César Domela
This catalogue was created for the retrospective exhibition held to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Dutch artist César Domela, born January 1900 in Amsterdam. A vast selection of his work, ranging from sculpture to painting, drawing to reliefs, collage and gouache to photomontage, was collected at the Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano. The pieces are reproduced in the catalogue by black and white, and color photographs. The analysis of Domela’s abstract work starts from his time in Ascona in the 1920s, characterized by his association to Mondrian. It then moves on to the mixed media object paintings that later became the focus of his artistic enquiry. Marco Franciolli edited the catalogue, available in a bilingual Italian-English version, in collaboration with Alberto Ronchetti and Gianni Martini.

César Domela, edited by Marco Franciolli, Skira editore (Palazzo Casati Stampa, Via Torino, 61, Milan, skira@skira.it), 2000, p.184, 25 x 28 cm.

Bridget Riley. Paintings 1982-2000 and early works on paper
This catalogue was produced for the solo-show held at Pace Wildenstein in New York by British artist Bridget Riley, born in London in 1931. The exhibition included Riley’s artistic output from the last twenty years, which is reproduced in the catalogue in large-scale photographs. Riley’s work reveals her ability to draw on a variety of traditional formal sources, ranging from 16th century Venetian art to Seurat’s color studies, in creating an innovative language of color in the 1960s. The works include gouache on paper in both color and black and white, and oils on linen of a clearly optical design. There is also an interesting introductory text Bridget Riley for Americans by Dave Hickey, professor of art theory and criticism at Nevada University, Las Vegas.

Bridget Riley. Paintings 1982-2000 and early works on paper, Pace Wildenstein (32 East 57th Street, New York), 2000, p. 59, 27 x 28 cm.

In Between. The Art Project for Expo 2000
This elegant and well laid out catalogue was published for the first World Exhibition held in Hanover, Germany, and the art project In Between curated by Wilfried Dickhoff and Kasper König. The works depicted are site-specific pieces produced by international artists for various outdoor spaces given over to the Expo for the occasion. The artists involved are Carsten Höller and Rosemarie Trockel, Maurizio Cattelan, Albert Oehlen, Paul McCarthy, Roman Signer, Franz West, Yutaka Sone, Gabriel Orozco, Gelatin, Panamarenko, Tobias Rehberger, Lily van der Stokker, Marijke van Warmerdan and Tony Oursler. Each project is reproduced in a number of high-resolution color photos. There are texts in English by Wilfried Dickhoff (No Agoraphobia), Holger Liebs (Paradigms and Paragons), Martin Fritz (Production at the Conference Table) and Florian Waldvogel (Game, Set and Signer).

In Between. The Art Project for Expo 2000, Dumont, 2000, 211 p., 22,5 x 29 cm.

Identificazione di un paesaggio
Produced for the exhibition of the same name, held in the Antares di Marghera pavilion and curated by Sandro Mescola, this catalogue contains over two hundred photographic works by eleven different artists. They explore the transformation of the industrial landscape and urban territory developing and expanding around Venice. The artists involved include Lewis Baltz, John Davies, Jean Loius Garnell, Frank Gohlke, John Gossage, Anthony Hernandez, Alex Hütte, Geoffrey James, Richard Pare, Toshio Shibata, Stephen Shore and Studio Azzurro. Their work is reproduced in high quality large format photos, both in color and black and white. The catalogue also contains texts in Italian and English by Paolo Costantini (Identificazione di un paesaggio) and Thomas Weski (Un testo breve per un lungo addio).

Identificazione di un paesaggio, Venezia-Marghera, Fotografia e trasformazini nella città contemporanea, Silvana Editoriale (Via Margherita De Vizzi, 86, Cinisello Balsamo, www.silvanaeditoriale.it), 2000, 207 p., 24 x 29 cm.

Enclosed & Enchanted
This catalogue was produced for the exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford. Ten internationally famous contemporary artists took part in this exhibition devoted to gardens and their botanic wealth. The work of Jean-Marc Bustamante, Stan Douglas, Gilbert & George, Antony Gormley, Cristina Iglesias, Takahito Iimura, Wolfgang Laib, Giuseppe Penone, Diana Thater and Jan Vercruysse is elegantly reproduced in large color photos in the catalogue. The first section of the volume contains two texts by Kerry Brougher (Being There) and Michael Tarantino (Enclosed & Enchanted: Et in Arcadia Ego). The texts aim to consider concepts relating to the iconography of gardens and their vegetation drawing on various models from the history of art, cinema, literature and culture in general.

Enclosed & Enchanted, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, (30 Penbroke Street, Oxford, www.moma.org.uk), 2000, p. 68, 18 x 28 cm.