ekphrasis

 series, available now as a bundle of our 32 in-print titles. The 

 series is dedicated to publishing rare, out-of-print, and newly commissioned texts as accessible paperback volumes. It is part of David Zwirner Books’s ongoing effort to publish new and surprising pieces of writing on visual culture.

The ekphrasis Collection (32 books)

Karl Holmqvist

Constantin Brăiloiu

Georg Trakl

Foreword by David Zwirner. Poetry by Karl Holmqvist and Georg Trakl. Songs of the Dead from Gorj, collected by Constantin Brăiloiu

Victor Man is one of the most quietly commanding painters working today. His profound, enigmatic canvases occupy a singular place at the intersection of the spiritual and the material.

Victor Man’s paintings reveal varied, nonlinear references to literature, art, and poetry that transform essential elements of the human experience into visionary manifestations of color and form. The works collected in 

 tonality. These compositions engender a complex, layered encounter, whose figures occupy and move through the transience of human life.

In these paintings, Man positions mortality as an inherent presence within and successor to life—a process intimately linking the human realm with its natural, spiritual, and animal counterparts. His work carries a contemporary immediacy and primeval beauty, and is similarly marked by a nuanced intermingling of mourning and wonder, myth and earthly life. Ultimately, with their delicate, poetic treatment, Man’s paintings mediate between a sense of history and the experience of the world.

This volume is produced on the occasion of the artist’s first exhibition with David Zwirner, in London, 

. David Zwirner’s foreword to the volume highlights his personal interest in Man’s work. This catalogue also features an English translation of a traditional Romanian funerary chant recorded by the composer and ethnomusicologist Constantin Brăiloiu; newly commissioned poetry by the Swedish artist Karl Holmqvist; and poetry by the Austrian poet Georg Trakl.

Cover of a book titled Victor Man: The Absence That We Are, published by David Zwirner Books in 2026

Interior spread from a book titled Victor Man: The Absence That We Are, published by David Zwirner Books in 2026

Victor Man: The Absence That We Are

Jordan Wolfson, 2023, National Gallery of Australia. Photo by Karlee Holland. Courtesy National Gallery of Australia

Edited by Thomas D. Trummer. Texts by Simon Denny, Anne Imhof, Thomas D. Trummer, and Jordan Wolfson

Insights into the practice of an artist who employs the full spectrum of cutting-edge technology for his provocative works 

Jordan Wolfson is a boundary-pusher and provocateur who draws his motifs from sources including the gaming industry, internet clips, comic strips, and facial recognition software. In his artworks, he interrogates the contemporary conditions of art, technology, and mass media. This catalogue explores his practice through a dense sequence of images and texts, offering points of entry into a body of work that is deliberately confrontational—one that immerses the audience in intense, often unsettling situations. 

Cover of the book Jordan Wolfson published by Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2026

Jordan Wolfson

A painting by Michael Armitage, titled Enasoit, dated 2019.

Portrait of Michael Armitage, 2021. Photo by Tom Jamieson

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Texts by Manthia Diawara, Jean-Marie Gallais, Salman Rushdie, and Ocean Vuong. Conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Michael Armitage

"Michael Armitage responds to his time, to our time, using all the vocabulary, all the arsenal of art. He paints on

canvas, made from tree bark, and makes his fragility an asset, suggesting that his human subjects can also transform their own into strength, and that what can work this magic is beauty." — Salman Rushdie

 is the publication that accompanies the major exhibition of the same name that Pinault Collection dedicates to the British painter Michael Armitage in the exhibition spaces of Palazzo Grassi in Venice (from March 29, 2026 to January 10, 2027).

Armitage, born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1984, is a leading figure in the new international figurative painting. His research combines references to the European pictorial tradition with elements of East African visual culture, creating images of great narrative force and remarkable visual impact thanks to an extraordinary and highly personal use of color.

The volume offers an in-depth overview of his production, which now covers more than a decade, presenting, through a wide selection of reproductions of the works on display, scenes suspended between reality and imagination that address themes such as cultural identity and collective memory, politics and social transformations, myths, traditions, and popular narratives.

