Through the voices of experts, the catalogue presents and explores eleven masterpieces of Italian Renaissance painting from the collection of Leinuo Zhang, a young and passionate Chinese art collector.

During the sixteenth century, the male portrait assumed a central role in Italian painting, becoming a privileged instrument for representing power and individual identity. Posture, attire, gestures, and gaze are not mere aesthetic details, but visual signs through which authority and social status are expressed: the male body is no longer depicted as a simple physical presence, but rather as a visible expression of virtue, moral steadfastness, and inner balance.

The featured works are absolute masterpieces by the great masters of the Italian Renaissance: Veronese, Moroni, Paris Bordon, Vasari, Ghirlandaio, Palma il Giovane, Allori, Scarsellino, Leandro Bassano, Giulio, and Vincenzo Campi.

Available in bookstores from September 2026.

A collection unique in the world. A journey through over two centuries of history recounting how the automobile has influenced fashion, social customs, art, scientific research, and technological achievements, in a constant drive for innovation.

The Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile in Turin is a benchmark for the culture of the sector: a place of debate and experimentation that, starting from the enhancement of its preserved heritage, produces original content capable of speaking contemporary languages. The new catalogue reflects this richness through masterpieces from the collection, technical specifications, archival documents, artistic commissions, research projects, and an extensive selection of illustrations that highlight the sculptural power of the automobiles.

Available in bookstores from September 2026.

This volume brings together essays and articles published in the cultural pages of some of the leading Italian newspapers. The thread that binds them is neither celebratory nor polemical; rather, it sets in motion the broadest possible investigation into how the status of art has changed.

The guiding idea lies not only in the question of what art is today, but rather what role it plays in social systems and in people’s lives. Nespolo wonders when a work of art ceases to be such and becomes something else – an asset, a balance sheet item, a bet on its economic future. Responding to events, exhibitions, and trends, these texts, when read together, reveal a sort of coherent obsession with the transformation of critical judgment into self-serving background noise and of aesthetic value into an organized exchange value.

“Scritti Distopici” because they reflect the melancholy that emerges from the folds of the market, from the silence of artists—the same melancholy of those who persist in believing that an artwork can try to say something that a price tag cannot contain. No nostalgia for the avant-garde years or for presumed heroic times. Ultimately, these texts ask what space remains for dissent, what to do with manager-critics, or how to navigate an Artworld where price is the most convincing signal.

No idealized past, only the observation of one’s own time with affection and lucidity, leading to the realization that something has broken down. It is precisely this fracture that these writings address.

Available in bookstores from September 2026

The volume aims to critically and comprehensively investigate the link between current global geopolitical instability (marked by conflicts, climate crises, migration, and economic imbalances) and the way in which this condition redefines the role of architecture in shaping the world and caring for both collective and individual spaces. In this context, design means confronting complex and rapidly changing scenarios, where the spatial dimension is deeply intertwined with political, social, and ecological issues.

Through maps, installations, and 1:1 scale interventions, “La geopolitica dell’architettura” shows how architects are responding to these new scenarios of crisis and transformation. The featured works highlight operational strategies ranging from reuse and research into sustainable materials to the experimentation with new ways of living.

The book outlines an international landscape in which architecture serves as a critical and operational tool, capable of interpreting the tensions of the present and imagining possible alternative futures. It also presents a curated selection of artworks, including “The Gift” by Jasmina Cibic (a film exploring the intricate relationship between architecture, politics, and place), three short films produced by LINA Platform fellows, and, lastly, a circular room dedicated to “EXIT”, the famous “geopolitical” animation designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for the Fondation Cartier.

Available in bookstores from November 2026.

Through a transversal perspective, the volume retraces the creative career of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), a key figure in international contemporary art, a multifaceted artist, trained architect, performer, photographer, and cultural activist.

Playful and radically anarchic, through his work—which spans art, architecture, and social intervention—he revolutionized the concept of architectural space with extreme and visionary interventions, such as his famous “building cuts,” which transformed abandoned structures into temporary artworks. Starting from the experimental years in the self-managed space at 112 Greene Street in New York (the hub of the alternative art scene of the early 1970s), the monograph reconstructs the context of collective and interdisciplinary research in which Matta-Clark engaged in dialogue with artists, performers, and musicians, contributing to the birth of new forms of expression linked to the body, space, and community.

In addition to introductory essays by the two curators, Jessamyn Fiore and Francesco Stocchi, the book brings together interviews with international artists, architects, and critics such as Gloria Moure, Laurie Anderson, Joan Jonas, and many others, creating a sort of multi-voiced score shaped around the artist’s history and works. The volume is enriched by approximately 150 archival images that visually accompany the stories and impressions of the various contributions, as well as a biography of the artist and of the individual authors.

The monograph explores the work of French artist Sophie Calle (1953) through her central and complex relationship with photography.

Presence and absence, physical proximity and emotional distance, the search for closeness and the pain of separation, the tension between desire and unfulfillment: Calle’s work has always confronted the fundamental dynamics of every relationship. Through the theme of absence—of a person, of love, of sight, of the image—the volume accompanying the Roman exhibition offers an overview of her research spanning over forty years, conveying the complexity of a practice grounded in the intertwining of the personal and relational dimensions, reality and narrative, writing and photography.

