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July 2019

NEOS

"NEOs explores a new cycle of capitalization that has been unfolding practically unnoticed for nearly twenty years. The work was prompted by the government of Luxembourg's announcement of SpaceResources, the first-ever space program designed to mine asteroids and near-earth objects (NEOs), thanks to collaboration between the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and various private companies backed by leading investment banks. Shortly after the United States, Luxembourg established a legal framework to permit the appropriation of minerals in
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September 2019

MAXIMILIAN STEJSKAL – FOLKLING IDROTT

Maximilian Stejskal (1906-1991), an ethnologist and gymnastics teacher from Helsinki, carried out a study for his PhD thesis on “folk athletic” contests amongst Finland’s Swedish-speaking male rural population in the early 20th century. For his study Stejskal biked across large swaths of southern and eastern Finland as well as Estonia for a month or two every year from 1929 to 1937 and then again in 1948, equipped with two bellows cameras and a box of phot
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October 2023

Coming and Going – Signed

Jim Goldberg has spent more than two decades creating the work that went into Coming and Going, creating a unique autobiographical diary of sorts. Since 1999, Goldberg has photographed every aspect of his daily life and then returned to the studio to digest and reinvent these images through his celebrated practice of collaging, annotating, editing and recombining. Dissecting an individual life with rigorous candour and confessional candour, the book simultaneously tells a universal story of loves
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April 2020

RINATA. DIARI E TACCUINI 1947-1963

Rinata, the first of the three volumes of the diaries and notes of Susan Sontag of which Nottetempo publishes the Italian edition, captures and reveals the author - among the major thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, while it is fully immersed in a phase of “self-proclaimed”. Beginning with the pen of a voracious and prodigious fourteen-year-old, Rinata ends with the notes of a thirty-year-old Sontag, who lives in New York and begins to be publis
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February 2019

WHAT’S WRONG WITH REDISTRIBUTION?

Wolfgang Tillmans' "truth study centre" became a fixed part of his exhibitions since he first showed a version of the multi-part tabletop installation in 2005. Often arising from local circumstances and current issues at the time of their creation, the "truth study centre" works mark an endeavour to create a clear view in ever more confusing times. Tillmans observed the paradigm shift that defines politics today early on. The scope and complexity of this project become apparent for the
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March 2020

PINO PASCALI – FOTOGRAFIE

In 1965, Pino Pascali – working for a long time for Lodolofilm graphic and advertising activity – starts a journey between Naples, Capri and Ischia to make his first photographic reportage, devoted to the production of a commercial for Cirio. The aim of the research was to highlight the peculiarities of the Neapolitan tradition within an exuberant emotional connotation. The journey becomes a real survey of the urban and the harbour landscape, not simply a collection of pic
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