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Ugo La Pietra

Infinite Shelf

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Ugo La Pietra

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Edited by Emanuele De Donno, Ugo La Pietra
Editorial coordination Simona Cesana

240 pp.
13,5 x 21 cm
ita/eng
ISBN 979-12-81790-16-2

This volume on the publications of Ugo La Pietra begins with a long correspondence between the artist and his associates - (Vico Magistretti, Adolfo Natalini, Franco Vaccari, Enzo Mari...) - and aims at making ideas and thoughts circulate by sharing his books. This collection of books constitutes an infinite shelf that goes from 1965 to the present day. From the catan logues of the early radical exhibitions to the 1970s art and design research and experimentation into 'degrees of freedom', 'design reconversions', 'Interior/Exterior' to which we can add 'Tissural Structures'; physical and telematic journeys into the new territories of living. Then there are the volumes that delve into various themes by gathering experiences as well as specific works based on inhabiting places by using random and disruptive actions. A book is in fact not only the best medium for transcribing design and meta-project proposals, but also the starting point for Ugo La Pietra's radical theories and artistic research. The book concludes with his involvement in magazines, perhaps the most experimental and radical aspect of his work that allowed for the development of collaborations, co-designs and the diffusive distribution of counter-projectual and political thought.

Richard Prince

Bibliothèque d’un Amateur. Richard Prince’s Publications

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Richard Prince

Bibliothèque d’un Amateur. Richard Prince’s Publications

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Co-published: Christophe Daviet-Thery, Viaindustriae Publishing, Éditions Centre de la Photographie Genève
Essays: Vincent Pécoil, Bob Rubin, Yann Sérrandour.


368 pp.
11×16 cm
eng

2022
ISBN 978-88-97753-71-1

Bibliothèque d’un Amateur. Richard Prince’s Publications takes a look at Richard Prince’s library and production of artist’s books published between 1980 and 2020. This book is not a proper catalogue raisonné, but rather an invitation to browse the library of an amateur’s. It allows us to consider this important aspect of Richard Prince’s work, addressing books as well as the notion of a collection and its incompleteness, revealed here by the “ghosts” of missing books. Richard Prince is an avid book designer and collector; this zeal and fervor transpire in many book works where he photographs books from his collection, transforming a publication in an infinite library. Bibliothèque d’un Amateur is also the catalogue of the exhibition “ALL BOOKS AND SOME PRINTS” at Centre de la Photographie Genève (16 March–30 May 2021). 

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YES YES YES Revolutionary Press in Italy 1966-1977 from Mondo Beat to Zut

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YES YES YES Revolutionary Press in Italy 1966-1977 from Mondo Beat to Zut

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Texts by Pablo Echaurren, Ugo La Pietra, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti
Ed. Viaindustriae publishing+A+M Bookstore, in collab. with COLLI Publishing Platform
Second edition.


Softcover with dusk jacket
Book design by Dallas
Bw+red pantone
544 pp.
24×17 cm
ita/eng

2022
ISBN 978-88-97753-55-1

Second edition of Yes Yes Yes Revolutionary Press in Italy from Mondo Beat to Zut, this time with a white softcover and dusk jacekt. Densely filled with reproductions of newspapers, magazines, mimeographs, news-sheets, pamphlets, and other ephemera, this book investigates the Italian scene during the turbulent years between 1966 and 1977. These revolutionary printing activities were linked to the political, ideological, and countercultural struggle of a period of protest and occupation of public spaces as areas of freedom and social creativity for a disillusioned generation. A selection of over 600 publications are catalogued in this book, output from the subversive newsrooms of the radical artistic and libertarian movements, and “ultra-political” groups, autonomists, and other collectives seeking change.

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Manufatto in situ 10 paesaggi: documentario / inventario / immaginario

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Manufatto in situ 10 paesaggi: documentario / inventario / immaginario

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320 pp.
21×15 cm
ita/eng.

