Exhibitors and cultural program

The third edition of FLAT - Fiera Libro Arte Torino—the international event dedicated to artist’s books and contemporary art—takes place in Turin from November 1 to 3 in the La Centrale space within the Nuvola Lavazza complex.

The creators of FLAT, Chiara Caroppo and Mario Petriccione, organise the fair and the selection of participants with the Scientific Committee formed of Liliana Dematteis, curator of artist books and collector, Turin; Richard Flood, Former Director of Special Projects and Curator At Large, New Museum, New York; David Senior, Head of Library and Archives, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Ken Soehner, Chief Librarian, Watson Library, MET New York; Lawrence Weiner, artist, New York.

Exhibitors: &: christophe daviet-thery, Paris, FR; 16b editions, Strasbourg, FR; 20th Century Art Archives, Cambridge, GB; 89books, Palermo, IT; a+mbookstore, Milan, IT; Archivio Magazine, Turin, IT; Arengario Studio Bibliografico, 17.2 Art Gallery, Gussago, Brescia, IT; Artphilein Editions, Lugano, CH; Avarie, Paris, FR; border_less, Istanbul, TR; Camera Austria, Graz, AT; Captures Editions, Valence, FR; Centro Di, Florence, IT; Corraini Edizioni, Mantua, IT; Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna, IT; edcat.net, Zurich, CH; Edicola 518, Perugia, IT; Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, CH; Familia Editions, New York, US & Rio De Janeiro, BR; Florence Loewy, Paris,  FR; Fully Booked, New York, US;  Fw:Books, Amsterdam, NL; Gagarin, Antwerp, BE; hopefulmonster editore, Turin, IT; Jason Rovito, Bookseller, Toronto, CA;  Juxta Press, Milan, IT; Kabul magazine, Turin, IT; Kaph Books, Beirut, LB; Librería El Astillero, Colindres, ES; Libreria OOLP, Turin, IT; Little Steidl, Göttingen, DE; Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT; Nero Editions, Rome, IT; PCCC, Paolo Credi Collectors Consulting, Modena, IT; Printed Matter, Inc., New York, US; Punch, Bucharest, RO; Quodlibet, Macerata, IT; Ridinghouse, London, GB; Roma Publications, Amsterdam, NL; Rorhof, Bolzano, IT; Studio bibliografico Giorgio Maffei, Turin, IT; Studio Montespecchio, Montespecchio, IT; Tenderbooks, London, GB;  The MIT Press, London, GB; Three Star Books, Paris, FR; Tim Byers Art Books, Richmond, GB; Valiz, Amsterdam, NL; Viaindustriae Publishing + Colli Publishing Platform, Foligno, Rome, IT; Witty Kiwi, Turin, IT; Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., Ljubljana, SL.

Two important initiatives supported by the CRT Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art take place again this year: the FLAT Prize – CRT Art Foundation, set up to reward an unpublished project, chosen from the proposals of publishers participating in the fair; the series of acquisitions that will enrich the Fondo Giorgio Maffei, dedicated to the great bibliophile and collector of rare books on the arts of the twentieth century, hosted at the GAM, Turin’s Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.

FLAT also hosts a rich cultural program to reflect on the state of art publishing.

This year’s exhibition, Maurizio Nannucci / This sense of Openness, is dedicated to Italian artist Maurizio Nannucci. Curated by Elena Volpato, the show brings together 150 works, including publications and multiples, created by the artist between 1967 and 2019. The book Maurizio Nannucci / This sense of openness / Correspondence, also curated by Volpato, published by FLAT and Zona Archives, will collect for the first time a wide selection of letters, postcards and telegrams received since the Sixties from many artists with whom Nannucci developed a correspondence, aimed mainly at the creation of publications and exhibition opportunities.

Finally, the Public Program—a multifaceted series of talks, conversations, round tables, art and artist’s book presentations curated by Francesca Valentini—focusing on the exhibition catalogue and offering a critical analysis of its salient features transformations. Participants: Ilaria Bombelli, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Luca Cerizza, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Chiara Costa, Thomas Demand, Liliana Dematteis, Herwig Kempinger, Abbott Miller, Maurizio Nannucci, Michalis Pichler, Max Schumann, Ken Soehner, Francesca Valentini, Helena Velèna, Elena Volpato.