Critical texts and testimonies by Manthia Diawara, Jean-Marie Gallais, Salman Rushdie and Ocean Vuong join a long and recent interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist with the artist and take shape with the extraordinary graphic and cartotechnical project of Irma Boom Office.

Michael Armitage: The Promise of Change

A detail from a painting by Oscar Murillo, titled manifestation, dated 2019.

Oscar Murillo in his studio, 2022. Photo by Jason Schmidt

Edited by Anna Schneider and Daniel Milnes

This elegantly designed publication explores Oscar Murillo’s ambitious reimagining of Monet through a contemporary lens.

What happens when the radical beauty of Claude Monet’s late paintings meets the political tensions of the present? Interdisciplinary artist Oscar Murillo explores that question in a sweeping body of work that reimagines perception, power, and place through the language of mark-making. At its core is 

—a series of large-scale, visually arresting paintings that echo Monet’s 

 while confronting the political dimension of seeing and not seeing by positing darkness as a space of speculation for a new reading of impressionism. These works appear alongside further paintings by Murillo as well as his long-running 

 project, created in collaboration with schoolchildren across the globe, and participatory pieces that extend his practice beyond the studio and into the public realm. The result is a layered meditation on visibility, landscape, and the politics of artistic labor—across borders and generations. 

Designed with a modern flair to reflect the energy and ambition of the project, the book includes full-bleed plates, striking installation photography, and images from community-based projects. Both a record of a major artistic undertaking and a reflection of Murillo’s socially engaged approach, it offers an immersive look at a practice that is as materially rich as it is conceptually urgent.

Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis

A painting by Joe Bradley, titled Van Dongen, 2020 to 2022.

Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

Amy Sillman

Text by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith. Conversation between Joe Bradley and Amy Sillman

Available for preorder. Forthcoming September 22, 2026

Joe Bradley’s colorful and dynamic paintings invite viewers to consider the interplay between the deliberate and spontaneous, and the abstract and figurative



American artist Joe Bradley is widely recognized for his expansive visual practice that encompasses painting as well as sculpture and drawing. Over the past twenty years, Bradley has continually reinvented his approach to art, creating a distinctive body of work that has ranged from modular, minimalist-style paintings and sculptures to rough-hewn, heavily worked surfaces featuring pictographic and abstract elements, to refined and layered compositions that, as critic Roberta Smith notes, “balance gracefully between representation and abstraction.”



 presents work from two celebrated exhibitions at David Zwirner, in New York and London in 2024 and 2025. Bradley worked on the paintings in these two groups simultaneously, and their mutual influence is perceptible in the presence of shared or repeated colors, forms, and shapes. These paintings suggest a new turn in the artist’s practice, as figurative elements emerge as central compositional structures. Accompanying works on paper further illuminate Bradley’s multidimensional practice. An essay by art critic Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith situates this series within the artist’s larger oeuvre, discussing Bradley’s evolution in art-historical and formal terms. In a conversation, Bradley and fellow artist Amy Sillman explore the role of humor in art—and the influence of comics in Bradley’s work—and discuss their relationships to art history, the embodied act of painting, and the catalysts that spur their production.

Joe Bradley: Vom Abend/Animal Family

R. Buckminster Fuller

Anahid Nersessian

By R. Buckminster Fuller. Introduction by Anahid Nersessian.

 by R. Buckminster Fuller is a profound, lyrical celebration of the human mind, highlighting the necessary value of intuition in uniting and advancing the sciences and the arts, and in guiding humanity as a whole.

