Presents an interview with the Italian artist, best known for his satirical and controversial sculptures.

Maurizio Cattelan (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Arts & Photography

Francesco Bonami

Nancy Spector

Barbara Vanderlinden

Massimiliano Gioni

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

The accompanying catalog to this year's Venice Biennale is a massive compendium of ideas and trends in contemporary art. The Venice Biennale, the world's most respected and influential contemporary art showcase, celebrates its fiftieth International Art Exhibition in 2003. Francesco Bonami, internationally known curator, writer, critic, and the Lewis Manilow Senior Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, will be curating the exhibit. The exhibit, entitled Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer's Dictatorship, will explore not only art as a personal tool of the artist, but also as the experience of the viewer, and the conflicts and results of this bond.

Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer's Dictatorship

Rizzoli

Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-1972 focuses on one of the most innovative and influential art movements of the postwar era. Arte Povera came of age in the context of the ''Italian miracle'' economic boom and the subsequent student and workers revolts of 1968, motivated by an urge to revolt not only against the primacy of painting in the postwar period, but also against the emerging consumer culture. This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue provide a highly comprehensive retrospective of the Arte Povera movement as a historical and aesthetic phenomenon that crossed a wide range of disciplines, including sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, film and performance. The exhibition traces Arte Povera's genesis within the artistic and political context of Italy to its positioning within the broader international context of postwar artistic practices, a moment marked by the participation of the Arte Povera group in the 1972 Documenta V exhibition in Kassel. This essential new catalogue is designed by the Walker Art Center's award-winning design department, and includes a wide range of essays by international scholars and curators, as well as rare historical documentation, in an unprecedented re-examination of the Arte Povera movement.

Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera: 1962-1972

Corinna Criticos

Judith Kirshner

Robert Lumley

Karen Pinkus

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Walker Art Center

The catalogue of the show is homage to Rama, one of the most significant artists to have been working from the 1930s until today.

Carol Rama

Guido Curto

Judith Russi Kirshner

Individual Artists

Skira

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