Alessandro Possati (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NEar mint hardcover, printed boards; no dust jacket as supplied, Ships from Berlin Bookshop bxn52.

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. 194 pages with 250 illustrations in color. Foreword by Alessandro Possati and Greg Hilty. Introduction by Maurizio Bortolotti. This exhibition was held in two locations, at Zuecca Project Space on Giudecca and in the church of Sant' Antonin in Venice, as a Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Veneia, 29 May-15 September 2013 and the Lisson Gallery, London 23 March-19 July 2014. Biographies. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Copiously illustrated in color and b/w. 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 194 pages with 250 illustrations in color. - This Ai Weiwei (born 1957) monograph is published on the occasion of his exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale, presented by Zuecca Project Space and the Lisson Gallery, and offers a summary of the artist's work between 2008 and 2013. It focuses on two projects, Straight (2008 2012) and S.A.C.R.E.D. (2011 2013). Straight is an installation employing more than 100 tons of steel rods recovered by a team of volunteers from buildings destroyed in the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan. Responding both to the tragedy itself and the government's apathy, Ai Weiwei and his team straightened the bars and created a modular installation with the bars laid flat on the floor. S.A.C.R.E.D. is comprised of six metal containers depicting the often humiliating routines of the artist's 2011 imprisonment on a reduced scale, with models of Ai and his guards. These routines include showering, toilet and interrogation.…