Skira Libri

Covers the works produced by Arnaldo Pomodoro between 1953 and 2003, supplemented with the a documentary research into the bibliography.

This veritable reference work on Bramantino emphasizes the artist’s pivotal role in Northern Italy’s Renaissance, where he was the only artist able to stand up to Leonardo’s inventions. The volume traces the artist’s career starting from his debut as an assistant of the architect and painter Donato Bramante down to his last attested works, including Flight into Egypt.

The book presents about seventy paintings, gouaches and drawings by René Magritte and includes interesting studies by international researchers such as Julie Waseige and Xavier Canonne both on the artist's poetic and art evolution. The volume's starting point is Magritte's lecture at the Royal Musée des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp held on 20 November 1938, today known as 'La Ligne de vie'. It was through a series of examples (that) on that occasion Magritte outlined the genesis of his art, endeavoring to define the thirteen years of surrealist painting. Although the visible manifestations of the World's Mystery he continuously offers to us, he has anyhow refused to explain his works. This conference was one of the rare occasions in which the artist opened up to the public, clarifying his beginnings and the evolution of his painting until 1938, the period now recognized as the most representative of his entire career. The book includes Magritte's masterpieces before and after this date, when its diffusion and notoriety became international. It contains his most famous paintings but also documents, book catalogs, musical partitions and many photographs by René Magritte himself and his fellow artists, along with screenshots of his films so to give a wide overview on his entire artistic experience.

A stunning exhibition catalogue showing the splendours of one of the greatest rulers of the world, India's emperor Akbar (1542-1605) Akbar The Great is considered one of the most splendid sovereigns of the humankind. Though being himself an illiterate, he was a great protector of poetry and literature, the builder of the grandiose capital Fathepur Sikri, the City of Victory, and the promoter of a new style in arts and crafts. His deep religious tolerance even brought him to attempt the creation of a syncretistic religion bringing together Islam and Hinduism. The catalogue illustrates all these aspects, covering the court life with portraits and pictures of the political activities and cultural events; describing the development of arts and crafts through paintings and objects; showing the military glory through arms, armours, matchlocks, daggers as well as the Royal Mughal tent; enhancing the splendours through jewel boxes, turban ornaments, earrings, necklaces, etc. The aim of the project also is to stress Akbar's cultural as well as political achievements, and his profound religious spirit and open mind towards all religions he came in contact with. The author references the latest in art historical scholarship, but this book is also aimed at readers who may not have specialist knowledge or extensive familiarity with Indian culture.

Published for the Start art fair, held at the Saatchi Gallery in London in September 2015. It offers information on over forty exhibiting galleries and their artists, as well as twenty artists appearing in Eye Zone, an exhibition held within the fair. Start is a focused art fair, limited to young galleries showing new artists from around the world, in well proportioned museum standard exhibition spaces rather than standard art fair booths. The aim of Start is to provide young galleries with a high-profile platform to showcase their artists' work at an important stage in their careers development, bringing them to the attention of a culturally engaged, international audience in a world-renowned location.

A fully illustrated book that plays a key role in shaping our understanding of the work of Thai contemporary artists and provides a gateway to the wider culture of their homeland. The sixth volume of the Eye series, dedicated to contemporary art from Thailand, focuses on a unique and exciting collection of artworks from emerging Thai artists. The book provides a wide-ranging survey of contemporary art in Thailand, showcasing seventy-five of the most cutting-edge Thai contemporary artists and their works. Like the previous Malaysian, Hong Kong, Korean, and Indonesian Eye books, Thailand Eye aims to provide a panoramic view of the situation of contemporary art in the country; it is therefore an important reference publication.

The first publication covering the practice of Toronto-based artist Abbas Akhavan, examining a large body of his work over the course of his career. Abbas Akhavan's practice ranges from site-specific ephemeral installations to drawing, video and performance. The domestic sphere, as a forked space between hospitality and hostility, has been an on-going area of research in Abbas' work. More recent works have shifted focus, wandering onto spaces just outside the home - the garden, the backyard, and other domesticated landscapes. The 160-page book will aim to reflect the conceptual aesthetics of Abbas' practice and will include essays by Dr. Omar Kholeif (Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), Marina Roy (Artist, Associate Professor Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia) and others. Abbas is the recipient of Kunstpreis Berlin (2012), Abraaj Capital Art Prize (2014) and Sobey Art Award (2015). Residencies include Foundation Marcelino Botin with Mona Hatoum (Spain), Le Printemps de Septembre (France), Trinity Square Video, Western Front, and Fogo Islands (Canada), The Watermill Center (USA), and The Delfina Foundation (Dubai, UAE & London, UK).

Paintings of plants and fruit by Barkley L. Hendricks, famed for his postmodern portraiture of Black Americans This first installment in Skira and Jack Shainman Gallery's five-volume publication project on Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017) presents for the first time the artist's works on paper. These images--of flowers and plants, bananas, a watermelon, more abstract imagery--sometimes contain puns, or sometimes suggest the inner mechanics of Hendricks's mind and process, but retain the minute attention he paid his subjects, whether human, vegetable, or mineral. Skira and Jack Shainman Gallery's five-volume publication project consists of four hardcover volumes, each providing an in-depth exploration of a corpus of works integral to the artist's output--works on paper, landscape paintings, basketball paintings and photography--in addition to a comprehensive 300-page overview. Each volume includes an essay by a leading international scholar.

The first of an ambitious three-volume anthology compiling the writings of Japanese sculptor, performance artist and Mono-ha cofounder Kishio Suga This is the first of three comprehensive volumes that gather, for the first time in English, the writings of Japanese sculptor and performance artist Kishio Suga (born 1944). Suga is known for his site-specific installations and his role as a founding member of the Mono-ha art movement, which radically redefined postwar Japanese art through its ephemeral interventions into both institutional and everyday spaces. This publication features Suga's three formative texts written between 1968 and 1969 under the pen name Katsuragawa Sei; fragmentary statements published in the exhibition listings section of the magazine Bijutsu Tech?from 1972 to 1981; and essays by Suga spanning the 1970s. Also included is Andrew Maerkle's analysis of the theoretical implications of translating Suga and an essay by Ashley Rawlings which addresses the history of the translation of Suga's artwork titles. Illustrations of Suga's works appear throughout.