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Teoria Extraterrestre / João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva
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FA.B126.2543
256 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
2015
Hardcover. Offset printed.
"In 2010, a long journey began in Paris that led, after stops in Florence, Milan, Naples, and finally London to the completion of this book on the art, thought, and work of João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva. For almost 15 years now, the artists have been constructing an imaginative journey made up of images in film, photographs, camerae obsurae, and sculptures that encapsulate philosophical, existential, and conceptual issues. The series of works is published in a three-language edition that frac île-de-france, le plateau of Partis, the Museo Marina Marini of Florence, the Pirelli HangarBicocca of Milan, and the Camden Arts Centre of London wanted to do as a joint publication. This book condenses nearly four years of work and thought by the Portuguese artists and authors, leading to a seminar on their work made possible by the contribution of the Fondazione Donnaregina per le Arti Contemporanee / Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina - Madre, Naples, in collaboration with Universitá degli Study of Salerno. The resulting publication represents a true cosmogony of the world of the two artists. Having achieved the goal of publishing so many pieces along with an iconographic apparatus that reproduces the complexity of the editorial work and research carried out, it is right and proper that we thank the generosity and passion of João and Pedro and the editor's patient and painstaking work." -- Colophon
Texts by Mattia Denisse, Luigi Fassi, Chris Fitzpatrick, Xavier Franceschi, Massimiliano Gioni, João Maria Gusmão, Katia Mazzucco, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Olivier Michelon, Alice Motard, Pedro Paiva, Gonçalo Pena, João Ribas, Alberto Salvadori, Antonio Scoccimarro, Marcus Steinweg.
"In 2010, a long journey began in Paris that led, after stops in Florence, Milan, Naples, and finally London to the completion of this book on the art, thought, and work of João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva. For almost 15 years now, the artists have been constructing an imaginative journey made up of images in film, photographs, camerae obsurae, and sculptures that encapsulate philosophical, existential, and conceptual issues. The series of works is published in a three-language edition that frac île-de-france, le plateau of Partis, the Museo Marina Marini of Florence, the Pirelli HangarBicocca of Milan, and the Camden Arts Centre of London wanted to do as a joint publication. This book condenses nearly four years of work and thought by the Portuguese artists and authors, leading to a seminar on their work made possible by the contribution of the Fondazione Donnaregina per le Arti Contemporanee / Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina - Madre, Naples, in collaboration with Universitá degli Study of Salerno. The resulting publication represents a true cosmogony of the world of the two artists. Having achieved the goal of publishing so many pieces along with an iconographic apparatus that reproduces the complexity of the editorial work and research carried out, it is right and proper that we thank the generosity and passion of João and Pedro and the editor's patient and painstaking work." -- Colophon
Texts by Mattia Denisse, Luigi Fassi, Chris Fitzpatrick, Xavier Franceschi, Massimiliano Gioni, João Maria Gusmão, Katia Mazzucco, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Olivier Michelon, Alice Motard, Pedro Paiva, Gonçalo Pena, João Ribas, Alberto Salvadori, Antonio Scoccimarro, Marcus Steinweg.