Andrew Berardini Bücher

Focusing on the evolution of Robert Ryan's artistic journey, this monograph explores his transition from musician and painter to a leading figure in tattoo art. It highlights his profound understanding of American tattoo traditions, infused with mystical interpretations of Eastern religious themes. The book features two decades of his remarkable paintings and tattoos, alongside interviews with notable figures in art and music, offering insights into his creative process and personal development as an artist.

Atem, Lehm —the German words for “breath” and “clay”, a title inspired by a poem by Paul Celan—is the first monograph dedicated to Latvian artist Daiga Grantina. Grantina’s solo show at GAMeC in Bergamo represented a major evolution in her poetics, a decisive and coherent change of palette and pace compared to her amorphous in-situ installations that have characterized her work to date. A mural forms an open-ended structure with its potentially infinite combinations: It seems to breathe, constraining and distending the grounding of space. The book’s structure mirrors this evolution, exploring a before, characterized by large-scale environmental installations in New York’s New Museum, the Biennale di Venezia and in Palais de Tokyo, Paris, to name a few, and an after, when the artist’s sculptural environments seem to shift their locus of perception.