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ESPAŇA
2008, italian/spanish 24 x 28 cm, 272 pages, 190 colour e 83
b/n, brochure - Skira
ISBN (978): 8861306967
España 1957-2007 begins in 1957, the year El Paso was founded, a group which, in the context of Twentieth Century Spanish art, represents the moment of passage from modernity to contemporaneity.
Modern and contemporary Spanish art follow along the path begun in the Seventeenth Century by Cervantes’ Don Quixote and the Baroque tradition, and so the show is subdivided into the sections: Quijotismo trágico, Pagan Mysticism, Baroque Existentialism, Tenebrismo hispánico, and Symbolic-formal Abstraction.
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MENTALGRAFIE
Tel Aviv, Museum of Art
19 July - 6 October 2007
Italian/Hebrew text. Milan, 2007
paperback, 160 pages, b/w and colour illustrations, 24 x 28 cm.
brochure - Skira
ISBN 88-6130-340-4
Mentalgrafie Italiane is the most important show of Italian art to be seen so far in the Middle East. It is based on the idea that modern and contemporary Italian art follows along the lines traced out by Metaphysical painting at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. It presents mainly works from the ‘sixties onwards and does not develop chronologically but thematically. It is divided into three sections: Literary Metaphysics, Analytical Metaphysics, and Ironical-Tragic Metaphysics. Each section has as its starting point the thoughts and works of an artist from the early Twentieth Century: Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, and Alberto Savinio.
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TIMER
Gianni Mercurio, Demetrio Paparoni
TIMER01 Intimity/Intimacy
italian-english, 2007
15x21 cm, 464 pages, 40 color and 90 b/w,
brochure -Skira
ISBN 8861301900
Organised by the Milan Triennial and curated by Gianni Mercurio and Demetrio Paparoni, Timer has established itself as one of the most important international exhibitions that Milan has devoted to contemporary art over the last decades. All the works on show have been created since September 11th 2001, a date that has marked an epoch and that can be considered the real beginning of the new millennium. Timer has had Intimità/Intimacy as its theme and has dealt with the relationship that artists have with themselves in the era of the IT revolution.
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Eretica
Demetrio Paparoni
Eretica, The trascenddent and the Profano in Contemporary Art
240 pages, 150 colour plates
Skira, Milan-Geneva 2006
ISBN 8876249338
Published for the exhibition by the same name curated by Demetrio
Paparoni and Gianni Mercurio and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Palermo
(27 July-2 November 2006), this book, which was edited by Demetrio
Paparoni, investigates the complex relationship between man and the
sacred as it appears in present-day art.
The latest studies reveal an increasing demand for transcendency,
giving pride of place to matters such as religious interaction, rebellion
against dogmas, piety and holiness. Eretica tackles questions such
as the conflict between good and evil, sanctity, and the relationship
between eroticism, sex and death.
As well as the introductory essay by Demetrio Paparoni and reproductions
of works by the artists, Eretica also includes an anthology of texts
by George Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, Rogers Callois, Arthur C. Danto,
Michel Maffesoli, Vito Mancuso, Gianni Mercurio, Pierre Riches, Julien
Ries, Arturo Schwarz, Gore Vidal, and Faye Waddleton.
A new edition of this volume will be published by Skirà and
will be in bookstores in Italy in January 2007. The English-language
edition will be available from April 2007.
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L'arte contemporanea
e il suo metodo
Demetrio Paparoni
L'arte contemporanea e il suo metodo
Neri Pozza, Vicenza 2005
239 pages plus 32 pages with colour plates.
ISBN 8854500410
Has contemporary art ceased to be avant-garde, making a radical return
to order? Are the most famous artists on the contemporary scene an
expression of official culture? Has the figure of the critic disappeared,
crushed between that of the dealer and that of the curator? These
are some of the themes dealt with by Demetrio Paparoni, who maintains
that, unlike what happened in the past, art is no longer able to
give society the answers it needs. On the contrary, it is society
and politics that now offer artists strategies, themes and languages.
In Paparoni's view, the art of the 1990s implicitly tackles the theme
of the Apocalypse - it is as though the balloon had gone up, releasing
its content and, with it, the meaning of life and death, of tragedy
and prophecy, the foreboding of an imminent event that fails to arrive,
the final act of a century that awaits the triumph of a new language.
The work of the finest artists thus reveals an urgent need to start
a new chapter and relegate the twentieth century once and for all
to museums.
