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This exhibition showcases the work of seven young Italian painters and sculptors, and although their output is diverse it nevertheless shares common inspirations and concerns. The curator, Diane Waldman, introduces the catalogue and 1982 installment of the Exxon International award and exhibition series with her essay. The artists in the exhibition are each represented by their artist statement, short biographical information, an essay contextualizing their work by Waldman and Lisa Dennison, a list of selected past exhibitions, and a selection of images depicting their work in color and black and white.
From the beginning of the Sixties until his death, Joseph Beuys (Krefeld, Germany, 1921 - Dusseldorf, 1986) dominated the contemporary avant-garde art scene. After participating in the Fluxus group's first exhibitions, he channeled his efforts into performance and political, social, and ecological projects. He founded cultural movements such as the Union for the New Democracy and the Free International University. Many of his conceptual propositions are memorable through their slogans: "All Men are Artists", "Kunst = Kapital", "We are the Revolution", "Defense of Nature". A participant in the most prestigious international exhibitions, from Kassel's "Documenta" to the Venice Biennial, Beuys also has important retrospective in 1979 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The artist's works are exhibited in the world's major museums. The anti-traditionalist ideas of Beuysian art aim to renew and improve the manner in which man lives. The German master's prophetic beliefs establish him as an emblematic figure as one of the forerunners in the post-war art world.
In this book the reader will see hitherto unpublished, historical photographs which, nevertheless, always live the surge and passion of a human relationship. Buby Durini was not a photographer, nor was he interested in photographic techniques. Together with Lucrezia De Domizio he began his journey both in art and beyond art. For Buby Durini it was only possible to photograph if he loved, and for him "to love" meant understanding, sharing, collaborating and living truth by way of the lens of life. During the last twenty-five years of his existence the love for Nature and Mankind led him to the profound meaning of art, establishing a rare and privileged relationship with the most important protagonists of the culture belonging to the later post-war period. An almost fraternal bond united him to Joseph Beuys with whom - and on a continuous basis - he shared numerous scientific and spiritual vicissitudes. The annotations, thoughts, testimonies, images and the same anomalous structure of the book are contributions towards the broadening of thought, expressions addressed to the sublimation of human creativity.
Figuring neither in the traditional culinary arts, nor in the current of "Eat Art, " this conceptual cookbook delves into Joseph Beuys' life-long theme of re-appropriating everyday objects and experiences into art. Incorporating ingestibles such as fat, chocolate, water, gelatin, fish, sugar, tea, honey, and beeswax into various works. Beuys comments on art as spiritual nourishment and as a cyclical, natural phenomenon in which we all participate. This new addition to the growing literature on this seminal 20th century figure features an essay by noted Beuys writer Lucrezia de Domizio Durini as well as two conversations with Beuys himself and over 300 images.
Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Gilberto Zorio.
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Attraverso il racconto di una testimone privilegiata, che ha vissuto e vive in prima persona da più di quarant'anni, eventi che hanno definito il dna sociale e politico tra la fine degli anni sessanta e l'inizio del nuovo secolo, questo ebook traccia un'immagine inedita, ricca di spunti psicologici e di riflessioni sul mondo della cultura e dell'arte contemporanea italiana e internazionale. Scritto con uno stile diretto ed empatico, il libro è rivolto non solo algli addeti ai lavori ma aun pubblico ampio, che può facilmente avvicinarsi, appassionarsi, come in un romanzo, a un mondo spesso sognato, ma sconosciuto, per comprendere le trame anche le più nascoste, i giochi e i "doppi giochi", e vivere così da protagonista lo star system della cultura e dell'arte.