Electa is the editor of the Faenza Contemporary Art Festival and the Festival Notebooks, published each year, are a selection of the best contributions. A unique occasion to see art through the words of the artists who create it, to understand where it is going and what needs it fulfils.
Under the scientific supervision of Carlos Basualdo, Pier Luigi Sacco and Angela Vettese, not works of art but artists, curators, critics, and representatives from museums, cultural venues and art schools, gallery owners and businessmen, civil servants, editors and journalists have created a great story about art in the contemporary scenario, comparing ideas and points of view. The voices of Dan Graham, Germano Celant, Magdalena Campos-Pons, Antonio Marras, Oliviero Toscani. Italian art in the words of Stefano Arienti, Angela Vettese, Francesco Vezzoli, Massimiliano Gioni, even “art explained to children” by Achille Bonito Oliva.