You can now purchase the Sol LeWitt Rules project bundle, which includes the artist's edition and Jonathan Monk's artist's book.

A new series of sculptures by Jonathan Monk titled Sol LeWitt Rules (ceramic, approx. 30 x 3 x 1.5 cm, 2024), produced by Fabio Veschini at the ceramic workshop La Gioconda in Deruta which worked closely with Sol LeWitt on the production of ceramic plates and tiles. Monk created the edition as part of his residency at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios and subsequent exhibition ‘SL’ in the Torre Bonomo for the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi 67, curated by Vittoria Bonifati. The exhibition explored the direct and indirect connections between the work of Monk and LeWitt (see installation photographs of the rulers in ‘SL’ below and the related exhibition page here).

Together with the rulers' edition, the artist has produced an artist's book of the same title, published by Viaindustriae, which can also be purchased individually at the following link: https://viaindustriae.it/books/sol-lewitt-rules

If interested in the artist's edition only, please contact: info@mahler-lewitt.org. Sol LeWitt Rules is an edition of 100 and has been generously donated to the Mahler & LeWitt Studios by the artist. All proceeds support our programs. Each ruler is available for a donation of 120euros, plus postage and packaging. To donate and receive an edition, please email info@mahler-lewitt.org with your postal address and you will be sent a unique donation link.

We tend to consider childhood as a golden age, a period of life that we should look back on with nostalgia, as a carefree and joyful time. Infinita infanzia (Infinite childhood) offers a reading that goes beyond this cliché. underlining the complexity of childhood, and its confusion of discovery and trauma, play and disobedience, lightness of heart and anxiety. Through a succession of rooms, the works of twenty-three artists address some of the key aspects of childhood: these different voices are held together by a theme that does not refer to any historical time, but that crosses all eras and sensitivities.

Back in 2017, the research team composed of Luca Trevisani, Mario Ciaramitaro and Giulia Morucchio exposed themselves to hundreds of artworks in search of examples of works capable of creating tension, a centrifugal force for anyone who might encounter them without any introduction or notice. Works that reach out to someone, seek attention, set a trap for someone. This approach, conceived by Luca Trevisani, became a collective studio practice of learning and teaching, open to wild and unexpected suggestions and ideas revolving around the possibility of finding these tensions, this gravitational field. Luca Trevisani and Mario Ciaramitaro printed, composed, and photographed this illustrated itinerary on the wall, unfolding the cartography of these remote and powerful encounters on the perimeter of our Iuav classrooms. All that remained was to photograph this map, reprint it, lay it out, and then offer this flow of lively and rebellious images. The process originated from the images that have been collectively sought for several months. While Mario and the students engaged in their role-playing as iconauts, with Giulia Morucchio, persisted in collecting and reworking texts, captions, and overheard legends, always mindful that every beautiful story holds an element of truth. What you read below are the traces, the details, and some of the clues that comprise our collection of fresh fossils and the salad we crafted from them.

Caretto/Spagna are precursors of ecologically engaged artistic practices. They see art as a radical experience of openness, undisciplinated research and involvement with the “things” of the world: the earth, seeds, people, stones, the museum, the river, the quarry, the tree, micro-organisms. Bright Ecologies traces and documents twenty years of their work, structured in research involving care, the transformation of matter, and experiments with form, through practices based on encounter, process, parcticipation and co-authorship.

Costruzione dell'Universo: Artists’ Magazines and Publications after Marcel Duchamp is a research project that gathers artists’ magazines and publications by various artists who were active in the realm of “periodical and irregular” printed matter from the 1950s to the present day, beginning with of the work of the visionary artist Marcel Duchamp. This significant and hitherto overlooked sector of artistic production explores the dimension of the newspaper and magazine as an artistic medium. The selection includes extremely rare, a-periodic, and extraordinary printed items, “sensitive” publications in which the artist first handedly draws and designs the cover, the inner pages, the image sequence, or conceives the overall form of the object as a unique, yet replicable work. The publication in this context is sometimes transformed into an open and collective container, capable of engaging and coordinating multiple artists in the same layout or across different issues. The title “Construction of the Universe” points out to the fundamental and pioneering role of the early 20th-century avant-garde movement, referencing the 1915 Manifesto “Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe”, the notorious artistic manifesto that was initially released as a flyer and resembled newspaper layout. The 1950s (when our research for this book began) saw a significant rise of a utopian perspective in which artists, finally liberated from the existential weight of world conflicts, often envisioned the creation of a new society, free of relics and debris, made of travelling architectures and wide open spaces, new languages, and characterized by a deep longing for emptiness, a thrust toward the brightness of the future and the cosmos.