Knowledge is of the brain,
wisdom is of the mind,
and there is herewith implicit
an a priori wisdom-of-wisdoms.
—R. Buckminster Fuller

In this concise, powerful work, Fuller—the renowned inventor, artist, and creator of the geodesic dome—contends that intuition is an essential function of human understanding, in which the mind apprehends generalized principles related to the universe prior to and independent of brain-based reasoning. Drawing on decades of experience as a systems thinker, Fuller looks to ancient Greek metaphysical thought, physics, and history to demonstrate how intuitive insight allows us to grasp complex, interconnected realities. In embracing the a priori mystery of the universe, human intuition has led to discoveries that have determined the past and present, and will guide the “physical and metaphysical success of all humanity.”

 is both a meditation and a call to action, inviting readers to trust deeper patterns of understanding while remaining rigorously engaged with reason; this deeply humanist vision is especially urgent in our contemporary time. A new introduction by literary scholar Anahid Nersessian discusses Fuller’s poetics and metaphysical explorations––a remarkable, often overlooked aspect of his oeuvre.

renders abstract ideas vividly through language and form. An essential text for readers across disciplines, this volume offers ever-relevant insight into human consciousness and its relationship to the extant systems both within and outside ourselves.

Intuition

Yu Nishimura. Photo by Takashi Homma for MARFA

A new limited-edition zine by Yu Nishimura, 

 unfolds across 24 pages and presents a selection of exclusive drawings from his 

 series. The publication offers an intimate glimpse into Nishimura’s quiet, atmospheric visual language, capturing subtle gestures, fleeting moments, and the poetic nuances of daily life.

Produced in a compact format, the zine is printed in grayscale offset, emphasizing the delicate tonal shifts and soft textures characteristic of the artist’s work. The restrained printing process enhances the contemplative quality of the drawings while maintaining a refined and tactile presence.

Yu Nishimura: Outline

An artwork by Raymond Saunders, called Untitled, dated 1990. Copyright Raymond Saunders

Produced in conjunction with Raymond Saunders’s solo exhibition, 

, at David Zwirner Los Angeles, this collection of tearaway postcards feature artists’ responses on the frontside and exhibition information on the reverse with space to write a note of one’s own. 

Each contributor was invited to respond with a reflection on what it means to be an artist, the importance of formal arts education, and the experience of making work in Los Angeles. The project is deeply informed by Saunders’s personal archive of postcards, stamps, and correspondence with friends, colleagues, and students, much of which is presented as ephemera in the exhibition. This compendium also directly references 

 (1987), a series of postcards Saunders produced featuring excerpts from a conversation that reflect on the evolution of his artistic practice.

Proceeds from the sales of this publication will benefit 

, Los Angeles, which was founded in 1989 to provide quality arts instruction for students from underserved communities, integrated arts workshops for educators, and programming designed for the community.

Contributors include Raymond Saunders, Marcel Alcalá, Sadie Barnette, Dewey Crumpler, Derek Fordjour, Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack, Nikita Gale, Chase Hall, Hanna Hur, Texas Isaiah, Ari Marcopoulos, Christina Quarles, Sterling Ruby, Cauleen Smith, P. Staff, and Leilah Weinraub.

Raymond Saunders: Notes from LA

An installation by Huma Bhabha, titled We Come in Peace, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, dated 2017.

Edited by Emilie Bouvard. Translated by Catherine Petit, Paul Buck, and Dennis Collins

Huma Bhabha has been asserting her keen interest in Alberto Giacometti’s work for a long time. The figures she makes are charged with a vigor, an energy at times intense, a sensibility which, in many respects, is in dialogue with those of the Swiss sculptor. In this book, recent as well as early works by Bhabha are shown, not without humor, alongside icons such as Giacometti’s 

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition presented at the Institut Giacometti from February 6 to May 24, 2026. 

Huma Bhabha / Alberto Giacometti

Designed by Andra Eggleston and featuring a drawing by William Eggleston, this pocket square brings a private language of line and color into everyday wear.

Andra and her father have long shared a love of great textiles and a good story. On trips to Memphis, Andra discovered boxes of William’s drawings—decades of work made before and after she was born, an artistic life that ran alongside his celebrated photography. Preserved and unpreserved, intimate and spontaneous, the drawings revealed a parallel legacy. She began, almost instinctively, to shape them into repeating patterns.

From that quiet collaboration grew Electra Eggleston: a collection of fabrics infused with William’s unmistakable sense of color and Andra’s eye for design. The textiles are bold yet livable, experiential rather than decorative, equally at home in fashion and interiors.

