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This drawing was done over a postcard from Finland depicting a colored photograph of a cathedral in Helsinki. It was composed at the time of an Inist exhibition in Kemi, Finland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is depicted in b&w in the exhibition catalogue, "The I.N.I. Avant Garde" (1994), a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this drawing, the Sackners thought that the central image was a woman's face. It was created with a combination of micrography, hieroglyphics and realistic markings representing hair. *WEB 1998: Angelo Merante: The face in the center of work is a portrait of young Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud (based on iconography of his times) and not the portrait of a woman (although Paul Verlaine was surprised when, seeing the face of this young poet, noted the perfect ovoidal shape in his face. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Gabriele-Aldo Bertozzi contributed an essay for this catalogue. The Sackner Archive holds "Inito" (1999), a painting depicted in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Merante utilized a printed trade editioned booklet as the means for this artist book by writing on top of the printed text. In the first section, he left intact word clusters that relate to the Inistic art movement to which he belongs, e.g. ini, ange -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a dense, complex, calligraphic drawing that also includes cubo-futuristic elements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image consists of dense arrangement of colored words and letters in recognizable and hieroglyphic-like shapes and sizes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents According to a WEB site, Merante has been a member of Inism since its foundation (1980), taking an active part both on a creative/productive level as well as on a theoretical one in promoting on an international scale the ideas contained in the first Inist manifesto. He has taken part in all the activities the movement has organised or promoted as well as organising and running two inist exhibitions himself which took place in January 1985 at the University of Poitiers (France). He is the cosignatory of the second Ini manifesto Apollinaria Signa (Sant'Apollinaire - Perugia, 1987) as well as of the manifesto La Videoinipoesia. Manifesto Inista (Rome - Sant'Apollinaire, 1990). As a convinced promotor, like all inists, of the need to abolish every boundary that exists between the operative sectors in art and constantly preoccupied in reaching and stimulating all the senses of the spectator through a superimposition of levels of expression to be perceived simultaneously, he composes...

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Merante has utilized diverse calligraphic styles in this miniature bookwork. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is a densely packed arrangement of varied shaped and sized words and hieroglyphics.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title translated into English means "One Word is All Words." The title in Italian was incorrectly spelled in its original citation according to web comments below. *WEB 1998: Angelo Merante: The original title (in Italian) is Una Sola Parola, Tutte instead of: Uno sola parola, Tutti (that is not correct in Italian). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.