This revised edition of I Am Gonzo includes three new erotic stories and supplementary matter tobring it up to date as a new issue of the series. A porn addict amateur who collects dirty Italian comics inan “animalistic” way, Gonzo applies a conservative technique whereby he hides these questionablyviewable images within scientific libraries. This book addresses a widespread form of collecting thatavoids the subject of the “arty” comic strip and instead dives headlong into obscene material and theviewer’s experience of it. This mega-collection of pornographic Italian comics faithfully presents the genrefrom its sensual, sexual-phobic beginnings (1960-1970) to its porno-violent shift, between the years 1985and 2000. Voyeuristic and chock-full of thematic variants, from transgenderism and homoeroticism to fairytale, zombie, and cyber porn.

Alessandro Saturno lives the landscape through the body, his memory and his experience, transposing trhough painting the concept of paesagire (landscape-action) that Andrea Zanzotto introduced in his poetry. The poet’s harsh struggle against a progresso scorsoio (‘sliding progress’) shows us the landscape as an essential condition for life and art. The poet described the landscape of his childhood, which reflected his relationship with his father and was a crucial influence in his developement as a man. The same goes for Saturno, with Naples and its sea becoming the ‘threshold’ of his works: a passage to a world that is real and ideal at the same time; a world that serves as both culture and dream; a wordl of the sould after also having been a world of experience; a place you know but do not know what to call. A nameless place.

Da Monterrey a Monteluco, a solo exhibition by Calixto Ramírez, is the result of the Mexican artist’s residency in Spoleto and around monteluco, a hill covered with dense forest that rises to the south-east of the city. During his stay, the artist created a series of works deriving from his direct contact with the natural landscape in this location. The exhibition is a tribute to Monteluco itself: to the strenght of nature – sometimes enveloping or overwhelming, sometimes more calm and measured – and to the relationship between the elements of the landscape and the artist’s ability to interpret it, as he interacts with the natural setting in a visceral way, which is always poetic and at times playful.

Ogni anno, al Carnevale di Sant’Eraclio (Foligno, PG), sfilano carri allegorici. Vengono fatti in cartapesta usando tre tipi di giornale: bianco (La Nazione), giallo (Il Sole 24 Ore), rosa (La Gazzetta dello Sport). Quattro prova ad aggiungere un quarto colore. Quattro può essere acquistato con o senza multiplo in edizione limitata.

Every year, during the Sant’Eraclio Carnival, there is a parade of papier collé floats. Three types of newspapers are used to build the floats: white (La Nazione), yellow (Il Sole 24 Ore), pink (La Gazzetta dello Sport). Quattro attempts to add a fouth colour to the floats. This version of Quattro comes with limited-edition multiple, a small float with which the book can be transported.

Contenuto Rimosso is an "experiment in psychoanalysis applied to the environment." A work on collective memory, it addresses the issue of depopulation of mountain areas, experimenting with a community art where community forms of life that have a centuries-old tradition survive, in alpine communities. In particular, Contenuto Rimosso ved refers to the paradoxical nature of a process of reconstruction that was at the same time a process of collective removal, the Rifabbrico in Cadore. On the evening of July 30, 1855, a fire destroyed the historic center of Lorenzago. The settlement was rebuilt, giving rise to Quadrato, a neighborhood that is now mostly uninhabited. Since 2012, the Contenuto Rimosso project has included the discontinuation of public lighting along the streets of the neighborhood and an installation of fires, flashlights and candles on the anniversary of the fire. Over the years, the action has become a new tradition, the village's main celebration. Contenuto Rimosso is not a "commemorative" event proper, because it does not celebrate or perpetuate the memory of anything. The reactualization of the memory of the fire is thought of as a trigger for a "counter-image" to emerge, for the local community to reclaim its past by using public space as a place for the elaboration of a self-image inverse to the stereotypical one. By ritualizing a recurrence and building a narrative around it, Contenuto Rimosso contributes.

