Product Description: Jan Fabre, born in Antwerp in 1958, is one of the most innovative and versatile artists of his generation. Over the past 30 years, he has produced work as a visual artist, performance artist, director and author, expanding the horizons of every genre...read more

Product Description: A trained anthropologist, Richard Nonas has spent long periods among the Canadian Inuit and in the deserts of Mexico. An environmental sculptor, Nonas returned to Italy after an almost 30-year absence; there he worked with natural materials such as wood, stone and metal, and taught 24 young international artists...read more

Product Description: In the summer of 2001, Marina Abramovic was a visiting professor at the Corso Superiore de Arte Visiva, Fondazione Ratti of Como, Italy. Her students actively participated in classes based on one of Abramovic's dearest themes: energy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Querini Stampalia Foundation*one of the oldest Italian cultural institutions*and the fashion firm FURLA have come together to promote the first invitation-only prize for Italian artists, serving to bring attention to today's young Italian artists. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Haim Steinbach builds his work around the relationship that ties man to objects; he interprets this bond as being a projection of one's emotional life. As visiting professor at the Ratti foundation, Steinbacj lead 25 students in the discovery of the value of objects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Documented here is Hamish Fulton's "Group Walking Project" in Italy, in which he and 25 other artists spent 14 days walking in the mountains. The resulting photographs reflect on the themes of nature, life, art and their relationships.