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The first monograph on Kata Legrady’s works presenting a collection of drawings, photographs, sculptures and video-installations. Kata Legrady (Hungary 1974) belongs to that long line of artists for whom an object offers the stimulus for artistic thought. Her approach takes the form of a symbolic encounter between weapons of war and confectionery. The Smarties are used to decorate weapons so that in her hands machine guns, grenades and knives become strange and colourful, almost beautiful and appealing. The series Bombs and Candies began in 2008 and forms a corpus of great formal and conceptual coherence. At first sight there is no precise message, no hidden aspect. We are not dealing with complex and stratified arrangements of images or objects but with restrained, frontal and simplified compositions. They are carriers that, as Jeff Koons put it so well, are there “to stimulate and activate the viewer’s mental and physical state”.

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The sculptural journey of a 20th-century master whose career began in Venice in the mid-1930s. Emilio Vedova’s artistic career began in Venice in the mid-1930s. He immediately felt the deep allure of grand Venetian painting and sculpture and, guided by the restless agitation and dynamic mobility of the baroque, was soon plunged into total and extreme three-dimensional involvement. The Emilio Vedova Scultore work originates precisely from his feeling of being a living and breathing part of the beloved spaces he encountered along his way, inexhaustible sources of stimuli and incitement, which he transformed into volumetric works of sculpture, architecture, opera and theatre.

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The past, present, and future of macro-architecture and how it constructs our landscape and ways of living and interacts with new urban spaces. Back in 1999 the Xunta de Galicia called an International Architecture Competition to build the City of Culture of Galicia on Mount Gaiás in Santiago de Compostela. Twelve proposals by renowned national and international architects' studios were initially submitted to this competition for ideas. Out of all these ideas, the final project to be selected for development was the design by Eisenman Architects, as – to quote the Jury – it was, “unique both in concept and plasticity, and exceptionally in tune with the site's location”. After ten years of intensive debate within Galician society and a meticulous building process, the City of Culture of Galicia is now becoming a reality.

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So the exciting publishing adventure on this leading team on the Italian soccer scene continues. From that magical evening at the San Siro celebrating the Centenary to that heart-racing game under the pouring rain in Parma that resulted in the awarding to Inter of the 16th scudetto. Then the arrival of Mourinho and the triumph in the UEFA Super Cup thanks to a penalty, to the exciting race that ended with the winning of the fourth consecutive scudetto, the 17th in the team’s history. All this and more besides is in the official volume 101 Inter, with an abundance of extraordinary photos accompanied by texts by writers who are all great Inter fans.

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Gurholt, born 1965 in Oslo where he lives and works, studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Art and at the New York University/Film School SCE. With a background in the film industry—he works as a film and music video director in addition to his artistic practice—Gurholt works with professional specialists in relevant fields, including models, lighting technicians, stylists and special-effects technicians. Gurholt is renowned for his Live Photos, site-specific photography projects that challenge the boundaries between fiction and reality. His complex, staged scenes are strongly imbued with art historical, philosophical and sociological references. In his performances, subtle narratives slowly emerge that balance a fine line between fantasy and reality

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The book analyzes the design and production of museum complexes all over the world in the last decade, and gives a critical interpretation of one of the most challenging subjects in the recent architectural panorama.

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Poetic photographs of landscapes, cityscapes, monuments and ruins together with a great diversity of people and costumes offer the reader a compelling insight into this fascinating country. A visual travelogue and a cultural portrait of a changing China. Features Beijing, Shanghai, the Yangtse River, Dali, Shangri-la, Sechuaun, Leshan and the Yellow River.

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Art and design historian, author and curator, Marco Meneguzzo teaches History of contemporary art and Museology and Management of exhibition systems at Accademia di Brera, Milan. He is member of the scientific committee of the official archives of Mario Schifano, Vincenzo Agnetti, Marcello Morandini, Letizia Battaglia, Ugo La Pietra and is president of the Giò Pomodoro Archive. Enrico Morteo, architect, critic and historian of design and architecture, collaborates with major international design magazines.

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Serubiri Moses is an author and curator, adjunct assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, New York. Recently he curated the Greater New York exhibition at MoMA PS1 in 2021. Bjorn Stern is an art historian, independent art advisor and artists manager. He is the founder of SternArts Stjarna, a bespoke fine art service based in London.

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Stefanie Hessler is a contemporary art curator, writer, editor and director of Swiss Institute in New York. Knut Ljøgodt, art historian, is director of the Nordic Institute of Art, Oslo. Susanne Østby Sæther is curator of photography and new media at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo.

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The General Catalogue is curated by Fondazione Luciano Ventrone and Miranda Gibilisco ETS, presided over by the artist's wife Miranda Gibilisco and founded in 2021 to promote, support, disseminate and protect the knowledge and study of the work of the Maestro Luciano Ventrone.

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Kim Hyunsook, art critic and author, serves as the Director of the Lee Ungno Research Institute. Marco Scotini, Italian curator, writer and art critic, is artistic director of the FM Center for Contemporary Art and Head of the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies Department at NABA. Park Choon Ho has served as the Director of the Kim Jong-young Museum since 2012.

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Manuela Lietti is an independent art critic and curator specialized in contemporary Asian art. In 2003, she graduated from the department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, having written her bachelors' thesis on contemporary Chinese artist Yang Shaobin. After her graduation, she moved to Beijing where in 2007, she obtained her master's degree in Chinese Histo-ry of Art and Art Criticism from the Academy of Art and Design of Tsinghua University. Since 2003, Manuela has been active as a curator, critic, and coordinator in the field of gallery and museum exhibitions as well as public art projects, in China and abroad. Manuela usually participates in international panels, workshops, consulting and re-search programs and her essays and interviews appear in numerous magazines worldwide, such as Arte e Critica, Art Asia Pacific, Flash Art International, Frieze, Artforum, Artribune, artforum.com.cn, artron.net as well as in exhibition catal

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Cécile Girardeau is conservator and curator at the Musée dell'Orangerie in Paris. Stefano Zuffi, an Italian art historian and exhibition curator, has published numerous volumes on art from the Renaissance to the 18th century.

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Domitille d'Orgeval is an art historian, specializing in abstract art from the 1950s and 1960s and the relationship between art and architecture in the twentieth century. As an exhibition curator, she has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues, including François Morellet, réinstallations (Centre Pompidou, 2011), Georges Vantongerloo 1886-1965. A pioneer of modern sculpture (Matisse Departmental Museum, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 2007).

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