Giuseppe Penone

This volume presents a broad range of works by Arte Povera sculptor and installation artist Giuseppe Penone (born 1947), including his most recent pieces that continue his explorations of the relationship between nature and humanity. The volume accompanies his retrospective at the Musée de Grenoble.

Arts & Photography

Tosatto, Guy

History & Criticism

Actes Sud/Grenoble Museum

Giorgio Morandi: La collection Magnani-Rocca

Bernard, Sophie

Ensabella, Alice

Roffi, Stefano

IN FINE

Curieux ?: De l'étrange et du merveilleux dans l'art d'aujourd'hui à travers les collections du Frac Rhône-Alpe

Semin, Didier

Actes-sud

Opposite the Pic du Canigou, the holy mountain of the Catalonians and the last high peak before the Pyrenees descend into the Mediterranean, Wolfgang Laib has created a timeless, sublime space that seems to have grown naturally from the earth. Accessible only by footpath, "The Room of Certitudes" is a rock chamber chiseled out of granite, its walls lined with beeswax, its only opening a simple wooden door. Though the cave itself can only be reached after a long hike, it is here transmitted through the artist's own photographs, in a book of his own design.

Wolfgang Laib: The Room Of Certitudes

Laib, Wolfgang

Hatje Cantz Publishers

Alex Katz (born 1927) has become a leading chronicler of modern life in America, a model and forerunner to several schools of painting that came after him. Portraying in deadpan style the faces of New York and its environs since the 1950s, when he was a part of the later Cedar Tavern scene, Katz makes everyday enigmas of people, at once emptying them of meaning and bestowing upon them specific character and specific roles in life. Some of these faces may be familiar (poets Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan), others equally striking simply add to Katz's sense of modern life as a parade or a pageant. An American Way of Seeing surveys work from 1968 onwards, from paintings to cutouts and multi-panel works. The more recent paintings reproduced herein convey new hints of lyricism, in their depiction of reflections in water and mute night-time scenes.

Alex Katz: An American Way of Seeing

de Chassey, Éric

Mönig, Roland

Individual Artists

Kerber

Concerned with the relationship between painting and the technologically mediated image of photography, Gerhard Richter is recognized worldwide as one of the greatest living artists. With a brush that deftly and romantically captures abstract details and blurred newspaper images alike, he has transformed our understanding of art in the age of photographic reproduction and mass-media imagery. 100 Pictures is a faithful reprint of the intimate, cloth-bound book Richter created in 1996 as a nontraditional anthology of his oeuvre. Following a short introduction to his early work, which features pictures long kept in his studio, 100 Pictures presents Richter's output from an intensive period of work between 1995-96. Though this period mainly saw the production of abstract works, it also begat a cycle of eight small-format paintings of an intimate, private nature, which portray his young wife Sabine as a Madonna-and-child. 100 Pictures is an extraordinary document of contemporary art, finally back in print.

Gerhard Richter: 100 Pictures

Pelzer, Birgit

Cantz

The artist who dared put into question the parameters of ordinary vision. One of the main exponents of Capitalist Realism–a current that arose in the 1970s in opposition to both the Socialist Realism widespread in the countries of Eastern Europe and Western pop art–Sigmar Polke was a tireless experimenter of techniques, art materials, and chemical-alchemical processes. He created figurative paintings that drew on a vast iconographic repertoire often inspired by everyday life and abstract works with a powerful symbolic value sometimes created by chance through reactions between paint and other products. The book reproduces over eighty-five of his works (including photographs and sculptures, along with numerous paintings), giving a full account of Polke's reflections and studies made over his fifty-year career.

Sigmar Polke

Geuna, Elena

Marsilio

For his recent show at the Fondazione Merz, German conceptual artist Wolfgang Laib (born 1950) fashioned an installation of hundreds of small rice mountains, a line of small mountains of pollen and a great mountain of beeswax. Laib elucidates the symbolism thus: "The pollen recalls the beginning and creation; the rice mountains and the beeswax Ziggurat and the bond of the sky with the earth."

Wolfgang Laib

Ottmann, Klaus

Fondazione Merz

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