Mimmo Rotella, catalogue raisonné - Volume 1, 1944-1961

his catalogue, edited by Germano Celant, documents the first exhibition in the Middle East by KAWS (Brian Donnelly, born 1974, USA). The solo show explores his career and vast oeuvre and features painting and sculpture made over the past 20 years. KAWS' imagery has long possessed a sophisticated, dark humour, revealing the interplay between art and consumerism, referencing both art history and pop culture. Donnelly began his career in street art in the 1990s, becoming synonymous with the name KAWS, a tag that became a staple in his ‘sub-vertisments' (modifications of commercial works). Later on, through his toy figurines and larger-than-life sculptures, KAWS has become a global phenomenon — not just of the art world, but in popular culture as well. KAWS : HE EATS ALONE is presented at the Fire Station in Doha. The exhibition begins in the Garage Gallery where over 40 sculptures and paintings are displayed in a labyrinthine space designed by the New York studio 2×4. Across the courtyard above the café, the Archive showcases a collection of the artist's limited edition works. At the centre of the courtyard, the 5-metre-tall sculpture COMPANION (PASSING THROUGH) is seated with hands covering its eyes. The journey concludes at the Dhow Harbour on the Corniche, where the larger-than-life inflatable sculpture HOLIDAY reclines against the backdrop of the Doha city skyline.

Kaws: He Eats Alone

American painter Lara Nickel's life-size installation in homage to Jannis Kounellis' Untitled (12 Horses), one of Arte Povera's most iconic artworks.

The horse has been represented in the history of art by almost every culture in every time period. In 1969, Jannis Kounellis (1936-2017) (a member of the Italian art movement Arte Povera) brought 12 living horses inside a gallery in Rome, creating areinterpreted image of the horse in an art context. Lara Nickel's homage is comprised of 12 life-size, realistic paintings of horses, positioned on the ground and installed perpendicularly to the wall. Presented in this non-traditional way, the images of horses appear to be standing in the room, making the architecture itself the setting of the paintings.
Nickel's 12 Horses - Homage to Jannis Kounellis uses painting as a sculptural intervention, inviting the audience to physically engage with the artwork. Using Kounellis' original piece as an art historical reference, Nickel's paintings are not only portraits of horses but painting-as-illusion, painting-as-object, and painting-as-situation.

Lara Nickel : 12 horses homage to jannis kounellis

Marco bagnoli

Le livre rassemble une vaste documentation sur les multiples facettes de la pratique, de la recherche et des voyages de Grisi, en se concentrant sur les années 1960-1970, avec des essais inédits du directeur artistique du Muzeum Susch, Krzysztof Kosciuczuk, du critique et commissaire italien Marco Scotini, de l'historienne de l'art française Valérie Da Costa, de l'écrivain et critique Martin Herbert, et de Giuliana Bruno, professeur d'études visuelles et environnementales à l'université de Harvard. Il comprend également la réédition d'un entretien fondamental avec Laura Grisi réalisé par Germano Celant en 1990. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition éponyme au Muzeum Susch en 2021 et au MAMCO, Genève, en 2022.

Laura Grisi - The Measuring of Time

Doug wheeler

L'artiste italien Nuvolo s'est intéressé aussi bien à la peinture qu'au textile et à la sérigraphie mais en utilisant des matériaux originaux. Collaborateur d'Alberto Burri, célèbre pour sa série des Serotipie, Nuvolo a traversé les différents courants du XXe siècle en apportant sa touche unique, comme l'utilisation du daim ou la création par ordinateur.

Nuvolo and post-war materiality ; 1950-1965

The monograph is the first to cover the life and artistic career of Michele Zaza in systematic fashion. After the introductory essay, which fills in the historical and critical background of his work, the volume documents his production from the 1970s to the present day through a chronology replete with illustrations, unpublished materials, texts and quotations of the artist.
This production ranges from the early sequences of photographs, with their symbolic references to the artist's own body, the figures of his parents, and his family home, to the creation of large installations, characterized by the presence of photographic elements and sculptures with pure and totemic forms that hold a direct dialogue with their architectural setting. In a vision of existence in which everything is interconnected, he aspires in his work to a transcendence of the contingent, immersing the viewer in an environment that has been re-created through images but is at the same time real.

Mimmo Rotella, catalogue raisonné - Volume 1, 1944-1961

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