Monography

2002
Morgan Robert C., Alain Kirili, Paris, éditions Flammarion.

 

Books by Alain Kirili

2012
Alain Kirili, Art Absolument, Numéro Spécial, Paris Octobre 2012.

2007
Mémoires de sculpteur, collection " écrits d’artistes", Paris, éditions ENSBA.

2003
Dessins  de David Smith: Un choix de Alain Kirili, Paris, éditions ENSBA.

1997
Célébrations, Paris, éditions Christian Bourgois.

1996
Sculpture and Jazz, Paris, éditions Stock.

1987
Rodin, Dessins érotiques, Paris, éditions Gallimard.

1986
Statuaire, Paris, éditions Denoël.

1984
Alberto Giacometti, Plâtres peints, Paris, éditions Maeght.

1982
Yoni-Lingam, Munich, éditions Schellman & Kluser.

 

Exhibition Catalogues

2011
Alain Kirili, Geste de Résistance, Musée de Caen, France

• Robert Paxton, The Eye of Hitler

2007
Kirili et les Nymphéas, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

2007
Alain Kirili & Gaston Lachaise, Salander O'Reilly Gallery , New York, USA

• Alain Kirili, Gaston Lachaise, a french american
• Paula Rand Hornbostel, Flesh In Ecstasy

2006
Kirili - Steichen, Correspondances, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

• Raphael Rubinstein, A Game for Two or More Players : Kirili, Steichen, Mallarmé

2004
Alain Kirili, New York Studio School, États-Unis

• Paul Audi, In the name of creation
• Sarah Lewis, Bambara Raphsodies

2003
David Smith's Drawings , ENSBA, Paris, France

• Robert Storr, David Smith : the probity of his art

2002
Kirili dialogue avec Carpeaux, Musée de Valenciennes, France

1999
Alain Kirili, Musée de Grenoble, France

• Edmund White, The Commandments Mystical fonts by Alain Kirili

1999
Alain Kirili : a dialog with Rodin , Fine arts Museum of San Francisco, USA

• Steven A. Nash, Alain Kirili: A Dialog with Rodin

1994
Open Form Sculpture, Sainsbury Center for Visiual Arts, Norwich, UK

• Jeffett William, Open Form Sculpture

1993
Alain Kirili et Roy Haynes, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France

1992
Alain Kirili, Musée d'Art Moderne, St Etienne, France

• Philippe Dagen, Constructed Morality
• Martine Dancer , Alain Kirili at Nuits-Saint-Georges
• Barry Schwabsky, Letter to my Translator

1992
Alain Kirili, Le Baiser, galerie Carrée, Villa Arson, Nice, France

1991
Kirili, Commandement XI, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

1991
Commandement, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA

1990
Alain Kirili et l'abstraction du modelé, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, France

1989
Alain Kirili, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

• Alain Kirili,“Lighting the Fuse” after the Appropriation

1987
Alain Kirili, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA

1985
Alain Kirili, Musée Rodin, Paris, France

• Kirk Varnedoe, Alain Kirili au Musée Rodin
  

1985
Alain Kirili, Galerie Adrien Maegth, Paris, France

1985
Alain Kirili, Terres cuites 1972-1984, Centre d’Art contemporain, Châteauroux, France

1984
Alain Kirili, Galerie Adrien Maegth, Paris, France

1982
Alain Kirili, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

• Robert Rosenblum, Essay

1981
A.Kirili: Recent Sculpture, Museum of Art, Dallas, USA

1974
Alain Kirili: peintures, dessins, sculptures, gravures, Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France

Articles (english selection, see the website french version to see french articles)

• Carter Ratcliff, The Sculptural Body - Alain Kirili, Sculpture magazine, May 2008.
• Robert Knafo, Hands on Metal : Alain Kirili, SV Magazine, August 2005.
• Ginger Danto, Sculpture as Living dialogue, Sculpture magazine, November 2003.
• Adam Gopnik, In The Garden of Bien et Mal, The New Yorker, 04/06/1998.
• Raphael Rubinstein, In Concert , Art in America, 1996.

• Alain Kirili, David Smith : The cult of solar nude, Sculpture Magazine, May-June 1994.
• Julia Kristeva, The Imaginary Sense of Form, Art magazine, September 1991.
• Cynthia Nadelman, Rewriting Sculpture, ARTNews, 1987.
• Alain Kirili, Statuary Versus Idols, Art Forum, February 1983.
• Alain Kirili, Virgins&Totems, Art in America, October 1983.
• Alain Kirili, Lingaistics, Art in America, May 1982.

Conversations with Alain Kirili (english selection, see the website french version to see other french conversations)

• Alain Kirili, in conversation with Robert C. Morgan published in the Brooklyn Rail, May 2012.
• Alain Kirili, in conversation with Ada Ackerman published in Artcritical, on the occasion of the exhibition "Résistance: Alain Kirili's Monument in Grenoble", May 2011.
• Tellem, Conversation with Robert Buck published on the occasion of the exhibition “Recent Sculptures”, Malborough Chelsea, 2000.
• The Passion for Sculpture, Conversation with Louise Bourgeois, Arts Magazine, march 1989.