2017
ISBN 978-88-97753-38-4

Questo libro documenta il progetto di ricerca e residenza Manufatto in Situ fondato da viaindustriae (2007-2017). Inizialmente basato su una specifica ricerca-azione nel paesaggio marginale e radicale dell’area rurale-montana di Cancelli e della Valle del Menotre, Manufatto ha poi utilizzato metodi ipertestuali e progetti extra-situ per disegnare collegamenti tra i diversi siti, i tipi di intervento e i paesaggi “tematici”. Il risultato è un’ampia indagine, una mostra e un libro di arte-architettura-natura sullo spazio pubblico, le pratiche artistiche site-specific, gli interventi e studi sul paesaggio in Italia e confini. Questo progetto di archivio è costituito di 10 sezioni tematiche composte di tracce artistiche, opere e documenti relativi a 10 paesaggi umbri, collegati a loro volta a 10 siti “paralleli” extra-regionali, ambienti ed esperienze storiche radicali dagli anni ’60 fino ad oggi. Ciò introduce una supervisione non ortodossa e critica del paesaggio contemporaneo, tra arte ambientale e architettura, natura e città. Questo catalogo è il tentativo di inglobare il vasto database della mostra, concepita come un sistema integrabile di documentazione orizzontale (documentario/tavolo), inventario verticale (muro), e di “proiezioni”, artefatti provvisionali, forme complesse situate nel paesaggio (utopia/piramidi). I testi pubblicati sono estratti dal materiale generato e raccolto durante il corso dela programma di residenza e della mostra.

Hermann Nitsch

Hermann Nitsch atlas. Texts/writings/documents…

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Hermann Nitsch

Hermann Nitsch atlas. Texts/writings/documents…

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Edited by Emanuele De Donno, Italo Tomassoni, Giuseppe Morra


bw
224 pp.
24×16,5 cm
ita/eng.

2017
ISBN 978-88-97753-31-5

Category: Bibliography

This publication intends to explore the altas of Nitsch’s “public aktionen” insofar as they are recorded – scored, directed, written down, photographed, published and reported. To that end, it will focus on four categories representing Nitsch’s constellation: pre-documents, documents, post-documents, relics. The preparative phase (pre-documents) consists of research (theoretical texts, manifestos, drawings) and announcements, posters; the pragmatic phase (documents) of instructional and operative documents (physical scores, pamphlets or flyers used directly in performance) and the iconographic information, documentation (photographs, recordings). The post-documents are the action-books, artist’s publications, videos, catalogues and, in isolated cases, press conferences, print media and police reports. This archiving methods attempts to explore Nitsch’s off-media and performative practice, both in terms of how the performance is organized, and by what means the organization is effected by the original and primary scripts Nitsch prepared for his own actions (performed or unperformed), as well as in his own theoretical texts on the “o.m. theater”.

Hermann Nitsch

Herman Nitsch O.M Theater colore dal rito

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Hermann Nitsch

Herman Nitsch O.M Theater colore dal rito

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Curated by Italo Tomassoni, Giuseppe Morra


Color print
80 pp.
ita
24×16,5 cm.

2017
ISBN 978-88-97753-30-8

Catalog of the exhibition Hermann Nitsch. O.M. Theater colore dal rito, at Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno from March 25th to July 9th, 2017. Hermann Nitsch, after an initial phase in compliance with the repertoires of the poetic body, arrives at a much more complex conception of art which articulates imagining a vision of the world that precedes and surpasses scientific knowledge and an idea of purely formal art. He practices liturgical natural mythologies and meditates on the mystery of time and death.
[…] Hermann Nitsch’s exhibition displayed at Ciac with a selection of over forty works from 1984 to 2010, grouped into nine different cycles, highlights a theoretical framework and curatorial modalities comparable to those that, in 2014, were represented in the exhibition “Arena. Werk aus dem Werk” (Arena. Work in the work) born from the collaboration between two artist’s monographic museums; those of Mistelbach in Austria, founded in 2007 in the Weinvertel, where Hermann Nitsch lives and works; and the Nitsch museum of Naples founded by the historical gallerist of body art and performance, Giuseppe Morra, in 2008. Substantially, the Foligno exhibition also aligned, in the Ciac arena, “works from the works” in the sense that it documents the planning of the actions and the materials deriving from the actions themselves which, in the exhibition set-up, acquire autonomy of works of art along analogical displacements and metaphorical suggestions.