This first monograph dedicated to the work of Cleo Fariselli recounts the poetic and formal processes behind the moving image project Your Storm Our Dew (2023), which explores the contemporary collective unconscious at a time when states of emergency have become normalized. The artist transforms everyday items such as thermal blankets, protective suits, high-visibility vests, safety cones, and megaphones into creature that belong in the world of YSOD. These beings are both playful and unsettling, as seen in the large puppets that, illuminated by sudden flashes of light, emerge from the darkness of their habitat only to disappear again shortly afterwards to the amazement of those watching. Expanding upon the film, the contributions by Lucia Aspesi, Cleo Fariselli, Chus Martinez, and Guido Santandrea shed new light on the artist’s multidisciplinary practice. At the same time, they explore the shadows of anthropocentric thinking at the intersection of art and science, ultimately asking how the  past and the present inform the futures of our imagination. Exploring the imaginative power of the object elements typical of states of emergency, the artist gives life to a world of its own, illuminated by the incessant flashing of sirens, creating a new emotional, narrative and aesthetic environment.

The theme of the twelfth issue of Bolletti/no is… TIDE! Aldo can’t find the stone he was playing with…. The tide covered it up! This issue of Bolletti/no takes us on a discovery of what the water hides and shows when the sea level increases and decreases… Let’s create a small flip book together to observe this fascinating fenomenon.

Bolletti/no is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of Bolletti/no is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.

La sostanza agitata exhibits the work of eleven artists under age 35 who share an interest in installational and plastic aspects, as well as the interaction between the work and the context in which it is displayed. The title refers to the experimental and hardly classifiable nature of the works on display, the diversity of the materials used, and an approach that declares an explicitly sculptural derivation between lightness and monumentality, irony, and issues that reflect the social changes in place. La sostanza agitata wishes to distinguish itself as a construction site of proposals, some of which are unpublished and made on site, a laboratory open to different perspectives: each artist is assigned a room, allowing the visitor to immerse themselves in the individual poetic, between organic and industrial materials, verticality and horizontality, movement and stillness, works formed from unique pieces and others that tend to spread up to a real multiplication. Catalog of the exhibition La sostanza agitata, a curated by Saverio Verini, artists: Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò, Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero, Jacopo Martinotti, Lulù Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro, 24 June – 16 October2023, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto (PG).

Turbomondi (Stratigrafia) encompasses the project artist Andrea Martinucci developed between 2020 and 2023, dedicated to a research of suspended worlds populated by creatures investigating their integrity in a continuous evolution among themselves. Turbomondi is a collection of film treatments by the artist and screenwriter Laura Sinceri. It took the form of a unique screenplay that, from 2021, was entrusted to twelve people who interpreted it in a specific time frame, allowing them to write comments, make observations, remove pages, draw or even destroy parts of it. The layering of different voices and impressions that virtually redefines the meaning of the original text is transformed into a personal archive and a publication that traces the evolution and the plural transformation of its contents. Project contributions by Alice, Lisa Andreani, Maria Vittoria Di Sabatino, Aurelio Di Virgilio, Francesca Ferrari, Giulia Geromel, Marialaura Grandolfo, Pietro Librizzi, Zeno Piovesan, Cecilia Saita, Carla Subrizi, Cosimo Rizzo.

Launched on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, the project is the result of a profound analysis and reflection that involved various experts and scholars as well as photography experts from the ICCD and looks at the world of the Poet in a completely new way: it focuses on the objects, landscapes and other natural elements that Dante Alighieri deals with in his major works. The luminous and photographic narrative comes to life through a meticulous reconstruction of images and optical illusions from the three Canticles, with the aid of early analogue photographic processes. The works on display have become part of the contemporary photography collections of the ICCD and are enclosed in a volume named after the exhibition, published by Viaindustriae Publishing, which is the result of extensive research into typographic printing materials and techniques. The project was supported by the National Committee for the celebrations of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death. The photographs of the animals were realised thanks to the collaboration of the Civic Museum of Zoology in Rome.

Il Grillo Minerva is a story about an unknown city. A city built from animal stones. Two brothers, on a break from a long journey, somehow discover its existence. Artist's book by Francesco Cavaliere, printed in 100 copies

Ginestra Finenstra is the imaginary newspaper of the town of Gestri; a town of invention in which Cavaliere is setting part of his latest works. In this first issue: the arrival of Volta di Lame di Lune in the villages of the town, the bell ringer and an exclusive article on Gennarino Speri, the man who managed to enter the town's main tower.

