Text by Angela Vettese

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milano. 2008

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Foundation: "Arnaldo Pomodoro. A Una scrittura sconcertante" (10.04.2013 - 28.06.2013), curated by Flaminio Gualdoni.

Arnaldo Pomodoro’s work emerged, in the mid-1950s, at the center of the heated debate on art autre, fueled in Italy by the significant contribution of Francesco Arcangeli’s theories of a “new naturalism.” For some, this moment represented a point of arrival. For others, including the very young Pomodoro, it was a climate already showing signs of crisis and an urgent need to move beyond it—particularly in an anti-historical direction [...]

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Catalogue of the exhibition organised by the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro and Milan’s Triennale to describe four “visionary projects” by the sculptor.

It contains texts by Arnaldo Pomodoro, Ada Masoero, Aldo Colonetti, Giulio Carlo Argan, Sam Hunter and Alberto Ferlenga, a poem by Aldo Nove and a conversation with Gillo Dorfles, a full set of photographs and documents.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

"Milan. Year 1949. Lucio Fontana is working in his studio on Corso Monforte. He is not satisfied with how a painting is turning out, so he decides to destroy it. He grabs a blade and... SLASH!"

With his gesture, both destructive and innovative, Lucio Fontana managed to synthesize something unique: he was able to represent space, infinite space, with a cut in the canvas. This is how his famous Concetti Spaziali were born—works made of holes and cuts, in paper, terracotta, canvas, or metal, that Fontana created with focus and determination.

In the same series, in which the artist Gilberti tells us, with intelligence and a playful eye, the works of great figures in contemporary art, we find the stories of Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Marcel Duchamp, Lucio Fontana, Yayoi Kusama, and Banksy.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Edited by Diana Pace.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Spray paint cans to coat walls, works that self-destruct and others that don't cost much money, unusual theme parks: that is all it takes to recognise Banksy, but no one really knows who he is.

Fausto Gilberti’s new book, dedicated to the street artist with a hidden identity, is full of question marks: Banksy is hiding somewhere, and we have a lot of fun chasing his graffiti all over the world. And we can't forget the day he put sharks in a lake in a London park, or when there were no walls around and he painted on the cows in a field. And what about the time he walked into the Louvre and hung a painting without asking permission?

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

The volume collects the entire corpus of Gastone Novelli's writings drawn up from 1943 to 1968, both those that have remained unpublished until today, and those already published by Achille Perilli in 1976 in a monographic issue of the Grammatica magazine.

A collection of texts that crosses the history of artistic and political Italy in the second half of the twentieth century and at the same time offers an unfiltered account of the life of this figure, who was not only a painter and artist, but also a teacher, a fervent polemic, publisher, writer and political activist.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Catalogue published on the occasion of the Arnaldo Pomodoro's exhibition held at 20 Art Space Gallery in Rome (November 5, 2009 - January 30, 2010).

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

The artist Fausto Gilberti takes us by the hand to discover the art of Jackson Pollock, a brilliant and restless painter. One who didn’t like standing still in front of the easel, with brushes and palette in hand, but who found his own unique way of painting: he dripped, splattered, and let the paint flow, roaming around the unrolled canvas with the energy and grace of a dancer.

In the same series, where the artist Gilberti tells us, with intelligence and a playful eye, the works of great figures in contemporary art, we find the stories of Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Marcel Duchamp, Lucio Fontana, Yayoi Kusama, and Banksy.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Catalogue published for the exhibition curated by Bruno Corà in the Foundation’s exhibition spaces in via Solari 35 in Milano. Carlo Orsi’s photographs also document the stages of preparation. Critical notes by Lorenzo Respi.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

"On a day in May many years ago, the artist Piero Manzoni placed his feces in a metal can, thus creating his most famous work..."

This is a true story. It’s the story of Piero Manzoni. Born in Soncino on July 13, 1933, and lived in Milan until February 1963. Piero left us works full of irony and a wonderful sense of the absurd, playful and light-hearted like a child’s game. Fausto Gilberti tells us these stories just as they are, without burdening them with unnecessary explanations, managing to convey his passion for this great 20th-century artist who made art his life and his life a work of art.

In the same series, in which the artist Gilberti tells us, with intelligence and a playful eye, the works of great figures in contemporary art, we find the stories of Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, Lucio Fontana, Yayoi Kusama, and Banksy.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

"Le rive di Cartaromana", a project conceived by the municipality of Ischia in 2003. Catalog of the exhibition held in the Torre di Guevara on the island of Ischia in 2003, with texts by Massimo Bignardi.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Foundation: "La scultura italiana del XX secolo" (September 24, 2005 - January 22, 2006) curated by Marco Meneguzzo.

