Alessandro Di Pietro: Ghostwriting Paul Thek, edited by Cornelia Mattiacci and Peter Benson Miller, is conceived as a compendium of texts and notes generated for the artist Alessandro Di Pietro as he developed the exhibition project Ghostwriting Paul Thek: Time Capsules and Reliquaries. The traveling exhibition—which appeared at the Watermill Center, New York; CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy; and Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome—presented pieces conceived in dialogue with the work of the legendary US artist Paul Thek (1933–1988).
The texts, notes, and other original sources featured in the volume—ranging from essays to WhatsApp messages, diary entries, and newspaper pages—are presented in the languages in which they were contributed by the twenty-five authors involved (English or Italian). They re-create the intellectual context for the development of Thek’s/Di Pietro’s intertwined ideas, blurring fact and fiction and maintaining a certain ambiguity of authorship. The publication’s sole reprint comes from Chris Kraus’s Aliens & Anorexia (2000).
The exhibition/publication project was the winner of the eleventh edition of the Italian Council (2022) call for proposals issued by the General Directorate for Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Edited by Cornelia Mattiacci and Peter Benson Miller
Texts by Carlo Antonelli, Paisid Aramphongphan, Giulia Bini, Anna Castelli, Dustin Cauchi, Fabio Cherstich, Luigi Alberto Cippini, Guido Costa, Paul Cotton, Anna Cuomo, Allen Frame, Niccolò Gravina, Noah Khoshbin, Chris Kraus, Owen Laub, Cornelia Mattiacci, Peter Benson Miller, Massimo Minini, Susanne Neubauer, Leonie Radine, Federico Sargentone, Oliver Shultz, Stella Succi, Pier Mauro Tamburini, and Jeppe Ugelvig.
232 pages, 13 x 19 cm, softcover, Mousse (Milan).