Printed on 100% linen with a vivid red embroidered edge, this pocket square carries that story in miniature—art meant to be folded, worn, and kept close.

William Eggleston Pocket Square

Contributions by Glenn Adamson, Karis Medina, Amy Jean Porter, and Jeffrey Saletnik

A beautifully illustrated look at the works of Anni Albers with a focus on the architectural dimensions of her work



Anni Albers (1899–1994) has long been revered as a trailblazing weaver, textile designer, and visual artist; she also was an insightful and eloquent writer, and her books 

 are canonical writings in design history. 

 explores the ideas of materiality, construction, and architecture across her body of work, establishing her legacy as a thinker, theoretician, and innovator.

The book’s essays include essential writings by Albers herself on the making and meaning of textiles, as well as new pieces by Glenn Adamson on her relationship to architecture, Karis Medina on the material and technique of her weavings, Amy Jean Porter on her writing, and Jeffrey Saletnik on East Asian influences in Albers’s work and thinking. Among the book’s hundreds of beautifully reproduced images are works held in private collections that have never before been published. An essential volume in the literature about modernism, this book reinforces Albers’s position as a leading figure in twentieth-century art.

Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles

A painting by Lisa Yuskavage titled Night Classes at the Department of Painting Drawing and Sculpture, dated 2018-2020

Lisa Yuskavage, 2026. Photo by Jason Schmidt

Texts by Ariel Levy, Barry Schwabsky, and Lena Dunham

The definitive monograph on innovative American painter Lisa Yuskavage

Lisa Yuskavage is one of the most acclaimed living painters. Known for her highly original approach to figurative painting, Yuskavage challenges conventional understandings of the genre. At times playful and at other times rueful, her bold, eccentric, exhibitionist, and introspective characters inhabit fantastical and vivid compositions, assuming the dual role of subject and object.

Although inspired by popular culture, the artist’s technique is deeply rooted in the history of painting, establishing an underlying tension between polar opposites such as high and low, sacred and profane, harmony and dissonance.

Yuskavage’s first proper monograph features more than 150 color images, including never-before-seen photographs of her studio, along with insightful text contributions from Barry Schwabsky, Lena Dunham, and Ariel Levy.

Lisa Yuskavage

Max Dax

Robert Eikmeyer

Kim Gordon

Astrid Ihle

Ulrich Loock

Stefan Thull

René Zechlin

Foreword by René Zechlin and Astrid Ihle. Essays by Max Dax, Robert Eikmeyer, Kim Gordon, and Ulrich Loock

The definitive collection of Raymond Pettibon’s album covers, uniting art and music in one powerful visual history. Featuring work for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Iggy Pop, Lana Del Rey, and many others, this volume traces the artist’s bold influence on alternative culture from the late 1970s to today.

Throughout his decades-long career, Raymond Pettibon has remained deeply engaged with the world around him, whether through biting political satire of American geopolitics or poetic meditations on surfing and baseball. Pettibon’s aesthetic and political sensibilities originated in the punk scene that thrived in Southern California, the artist’s first home, in the late 1970s and 1980s—evidenced in his collaborations with bands such as the Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and Saccharine Trust. Among the most iconic works featured in this collection is Pettibon’s four-column logo design for Black Flag. His distinctive artwork appears on albums for a wide range of legendary musicians, including Iggy Pop, Foo Fighters, and Lana Del Rey, among many others.

 spotlights the artist’s enduring impact on the music industry, presenting for the first time every record, CD, and cassette cover since 1979 that features his artwork. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the 

 in Ludwigshafen, Germany, this catalogue features more than two hundred works from the Stefan Thull Collection. With essays by Max Dax, Robert Eikmeyer, and Ulrich Loock, and a 1985 

 essay by Kim Gordon, the book includes a catalogue raisonné of Pettibon’s album artwork, an essential resource for fans, scholars, and collectors of contemporary art and music history alike.

