ΒΟΟΚ:Germano Celant-The Story of (my) Exhibitions, Silvana Editoriale

The book “The Story of (my) Exhibitions” which Germano Celant had been working on for years, is published posthumously and represents the professional and spiritual testament of the curator, known and respected internationally.  The volume tells the logics of exhibiting that characterized Celant’s work presenting, in chronological order, a selection of 34 exhibitions: from “Arte povera – Im-spazio” (Genoa, 1967), to “Post Zang Tumb Tuuum: Art Life Politics. Italia 1918-1943” (Milan, 2018). The book describes the exhibiting logic characterizing Celant’s work, the methodology of scientific research, and the different kinds of installations he generated. It presents a selection of exhibitions in chronological order, able to reflect the complexity of his contribution to the history of exhibitions. The volume was intended to retrace the exhibitions both on an ideational and a visual level, through over 300 pictures of the actual displays and the critical texts that were published in the respective catalogues. Thus emerges the evolution in Celant’s curatorial practice, from personal interpretation to his focus on historical documents, with an eye always turned towards non-traditional media (book, record, photography) and towards the encroachments between different languages: art , architecture, design.-Dimitris Lempesis