Giulio Turcato

Giovanni Maria Accame
Electa

Germano Celant
Prearo editore

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.

Sergio Casoli, Elena Geuna
Skira Editore

Domenico Cantatore
Edi. Artes

Jouffroy Crispolti
Edizioni l'uomo e l'arte

Eristeo Banali
Publi Paolini

Achille Bonito Oliva
Boxart

Valerio Dehò
Mat Edizioni

Mariano Moroni
s.e.

Giulio Carlo Argan
Editalia

Demetrio Paparoni
Skira Editore