Becoming Flower

Becoming flower- Silvana Editoriale, Milano, 128 p, French, 26,5 cm, 25 €
Foreword Jean-Jacques Aillagon
Texts Estelle Zhong Mengual, Hélène Guenin and Rébecca François
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Becoming fower
At a time when ecosystems and climate breakthrough is leading us to rethink our relationship with nature and the living world, we can wonder what can we learn from flowers, from their resilience, from their constant adaptation to their environment, from their sobriety?
Through the eyes of artists, women and men of twenty different nationalities, “becoming flower” attempts to bring a new and a sensitive light on contemporary ecological, anthropological and geopolitical issues.
The book describes the forms of listening and attention that artists, since the 1960s, have maintained with plants and brings out a botany of world history.

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14 May. 2022 - 02 Oct. 2022

2022

Vita Nuova. New challenges for art in Italy 1960-1975.

Vita Nuova. Vita Nuova. Nouveaux enjeux de l’art en Italie. 1960-1975.- Les Editions Snoeck; Gand, 2022, 176 p., French, 28.5 cm, 32€
Under the direction of Valérie Da Costa, texts by Valérie Da Costa, Lara Conte, Laura Iamurri and a chronology by Sara Miele, preface by Hélène Guenin.
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A reference work, the exhibition catalog retraces the extraordinary vivacity of artistic creation in Italy between 1960 and 1975 through a selection of works by more than fifty artists who gave a glimpse of Italian society during these fifteen years.
This generation of artists envisions new ways of creating. It illustrates a form of vita nuova (“new life”) which characterizes Italian art of this period and contributes to its international recognition.

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