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Mario Diacono Gallery at Ars Libri

Mario Diacono Exhibitions at Ars Libri

Ars Libri Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Mario Diacono Gallery will now hold its exhibitions at Ars Libri's premises at 500 Harrison Avenue, in Boston's South End. Exhibitions will change on a regular basis, opening at Ars Libri on the first Friday night of each month, to coordinate with the widespread receptions held by the galleries of the the SoWa district on those nights.

Mario Diacono is internationally respected as one of the most astute critics and dealers of contemporary art, particularly for his ability to recognize important new artists at the start of their careers (Ellen Gallagher, for example). Over the past thirty years, his galleries in Bologna, Rome, New York and Boston, have shown some of the most sophisticated and advanced work being made. Noted for his serious and sensitive writings on contemporary art, as well as books of poetry and conceptual art of his own, Diacono is also a bibliophile, whose collection of rare books of the modern avant-garde was offered by Ars Libri in a special catalogue last year. While holding his exhibitions now at Ars Libri, Diacono continues to operate by appointment at 119 Braintree Street.

Ars Libri, the specialist rare bookdealers in the field of art, architecture, and photography, continues to show changing selections from its stock in its display cases at 500 Harrison Avenue. These include rare illustrated books, photographs, posters, and documents of Dada, Surrealism, and other modern art movements, as well as Renaissance and Baroque architectural treatises, Islamic manuscripts, nineteenth-century photographs, and classic livres d'artiste by Picasso and Matisse. Ars Libri also maintains the largest stock in America of out-of-print reference books on art and art history. These are accessible for browsing, both at the Harrison Avenue store, and at its branch, Ars Libri at the MFA (in the shop of the Museum of Fine Arts).

Current Exhibition

Current exhibition: Dec. 7, 2007 - Jan. 18, 2008, Luisa Rabbia - yesterdaytodaytomorrow

Current exhibition: Dec. 7, 2007 - Jan. 18, 2008, Laura Harrison - Death Rides a Horse, Surrendered City

Previous Exhibitions

Benjamin Degen - Bricklayer

Sally Ross - Canal Hi Fi

Kelley Walker - Untitled

Daniel Rich - Baghdad, 2006

Matthew Day Jackson - Diptych

Jason Fox - Sunrise at the Bottom of the Ocean

Andy Cross - The Greener Side of the Law

Sandra Allen - Synapse

Justen Ladda - Tree of Knowledge

Jules de Balincourt -ALLWEWERESAYINGWASGIVEPEACEACHANCE

Vincent Szarek - Amorphous and Fumed

James Siena - as heads is tails

Huma Bhabha - Degraded

David Bowes - You are Here

Neill Fearnley - Albuquerque 1970, 2006

Kent Henricksen - Patterns of Behaviour

Matthew Day Jackson - Oracle (Days of Future Passed)

Daniel Rich - Torre Velasca

Jutta Koether - homohomo

Enoc Perez - The United Nations, New York

Jodie Manasevit - Turbulence

John Tremblay - Star Ball Contribution

Elif Uras - Redland

Damian Loeb - Deliverance

Jessica Stockholder - Four Gummed-Up Bits of a Crepe Sole Balled Up Together with the Grimy Dirt on the Sidewalk and Stuck Dangling, but Firm, to the Bottom of the Shoe that Hangs on the Toe of the Foot under the Diving Board