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Sportification. Eurovisions, Performativity and Playgrounds

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Sportification. Eurovisions, Performativity and Playgrounds

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Color print
600 pp.
ita/eng
24×17 cm.

2017
ISBN 978-88-97753-29-2

Sportification is a stunt book, a performative publication composed of euro-texts, a living inventory of 400 performances and 250 playgrounds staged between 1965 and 1999 in several European cities, during the course of the TV game show Jeux Sans Frontières. The authors have used an artistic approach to test different playing fields with ludic actions. The results of a long term research are organized in three sections: Eurovisions, Performativity and Playgrounds. This unusual comparative system sets new grounds for an inter-media definition of European performance in which performances, happenings and art based game-actions interact with televised sub-pop culture.

Maurizio Nannucci

ED/MN edited by Maurizio Nannucci

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Maurizio Nannucci

ED/MN edited by Maurizio Nannucci

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copublished with COLLI publishing platform.


Colors & bw
408 pp.
ita/eng
25×17 cm.

2016
ISBN 978-88-97753-23-0

The volume, an annotated catalogue of all the artist’s editions and multiples from 1967 to the present day, is edited by Maurizio Nannucci and published by Viaindustriae with Colli publishing platform. Nannucci’s editions and multiples, which occupy a central and constant place in his work, are catalogued within the framework of this wide-ranging and prolific publication, involving leading museums, researchers and numerous international artists. The catalogue raisonné of Maurizio Nannucci Editions is organised into sections (multiples, photographs/prints/posters, catalogues, editions, artist’s books, audiovisuals, ephemera contributions) and contains chronological descriptions of his works from 1967 to the present day. Alongside these is an anthology of texts by Carlo Belloli, Christophe Cherix, Stefano Chiodi, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Gabriele Detterer, Mario Diacono, Maurizio Nannucci, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pier Luigi Tazzi and Tommaso Trini. The corpus of more than three hundred editions, including artist’s books, multiples, discs, manifestos, prints, photos, ephemera and audiovisuals, documents various moments in Nannucci’s extraordinary oeuvre, which has few parallels in the panorama of international contemporary art. This plurality of media bears witness to his interdisciplinary artistic practice, which overcomes the separations and hierarchies existing between the various forms.

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Yes Yes Yes alternative press

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ed. Viaindustriae publishing copublished with A+M bookstore, Milano, Colli publishing platform, Rome.


Color and bw printing, 496 pp., en/it, 31×23 cm.

2015
ISBN 978-88-97753-17-9

YES YES YES  is a visual essay, a book of images that examines the role of the alternative, underground and countercultural press in a flourishing period: 1966-1977. Publishers, authors, radical practitioners of that scene, interviewed in this book, rethink those actions and publications that addressed the social urgency of change.
YYY deals above all with the visual culture of “poor” magazines printed off-set, their amazing graphics and their aesthetics liberated in integration with the system of activism and political interventions. In this way the pages of newspapers deal with facts and news, but also support the subversive style and that fervent environment that formed a social network of printers, creative autonomy and trade unions for distribution. In this systemic innovation, the democratization of the press stimulated the experimentation of graphic design on the one hand and the growth of the editorial practice in a culture extended to the community on the other.
The magazines have been cataloged according to themes and, even if placed in an incomplete geography, testify an international cultural scenario between Europe and America. YYY is a collection of countless documents on civil rights and liberation movements, which aims not only to preserve, but also to browse the living pages spreading radical contents and creative layouts.

