Mousse Magazine & Publishing

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition curated by Paola Nicolin at XNL Piacenza, Michele Lombardelli: Piacenza – Los Angeles offers a literary bridge between these two very different cities through the art and poetry publications edited by Lombardelli between 1991 and 2008. Over the years, Lombardelli’s work has facilitated artistic encounters with some of the most brilliant personalities from Emilia, such as William Xerra, Carlo Berté, Mauro Sargiani, Emilio Villa, and Aldo Tagliaferri, as well as with great US poets and artists like Robert Crosson, John Baldessari, Martha Ronk, Dennis Phillips, and Guy Bennett. This network of exchanges and friendships forms the basis of the volume, in which Lombardelli, together with his friend, the poet Paul Vangelisti, skillfully intertwine poetry, visual arts, music, and literature. Edited by Paola Nicolin Texts by Roberto Reggi, Paola Nicolin, Michele Lombardelli, Nathalie Du Pasquier, and Paul Vangelisti.

With Postproduction, the third and final issue of In Medias Res, Fluentum's research project on the history of its premises concludes by literally taking stock of both the production of and productivity inherent in moving images. At the core of this publication are new essays on film shot in the building: beginning in the mid-1990s, mere months after the US abandoned its West Berlin headquarters, these films formed part of reunified Germany's nascent creative industry, and continued to be made throughout the 2000s. Edited by Dennis Brzek and Junia Thiede Contributions by Loretta Fahrenholz, Richard Hawkins, Thomas Helbing, Margaret Honda, Evelyn Kreutzer, Elisa R. Linn, D'Ette Nogle, Maya Schweizer, Richard Sides, Mike Terry, Peter Wächtler, Florian Wüst

“Martin Maeller: Nervous Dust” is the artist’s first monograph, published on the occasion of his 2022 solo exhibition at Kunstverein Göttingen. It offers the first comprehensive overview of Maeller’s artistic work, and features contributions from writers and other artists providing deeper insights into its themes. Maeller’s art combines personal experiences, text, and elements of pop culture and subculture to observe subjective and collective states of alienation and belonging. Spanning a diverse array of media, including printmaking, sculpture, and installation, his practice constructs inner worlds between melancholy and loss, affection and care. The visual and conceptual language questions the construction of identity and emphasizes the sensitivity and vulnerability inherent in it. It deciphers and maps the dark terrain of the unconscious and focuses on reclaiming personal agency. Edited by Vincent Schier Texts by Alex Bennett, Philipp Hindahl, Martin Maeller, Cathrin Mayer, Bunny Rogers, Vincent Schier, P. Staff Graphic design by Samuel Bänziger, Bänziger Hug.