its connection with other artists of the Azimut group. A selection of Bonalumi's paintings from the 1960s and 1970s--including some unpublished and never before exhibited--form the core of this volume and confirm the important role played by this internationally lesser known artist in the development of modern art in Italy.

The first international monograph about Emilio Scanavino after his death, this book focuses on the wide breadth of his creative output, which began immediately after World War II and continued until the 1980s. He was one of the pioneers and protagonists of an innovative poetics of the sign, situating his practice between the Informel and Spazialismo movements and a new concept of the void. Scanavino s art is characterized by a distinctive human quality: the gesture is the focus, and the intention is to penetrate the meaning of reality. He aimed to overcome the traditional notion of abstraction as lyrical, surreal, or constructive, whilst incorporating it into a new relationship of the image with reality.

La storia di una ragazza che si annoia, odia il suo lavoro, detesta il suo aspetto fisico e cammina sul rasoio affilato della bulimia.Al limite della depressione, riscopre la voglia di mettersi in discussione grazie ad un sentimento travolgente: l'amore per il suo professore. Da questo momento cominciano le peripezie per la "conquista"di quest'uomo quasi irragiungibile, ed a tratti sfuggente. Meticolosa come un agente della CIA, la ragazza prepara piani, sotterfugi, tattiche per riuscire a sedurre l'insegnante. Tuttavia, raggiungere il suo obiettivo perder? la sua intrinseca importanza, perch? sar? proprio l'amore a risvegliarla dal torpore in cui era sprofondata. Una storia apparentemente semplice ma che, come una favola zen, ci indica una strada da seguire se non verso la felicit?, almeno per la magica riscoperta di quanto diamo per scontato, senza fermarsi a riflettere sui nostri ripetuti "non ho."