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Giorgio Maffei

Records by the artists 1958-1990

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Giorgio Maffei

Records by the artists 1958-1990

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Curated by Giorgio Maffei,
copublished with Danilo Montanari editore.


color print
286 pp.
ita/eng.

2013
ISBN 978-88-97753-08-7

Category: Sound Bibliography

The catalogue to an exhibition curated by Giorgio Maffei at the Biblioteca Universitaria, Bologna, during Artelibro 2013 explores diverse artistic experiences using sound and audio storage media since its beginnings around 1960. Central to the interdisciplinary context of dematerialisation of the work of art, visual, literary, performance and other artists have increasingly experimented with the record and sound as a vehicle for investigating the possibilities of verbal and non-verbal expression, considerations of the body and avant-garde tendencies. Hundreds of examples are presented in this impressively researched and carefully documented and illustrated book.

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Bibliothèque d’un amateur

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Bibliothèque d’un amateur

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copublished with Christophe Daviet Thery, Paris.


color printing, 208 pp., eng.

2014
ISBN 978-88-97753-11-7

This book is not a catalogue raisonné, it instead takes a look at the library of an amateur, an excuse to apprehend this aspect of Richard Prince’s work which encompasses books and the question of the collection and its incompleteness, revealed here by the ‘ghosts’ of the missing books. Richard Prince is an avid collector of books, an obsessive one.
This fervor is visible in The Good Life or American/English, where he photographs covers of books from his collection, reducing the book to an image, a simple surface.

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John Cage

Sound Pages. John Cage’s publications

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John Cage

Sound Pages, John Cage’s publications

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Curated by Giorgio Maffei e Fabio Carboni,
ed. Viaindustriae suono copublished with die schachtel, Milano / Corraini, Mantova.


bw printing
144 pp.
ita/eng
20×14 cm

2012
ISBN 978-88-97753-03-2

Divided into four sections, books, scores, records and documents, “Sound Pages. John Cage’s Publications“, (catalogue of the exhibition with the same title at the International Museum of Music, Bologna) systematizes an important part of John Cage’s work addressing the theme of the various productions which the American composer produced, often upsetting the traditional components and structures of composition. Cage has posed the problem of making the sound an object which is sensitive to the visible: texts, books, scores become visual entities in all respects in which the artist tries to juxtapose syntactic connections to a new dislocation of the characters on the surface sheet according to canons and criteria that are purely visual. Edited by Giorgio Maffei and Fabio Carboni, Sound Pages is an editorial project that shows how the complexity of John Cage’s thought, but also his disarming simplicity, have added “beauty” to the printed page so as not to allow the sound space to dissipate in the moment of the interruption of the sound and fix in time its translation in visual space.

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INbookOUTbookIFbook

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INbookOUTbookIFbook

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Curated by Emanuele De Donno, Giorgio Maffei
copublished with A+M Bookstore,


Color printing
208 pp.
ita/eng
16,5×23,5cm

2011
ISBN 978-88-903459-5-1

INbookOUTbookIFbook is a longitudinal and transverse study, which has been divided into three steps to explore the artist publishing researches. It is a dialogue ground for operators of contemporary artist’s books, which is conceived as a functional, technical medium, an “experimental room”, an anteroom, a neutral ground.
The first INbook step is an introspective process on the book, in which the archive/library metaphor acts as an impulse. The book indexes itself with recurring titles (The book of, index book, the project book project), whilst the highlighting of a title, the underscores, the anastatic methods and the autistic attitude of the artist-bureaucrat-bibliophile questions its status. The OUT book section is described through the exteriorization processes of the artist’s book starting from a historical-formal path and identifies the rarefaction, the dispersion, and the multiplication as its trail. It is better to speak of publication rather than a book because the first term is semantically wider and more suitable to interpret the present operational-procedural dynamics of the investigating publishing activity, in which the co-generative technological experiences destabilize the authoriality. One question: what if the book…? The third section IF book poses many questions, activating researches on the present scenario, using site-book-specific interventions, contributions, didactics and publishing coproductions. Many methods, possibilities, and potentialities were used to set the book free from genre and format by means of transverse productivity practices and cross-medial infusions, in which the investigating an artist’s publishing activity represents a creative resource.

