Mescolare le carte

This is one of the 50 copies of the special edition, numbered in Roman numerals.
Complete with a little image pasted on cardboard and a loose bookmark, specially designed by the Italian artist. 16 black & white images “of fragments of images on fragments of plaster” – taken by Piero CASADEI and Giampaolo OSSANI – printed on on transparent tissue paper. And a loose printed oblong sheet with four sheets of different stock an color, of which three have been “each a little more consumed than the one that follows it so that as far as their colors are concerned they’re all visible all at once”, from Mescolare le carte/Shuffling the cards, text in Italian and English by Henry Martin. Designed by Alvaro BECCATINI. O la biblioteca di Don Chisciotte, introduction in Italian and English by Emilio MATTIOLI and Franco GUERZON.

Lit. : De Matteis/Maffei, Libri d’artisti in Italia 1960- 1998, n.: 1423.

• Bologna, Edizioni Ginevra Grigolo, 1982.
• 4to (263 x 210 mm.)
• Pages : (16 + 10) pp. + (8) pp.