L'Arte contemporanea e il suo metodo is divided into four
chapters. In a wide-ranging, previously unpublished essay, the first
chapter examines the relationship between contemporaneity and the
tradition of the early twentieth century, using clear arguments to
explain the work of some of today's leading personalities such as
Matthew Barney, Damien Hirst, Robert Gober, Maurizio Cattelan, and
Marc Quinn. This is followed by a collection of specially revised
essays on Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Vik Muniz, Peter Halley, Jonathan
Lasker, Mimmo Paladino, Brian Eno, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Mike
and Doug Starn, and Keith Haring.
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Il corpo vedente
dell'arte
Demetrio Paparoni
Il corpo vedente dell'arte
Dalle avanguardie storiche alla società dell’informazione
Preface by Gillo Dorfles
Castelvecchi, Rome 1997
128 pages plus 16 pages of colour plates.
ISBN 8882100480
This book explores recent experiments in art, starting with the works
of two great pioneers of "modernity", Marcel Duchamp and
Man Ray, and continuing all the way through to present-day art. In
a clear, understandable style, the author introduces complex issues
that range from Transavanguardia to "redefined Abstractionsim",
to cyber art and Neointimismo, Appropriationism and the latest frontiers
of photography, illustrating the works of some key figures such as
Mimmo Paladino, Martin Disler, Gunter Brus, Peter Halley, Sean Scully,
and Inez van Lamsweerde.
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Il corpo parlante
dell'arte
Demetrio Paparoni
Il corpo parlante dell'arte
La nuova scena internazionale: linguaggi, esperienze, artisti
Preface by Mario Perniola
Castelvecchi, Rome 1997
192 pages plus 16 pages of colour plates.
ISBN 8882100030
A series of conversations with some of the most representative artists
of the 1990s, as well as with critics and philosophers. The book
examines issues such as the persuasion strategies adopted by the
mass media, the influence of new technologies on the languages of
art, genetic manipulation, metropolitan life and multiethnic culture
in the great cities of the West.
The conversations examine various aspects of art and concern figurative
painting (Arthur C. Danto and Mimmo Paladino, Martin Disler, Ed Paschke,
Ray Smith, and Alexis Rockman) abstract painting (Peter Halley, Ross
Bleckner, Sean Scully, Pat Steir, Stephen Ellis, Jonathan Lasker,
David Reed, and David Row), photography (Gabriele Basilico, Timothy
Greenfield-Sanders, Sandy Skoglund, Andres Serrano, Inez van Lamsweerde,
and Mariko Mori) and sculpture (Louise Bourgeois, Anish Kapoor, Jeff
Koons, Bertrand Lavier, Dinos and Jake Chapman).
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L'astrazione ridefinita
Demetrio Paparoni
L'Astrazione Ridefinita
Preface by Arthur C. Danto
Tema Celeste, Milan 1994
112 pages plus 16 pages of colour plates.
ISBN 8873040071
This collection of theoretical essays on the abstract art of the
1980s and 1990s provides an important critical reflection on a phenomenon
that was not properly studied in the years when they were published.
With the views of leading personalities in abstract painting and
scholars such as Arthur C. Danto and David Carrier, this reference
work investigates the themes of abstract through an analysis of the
works of Sean Scully, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker,
David Reed and, amongst others, of the Italians Domenico Bianchi
and Ettore Spalletti.
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L'origine della ferita
Demetrio Paparoni
L'origine della ferita
Preface by Arturo Schwarz
Tema Celeste, Siracusa 1990.
104 pages plus 32 pages of colour plates.
ISBN 8885265081
Commenting on the cave paintings at Lascaux, Georges Bataille defines
as "the origin of the wound" the mortal gash in a bison,
which loses its entrails, produced by the spear of an ithyphallic
man. This image constitutes the guiding thread that the issues
dealt with in this book have in common, clearly showing how the author
is close to writers such as Georges Bataille, Antonin Artaud and
Pierre Klossowsky. The book explores the meaning of death as it appears
in works by contemporary artists such as Francis Bacon, Joeseph Beuys,
Arnulf Rainer, Jim Dine, Robert Morris, Ross Bleckner, and Siegfried
Anzinger. The cover of the book was specially designed by Jim Dine.
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Tony Oursler
Demetrio Paparoni
The Living Eye of Tony Oursler
and the Spirit of the Age
Texts in English and Italian, 156 pages, colour reproductions.
