November 21: Margit Rowell—Luciano Fabro: Reinventing Sculpture

Presented by 192 Books, Margit Rowell in conversation with Matilde Guidelli-Guidi to discuss her new book Luciano Fabro: Reinventing Sculpture (Monacelli, 2024)

This event will take place in person at 192 Books at 192 10th Ave on Thursday, November 21st at 7:00 PM ET. Seating is limited. RSVP for free here. The discussion will also be streamed directly on this page. There is no login required. A recording will be archived.

Books will be available for sale after the conversation.

Margit Rowell—Luciano Fabro: Reinventing Sculpture (Monacelli, 2024)

Luciano Fabro (1936–2007) was an original member of Arte Povera, the materials- and experience-based art movement that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s. He went on to be exhibited internationally, becoming the first artist from the group to receive a major US retrospective, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1992. Written by esteemed critic and curator Margit Rowell, who collaborated with Fabro repeatedly in his later years, this comprehensive, heavily illustrated monograph is the first complete overview of Fabro’s career.

Photo by Daniel Soutif

After over thirty years as a Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Musée national d'art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, The Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Margit Rowell is now working as a free-lance writer and curator. While in Barcelona, she organized a retrospective in collaboration with Luciano Fabro (1990) and has contributed to other museum exhibition catalogues devoted to the artist (San Francisco, 1992, Madrid, 2015). She is the author, coauthor, or contributor to numerous catalogues and books on twentieth-century artists. She lives in Paris.

Photo by Gabriela Herman

Matilde Guidelli-Guidi is a curator and curatorial department head at Dia Art Foundation. Her recent and upcoming projects include exhibitions of work by Cameron Rowland, Kishio Suga, and Duane Linklater; discursive commissions to Paul Pfeiffer, Michael Krebber, and Martine Syms; and a primary-source book of Senga Nengudi’s drawings, writings, and performances for the camera.