A German edition is also published by the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum and 

Nervous Breakdown: Raymond Pettibon front cover

Nervous Breakdown: Raymond Pettibon title page

Nervous Breakdown: Raymond Pettibon spread

Album Covers

Nervous Breakdown: Raymond Pettibon

A painting by Giorgio Morandi titled Natura morta (Still Life), dated 1956.

Luigi Magnani

Stefano Roffi

Alice Ensabella

By Luigi Magnani. Translated by Antony Shugaar. Preface by Alice Ensabella. Introduction by Stefano Roffi

The Italian painter Giorgio Morandi is recounted as a friend and artist in this memoir by Luigi Magnani, an art historian and devoted collector of Morandi’s work

One of the most beloved and critically acclaimed artists of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi painted serial and permutational arrangements of everyday objects that elevated the quotidian into the sublime. In 1940, he struck up a decades-long friendship with entrepreneur, musicologist, art historian, and collector Luigi Magnani.

is the first full-length English translation of Magnani’s memoir reflecting on his bond with the artist and his long-standing academic and personal interest in Morandi’s paintings. Magnani recounts the artist’s aloofness from artistic trends and his dedication to painting for a small, discerning audience. He locates Morandi within the art-historical canon as well as chronicles their artistic and intellectual kinship, which led to a unique, rich collection of Morandi’s work at Magnani’s villa in Mamiano, now the Magnani Rocca Foundation. Magnani’s personal collection of Morandi’s work was on view at David Zwirner, New York, in 2025. Originally published in 1982 in Italian, this memoir is accompanied by a new preface by curator and scholar Alice Ensabella and an introduction by Stefano Roffi, director of the Magnani Rocca Foundation.

My Morandi

Lynne Tillman

Elizabeth Schambelan

cover of a book titled Lynne Tillman: Paying attention published by david zwirner books in 2026

By Lynne Tillman. Edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Schambelan

From award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, 

 is the first collection of essays devoted to her incisive, singular reflections on art and culture.

 gathers nearly seventy of the best and varied examples of Lynne Tillman’s writings in reference to art and culture published over the course of forty years. In essays that operate outside typical categories or genres, Tillman reflects on forms including film, painting, photography, poetry, and fiction, as well as notions of fame, originality, embodied viewing and thinking, collective activity, aging, illness, American identity, cultural politics, modernity, strangeness, and time.

Collected mainly from museum and gallery catalogues, artists’ books and monographs, her column in 

, these meditations on artists and writers, in the broadest sense of these labels, collide as a portrait of our cultural moment. Tillman’s inventive use of language and lateral thought, her ability to evoke conditions of the larger world in often just two thousand words on a specific artwork or individual, make her one of the most significant critics of our time. In a piece on the artist Robert Gober, she notes, “In writing on art, words reach for other words, phrases, idioms, and through them more images and ideas leap out.”

In her introduction, Elizabeth Schambelan notes that a hallmark of Tillman’s writing alongside artists is an “elegant rendering of complexity,” and in approaching Tillman’s body of work and thought, Schambelan herself deftly layers the art, voice, and language of criticism. With cover art by Paul Chan, this collection is for ludic and serious readers alike.

Essays on Art and Culture

Lynne Tillman: Paying Attention

A portrait of Gerhard Richter by Werner Bartsch.

Contributions by Nicholas Serota and Dieter Schwarz

A catalog of the major exhibition of remarkable works of Richter at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, from October 17, 2025 to March 2, 2026

Gerhard Richter describes himself as a “classical painter,” and the exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris aims to showcase the complete evolution of his career, spanning over six decades. It will highlight both the continuities and disruptions in his work, which includes not only painting but also exquisite drawings, over-painted photographs, and sculptures. Located in Frank Gehry’s iconic building in Bois de Boulogne, the exhibition will be organized chronologically, allowing visitors to appreciate the unique characteristics of each piece. Trained in Dresden, Richter is interested in historical genres of painting and seeks to reinterpret them in the context of contemporary times, revealing beauty and ethical issues through seemingly conventional subjects. He has also explored various painting techniques, creating works that range from quiet and refined to those bursting with energy, reflecting his physical engagement in the creative process.

