threestarbooks

26/01/2026

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Raffaella della Olga: Typescripts
November 22, 2025 – May 31, 2026
Clark Art Institute
Curated by Robert Wiesenberger
Photography by Mandy Johnson

14/12/2025

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Raffaella della Olga
Typescripts
Edited by Robert Wiesenberger
Published by The Clark Art institute and distributed by Yale University Press

Contributions by Caitlin Woolsey, Raffaella della Olga, Esther Ferrer and Christophe Boutin

The first book on an innovative artist who uses modified typewriters to create abstract and colorful bookworks and paintings

Raffaella della Olga makes unique artist’s books using modified typewriters and multicolor ink ribbons on a range of materials—from tracing paper to photo paper to sandpaper. Della Olga (b. 1967, Italy; lives and works in France) worked briefly as an attorney before becoming an artist; now, seeking refuge from the limitations of language, she grinds down the characters on her machines and communicates through form, color, texture, and rhythm. Della Olga plays her typewriters like instruments, following a script in some cases and improvising freely in others. Her output includes artist’s books, typed paintings, and cut fabric works.

The first monograph on della Olga, this book features photographic documentation of her singular studio practice; two scholarly essays on her work in relation to conceptual and minimalist art, as well as typewriter art, concrete poetry, and experimental music; a conversation with the artist; and color plates of her work.

30/11/2025

Get ready for MARGIELA HOMESCHOOL by March 2026

25/10/2025

Three Star Book in Torino.
@ phonetics
31 Oct – 2 Nov 2025
Via Buscalioni 4, 10153 Torino
FAIR HOURS
10:30am - 7:00pm every day

Friday 31 Oct
Opening
– from 10:30am
Performance by Francesca Flora
– 8:00pm
Impromptu listening session
by Michele Ferrari
– 10:00pm

Saturday 1 Nov
Performance by Grace & Raffaella
(ML & Vittoria Totale)
– 8:00pm
Music selection
curated by Andrea Manzi
– from 10:00pm

Sunday 2 Nov
Gerard & Kelly, RUG.
Performance with musician
Joseph Schiano di Lombo
– 11:00am

25/10/2025

phonetics
31 Oct – 2 Nov 2025
Via Buscalioni 4, 10153 Torino
FAIR HOURS
10:30am - 7:00pm every day

Friday 31 Oct
Opening
– from 10:30am
Performance by Francesca Flora
– 8:00pm
Impromptu listening session
by Michele Ferrari
– 10:00pm

Saturday 1 Nov
Performance by Grace & Raffaella
(ML & Vittoria Totale)
– 8:00pm
Music selection
curated by Andrea Manzi
– from 10:00pm

Sunday 2 Nov
Gerard & Kelly, RUG.
Performance with musician
Joseph Schiano di Lombo
– 11:00am

24/07/2025

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Jonathan Monk
Black Sabbath

2022
20 copies
Signed and numbered
36 pages
30,5×30,5 cm (closed)
12×12 in.
Black Indian ink on paper
Silkscreened cover
Slipcase

For “BLACK SABBATH”, a limited edition volume published at Three Star Books, Jonathan Monk has decided to throw a BLACK SABBATH fan tee shirt, soaked in black Indian Ink, onto paper. The stained sheets were then folded as pages to compose a book.

With this simple and direct gesture, Monk connects with the history of action painting: from the Gutai group, Yves Klein’s Anthropometry Performances to Nikki de Saint Phalle’s series of “tirs à la carabine”…
As all artistic performance that produces a trace or a souvenir of its own action, Jonathan Monk’s “Black Sabbath” and “Heavy Metal Paintings” are very expressive, delicate and seductive. The viewer projects in  “Black Sabbath” and “Heavy Metal Paintings” its very own experience and knowledge of heavy metal music and its inherent roughness and power as well as the history of action painting.

“BLACK SABBATH” by Jonathan Monk is a tribute to the great band that fueled the artist’s youth with raw power. Keith McMillan and The Bloomsbury Group created the iconic cover and logo of the revered album “Master Of Reality”. Monk is a fan for eternity.

17/06/2025

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Maurizio Cattelan’s new works « CRUMBS » for in the kundenkabine of the .social.club . Hand-painted unique watercolors. Bring your looking glasses!

09/06/2025

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Maurizio Cattelan with Three Star Books is present in the Kundenkabine of the Basel Social Club 2025

June 15–21, 2025

Rittergasse 25
4051 Basel

03/06/2025

31/05/2025

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BOOKS OF RESISTANCE — The Resilience of Artists’ Books in a Digital Age
6 June 2025 – 1 February 2026
The exhibition Books of Resistance — The Resilience of Artists’ Books in a Digital Age, at the Serralves Library, featuring books, ephemera, film, pamphlets, performance, and posters by BlackMass Publishing, Bread and Puppet Theater, Marcel Broodthaers, Carla Filipe, Sébastien de Ganay, Ryan Gander, Stefan Marx, Annika Ström, Martine Syms, Nora Turato, Kandis Williams, and Honza Zamojski, is organized by the Serralves Foundation — Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, and is curated by Christophe Boutin and coordinated by Sónia Oliveira.

16/05/2025

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Gerard & Kelly,
RUG

Published in 2025 in an edition of only 20 copies, numbered and signed.
It comprises 11 loose signatures housed in a 33 × 23 cm silkscreened fabric portfolio.
Printed on 300 gsm oyster pearl paper using Indigo digital offset and hand-applied gouache stencils.

RUG is a performance score by artists Gerard & Kelly spanning eleven tactile spreads, where architecture, cinema, choreography, and art converge. Inspired by their film “E for Eileen,” shot in Eileen Gray’s villa E-1027, it’s a poetic manifesto for interdisciplinary creation. 

RUG fuses film stills, deconstructed patterns, and E-1027 plans with a hand-stenciled poem—meticulously arranged as notations for choreography and musical improvisation.

Housed in a silkscreened folder tied with fabric ribbons, RUG echoes the architect’s portfolio—both functional and full of possibility—paying homage to Gray and Badovici’s 1929 Maison en bord de mer.