Piccola storia del mondo, 2024, glass marbles, galvanized metal, slope, 1 x30 x20 cm 


Mancamenti, 2024

28 black and white images digitally printed on 14 sheets 31.4 x 46.4 cm of Fedrigoni Arena rough ivory 120 gr paper, front and back, folded and collected in a white folder, same 300 gr paper, with embossed writing. The first 50 printed copies contain a multiple ink on paper.

Production: Deposito Solventi with Cambiaunavirgola editions. Graphics: Claudia Damiani and P. Polidori. Printing and layout: La Legatoria, Rome.


La partie carrèe, 2024, easels, plaid,-30x12x160 cm, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (Erotica artistica), Casa Baldi/ Carugati, Serralunga di Crea (AL)


GINNASTICA ARTISTICA. Con acrobazie nel tempo e doppio incontro magico

Ermanno Cristini
la centrale edizioni, Febryary 2024, 126 pages

 

 

Ermanno Cristini’s exhibition Künstlerische Gymnastik (Artistic Gymnastics) at the Konzepthaus Laboratorium in Thun, Switzerland, in May-June 2023, has been further developed in this publication. The works on display, almost as if they were "semi-finished works", define themselves through their compromise with their surroundings, an “impure” space in which it has been  decided to leave everything that clutters as a memory or relic of the immediately preceding activity: fragments of installations, prototypes, temporarily stored objects. The result is an exhibition to be discovered, a forest to be explored in search of the pertinent, the irrelevant and the impertinent, a territory of possible paths where above all what Roland Barthes defines as “filth” or “negligence” hovers and which in the end is the punctum of the form, whose duration, if it is given, is given in a during. This book chooses not to set itself up as a catalogue but is content with a narrative through images, made in the immediacy of a story, that of the author, written with the spirit of direct testimony rather than of a document.
Texts in Italian and German / Texte in Italienisch und Deutsch.

 

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Dispositivo binario per camminare l'orizzonte, 2024, chairs, bubble level, 140x60x50 cm



4+3+3. Dispositivo temporale di ascolto temporaneo (Temporary listening time device), 2024,  pencil tracing on tissue paper, ten elements, each one 35x25 cm , site specific, Casa Scaglioni, Castelponzone, element n.7, ph. Olivia Vighi


I RE NON TOCCANO LE PORTE. Mostra di un giorno per un giorno
la centrale edizioni, July 2024, 166 pages

  

The book, edited by Giancarlo Norese, with the pictures of exhibition at Casa Scaglioni, Castelponzone (Cr). 
A project by Ermanno Cristini with Giancarlo Norese
Susanna Baumgartner, Valentina Bobbo, Sergio Breviario, Valentino Canclini, Lucia Cappellazzi, Umberto Cavenago, Barbara Colombo, Ermanno Cristini, Emma Damiani, Oppy De Bernardo, Massimo De Caria, Al Fadhil, Luca Fantasia, Dino Ferruzzi, Arianna Giorgi, Giulio Lacchini, Silvia Listorti, Mauro Maffezzoni, Claudia Mangone, MicroCollection, Cecilia Mentasti, Giancarlo Norese, Bertille Ogier, Luisa Turuani, Olivia Vighi

 

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Artistic Gymnastics. Device to Walking the Horizon, Madeinfilandia Aircraft, 2017/ 2023, inkjet print on baryta paper, 40x30 cm


LE FORME DEL TEMPO PERSO

Ermanno Cristini
La Centrale Edizioni, December 2023, limited edition

 

The Form of Lost Time borned by chance while losting time contemplating an armchair that referred to Proust, The Form of Lost Time are the product of a negligent activity, removed from the purpose, finalized solely in itself. The Form of Lost Time then became a series of works created here and there, directly or through an intermediary, which this limited edition booklet lovingly collects in the belief that lost time is always the only place for found time.

