Libri di Cristiano Raimondi

This catalogue accompanies Alfredo Volpi: Lucca–São Paulo (1896-1988), an exhibition celebrating Alfredo Volpi, a key figure of Brazilian modernism, for the first time in Italy; it was hosted in 2024 by the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci. Born in Lucca in 1896 and having moved to São Paulo at the age of two, Volpi intertwined his art with the transformations of the twentieth century, combining modernity, tradition, and popular motifs. His works address universal themes while maintaining a strong connection to local culture, exploring representation, abstraction, daily life, and religious iconography. Edited by Cristiano Raimondi Texts by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Virginia Magnaghi, Lorenzo Mammì, Valéria Piccoli, Cristiano Raimondi, and Daniel Donato Ribeiro.

Published on the occasion of Lars Fredrikson’s retrospective exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain in Nice, organized in collaboration with the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco and the artist’s son, this book is the first monograph dedicated to the radical Swedish painter, draftsman, sculptor, and precursor of sound art (1926–1997). Over his long career the artist produced a vast and multidisciplinary corpus of works that aimed to question our perception — the borders between the visible and the invisible, presence and absence, inside and outside. The publication plays on the multiple rebounds and echoes in Fredrikson’s works, in particular his nonlinear approach to art, his bodily exploration of vibrations, and his constant aim to grasp the invisible waves and frequencies that surround us — to render palpable the unseen that is actually right before our eyes.