Alessandro Di Pietro: Ghostwriting Paul Thek

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 exhibitionwhich appeared at the Watermill Center, New York; CAN Centre dArt Neuchtel, Switzerland; Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy; and Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Romepresented pieces conceived in dialogue with the work of the legendary US artist Paul Thek (19331988). The texts, notes, and other original sources featured in the volumeranging from essays to WhatsApp messages, diary entries, and newspaper pagesare 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 Theks/Di Pietros intertwined ideas, blurring fact and fiction and maintaining a certain ambiguity of authorship. The publications sole reprint comes from Chris Krauss 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.