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Fingerpainting by Blaine appears on title page above inscription and signature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The recto of the photograph announces a performance by Blaine at Galerie Donguy, Paris, on December 1, 1998. Some of the photographs are images of store facades with signs that stated "Mode a Suivre." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is a large "bee" with a caption from the title below it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes folded posters, Jochen Gerz, Blatt-Nr.1: Untitled and Julien Blaine, Blatt-Nr.4. The poster by Gerz is included in Agentzia 2 but is catalogued separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reviews international small press scene. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Perforations are related to images of body orifices. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this work is the Iris flower and most pages depict drawn abstractions of the flower in gray-black colors. The latter is an unexplained contradiction to the purple colors of the flower. The folder enclosing the pamphlets, pages, and drawings is inserted into an enclosure in the rectangular shaped earthy, ceramic vase which has another round enclosure for an artificial Iris flower with its stem. A polaroid photograph depicts the process of how the drawing was made - by rubbing the flower over paper to form the word "Iris" from its pigments.Also designated No.2/Tome 11 in the series ARTCI-BLE Petits Dictionnaires Portatifs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The object consist of colored plexiglass letters suspended with a plexiglass hook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Curated by Fernando Aguiar. Works reproduced in catalog by Cesar Figueiredo held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Obituary (The independent July 15, 1995 by Tom Raworth): The Swiss-Italian artist and writer Franco Beltrametti )1937-1995) published over 30 books and pamphlets of poetry, prose, collaborations and translations, in several languages and countries; and had a similar number of solo and group exhibitions of his graphic works. Those will last however long words and objects do; but his existence as catalyst, connector and correspondent is gone for ever. He was a personal link between such disparate traditions as American beat - and New York school - poetry; the Fluxus group of artists; the European avant-garde; the music of Steve Lacy, Joelle Leandre and Nino Locatelli; the Italian revolutionary left; and Japanese Zen Buddhism.With Gianantonio Pozzi (whom he met in Sicily) he organised P77 - a small poetry festival in Venice which, the following year, 1978, was transferred to Amsterdam to expand and become the regular "One World Poetry". It was through Beltrametti's friendship with...