 

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FORSE (ANCHE)

Ermanno Cristini
La Centrale Edizioni, editorial series la  a., July 2023, 146 pages

 

This book continues the selection of texts contained in Forse, published in 2018, and collects the texts written between 2019 and 2022. The new title has the addition of  "also": perhaps (also), Forse (anche).

 

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CAMMINARE L'RIZZONTE: FINESTRE

Susanna Baumgartner, Ermanno Cristini
La Centrale Edizioni, editorial series la c. and la a., vol. 42, March 2023, 116 pages

 

There are spaces that are "drawn" by a window; on this premise Susanna Baumgartner and Ermanno Cristini have created a project that has involved various artists and which has developed over a couple of years through four exhibitions in as many artists' studios. The intention was to walk on tiptoe in the spaces experiencing the peculiarity of the "air" or, if you prefer, the landscape that is generated in each space. Cosimo Filippini has created a story in images, which together with the dialogue between the two editors gave life to this publication.

 

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Artistic Gymnastics. Story Telling of-Here and Now, 2022, mixed media (two modified compasses on two tripods, two carpets, two clocks), E TRALLERALLERA, Art on paper, Lugano, ph. Cosimo Filippini


Tenere il posto (Fitzcarraldo),  2022, Borsalino Fedora Panama hat, cinema seats, PROSSIMAMENTE, Vela cinema, Varese

 

PROSSIMAMENTE. LA MOSTRA

La Centrale Edizioni,  January 2023, 136 pages

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DOPPIO STALLO

Ermanno Cristini, Rossella Moratto, Giancarlo Norese
La Centrale Edizioni, editorial series la c., vol. 41, September 2022, 80 pages

 

Started like a correspondence between Ermanno Cristini and Rossella Moratto, the resulting text has traveled the suspended time of an imaginary game of chess with no chance of solution. In the void of suspension have "happened" two exhibitions, one in Milan and one in Naples, which involved 63 artists, all of them commit to wasting time.

It was then born, with Giancarlo Norese, the idea of developing a book, initiated and never finished, but of which sare preserved some traces in this book.

 

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Artistic Gymnastics. Afocal device to walk the horizon,, Double Reversed, ink jet print on paper, 40x80cm, (two pieces 40x40 cm cd. with double black frame)


Disegno del tempo nel tempo (Proust), 2021-22, pencil on paper, ink jet print on paper, frame, seven piece (each 40x32 cm), 40x254 cm


Dispositivo voluttuario per sostenere il mondo (d'après Piero Manzoni), 2024, tripod, clamps, plastic cap, 180x50x50 cm


L'OSPITE E L'INTRUSO / DER GAST UND DER EINDRINGLING: LANALIVE (Lana, May 2022).

With Umberto Cavenago, Ermanno Cristini, Hannes Egger, Irene Fernández Arcas, Serena Fineschi, Giovanni Morbin, Giancarlo Norese, Luca Scarabelli, and Thomas Sterna.

La Centrale Edizioni, June 2022, 92 pages

 

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Artistic Gymnastics. Racconti di giornata nel rimpianto delle foto mai scattate (guardare il pendolo di profilo),  2022, ink jet print on aluminum , 40x30 cm, edited in three copies


WALKING THE HORIZON, WINDOW. 60th parallel

October 2021

Susanna Baumgartner's atelier, Milan

 

A project by Susanna Baumgartner and Ermanno Cristini

Susanna Baumgartner, Umberto Cavenago, Ermanno Cristini, Hannes Egger, Sergio Limonta, Giancarlo Norese

Studio di Susanna Baumgartner 

Artistic Gymnastics. Quadrangle binocular device to listen to the horizon be silent,  2021, paired binoculars , 10x50x20 cm


TO BE LATE. THE SHAPE OF LOST TIME, BERN

September 2021

Gepard14, Liebefeld, Bern

 

A project by Ermanno Cristini, Giancarlo Norese, Luca Scarabelli

Roberto de Luca, Marco Giacomoni, Olivia Notaro, Ermanno Cristini, Giancarlo Norese, Luca Scarabelli, Umberto Cavenago, Oppy De Bernardo, Ernesto Nicola Nicolai, Gabriele Di Matteo, Alessandro Rolandi

Artistic Gymnastics. To be late. La forma del tempo perso, Berna (Trattenere il respiro per liberare lo sguardo / trattenere lo sguardo per liberare il respiro), 2021, Bern, scotch tape, site specific,,ph. Marco-Giacomoni


The book of DIALOGO PART FIVE with the exhibitions at Gepard14, Liebefeld, Bern

A year before the opening, a group of artists started to publish texts and images on a shared online document. Following this dialogue, the show displays interweaving contributions by the same artists.

