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Readers will find insightful essays and visually rich presentations that illuminate the works of avant-garde artists and the nuances of modern creative expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles that delve into immersive artistic practices and thoughtful critiques, Tenconi’s books serve as an essential resource for those interested in the intersections of art, history, and cultural dialogue, presenting both emerging and established voices within the arts community.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"giorgio-andreotta-calo-by-roberta-tenconi-9788857242255","title":"Giorgio Andreotta Calò","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGiorgio Andreotta Calò\u003c\/em\u003e (Venice, 1979) has distinguished himself on the contemporary art scene by developing a unique artistic language. Traditional working methods of sculpture are completely revitalised in his works and combined with artistic practices of the 1970s in such a way that the process of creation becomes a central aspect of the work and indeed its primary subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis oeuvre includes sculpture, large-scale environmental installations, and spatial interventions that transform buildings or entire landscapes. These works are often designed to be included in a rich patchwork of self-referencing connections, notably through the use of natural elements rife with symbolic significance, like water, light, and fire. 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He lives and works in New York and Berlin). It publishes a compendium of all his analogue photos taken between the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s up to his recent digital images and series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes images made by \"That Person\"—the artist's alter ego that emerges during states of hypnosis and trance—plus computer-generated images from his initial experiments in virtual reality in the 1980s and 1990s. It also features a portfolio of exhibition views at Pirelli HangarBicocca, the biggest retrospective to date on Mullican, exceptionally photographed by the artist himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to an extraordinary collection of 2,000 images, this publication contains various relevant texts: a conversation on photography between Matt Mullican and the artist\/photographer James Welling; a critical essay on the use of images by Anne Rorimer, art historian and author of essays on the Picture Generation and the catalogue \u003cem\u003eThe Forest of Sign\u003c\/em\u003e (1995); an excursus on the artist's digital photography and images by Tina Rivers Ryan; a conversation between Mullican and the exhibition curator Roberta Tenconi; and finally, an essay by the philosopher Marie-Luise Angerer that explores the meaning of the show's title, \u003cem\u003eMatt Mullican: The Feeling of Things\u003c\/em\u003e, the idea of \"feeling\", of perceiving things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471125889260,"sku":"9788857241173","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9788857241173-matt-mullican-photographs-1971-2018.jpg?v=1775234846"},{"product_id":"leonor-antunes-the-last-days-in-galliate-by-roberta-tenconi-9788857241029","title":"Leonor Antunes: The Last Days in Galliate","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe sculptures of the contemporary artist, who will represent Portugal at the 2019 Venice Biennale.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough her sculptures, Leonor Antunes (Lisbon, 1972) reinterprets the history of art, design, and architecture of the twentieth century, focusing particularly on the Modernist tradition in its most radical and experimental instances. 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