Museion and Ar/Ge Kunst present Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui? (Lucia Marcucci. Is That All?) the first monographic publication dedicated to the eclectic Italian artist, Lucia Marcucci (Florence, 1933). Published by bruno (Venice), the book is the result of a research project based on two exhibitions staged in 2023 – Lucia Marcucci. Poesie e no at Museion and L’Offesa at Ar/Ge Kunst.
The publication, supported by the Italian Council program (2024) promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture, is accompanied by an international presentation tour. From November 2025 to June 2026, this tour will cross Italy and Europe, stopping at the Centro Pecci in Prato, Palazzo Butera in Palermo, MART in Rovereto, the Université de Liège, the University of Sussex in Brighton and CAP – Centre d’art contemporain de Saint-Fons.
Thanks to contributions from nine writers – Claudia Crocco, Gilda Policastro, Francesco Tenaglia, Maria Alicata, Annalisa Sacchi, Giulia Crispiani, Dalila Colucci, Vanessa Desclaux and Raffaella Perna – the book offers a collective and multidisciplinary interpretation of the work of this key figure in Italian visual poetry. The predominance of female voices testifies to Marcucci’s commitment to challenging the stereotypes that led, amongst other things, to the objectification of the female body in post-Second World War consumer society. Her use of irony as a tool for denouncing imperialist policies and abusive practices has also profoundly influenced generations of scholars and curators.
Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui? addresses the key themes that emerge from the two 2023 exhibitions and explores them through thematic clusters that reflect the way visual poetry is expressed in literature, film, performance and society. Each section opens with quotations from the artist, many published for the first time, as well as commentary from critics, highlighting their political vitality and relevance.
A poet, visual artist, performer and experimenter, Lucia Marcucci turns words into a living material that can be broken and reinvented. In her work, language fuses with the human body, film, graphics and performance in a continuous crossover of genres and media that anticipates much contemporary research into linguistic contamination. The book brings together for the first time, original texts and unpublished works unearthed in extensive archival research conducted with the artist’s family.
Thanks to the support of the Italian Council, the project aims to raise awareness of Marcucci’s work internationally and to strengthen the links between Italian and European visual poetry. Each stop on the presentation tour will be an opportunity to explore a different facet of her art, from the relationship between poetry and image, to the language of cinema and performance as a political and collective act.
International book presentation tour with the curators of the project, Frida Carazzato and Francesca Verga, present:
•7 November 2025 – Centro Pecci, Prato
Presentation of the volume with Claudia Crocco, Italian literature and poetry researcher, at the Centro Pecci Books Festival 2025 - IVth Edition
•18 December 2025 – Palazzo Butera, Palermo
Presentation of the volume with Gilda Policastro, writer and literary critic
•20 January 2026 – MART, Rovereto
Presentation of the volume with Duccio Dogheria, Head of the ‘900 Archive at Mart
•2 March 2026 – Université de Liège, Liège
Presentation of the volume with Maria Elena Minuto and Michel Delville professors and art critics, at the Universitè de Liège
•15 May 2026 – University of Sussex, Brighton
Feminist Resonances between Word and Image: Reading Art in the long 1970s, a one-day symposium with Karen di Franco, curator and writer, and Francesco Ventrella, art historian and professor at the University of Sussex.
•3–5 June 2026 – CAP Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Fons (Lyon)
Book presentation and performance “BLEAH!!!” by Annamaria Ajmone and Laura Agnusdei
•11 June 2026 – Museion, Bolzano
Presentation of the volume and end of tour
Technical summary
Lucia Marcucci. Tutto qui?
Curated by: Frida Carazzato, Francesca Verga
Design: bruno – Andrea Codolo, Giacomo Covacich, with Alessandro Durighello
Publisher: bruno, Venice
Languages: Italian, English, German
Pages: 248 | Price: 35 € | ISBN 978-88-99058-85-2
Year: 2025
Cultural partners
CAP Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Fons, Lyon
Fondazione Palazzo Butera, Palermo
Foundation for Contemporary Arts in Tuscany – Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato
MART the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Trento and Rovereto
Université de Liège, UR TRaverses, CIPA
University of Sussex, School of Media, Arts and Humanities, Falmer