Gerhard Richter

Hilma af Klint

Wassily Kandinsky

Daniel Birnbaum

Julia Voss

Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future, David Zwirner Books, 2025



An important exploration of the lives and art of Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky, two pioneers of abstraction at the turn of the twentieth century

The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint is one of the art world’s major rediscoveries of the twenty-first century. While the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky has famously been credited for creating the first abstract artwork, this designation has been called into question with the resurfacing and renewed study of af Klint’s non-figurative paintings. In this captivating volume, the af Klint biographer and scholar Julia Voss and the curator and writer Daniel Birnbaum convey in depth the two artists’ nearly parallel development away from figuration and into the liberating, mystical vision of art.

While there is no indication that these artists, who both died in 1944, ever met, this publication presents a dynamic and visual conversation between them. Through this engrossing account of the affinities and divergences between af Klint’s and Kandinsky’s lives and work—supported by more than 100 striking illustrations—we gain a deeper understanding of the forces that shaped their artistic trajectories. By examining the spiritual, sociopolitical, and personal contexts that influenced their practices, this book invites us to witness a pivotal moment in which the art world was forever changed.

Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future

is the first biography of Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century—whose frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generations of readers and cartoonists, from Art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel.



Robert Crumb is often credited with single-handedly transforming the comics medium into a place for adult expression, in the process pioneering the underground comic book industry, and transforming the vernacular language of 20th-century America into an instantly recognizable and popular aesthetic. Now, for the first time, Dan Nadel delivers a “gripping and essential account” (

) of how this complicated artist survived childhood abuse, fame in his twenties, more fame, and came out the other side intact.

Braiding biography with “cultural history and criticism...that honors the complexity of [its] subject, even, perhaps particularly, when it gets ugly” (

 is the story of a richly complex life at the forefront of both the underground and popular cultures of post-war America. Including forty-five stunning black-and-white images throughout and a sixteen-page color insert featuring images both iconic and obscure “at once nuanced and propulsive” (

 spans the pressures of 1950s suburban America and Crumb's highly dysfunctional early family life; the history of comics and graphic satire; 20th-century popular music; the world of the counterculture; the birth of underground comic books in 1960s San Francisco with Crumb's 

; the economic challenges and dissolution of the hippie dream; and the path Robert Crumb blazed through it all.

Written with Crumb's cooperation, this fascinating, rollicking book takes in seven decades of Crumb's iconic works, including 

 and “floats Crumb on the rapids of his times” (

), capturing, in the process, the essence of an extraordinary artist.

Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life

Robert Therrien, 1993. Photo by Leo Holub

Edited with text by Ed Schad. Foreword by Joanne Heyler. Texts by Richard Armstrong, Darby English, and Kathryn Scanlon

Moving beyond his well-known monumental installations of tables and chairs, this tribute to Robert Therrien analyzes his understudied later works.

This book presents a fresh, accessible, and dynamic look at the work of American artist Robert Therrien, surveying over 40 years of his influential work, notably his underseen and understudied late works. Organized chronologically and thematically, emphasizing Therrien's iterative artistic practice of exploring sets of themes over time, the volume speaks to the nature of memory and how it is shaped by space, time and materials, placing his practice within the history of recent sculpture in Los Angeles and elsewhere. The book showcases Therrien's personal vocabulary of forms as they become a personal language of continuous creation for the artist over time. A single Therrien gesture can expand, contract, change materially, or seamlessly transform into other images entirely. At the heart of Therrien's practice is a sense of artistic animation, by turns fun, playful, and serious.

Robert Therrien: This Is a Story

Installation view of the exhibition titled Barbara Kruger at David Zwirner in New York, dated 2022.

Texts by Gary Indiane, Miwon Kwon, and Natalia Grabowska 

Thoughtfully curated volume that situates Kruger’s practice within decades of shifting cultural and political discourse

This book is published to coincide with the first comprehensive retrospective of this artist's work in Spain, at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The publication includes an incisive 1999 essay by Gary Indiana, written with his characteristic sharpness and wit; Miwon Kwon’s foundational analysis of Kruger’s relationship to site, architecture, and institutional critique; Natalia Grabowska’s analysis of Kruger’s transformation of text into an architectural and special intervention; and a new conversation between Kruger and curator Lehka Hileman Waitoller, offering fresh insights into Kruger’s evolving engagement with language, media, and power.

