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The complex, enigmatic work of Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) has lost
nothing of its fascination to the present day. Much has been
written about her career and her art. Yet very little is known
about the real person Meret Oppenheim, who always remained
secretive about herself and banned publication of any personal
documents until 20 years after her death. In 1958, Oppenheim put
together an album that she titled Von der Kindheit bis 1943 (From
Childhood to 1943). It has a dual identity of a diary and a work of
art in itself. It assembles photos, objects, notes and brief texts,
as well as ideas and concepts for art works, and offers very
personal insights into Oppenheim's private life and thought. This
book features the entire album in true-size colour reproductions
and, for the first time ever, with the full text translated into
English. This is supplemented with a previously unpublished
autobiographical text by Oppenheim, which she wrote in 1957-58 on
the request of the French scholar Yves Poupard-Lieussou for his
never completed project of a bio-bibliographical history of Dada
and Surrealism. An introduction by the editors Lisa Wenger and
Martina Corgnati rounds out this beautiful book that offers
entirely new perspectives on one of the most distinguished woman
artists. Text in English and German.
Claudio Gobbi (*1971 in Ancona) has been working since 2007 on the
systematic recording of Armenian religious architecture from the
Middle Ages to the present. Besides the photographer's own
photographs, the series, with the title Armenie Ville, also
comprises found images from archives, pictures from the Internet
and from commissioned artists. Spanning more than twenty-five
countries from Western Europe to the Caucasus, the Berlin-based
Italian artist traces the specific features of sacral Armenian
architecture and the captivating simplicity of its forms, which
have remained unchanged for more than 1500 years. Investigating the
concepts of authorship, serialization, and representation, Claudio
Gobbi carries on his quest for key images of various cultures and
in the process addresses the subjects of time, memory, migration,
and the cultural legacy of a people.
Catalogue of an important exhibition of photographs by Aldo Fallai,
a leading figure of our times who trusts to the camera lens his
extraordinary capacity to interpret the world of fashion and draw
from it images of great suggestion and artistic relevance. The book
is an exciting itinerary that summarises Fallai s activity from
1975 to 2013 in a city such as Florence, which was the undisputed
capital of fashion, and which even now continues to attract the
international market in a significant meshing of inspired
production and artistic appeal. Moreover, Fallai s own work brings
together the demands of reportage with frequent references to
ancient art and the different contemporary trends. Texts by Sergio
Givone, Michele Gremigni, Carlo Sisi, Martina Corgnati and Luigi
Salvioli."
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