With Umberto Cavenago, Ermanno Cristini, Oppy De Bernardo, Roberto de Luca, Gabriele Di Matteo, Marco Giacomoni, Ernesto Nicola Nicolai, Giancarlo Norese, Olivia Notaro, Alessandro Rolandi, Luca Scarabelli.

 

Series la c., vol. 40, October 2021, La Centrale Edizioni, 144 pages

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Accasarsi, 2021 (2009), Marsiglia soap, 2x2,5x3,5 cm, ph. Luca Scarabelli


Ermanno Cristini, Giving Form to Precariousness. In Design of the Unfinished. A New Way of Designing Leftovers Regeneration, Luciano Crespi (Ed.), 2021, Springer

 

The architectural “leftovers” that distinguish the current urban landscape also constitute a focus for artistic research, which is committed to measuring itself with the concepts of temporariness and precariousness, intended as constitutive elements of contemporary culture. Throughout the look for a new paradigm inspired by the ethics of the wanderer, the relationship with architectural “leftovers” can go beyond a static vision of their recovery as containers. In fact, we can look at them thinking about light, mobile and non-definitive interventions. The attempt is to “negotiate” with the space in order to “giving form to precariousness”. This way, the artistic interventions would not only rethink the status of work of art, but they would also redefine the identity of the places for cultural, nomadic and other new uses. The chapter analyses these issues by examining two case histories: the exhibitions of Dialogos project ( at AssabOne, a former printshop in Milan, and at VitrínaDeniska a former shop-window in Olomouc in the Czech Republic) and Sopra-Sotto (a former supermarket in Sesto Calende, in Italy).


The book of ITINERANT POLYPHONIC TEXT FOR ONE VOICE, THREE MOVEMENTS, AND THREE MUSIC STANDS. The “lecture” made at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich,  in April 2016 in occasion of the centenary of the birth of DADA

Series la c., vol. 39, April 2021, La Centrale Edizioni, 44 pages

 

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Artistic Gymnastics.  Disegnare il respiro (Indecidibile), 2021,  pencil on paper, 50x35 cm

Artistic Gymnastics.  Disegnare il respiro (Respiro leggero - Berna), 2020,  pencil  on tissue paper, 140x100 cm



WALKING THE HORIZON, WINDOW. Warum willst du and’re fragen, 1840, OP.37 NO.11

September 2020

Olivia Vighi's atelier, Milan

 

A project by Susanna Baumgartner and Ermanno Cristini

Susanna Baumgartner, Ermanno Cristini, Gabriele Di Matteo, Giulio Lacchini, Serena Vestrucci, Olivia Vighi

Artistic Gymnastics.  Breath (Olivia Op. 37 n.11), 2020, rubber stamping on plexiglass photo frame, two elements, each, 13X18 cm, ph. Luca Scarabelli


The book contain nine drawings of my breathing

Series la c., vol. 30, June 2020, La Centrale Edizioni, 20 pages, limited edition of 30 numbered and signed copies

 

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The book of Dialogos part three & part four with the exhibitions at Vitrína Deniska and Galerie Caesar, Olomouc and Current, Milan 

A year before the opening, a group of artists started to publish texts and images on a shared online document. Following this dialogue, the show displays interweaving contributions by the same artists.