This catalogue features the most significant moments of twentieth-century Italian sculpture as presented in the exhibition which inaugurated the new seat of the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milan. The exhibition presented a survey of the works by those artists who made a major contribution to the renewal of the vocabulary of twentieth-century Italian sculpture, from Medardo Rosso to the present.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

My name is Marina Abramović, and before I tell you my story, I want you to close your eyes with me for a few seconds.

For Marina Abramović, who has been passionate about art since childhood, painting was not enough.

She was fascinated by the possibility of creating with anything, with fire, with air, with smoke, and even with the human body. So she began to perform in front of audiences with performances all over the world coming to be seen by millions.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Book that documents, trough the images by Carlo Orsi, the monumental exhibition held at the Forte Belvedere in Florence in 1984. Introduction by Italo Mussa and critical texts by Giulio Carlo Argan.

Edizione in Italiano oppure in Inglese, selezionare la lingua in fase di acquisto.

° Se sei Socio della Fondazione il costo della spedizione sul territorio italiano è gratuita!
° A tutti: per acquisti superiori ai 50 euro il costo della spedizione su Milano è gratuita!

From Japan to America and back: in his new book, Fausto Gilberti gives the floor to Yayoi Kusama, who tells her story in the first person.

Born in Matsumoto, Yayoi has loved drawing since she was a child (even things that others don’t see) and she flies to New York to become an artist.

Her art astonishes the audience with always new ideas: Yayoi fills large canvases with grids of dots, uses her happenings to deliver important messages, and designs clothes to be worn by two people... Creating her works makes her feel good, no matter their form: from the famous pumpkins to rooms full of lights and mirrors that reflect everything infinitely.

After the books dedicated to Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, and Lucio Fontana, the series grows with Yayoi Kusama, in which the artist Fausto Gilberti tells us, with intelligence and a playful eye, the works of great figures in contemporary art.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Book on the 2002 exhibition in the gardens of the Palais Royal in Paris. Texts by Carlo Bertelli, Pierre Restany, Jacqueline Risset and photographs by Paolo Mussat Sartor. Also contains photographs of the preparation and inauguration, with a selection of press reviews.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Mr. Duchamp's works of art were strange and unusual. They weren't paintings and they weren't sculptures, yet they were undoubtedly art. From an artist who, laughing and joking, pushed the boundaries of art a little further.

After the books dedicated to Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, and Jackson Pollock, the series of books grows, in which the artist Fausto Gilberti tells us, with intelligence and a playful eye, the works of great figures in contemporary art.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Catalogue of the anthological exhibition held in the Palais Royal gardens in Paris, with critical essays by Pierre Restany and Jacqueline Risset.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Born in France into a family of tapestry restorers, Louise Bourgeois loved studying mathematics and helping her mother with her work as a weaver. She enjoyed drawing so much that, over time, she decided to become an artist.

A dream come true in New York, the city where she would move and live for the rest of her life: here, Louise became the first sculptor to have an exhibition at MoMA. Louise sculpted slender figures representing her loved ones left behind in France, filled entire sheets of paper with words, just like in school, and used objects she had kept from childhood to create her works... She even built a giant spider! And if spiders scare you, after reading this book, you might look at them with different eyes.

After Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, Lucio Fontana, Yayoi Kusama, and Banksy, the book dedicated to Louise Bourgeois adds to the series in which the artist Fausto Gilberti tells us, with intelligence and a playful eye, the works of great figures in contemporary art.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Scenic Projects from 1972 to 2002.

Catalogue curated by Dialmo Ferrari, Franco Origoni, and Anna Steiner.

Texts in Italian by Aldo Colonetti and Sam Hunter.

In this book, Bruno Munari describes, with great seriousness and attention to detail, machines... useful or useless, but certainly unusual: machines to predict the aurora, a lizard-powered engine for tired turtles, a machine to tame alarm clocks, a tail-wagger for lazy dogs...

Le Macchine di Munari is a poetic and ironic book that stands out for its inventiveness and creativity. Here, Munari showcases his ability to blend art, design, and education, presenting a series of imaginary machines inspired by the famous American cartoonist Rube Goldberg. Each machine, though entirely a product of fantasy, is designed with a sense of realism and functionality, reflecting Munari's deep understanding of the world of design.

Munari’s Machines – collected in this book first published by Einaudi in 1942 and now available again in the Corraini Edizioni catalog – are inventions as precise as they are impossible. Described and illustrated in the finest detail, they follow their own fantastic mechanics and, to our great delight, rebel against the obligation of having to serve a purpose.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!

Catalogue of the exhibition held in the park of the Royal Palace of Caserta. from 26th May- to 30th September 2000.

° If you are a Member of the Foundation, shipping within Italy is free!

° For everyone: for purchases over €50, shipping within Milan is free!