A Week from Monday is a publication with a CD that gathers together the sonic and visual results of the residency – with the same title – organized by Viaindustriae and Holydays in Scopoli (Italy, PG) in 2021. It is a diary of the seven days spent with visual artists Davide Barbini and musicians ksara, Vincenzo Marando, Steve Pepe between sound investigation, visual research, and exploration of the landscape. The seven days of the residency are mirrored in the seven tracks on the CD, as well as the seven ‘chapters’ of the diary. The theme of the project stems from its title, A Week from Monday, loosely quoting the title of John Cage’s A Year from Monday. Lectures & Writings, 1967, a theoretical work mixing reflections on working methods, compositional suggestions, social criticism, sound, music and philosophy. Central to the work that emerged was an investigation into song and voice. Davide Barbini’s work, is a video-diary accompanied by a series of drawings.

The editorial project Caro Campo. Workbook stems from the artistic project Campo: a human, artistic and environmental experience lived by Alberonero from 2019 to 2021 in Campogalliano (near Modena, Italy), in symbiosis with a field of 290 poplars until they were cut down. During “Campo” project, daily immersed in the field of poplars, Alberonero has accompanied its natural changes by transforming the field’s portions through the creation of 20 temporary artworks. The book evokes the portable proportions of the “field notebooks”, the resistant books capable of listing the “trans-actions”, the movements meant both as a “poetic” experience and as a work diary.
“Caro Campo. Workbook” is produced by STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO, published by Viaindustriae and supported by the Italian Council (11th edition, 2022), the program aimed at supporting Italian contemporary art in the world promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity within the Italian Ministry of Culture. Cultural Partners: Arte Sella – The Contemporary Mountain, Borgo Valsugana (TN), Italy; Associação Anda&Fala, Azores Island, Portugal; Domaine de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France; CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN ARTE Y ENTORNO, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain; University of Balamand, Tripoli, Lebanon; Taller Chullima, La Habana, Cuba.

Pila Thinkerwiller is a work composed of two metal plates, one copper and one zinc, placed at the north and south ends of the village of Toscolano. These two elements are placed at the north and south cardinal points to imagine the village as a large stack, the positive pole of which is the copper plate and the negative pole is the zinc plate. Both were engraved from the artist's drawings. The copper plate depicts the ideas and wishes of the inhabitants with respect to their village, collected by Pajè during his stay. The zinc plate, on the other hand, shows geometric shapes, numbers, and diagrams derived from the artist's research into spiritual, magical, and pseudoscientific theories. This investigation interests the artist both aesthetically and speculatively. Indeed, the theories he has studied have given rise to a series of graphic elements that, according to Pajè, have potential formal value, usable as a veritable visual alphabet. They also bring to light central themes in contemporary times, such as the construction of official discourse on truth and the different and unusual forms of encoding reality, time and history. The use of copper and zinc alludes to the first static electricity generators invented in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by Alessandro Volta and John F. Daniell. Another reference is the initiatory techniques of a small mountain community in the Caucasus, recorded in a 1955 manuscript by S. C. Walewski, for whom copper and zinc are the basis for the construction of analog devices that generate a microcurrent in the human body, useful for rebalancing vital energies and amplifying the intentions of the user. Pila Thinkerwiller reworks this technique, poetically transferring its supposed operation from the human body to the inhabited suburb. Pila Thinkerwiller isan amplifier of ideas, a portrait of a time, a place, and a community.

The theme of the eleventh issue of Bolletti/no is SUMMER SUN. It invites readers to… impress. Aino’s mother teaches us how to create images with light and tumeric. You can find all the instructions you need in the last issue of Bolletti/no.

Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.

Earth Field Land Clay are different words that rotate around a single element: the matter, and on which the poetics of this publication is built. Earth Field Land Clay is an artist’s book, in which the theme of the process of making objects is approached by making a parallel between the process of ceramics and the geological processes of the planet. The publication presents a series of images of objects made by the participants of the workshops “making the immaterial” conceived by the author of the book and held in various cities in Italy. The book contains a critical essay written by curator Jo Melvin, on the collective processes of creating objects in relation to the territory and the transformative character of these actions.