l’in finito / un nonulla / busta celeste (serie situazioni plasticoverbali nos. 1 – 3)
torino: studio d’informazione estetica, 1969. No. 1: Edition of 1,000 of which this is no. 863. Die cut and folded 10.3 x 10.3 cm card stock sleeve containing a leporello bound card stock book printed on recto and verso measuring 10 x 10 cm folded, 80 x 10 unfolded. No. 2: Edition of 1,000 of which this is no. 305. Die cut and folded 10.3 x 10.3 cm card stock sleeve containing a 10 x 10 cm card stock book printed on recto and verso which unfolds to a 10 x 10 x 10 cm cube. No. 3: Edition of 1,000 of which this is no. 544. Die cut and folded 10.3 x 20.3 cm card stock sleeve containing a leporello bound card stock book printed on recto and verso measuring 20 x 10 cm folded, 60 x 10 unfolded. Text in Italian.
A remarkable set of three-dimensional Italian concrete poetry pieces by Loratotino and De Alexandris in the form collapsible and expandable paper sculptures that feel like individual artists’ books.
No. 1 is an unfolding leporello piece with the word ‘finito’ repeated without word spacing on recto and verso with one mentions typeset in bold. No. 2 is an intricately die cut and collapsible cube that can be reassembled with the words ‘un nonnulla’ which translates into ‘a no one’. No. 3 is a larger unfolding leporello piece with the word ‘cielo’ and ‘cieco’ which translates into ‘sky’ and ‘blind’.
Minimalist Italian design and concrete poetry at its best and issued as nos. 1 – 3 in the ‘situazioni plasticoverbali’ series. Our research suggests these are the only issues published.
Card stock sleeves on all three very good with trace amounts of rubbing and foxing to extremities, crease lines along margins, and bumps to corners. Trace amounts of rubbing of leporello books and folded cube, else fine. Item #158
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