the land seen from the sea


little constellation and
museum of contemporary art villa croce, genoa, italy


edition mousse publishing

motto distribution

size 12 x 18 cm
foliation 96 pages
cover with 350 g colour printed
no. 16 page colour images
no. 80 page blu/orange
print run 600 copies
code EAN: 9788867490318
ediz. english
price € 100,00
2012




This book edited by Mousse Publishinf, was produced for the exhibition The Land seen from the Sea, held at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce in Genoa in 2012.

Art works by: Yuula Benivolski, Justine Blau, Canarezza & Coro, Martina Conti, Nina Danino, Oppy De Bernardo, Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir, Doris Drescher, Haris Epaminondas, Barbara Geyer,  Anna Hilti, Irena Lagator, Jose Ramón Lozano, Ingibjörg Magnadóttir, Mark Mangion, Mussoni & Albani, Giancarlo Norese and Umberto Cavenago, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Paradise Consumer Group, Marco Poloni, Pierre Portelli, Luigi Presicce, Agnčs Roux, Sigurđur Atli Sigurđsson,  Miki Tallone, Xenia Uranova, Martin Walch, Trixi Weis.

Contents by: Alessandro Castiglioni, Rita Canarezza, Pier Paolo Coro, Roberto Daolio, Bettina Heldenstein, Enrico Lunghi, Svetlana Racanovic´, Francesca Serrati.

 … is a collection of notes, the tale of a journey that roamed through various regions of Europe with the goal of developing a perspective on the state of art, the practice of travel, and the perception of distance, in specific geographical areas. The project grew out of the Little Constellation network, a research project based on the activity of artists Rita Canarezza and Pier Paolo Coro, aimed at exploring contemporary artistic practice
in the small states of Europe and in certain geocultural micro-areas: San Marino, Luxembourg, and Iceland, as well as Milan, Malta, and Genoa, are some of the stops
along the way, in an initiative that has attempted to focus, in particular, on the aesthetic question of the experience of travel. Activities such as lectures, workshops, round tables, and above all, the exhibition held at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce in Genoa, have helped to establish specific positions in regard to these issues (...)
Alessandro Castiglioni. Text extract from the book presentation.

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