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Totemic figures and forms made through a ritualistic assembly of organic material

Italian artist Chiara Camoni’s (born 1974) practice spans drawing, video, sculpture and ceramics. Her works are distinguished by the use of organic materials, where the brown and green tones of earth and vegetation create works that are both spiritual and artisanal.

Celebrating a great kinetic artist who liberated the machine from the "tyranny of utility" and encouraged the unexpected with his contraptions

This volume documents the first major Italian retrospective since his death of the work of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925–91), one of the 20th century’s greatest exponents of kinetic art. At the center of his work lies research into the functioning and intrinsic poetry of machines. Tinguely was among the first artists to use found objects that he then welded together, creating noisy and cacophonous machines whose movements were driven by motors. This monograph analyzes Tinguely’s practice, providing detailed descriptions of the works in the exhibition, accompanied by an ample selection of contemporary and archival images. The volume also includes an essay that sets Tinguely’s work against the background of the contemporaneous avant-garde, another on the role of sound and performance in his work in the context of the 1960s, an illustrated timeline of the artist’s career and two reprinted texts written by Tinguely himself.

Site-specific, immersive works that chronicle the career of a legendary Japanese artist

Yukinori Yanagi (born 1959) is one of the most influential contemporary Japanese artists, known for his exploration of complex themes related to sovereignty, globalization and borders, which he investigates through site-specific installations on a large scale. His work also looks at Japanese history, evoking the intricate sets of symbolic images that shape the understanding of space and identity. This monograph focuses on the recurrent themes in Yanagi's work, highlighting the influences on and developments in his practice over the years. It also includes essays by an international group of scholars and critics as well as a conversation between Yanagi and the curators of the exhibition project on which the monograph is based. Along with extensive photographic documentation, the volume comprises detailed entries on each of the works, compiled by scholars and illustrated by a selection of contemporary images and pictures from the archives.