Product Description: This exhibition opens the new season at the Riso Museum in Palermo. Without in any way wishing to be moralistic or didactic, the exhibition, with 24 leading exponents of the contemporary art scene on display, deals with fundamental ethical issues regarding the very concept of "creation" and the theme of the artist's responsibility; the extent to which he or she manages to involve the visitor in an interpretative journey through essential themes - through signs, symbols and metaphors - which are at the same time both simple and complex...read more

Product Description: Domicile: Prive/Public is a visual document of the idea of "home," is interpreted by forty international contemporary artists. By turn playful and dramatic, intense and light-hearted, disturbing and comforting, the installations, photographs, paintings and videos featured in the book explore the many meanings and varied forms inspired by the deceptively simple concept...read more

Product Description: The essays gathered in this book are the result of an historical-anthropological observation: after the crisis in narration, carefully analyzed in the recent past by François Lyotard, we confront ourselves today with the tendency, in contemporary artistic creation characterized by expression, of "discourse re-invention efforts...read more

Product Description: What is the role of the contemporary artist in a reality that interprets cultures as conflicting parties and Europe as a closed space? How does his identity develop in relation to European cultures and those that exist elsewhere in the world? Does there exist an acceptable comparative footing that permits otherwise explosive diversities to engage in dialogue with each other? These questions were the starting point for an international forum on the deepest cultural roots of European thought...read more

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Product Description: Pedro Cabrita Reis has exhibited widely throughout Europe and America, including Ducumenta IX and the 1997 Venice Bienniale. This book documents his most recent exhibition that encompasses paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations produced over the past five years. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)