In Arco Books, Torino 2006
Published for the Tony Oursler exhibition at Galleria In Arco in
Turin, this book examines the themes tackled by the American artist
in relation both to the works of his predecessors and contemporaries,
and to human behaviour with regard to mystery and the unexpected,
which are at the heart of Oursler's work.
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Chuck Close
Demetrio Paparoni
Chuck Close
Daguerreotypes
Introduction by Philip Glass
Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore, Milan 2002
224 pages in colour, texts in Italian and English
ISBN 8888098100
Chuck Close is a leading name in the world of post-war art. Known
mainly for the monumental portraits of his friends, which he makes
by blowing up photos to extremes and painting them in the most precise
and minute detail, Close has developed a formal analysis and methodological
reconfiguration of the human face that has radically changed the
modern concept of portrait painting. His work currently ranges from
painting to large-format photography and daguerreotypes. This volume,
devoted entirely to his daguerreotypes, opens with an introduction
by Philip Glass.
As well as an essay by Demetrio Paparoni and numerous illustrations,
the monograph contains an exclusive conversation between Chuck Close
and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Jerry Spagnoli.
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Jonathan Lasker
Demetrio Paparoni
Jonathan Lasker
Paintings 1977-2001
Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore, Milan 2002
224 pages in colour, texts in Italian and English
ISBN 8888098062
Born in Jersey City in 1948, Lasker focused on the dialectic relationship
between perception of reality and reality itself, redefining the
abstract painting of the past decades, of which he has been an undisputed
protagonist.
Introduced by an essay penned by curator Demetrio Paparoni, this
monograph contains a wide range of works, a selection of writings
by the artists themselves and by critics (Joseph Masheck, Konrad
Bitterli, David Carrier, Rainer Crone and David Moos, and Olivier
Kaeppelin) as well as a formidable bio-bibliographical record.
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Demetrio Paparoni
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Introduction by Francesco Clemente
Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore, Milan 2001
240 pages in colour, texts in Italian and English
ISBN 8888098011
Like Nadar in the second half of the nineteenth century, American
photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders has created an authentic
pantheon of artists, architects, scientists, statesman, writers,
poets, actors, directors, classical-music and rock stars, and athletes.
This monograph includes an substantial corpus of 350 portraits accompanied
by the curator's essay as well as an introduction by Francesco Clemente
and abroad critical anthology with essays by Peter Halley, Robert
Pincus-Witten, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jerry Saltz, Lou Reed, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe,
Stephen Greco, Doug and Mike Starn, and Cristina Kelly. The volume
ends with an autobiography in which the photographer goes back over
the landmarks in his career.
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Brian Eno e Mimmo
Paladino
Demetrio Paparoni
I Dormienti/Brian Eno, Mimmo Paladino
Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore, Milan 2000
108 pages in colour, texts in Italian and English, with a music CD
ISBN 8888098003
Brian Eno and Mimmo Paladino worked together on the "I Dormienti" exhibition
of sculptures and sounds at the Roundhouse in London in autumn 1998.
This precious volume, of which only a thousand copies were printed,
contains a photographic documentation of the exhibition, a series
of specially made drawings, a long conversation between the artists,
a music CD composed by Eno for the occasion and an introductory essay
by Demetrio Paparoni.
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Tiresia delle sette
stanze (short story)
Demetrio Paparoni
Tiresia delle sette stanze
Afterword by Giuseppe Conte
Hestia, Como 1993
84 pages
ISBN 8886120028
second edition
Tema Celeste, Milan 1999
Afterword by Arturo Schwarz
64 pages
ISBN 88-87640-09-2
A short novel somewhere between a report and a surreal apologue in
a language that takes from criticism and yet is that of a conversation-novel.
The story is based around a painting by Mimmo Paladino which is stolen
by an unlikely gang of kids headed by Victor, an ageless figure who
claims he is inspired by the play entitled "Victor or Children
Take Over" by the surrealist Roger Vitrac.
Real elements are mixed up with fanciful inventions, bringing out
Paladino's poetics through general considerations about art.
One is left with the doubt about whether the stonework, which is
described in detail, really existed or if it is the product of invention.
For both editions the cover was specially designed by Mimmo Paladino.
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Surreale '08
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David Salle
David Salle
Vortex
Catalogue of the exhibition at Galleria
In Arco, Turin.
