Gli architetti, l'architettura e la decorazione delle ville piemontesi del XVIII secolo - Contributo alla storia dell'Architettura Piemontese

Jean Petit
Fidia edizioni d'arte

Cino Zucchi
Electa

Nicola Navone, Letizia Tedeschi
Accademia di architettura Università della Svizzera italiana

Jean Stern
Librairie Plon

Daniela Lamberini
Leo S. Olschki editore

Giangiorgio Zorzi
Neri Pozza

Gian Lorenzo Mellini
Electa Editrice

Alfonso Ciranna
Alfonso Ciranna editore

Raffaele Calzini
Edizioni d'arte Amilcare Pizzi

Giovanni Malesci
Istituto Geografico De Agostini

Thierry W. Despont
Assouline Publishing

Combining geometrical purity and gestural grandeur, Thierry W. Despont conjugates his architectural skills and painter's virtuosity in this spectacular collection of majestic, daunting, and singularly attracting orbs, turning his struggle with corrosive materials and richly textured pigments into a spiritual achievement. A compound of restless collage and swirling pigments, each orb is animated by a life of its own: colorful magma breaking through the scorched surface of the canvas, white streaks flickering against the encroaching and abysmal darkness of a stark black background that seems about to engulf it. At the same time dynamic and mesmerizing, they are mysterious and numinous, intimate and remote; a lesson in the "abstract sublime," they conjure up the immemorial awe of man in front of a cosmic world he both reveres and dreads. Beyond the eruptive, cataclysmic forces animating them, the orbs are inwardly radiant, animated by a life that seems to emerge from their depths, and conjure up a paradoxical harmony that embues them with an ultimate metaphysical dimension.

Ottavio Morisani
Di Mauro editore