Alberto Garutti
Curated by Studio Celant
The volume, conceived by Germano Celant—curated by Studio Celant and in collaboration with Studio Alberto Garutti—is the most comprehensive survey dedicated to the artist Alberto Garutti (1948-2023), exploring the experimental and innovative nature of his language. It focuses on key aspects that, over the years, have become essential for anyone engaging with site-specific works or the themes of public spaces.
Crucial aspects such as the idea of the anti-monument, non-invasiveness, opposition to system rhetoric, sharp critique of institutional landscapes, the role of the viewer, and the concept of the artwork as a form of open dialogue and conversation, are just some of the characteristics of Alberto Garutti’s artistic discourse. The volume addresses these themes through three distinct, transversal and parallel critical approaches: historical-critical analysis, the narration of artistic and biographical events, and the personal narrative of the author after more than fifty years of life in art.
The book Alberto Garutti is a project supported by Settore Musei Civici Bologna | MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna in cultural partnership with Centre Pompidou-Metz (Metz), Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee – Museo MADRE (Naples), Fondazione MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Vaduz), mudac – Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (Lausanne), with promotional support by Zerynthia Associazione per l’Arte Contemporanea.
This international publishing project has been implemented thanks to the support of the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture in the context of Italian Council (12th edition, 2023), the program of international promotion of Italian contemporary art.
With contributions by Eva Fabbris, Alberto Garutti, Antonella Soldaini
Italian / English, 620 pages
Published by a+mbookstore, Milan (Italian version)
and Hatje Cantz, Berlin (English version)
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Wednesday October 23, 2024
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Thursday October 24, 2024
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
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mudac – Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts, Losanna | mudac.ch
Wednesday October 30, 2024
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