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April 2024
Falce e martello The Hammer and Sickle
Sickle and Hammer: Three of the Ways an Artist Can Contribute to the Class Struggle by Enzo Mari is the small catalogue that accompanied the exhibition at the Galleria Milano in 1973. Today the exhibition is presented again, with the same layout, in the same historic Milanese gallery; the anastatic reprint of the catalogue is enriched with photographs and documents from the Galleryʼs archives and the Mari Archive, as well as essays by Bianca Tre
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July 2019
OMNIPULSEPUNSLIDE
Omnipulsepunslide is the first artist's book by Sadie Murdoch (b. 1965). Murdoch immersed herself in the poems and manifestos of the Dada artists Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Emmy Hennings, Mina Loy, Juliette Roche and Gertrude Stein.
The book’s title Omnipulsepunslide is a portmanteau word, a blend of multiple words and their sounds, combining their meanings into a new word, in homage to the Dada sound poetry of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and a play on words
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October 2021
Jhalak
Jhalak is the Hindi term that translates into English as "glimpse" and into Italian as "intravedere, dare uno sguardo, un assaggio". Jhalak is just that, a glimpse, Ilaria Magliocchetti Lombi's glimpse of India, the result of the last of her many trips to this multiform and complex land.
Jhalak has no pretensions to illustration, but wants to take her readers on a journey made up of apparitions, images of places and everyday life, captured and handed over to the
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May 2023
Contact High
Both an artist’s book and comprehensive inquisition of D’Angelo Lovell Williams’s work to date, Contact High offers an expansive engagement with the visualisation of desire and depiction of the Black body. Williams’s narrative images reflect the many forms in which Black queer people exist and have existed historically within each other’s lives, picturing them as sitters, lovers, caregivers, or shadows. Williams’s work is guided by their life experience and
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