This is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Italian artist Massimo Grimaldi. "In the space of just over a decade, Massimo Grimaldi has developed an artistic practice that seems based on an apparent contradiction: producing art as a way of saying that, in the end, art is a trivial matter, and its role in the real world is superfluous. On more than one occasion-above all, through his text based works-Grimaldi has presented an image of art as a self-serving activity that springs from the desire to "be" and is fuelled by the ambition to "endure. "