Barbara Kruger: Another Day, Another Night

Edited by Stefano Collicelli Cagol. Texts by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Giorgio Di Domenico, Filippo Bosco, Chiara Portesine, and Michele Bertolino

Following the great success of the first edition of 

—the volume accompanying the first institutional solo exhibition of the American artist held at Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato—Louis Fratino has revised and expanded the publication to include images of all the new works created specifically for the show.

 highlights the profound connection between Fratino’s practice and Italy, a country that has offered the artist with a wide range of topics, imagery, and sensibilities: bridging relationships, emotions, and landscapes, ultimately leading to reflect upon his own art. Satura includes artworks from the past decade, alongside numerous new pieces, providing a comprehensive exploration of the artist's practice.

The works presented in this richly illustrated volume draw inspiration from twentieth-century Italian artists such as Filippo de Pisis, Mario Mafai, Costantino Nivola, Felice Casorati, Carlo Carrà, Fausto Pirandello, and Guglielmo Janni; from the immersive experience of Italian landscapes and cities like Rome, Milan, and Genoa; and from an in-depth exploration of Italian culture, through the reading of poems by Sandro Penna, Patrizia Cavalli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and writings by Italian gay activist Mario Mieli.

The special cover-poster features the painting 

Louis Fratino: Satura

Contributions by Eva Birkenstock, Kathleen Bühler, Jenny Nachtigall, Rose Higham-Stainton, Sabeth Buchmann, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Michelle Kup, and Amy Sillman

A beautiful gathering of the famed artist’s work of the last 15 years

In her painting, American artist Amy Sillman expands the standards of abstraction using material and conceptual interventions in the painting process. She destabilizes purported dichotomies and hierarchies between figuration and abstraction, intimacy and clumsiness, ability and self-negation, process and completion. Now the serial drawings and paintings are multicolored, now monochrome, now they show complex forms, now figures or body parts. And they are always filled with delight in the process. 

 highlights her critical exploration of the history of painting and conveys her complex and sophisticated painterly practice on the canvas and beyond. This inspiringly designed book provides broad insights into Sillman’s approach to painting as a time-based medium, presenting in detail around 30 paintings and 300 works on paper, several digital animations, and site-specific installations, all of which were created in the last 15 years.

Amy Sillman: Oh, Clock! 

Contributions by Ralph Rugoff, Yeewan Koon, Josh Kun, Barry Schwabsky and Yung Ma.

More than a mere survey of Nara's signature children and animals, this clothbound publication features the artist's newest works, personal photographs, and pictures of his studio

Spanning four decades of work, this book offers readers the opportunity to immerse themselves in the personal and creative world of the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, best known for his bold images of children with large heads and wide eyes that challenge viewers with their direct gaze and defiant stance. These captivating yet ominous characters are part of a wider visual vocabulary established by Nara to explore and communicate themes of home, isolation, resilience, belonging, regeneration, hope, and freedom. Organized thematically, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution and breadth of Nara's artistic expression. Yeewan Koon explores how Nara's singular aesthetic is drawn from his formative experiences in Japan, as well as his ongoing environmental and societal concerns, which are deeply rooted in nature and the communities of Japan's northern Tohoku region, where he grew up. Barry Schwabsky's essay, illustrated with details of the artworks, focuses in depth on Nara as a painter. Josh Kun discusses the inspiration Nara takes from popular music—folk songs by American singer-songwriters featuring anti-war messages, melancholic blues and, later, glam rock, punk and new wave. The book also features an in-depth chronology illustrated with childhood photographs and pictures of Nara's studio, offering a deep dive into Nara's life and art. The corresponding exhibition is co-organized by Guggenheim Bilbao, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, and the Hayward Gallery.

Yoshitomo Nara

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