Texts by Demetrio Paparoni
86 pages, in colour, Italian and English
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Mimmo
Paladino
Mimmo Paladino
Fotogrammi dipinti armati
Catalogue of the exhibition at Galleria
Cardi and Co., Milan
Texts by Demetrio Paparoni
104 pages, in colour, Italian and English
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Vik Muniz
Demetrio Paparoni
Vik Muniz
Texts in English and Italian, 72 pages, hardback, colour reproductions.
Galleria Cardi e Co, Milan 2005
Published for the Vic Muniz exhibition at Galleria Cardi & Co.
in Milan, this catalogue was devised as an essential monograph on
the Brazilian artist.
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Dennis Oppenheim
Demetrio Paparoni
Dennis Oppenheim, Project Drawings
In Arco Book, Turin 2005.
110 pages, illustrations in colour and black and white. Texts in
Italian and English.
Published for the Dennis Oppenheim exhibition at Galleria In Arco
in Turin, the book starts with a long conversation between Demetrio
Paparoni and the artist, and it contains a series of projects on
paper, many of which are compared with the sculptures that were later
made.
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Roy Lichtenstein
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Andy
Warhol - Pentiti e non peccare più
Gianni Mercurio
Andy Warhol, Pentiti e non peccare più!
264 pages, 229 colour reproductions and 15 in black and white
Skira, Milan-Geneva 2006
ISBN 8876249281
This book examines the relationship of Andy Warhol's work with
the sacred and with religion. Considered by many as the bard
of consumerism, and even by some as a supporter of the false
values of the star system, in actual fact Warhol never failed
to express profound religious feelings, cleverly encrypted within
his work but clearly recognisable in the global vision of his
entire work. In this new interpretation, Warhol's paintings are
viewed in a fascinating and compelling light which illustrates
their poetic ability to express the truth of the psyche in face
of death and the transcendental, as is pointed out in the previously
unpublished essays by Jean Baudrillard, Arthur C. Danto, Gianni
Mercurio (editor), Giorgio Montefoschi and Demetrio Paparoni.
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Hirst/Salle/Saville
Gianni Mercurio
Damien Hirst, David Salle, Jenny Saville
The Bilotti Chapel
Mondadori Elekta, Milan 2006
120 pages, texts in Italian and English
ISBN 88-370-4521-2
Catalogue of the inaugural exhibition at the Museo Bilotti in Rome,
with theme-based works made especially for the occasion. Introduction
by Gianni Mercurio and critical essays by Mark Rosenthal (on Damien
Hirst) and Demetrio Paparoni (on David Salle and Jenny Saville).
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The
Jean-Micheal Basquiat Show
Gianni Mercurio
The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show
324 pages, 180 colour reproductions and 100 in black and white
Skira, Milan-Geneva 2006
ISBN 8876249834
Monograph published for the anthological exhibition at the Triennale
di Milano Essays in Italian and English by Gianni Mercurio, Glenn
O'Brien, Annette Lagler, and Demetrio Paparoni
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Demetrio Paparoni and Gianni Mercurio
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Introduction by Mimmo Paladino
Skira, Milan-Geneva 2005
224 pages with four-colour reproductions
ISBN 8876245413
An overview of new and old portraits, including some diptychs taken
from the "XXX" cycle of famous American porn stars. Essays
by Demetrio Paparoni, Fernanda Pivano, Gianni Mercurio, and Arturo
Schwarz. Preface by Mimmo Paladino. Conversation between the artist
and Ida Palavecchio.
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The Keith Haring
Show
Gianni Mercurio and Demetrio Paparoni
Keith Haring
408 pages in colour.
Skira, Milan-Geneva 2005
ISBN 887624476X
Monograph published for the anthological exhibition of 2005 curated
by Gianni Mercurio and Giulia Gruen, at the Triennale di Milano.
Essays in Italian and English by Gianni Mercurio, Julia Gruen, Demetrio
Paparoni, Arturo Schwarz, David Galloway, Tony Shafrazi, Alessandro
Mendini, Jeffrey Deitch, Peter Halley, Kim Hastreiter, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders,
Fernanda Pivano, and Elio Fiorucci.
