Ugo La Pietra. La sinestesia delle arti 1960-2000

Thierry W. Despont
Assouline Publishing

Combining geometrical purity and gestural grandeur, Thierry W. Despont conjugates his architectural skills and painter's virtuosity in this spectacular collection of majestic, daunting, and singularly attracting orbs, turning his struggle with corrosive materials and richly textured pigments into a spiritual achievement. A compound of restless collage and swirling pigments, each orb is animated by a life of its own: colorful magma breaking through the scorched surface of the canvas, white streaks flickering against the encroaching and abysmal darkness of a stark black background that seems about to engulf it. At the same time dynamic and mesmerizing, they are mysterious and numinous, intimate and remote; a lesson in the "abstract sublime," they conjure up the immemorial awe of man in front of a cosmic world he both reveres and dreads. Beyond the eruptive, cataclysmic forces animating them, the orbs are inwardly radiant, animated by a life that seems to emerge from their depths, and conjure up a paradoxical harmony that embues them with an ultimate metaphysical dimension.

Simon Pfeffel
s.e.

Emma Lavigne
Centre Pompidou

Published for the occasion of Pierre Huyghe's exhibition at the Pompidou Centre which offers retrospective look at his work. It offers a research of nearly 800 images at 90 projects, since his first works twenty years ago.

Michel Tapié
Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo

Giuliana Altea, Marco Magnani
Ilisso Edizioni

Sergio Casoli, Elena Geuna
Skira Editore

Bice Lazzari
Editrice Eidos

Davide Lajolo
Augusto Agosta Tota Editore

Domenico Cantatore
Edi. Artes

Jouffroy Crispolti
Edizioni l'uomo e l'arte

Josep Palau i Fabre
Rizzoli Editore

Edoardo Sanguineti
Feltrinelli