With Simona Barbera, Ermanno Cristini, Ronny Faber Dahl, Vladimír Havlík, Carlo Miele, Giancarlo Norese, Chiara Pergola, Luca Scarabelli, Una Szeemann / Bohdan Stehlik, and Miki Tallone 

 

Series la c., vol. 31, June 2020, La Centrale Edizioni, 148 pages   


AUTOPROGETTAZIONE

April 2020

Online project by Galleria Milano

Curated by Toni Merola, Nicola Pellegrini, Bianca Trevisan

Aristic Gymnastics, Breath (Autoprogettazione), 2020, pencil on paper, 29,7x21 cm


WALKABOUT #04. CUTTING IN

November 2019

Tufano Studio, Milan

 

From an idea by Ermanno Cristini,  Luca Scarabelli

Claudio Corfone, Ermanno Cristini, Carlo Dell’Acqua, Andrea Nacciarriti, Luca Pancrazzi, Mariateresa Sartori, Luca Scarabelli, Marcel Zischg  

Plastificato (Rue de Grand Augustin), 1990, polyester film on canvas, 100x80 cm, ph. Ermanno Cristini


WALKABOUT

The book of Walkabout project. It contain the Walkabout exhibitions 01, 02, 03, at Blenio, (Switzerland), Prato, Lana, Bozen 

La Centrale Edizioni, October 2019, 116 pages


CONVERSATIONAL INTERVIEWS

Curated by Ermanno Cristini, production Videoforart

Conversational Interviews, by Ermanno Cristini, consists in a series of dialogues with artists and critics/curators, searching for meaningful insights about the art world, con enphasizing a theoretical perspective.

 

Alessandro Castiglioni

Alessandro Castiglioni, intersezionista; Ermanno Cristini, abbriviatore cicloidale


PRIÈRE DE TOUCHER

The book of a cycle of exhibitions about the art of concealing and hiding an artwork. The question is: can you touch what you can't see? 

La Centrale Edizioni, June 2019, 126 pages


WALKABOUT #03. PASSO MOBILE

May - June 2019

Kunsthalle West, Lana (BZ)

 

From an idea by Ermanno Cristini,  Luca Scarabelli

Antonio Catelani, Umberto Cavenago, Ermanno Cristini, Gianluca Codeghini, Pierluigi Fresia, Giancarlo Norese, Luca Scarabelli, Roberta Segata, Marcel Zischg 

To be late nocturnal, 2019, scotch tape, chair, Kunsthalle West, Lana, ph. Ulrich Egger


DIALOGHI DI ESTETICA. PAROLA A ERMANNO CRISTINI


5 to 9 / 5 til 9

April 2019

Kirsuberjatréð Íslensk Hönnun · Reykjavík, Islanda 

 

Supported by Iceland University of the Arts (LHÍ) and by Himbrimi Gin  

Andrew Birk, Dieter Roth, Ermanno Cristini, Kristján Guðmundsson, Patricia Carolina, Wendy Cabrera Rubio

To be late roundabout (the shape of lost time - Reykjavik), 2019,  re-enacted by Ana Victoria Bruno, scotch tape, ph. Hugo-Llanes


ERMANNO CRISTINI: SALON STYLE

January 2019

Nowhere Gallery, Milan


ERMANNO CRISTINI: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS

A non-chronological selection of objects which could be artworks

Series la c., vol. 3, April, November 2018, January 2019, La Centrale Edizioni, 110 pages 


WALKING THE HORIZON. MADEINFILANDIA

16th July - 3th September 2017

Madeinfilandia, a project by Loris Cecchini and Luca Pancrazzi, Pieve a Presciano, Arezzo

 

Maura Banfo, Chiara Bettazzi, Stefano Boccalini, Loris Cecchini, Ermanno Cristini, Alessio de Girolamo, Matteo Fato, Sophie Ko, Filippo Leonardi, Luca Pancrazzi, Leonardo Pivi, Alessandra Spranzi, Giovanni Termini. Specials projects by Mattia Costa, Loredana Longo, Lorena Viale

Walking the horizon. Lost/found time, 2017, scotch tape ball on armchair found on site, Madeinfilandia (AR)