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The Andy Warhol Show
Gianni Mercurio and Daniela Morera
The Andy Warhol Show
332 pages in colour
Skira, Milan-Geneva 2004
ISBN 8876240284
Monograph published for the anthological exhibition at the Triennale
di Milano Essays in Italian and English by Gianni Mercurio, Daniela
Morera, Bruno Bischofberger, Victor Bokris, Ronald Feldman, Glenn
'O Brien, and Demetrio Paparoni
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Starn Twins
Mike & Doug Starn
Attracted to Light
Powerhouse Books, New York 2003
120 pages in colour, essays in English by Mike and Doug Starn,
Vladimir Nabocov, Demetrio Paparoni, and Victor Pelevin.
ISBN 1576871894
This monograph by Mike and Doug Starn comprises works on photographic
paper which portray insects and their fatal attraction to light.
It includes an extract from Father's Butterflies, written in Russian
by Vladimir Nabokov in 1939 and recently translated into English
by his son, as well as extracts from Victor Pelevin's The Life of
Insects (1994) and Horizon Light (2003), also translated from the
Russian. Together with numerous reproductions, the book provides
an introduction to the authors and a critical essay by Demetrio Paparoni.
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Arthur C. Danto
Narrazione e stile
Con una conversazione tra
Arthur C. Danto, Demetrio Paparoni e Mario Perniola
54 pagine - Tema Celeste, Milan 1998
ISBN 8873040055
Philosopher Arthur C. Danto represents the extreme of American art
criticism. Considered to be the heir of Greenberg, in this book he
offers a brilliant analysis of the concept of narration and style.
The volume also contains a conversation between the author and Demetrio
Paparoni and Mario Perniola, in which the concept of style is examined
both from a historical point of view, and with great emphasis on
its most current connotations.
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Peter Halley - Mountain
Speed
Edited by Cory Reynolds
Design by Cornelia Blatter and Marchel Hermans
2227 pages in colour
D.A.P./ Distrubuted Art Publishers, Inc. New York
ISBN 1891024167
Much more than a monographic publication on the abstract painter
Peter Halley, this book is one of the most brilliant graphic experiments
of recent decades. Essays by Rudi Fuchs, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve,
Susan Kandel, Makiko Matake, Demetrio Paparoni, and David Rimanelli.
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Nuevas Abstracciones
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Endore
Various Authors
Mimmo Paladino EN DO RE
Tema Celeste, Siracusa 1990
112 pages in colour, texts in Italian and English
ISBN: 8885265057
An art book with graphics devised by Mimmo Paladino and Demetrio
Paparoni and essays by Arturo Schwarz, Remo Guidieri, Marcello Panni,
Mary de Rachewiltz, Gillo Dorfles, Giuseppe Conte, Pietro Bellasi,
and Demetrio Paparoni.
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Ettore Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass. Scritti.
Preface by Demetrio Paparoni
Neri Pozza Editore, Vicenza 2002
583 pages.
ISBN 887305854X
The volume contains writings by Ettore Sottsass, from his earliest
articles published in "Il Politecnico" and "Comunità" just
after the war right through to essays for "Casabella" and "Terrazzo" in
the 1980s and 1990s. This collection provides a fascinating reconstruction
of the poetic vein of one of the greatest names in contemporary design
and architecture.
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Peter Halley. I diagrammi
dell'utopia
Arturo Schwarz
Peter Halley. I diagrammi dell'utopia
Preface by Demetrio Paparoni
Tema Celeste, Milan 1998
104 pages plus 16 pages of colour plates.
ISBN 8873040047
In this book, Arturo Schwarz interprets the work of abstract painter
Peter Halley from a point of view that takes into consideration the
hermeneutic contribution of psychoanalysis, the cabbala and alchemy.
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Peter Halley. Tutti
gli scritti
Peter Halley
Scritti sull'arte e altro
Preface by Demetrio Paparoni
Tema Celeste, Siracusa 1990
192 pages
ISBN 888526509X
The theoretical writings of the abstract-geometric American painter
Peter Halley provide an essential source of information for understanding
the artistic phenomena that have came to the fore since the 1980s.
An artist, critic, philosopher, publisher, and editor of the Index
magazine, Halley writes about the control of social behaviour by
those in power, portraying it through geometrical forms that recall
the various networks that enter our homes. This is the Italian translation
of the Collected Essays, 1981-87, published by Bruno Bishofberger,
Zurich/Ileana Sonnabend, New York. It is the first in the series
of "writings on art" directed by Demetrio Paparoni for
Edizioni Tema Celeste.
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