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Artist’s Books by Sol Lewitt

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Artist’s books by Sol Lewitt

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Curated by Giorgio Maffei / Emanuele De Donno, 2009
copublished with Corraini Edizioni


Color printing
144 pp.
ita/eng

2009
ISBN 978-88-903459-2-0

This elegantly designed catalog – published following an exhibition at the Galleria civica Arte Moderna in Spoleto, Italy – offers readers a fairly comprehensive survey of Sol Lewitt’s impressive archive of artist’s books. As one of the medium’s foremost pioneers and advocates, Lewitt created over seventy books and book projects, beginning with the 1967 Serial Project No. 1 (from Aspen magazine), and ending with Chicago (Morning Star Publications, 2002). This book reproduces covers and spreads from this massive oeuvre of artist’s books, almost all of which are now rarities. Critical observations from LeWitt himself are accompanied by essays from Giorgio Maffei, Emanuele De Donno, Didi Bozzini, Cecilia Metelli, and Marilena Bonomo. Texts are in Italian and English.

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Libro sensibile/In principium erat, LIiberoLIbrodAritstaLibero4

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In principium erat. Genesi di una collezione di opere e libri d’artista dagli anni ’50 al contemporaneo. / Libro sensibile. La fotografia nel libro d’artista dagli anni ’60 ad oggi.

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Curated by Giorgio Maffei, Emanuele De Donno,

Color print
192 pp.
ita
24×16,5 cm,
4 cover d’artista di Carlo Benvenuto, Michele Lombardelli, Cesare Viel, Luisa Raffaell

2008
ISBN 978-88-903459-0-6

Catalog of the fourth biennial of the artist’s book LIBEROLIBROdARTISTALIBERO, a contemporary art event focused on two thematic exhibitions. The first, IN PRINCIPIUM ERAT, is a genesis of a collection of works and books by artists from the 50’s to nowadays which tells through images, works and documents, the history and the becoming of an important collection of modern and contemporary Italian art, which includes works of artists such as Bruno Munari, Franco Vaccari, Jannis Kounellis, Eugenio Miccini, Vincenzo Agnetti, Ugo La Pietra, Maurizio Cattelan. The other topic, Libro sensibile. Photography in the artist’s book from the 60s to today collects the works by important modern and contemporary artists who have marked the history of artistic photography and, specifically, photography applied in books.

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LiberoLibrodArtistaLibero3

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LiberoLibrodArtistaLibero3

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b/w print
128 pp.
ita
24×16,5 cm

2006

Catalog of the third artist’s book biennale LIBEROLIBROdARTISTALIBERO, 2006, a contemporary art event. Historic artists are documented from Futurism to works by modern and contemporary artists (from visual poetry to current research).

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Viaindustriae is a cultural association and publishing house based in Foligno, PG, Italy. Founded in 2005, it promotes projects and artistic research ranging from museum exhibitions, site-specific installations, public actions, artist residencies and publications in various formats. In the last ten years, the publishing activity has consolidated to become the association's main field of action. Viaindustriae publishes artists' books, experimental research books, territorial studies, exhibition catalogues, monographic catalogues - among other forms of publishing - using publishing practice as a generative tool for artistic experimentation. The books have different formats that do not follow the standards of a canonical publishing practice but rather the needs and specificities of each project. Viaindustriae sees the publishing practice as an act of translation that requires a transformation of the art or visual work into a new form, where the work itself develops new possibilities and meanings; this is why each book becomes an autonomous platform and not just an opportunity to transfer content.