This book showcases Eins. Un. One... (1984), one of the last major works of French American artist Robert Filliou (1926–87), which consists of 5,000 blue, red, yellow, black, white and wood-colored dice of various sizes, each with a single dot on its face, randomly distributed over a surface of nine meters in diameter. This new volume of the MAMCO Collection series contains an introductory text by Michel Collet, who explains the conceptual power of Filliou's practice, while Sophie Costes carefully surveys all the artist's works in the museum's collection. She shows how Filliou used play, action, philosophy and language to . . . .go to book page >>

The curator Hal Glicksman (born 1937) was a central figure in the development of the Californian art scene in the 1960s and 1970s. The Glicksman collection, gifted to MAMCO and Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne (KBCB) in 2023 and documented in this volume, provides insight into the prevailing culture of Los Angeles and its famous and lesser-known figures. As a student, Glicksman witnessed firsthand the Beat Generation (George Herms, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner) and came into contact with artists such as Ben Talbert and Fred Mason. He curated bold exhibitions of site-specific art projects (Michael Asher, Judy Chicago, Tom Eatherton, . . . .go to book page >>