Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
The artist’s book to love and devour by Tolia Astakhishvili was published on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition at the new site of the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in Venice, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
This monograph, published on the occasion of Samson Young’s exhibition at SFMOMA, focuses on his latest project, Intentness and Songs, a multimedia installation that poetically traces the idiosyncratic rhythms of love, memory, experiences of time, and AI. Essays and a rich set of unpublished materials offer new keys to understanding the artist’s work.
The book, published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition held at CAM – Gulbenkian in Lisbon, explores convergences in the work of Paula Rego (Lisbon, 1935 – London, 2022) and Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, 1964), although they belong to different generations and come from different backgrounds.
O livro, lançado por ocasião da exposição homónima no CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, em Lisboa, explora as convergências nas obras de Paula Rego (Lisboa, 1935 – Londres, 2022) e Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, 1964), apesar de pertencerem a gerações e contextos distintos.
The future of architecture lies in the curatorial approach. This is the thesis put forward by architect Wilfried Kuehn and theorist Dubravka Sekulić in their book, which brings together contributions from more than 30 authors working in the fields of architecture, art, and curatorial knowledge and practice.
Emanuele Coccia describes the radical creative freedom inscribed in Ernesto Neto’s practice, analyzing the workings of the Brazilian artist’s pieces of living architecture. Art on Earth is the third book in a series of short essay collections inspired by the site-specific projects conceived for GAMeC at Palazzo della Ragione.
Texts by Francesco Arena with Davide Pellicciari and Carlotta Spinelli
Notes by Nicola Del Roscio and Federico Vercellone
Design: Marcello Jacopo Biffi
2024, English / Italian, softcover, 20 x 28 cm, 112 pages
ISBN: 979-12-80579-48-5
Through his multidisciplinary practice, Francesco Arena implements continuous and subtle references to contemporary society, highlighting the impossibility of being totally self-sufficient and how crucial is to have a support from others. For the artist, just like religion, magic, philosophy and politics, art is a support for human life but also an antidote that humanity has created to give meaning to the existence and to be protected against the unknown.
The title of this volume, published to accompany Arena’s exhibition at Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio in Rome, refers to a famous quote by Heraclitus that was inscribed on the lintel of the entrance door of Heidegger’s famous hütte in Todtnauberg, rebuilt in real dimensions inside the space of the Foundation. The hut, ideally related to the philosopher’s memory, is a work that contains a series of new sculptures that create a game of continuous cross-references and exchanges between container and content, visible and invisible, individual and collective experience. By superimposing archive images and current documentation, this book replicates the same dynamics.
Published with Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome
Photos: Marcello Jacopo Biffi