From her very first works, Sophie Calle dismantles the traditional assumptions of representation, entrusting photography (in constant dialogue with text) with the task of witnessing or evoking what is absent, lost, or inaccessible.

The literature on Francis Picabia (1879-1953) is still surprisingly limited compared to his fame and that of his contemporaries, and rarely goes beyond what has already been said by critics. A complex and often controversial figure, Picabia remains an artist about whom much has yet to be discovered.

Famous for having said that “in order to have clean ideas, you must change them like shirts”, he navigated Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstraction, and ultimately post-war Art Informel. His constant resistance to belonging to a single movement allowed him to freely combine techniques, languages, and themes, resulting in a body of work so diverse and heterogeneous that it seems to be the creation of several different artists.

The monograph accompanying the exhibition curated by Anne Berest, writer and great-granddaughter of the artist, presents over 150 works from major public and private collections worldwide. Divided into ten sections, each inspired by the theme of the night as a metaphor for life, the volume comprehensively traces Picabia’s career and eclectic style, offering a journey into his life—particularly his nights, because, as Berest points out, “Picabia lived by day and by night, to live twice as much as others.”

Through critical essays, archival materials, iconographic documents, and thematic in-depth studies, the volume invites the reader to immerse themselves in Picabia’s intimate, enigmatic, and surprising world, restoring the complexity of an author who continuously reinvented himself.

The work of Salvador Dalí contains numerous symbolic references to the world of fashion, such as shoes, clothing, jewelry, and accessories. Beyond mere symbolism, throughout his career Dalí collaborated directly with designers, photographers, and major fashion houses, helping to shape entirely new aesthetic languages.

“Dalí e la Moda” explores this lesser-known yet highly significant dimension of his work, showing how he influenced twentieth-century fashion and continues to inspire designers and creative directors today. Through works ranging from sculpture to jewelry, and from the mannequin to the living body, the volume reveals the diverse incarnations of Surrealism as an aesthetic of desire and metamorphosis, highlighting the greatness of an all-encompassing artist capable of transcending eras, languages, and boundaries.

Available in bookstores from September 2026.

Available in bookstores from September, the monograph “Aurelio Amendola. Burri, Vedova, Nitsch, Duomo Milano, Bernini, Canova, Michelangelo” is published by Skira on the occasion of the exhibition “Aurelio Amendola. Capolavori fotografati” (Photographed Masterpieces), currently on display at Palazzo Reale in Milan until September 6.

The volume brings together 85 photographs taken between 1976 and 2025. Through a comprehensive visual journey, it traces over fifty years of research by Aurelio Amendola (Pistoia, 1938), one of the leading interpreters of contemporary art photography. This photographic voyage brings into dialogue, for the very first time in a single volume, shots dedicated to the great masters of sculpture Michelangelo, Bernini, and Canova and twentieth-century artists Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, and Hermann Nitsch alongside previously unpublished images dedicated to the Duomo of Milan.

The images collected in the volume tell the story of the dialogue the photographer was able to establish with some of the greatest figures in art history, revealing both the secret life of the artworks and the deep identity of the artists. From the immortal sculptures of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and Antonio Canova, to the expressive power of Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, and Hermann Nitsch, up to the unpublished shots dedicated to the Duomo of Milan—which explore the cathedral as a plastic organism and sculpted matter: not merely architecture, but a true sculpture shaped by light and time—the monograph captures the core of a creative journey that has traversed art history for over fifty years, transforming light into narrative.

The volume features critical essays by Gianluigi Colin, Vincenzo Trione, Maurizio Calvesi, Marco Meneguzzo, Walter Guadagnini, Bruno Corà, Silvio Ceccato, Giuseppe Frangi, Tomaso Montanari, Sergej Androsov, Antonio Natali, Antonio Scurati, and Antonio Paolucci.

“Georg Baselitz”, the third title in the Milestones series, is now available in bookshops. At the Heart of Creation, edited by Denise Wendel-Poray, is dedicated to the most influential artists of our time. Produced in close collaboration with the artist and among the last publications Baselitz worked on before his recent passing, the volume traces the key works, turning points and reflections that have marked over sixty years of artistic exploration, offering a rare insight into the creative process of one of the leading figures in contemporary art.

This volume explores Baselitz’s work through the pieces and moments that have redefined his artistic journey, highlighting the bold experimentation and rigorous critical thinking that underpin it. As curator Denise Wendel-Poray points out: Rather than following a linear trajectory, this volume focuses on moments of rupture – from the early scandals to the use of inversion, from monumental sculpture to the Remix series and on to the late self-portraits – revealing a practice driven by continuous reinvention, productive uncertainty and a constant resistance to tradition.

The heart of the book is the lengthy conversation between Georg Baselitz and Cornelius Tittel, journalist and editorial director of Blau International, in which the artist looks back on the defining moments of his artistic journey, from his controversial early years in the 1960s to the creation of his famous upside-down images, right up to his most recent works. The book is rounded off by an original essay by Baselitz himself, in which he reflects on the very meaning of the term ‘milestone’, arguing that the greatest milestone for an artist is the ability to persevere and to continually challenge conventions and certainties. Visually, the volume includes a photographic reportage taken in his studio and an intimate section featuring personal photographs, archive images and material rarely accessible to the public, as well as a rich collection of illustrations showcasing his major works created between 1960 and 2025.