BOLZANO.- 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The book brings together for the first time original texts and unpublished works unearthed in extensive archival research conducted with the artist's family.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.

Curated by Frida Carazzato (Museion) and Francesca Verga (Ar/Ge Kunst)