Studio Bruno Tonini

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Gussago, Lombardia
Studio Bruno Tonini

Is a bookstore and research space focused on modern and contemporary artistic movements. Ha sede a Brescia e il suo proprietario/fondatore è Alessandra Faita.

"17.2 art gallery" è una galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea specializzata in libri d'artista, posters, fotografie, autografi, manoscritti, multipli. "17.2 art gallery" is a modern and contemporary art gallery specialized in artists' books, posters, photographs, autographs, manuscripts, multiple. It is based in Brescia and its owner / founder is Alessandra Faita.

27/09/2026

James Lee Byars
“100.000 minutes”
Antwerp, Anny De Decker White Wide Space, 1969

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26/09/2026

Jack PIERSON
“Angel Youth”
Kóln, Aurel Schreiber, 1992

cm 21x14,7, paperback, pp. [88]. Jack Pierson first photobook takes its title from a hotel room where the artist stayed in Las Vegas. Combining highly graphic elements with blurred photographs of a girl by a swimming pool and scenes from a drive-in restaurant, the book records Pierson’s memories, emotions, and distinctive visual sensibility

Bibliografphy: PIERSON 2008: pages 1-92

“I always understood the value of a book. Sheets of paper loose are a mess. Sheets of paper even stapled together become a book or a magazine, something to keep. The New York City bookstore Printed Matter was a great source of inspiration for me and I think I saw a Lawrence Weiner book there that seemed to look like a photo novella with stills from a movie he had made. This was perhaps floating in my head when Aurel Scheibler generously offered to make a publication to go with my first exhibition at his Cologne gallery in 1991. The format was modeled on 1950s physique magazines that I was a fan of. Richard Pandiscio, the famous art director, donated the cover design for Angel Youth from his desk at Interview magazine. He was never credited because I wanted an “anonymous” feeling to the whole thing. I hereby acknowledge his participation now. Thanks for your patience, Richard.[...]” (Jack Pierson, NYC January 2008)

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25/09/2026

Alighiero BOETTI
Alighiero Boetti (Turin) “Besprechungsvortrag” (…) - Mangione Salvo (Turin) segnet München 3 mal am 11.4.1970
München, Aktionsraum 1, 1970

86x61 cm., poster published on the occasion of the «Besprechungsvortrag» action held on 11 April 1970 in Munich during the Aktionsraum 1 demonstrations. The black and white photocopied image reproduces a 1968 photomontage entitled «Twins», in which the artist doubles himself in two figures. Two editions of this poster were printed, made between March and April 1970, using a different type of paper and weight (lighter in the first run), between one and the other version there are slight differences in print at the edge of the sheet. Copy printed in the second run. [Bibliography: Aktionsraum 1 1971: pag. 116; L’Arengario Studio Bibliografico 2012; n. 38.4; Maffei - Picciau 2011: pag. 270].

The poster also advertises Salvo Mangione’s action «Salvo Mangione segnet München 3 Mal», which did not take place. Salvo was stopped at the Austro-German customs with 8 grams of ma*****na and repatriated. / Il poster pubblicizza anche l’azione di Salvo Mangione «Salvo Mangione segnet München 3 Mal», che non ebbe luogo. Salvo fu fermato alla dogana austro tedesca con 8 grammi di ma*****na e rimpatriato.

25/09/2026

Almir MAVIGNIER
“Mavignier addition permutation subtraktion auflösung”
Germany, Edition Meißner, 1975

59,5x84 cm, illustrated poster, 5-color screen print. Edition size not specified.

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24/09/2026

David SHRIGLEY
“Little Cockroach Press, 11 – November 1998 – [title on cover “Centre - Parting”]”
Toronto, Art Metropole, Canada - n. 11, 1998

20,4x12,7 cm, softcover with two metal staples, pp. [14], artist’s book entirely illustrated with black line drawings, published as the 11th zine in the series of 20 pamphlets issued by Little Cockroach Press. Edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered.

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23/09/2026

Ida APPLEBROOG
“Blue Books (A Performance)”
[New York], Blue Books, 1981

19,7x15,7 cm; 7 volumes, softcover, pp. [20] each; artist’s book in 7 parts, entirely illustrated with the artist’s drawing, with some remarks. The order is not specified, only the first and last part can be identified: (I vol.) “A Performance”; “I can’t. A Performance”; “It’s very simple. A Performance”; “Stop crying. A Performance”; “So?. A Performance”; “I mean it. A Performance”; “A Performance” (“the end” on back cover). Artist’s autograph date and signature in pencil on the last but one page of the last volume. Unspecified print run. First edition.

Bibliography: Bury 2015: pag. 86; Joosten - Roettig 2018: pp. 24-25; Moeglin Delcroix 2011: pag. 311

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22/09/2026

Edward RUSCHA
“Colored people”
[Los Angeles], self-published, 1972

17,8x14,1 cm., yellow paperback, pp. [64], typographic cover, artist’s book illustrated with fifteen color images of various plants (cactus and palm trees). First edition. Edition of 4065 copies, exemplar including a “compliments of the author” card.

Bibliography: Siri Engberg - Clive Phillpot, “Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999. Catalogue Raisonne”, Minneapolis-New York, Walker Art Center, 1999: volume II, B 16, pag. 126

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21/09/2026

Andy Warhol / Andy Warhol, 1968

Stockholm, Moderna Museet, [printing: Sydsvenska Dagbladets, Malmö], 27 × 21 cm., paperback, pp. [640].

Catalogue / artist’s book published on the occasion of the exhibition at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (February–March 1968), entirely illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of Warhol’s works (photographs by Rudolph Burckhardt, Eric Pollitzer and John D. Schiff), stills from his films, and photographs of artists and friends taken at Warhol’s Factory (photographs by Billy Name). Text consisting of 14 pages of Warhol quotes in English translated into Swedish. Color-illustrated cover reproducing Warhol’s Flowers. First edition. Some creases to the spine; some pages detached.

“Kasper König developed a radical grid that placed Warhol’s work in dialogue with conceptual artists such as On Kawara. Four groups of images brought together his artworks, his social and professional milieu, and outraged reviews from provincial American newspapers. Kasper König assembled the book on Leo Castelli’s Xerox machine, repeatedly photocopying images until the catalogue began to mirror Warhol’s own serial methods. Uncaptioned sequences by Billy Name and Stephen Shore transformed the Factory into two distinct visual narratives, reinforcing the book’s status as an autonomous multiple. Printed like a newspaper in 200,000 copies and sold for one dollar, it circulated far beyond museums before becoming a cult object and collector’s item.”

Bibliography: Anne Moeglin Delcroix, “Esthétique du livre d’artiste. Una introduction à l’art contemporain», Paris, Le Mot et Le Reste / Bibliothèque Nationale de France”, 2011: pag. 53 con illustrazione; Andrew Roth - Philip E.Aarons - Claire Lehmann, «”Artists who make books”, London Phaidon, 2017: pag. 167

20/09/2026

Matt MULLICAN - Lawrence WEINER
“In the crack of the dawn”
Brussels, Mai 36 galerie, Lucerne and Yves Gevaert, 1991

26,8x17,3 cm, softcover, pp. [28]; artist’s book / comic book, entirely illustrated with texts, graphic compositions, and drawings of visionary cities created by Matt Mullican in collaboration with Lawrence Weiner. A special edition of 100 numbered copies, signed by the artists on the colophon and issued in a hardcover binding, was also printed from the same edition; this copy belongs to the regular unnumbered edition and is unsigned. First edition.

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