Böcker av Francesca Alfano Miglietti

From the hyperreal to the fragmentary: the body in contemporary art This thematic catalog contains more than 110 works by 34 international artists exploring new frontiers in depictions of the human body, exploring themes of life and death, youth and old age, work and migration, loss of balance and bodily life in the time and space of the present. From works by well-known hyperrealists such as Duane Hanson, John DeAndrea and Carole Feuerman, it proceeds to other types of narration where the body is evoked rather than represented. In works such as Christian Boltanski's Prendre la Parole (Speaking Up), Ibrahim Mahama's John B B, Chiharu Shiota's Over the Continents, Dayanita Singh's Suitcase Museum and Charles LeDray's Mens Suits, the body seems to have vanished, leaving behind only traces. Fragments of the body and its mutation, and even the mutable conditions of society, are present in the works of Oscar Munoz, AES + F Group, Yael Bartana, Alfredo Jaar, Janine Antoni, Robert Gober, Marc Quinn, Andres Serrano, Robert Longo, Michel Rovner and Franko B.

Antonio Marras, known as "the most intellectual of Italian stylists", is renowned above all for creating fusions of the worlds in the creative universe, from cinema to poetry to history and visual art. This last is in fact the focus of Nulla dies sine linea. Marras stands at the centre of a poetic universe comprising different languages, oscillating among digressions from one material to another, from one technique to another, from one expressive form to another. The volume presents a series of new and previously seen installations, and hundreds of drawings, sketches, snippets that Marras has created over the years during his innumerable travels. The monograph also includes contributions by poets, musicians, writers, artists, intellectuals and journalists, thereby highlighting just how much Marras considers relations as poetic elements and part of his solitary course.