ARTEMISIA COLLECTION

The Artemisia Collection (so titled in honour od XVI century painter Artemisia Gentileschi) consists of a series of art books documenting the most significant female artists in contemporary Italian painting. Artists who work in a consistent and professional manner, offer, in a monograph, an essay of their work: they are works created specifically for these publications, printed in real size from the original or from transparencies prepared by the authors themselves. Some of the volumes include also a literary text to which the artist has connected, out of inspiration or consonance, her own pictorial work. Each volume is like an exhibition that can be visited in intimate conversation between the onlooker and the artist herself.  

Catalogue of the Artemisia Collection
(Each volume, 30 cm by 30 cm: Euro 62.00)
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  BICE LAZZARI, L'incanto del segno (The Charm of the Sign): Almost a self portrait in 23 drawings (1929-1981), chosen from among the many of her archive, reproduced in facsimile; the brief autobiography dictated by her not long before her death; her thoughts on art; her poems. Essential itinerary of the painter spanning her whole working life.
  PAOLA LEVI MONTALCINI, Discordanze: Fragments of Saffo which seem to precipitate as if drawn into the darkness of far away sidereal spaces. Cold and perfect geometries evocative of space and silence... A contemplation of the unknown and of un-time. The volume contains the 12 works size 30 by 60 cm the artist produced in 1991 for this publication. As a preface, a letter by Rita Levi Motalcini to the artist, her sister Paola.
  SARA CAMPESAN, Virginia Woolf - Itinerario (bio)grafico (A (bio)graphical Itinerary): This is a 6 metre (horizontally) long work formed by 20 colour plates (folded concertinawise) and is the original interpretation Sara Campesan offers of the life and work of Virginia Woolf. The volume includes an index, a bio-bibliographical chronology of Virginia Woolf, and her "Peace Thoughts During an Air Raid", a short critical essay on Sara Campesan.
  MIRELLA BENTIVOGLIO, Un albero di pagine (A Tree of Leaves): Between images and critical reflections Mirella Bentivoglio follows the stages of her "action in progress" dedicated to THE TREE: the exhibition, in the city square, of a felled tree, the honouring it by passers by written on bits of paper stuck on to the branches, the conversion of the messages into a collective poem, the transformation of the tree structure into art work...
  LAURA CASTAGNO, Luoghi Partiture Stanze (Places Scores Rooms): Dedicated to the "Rooms" by Laura Castagno: enclosed spaces which the artist has created in both historical and contemporary spaces in Europe.
  MARIA BERNARDONE, Sovrapposizioni (Superimpositions): The title refers to the composition of the book: translucent leaves over opaque leaves where the signs - very cleanly defined - cross and create other forms where the subjects fuse together. It is all accompanied by quotations from Simone Weil chosen by Maria Bernardone to time and underline her own research.
  GIOSETTA FIORONI - A.ZANZOTTO, Attraverso l'evento (Through the Event): 21 drawings by G. Fioroni accompany as many poems from the whole works of A. Zanzotto. Between incantation and irony the memory of the artist inspires enigmatic and fairy-tale figurations.
  ROSANNA LANCIA - B.FRABOTTA, Tensioni (Tensions): Dedicated to the American poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) this volume is made of 12 coloured tables 30 by 90 by Rosanna Lancia and the dramatic dialogue "Exorcism" by Biancamaria Frabotta.
  FRANCA GRILLI, Haiku: Fine drawings are a sophisticated equivalent to the poems accompanying them. Thirty of each genre. The Haikus are printed in the original with a translation into Italian (translators Carla Vasio and Michico Nojiri)
  MARILU' EUSTACHIO - E.DICKINSON, Un peso viola (A Purple Burden): Marilů Eustachio, a painter particularly sensitive to the visionary power of the poetic word, listens with her eyes to Emily Dickinson's poems, creating the intense and exclusive figurations published in this volume (translation of the poems into Italian: Barbara Lanati).
  RENATA BOERO, Africa: A Journal of her journey into Africa, into the soul, into her art. 12 tables 30 by 60, powerful images where the traveller-spectator loses oneself, overcome by the alchemical energy of the painting, the matter which composes it, the scents that inspire the vision. Introduction by Paolo Fossati, verses by Charles Carrčre (translations into Italian and into English: Maria-Luisa Minio-Paluello)

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