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Il Respiro Corto (Shortness of Breath) / Miglietta, Enzo., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-06062-6176

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Scope and Contents

This piece was commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Miglietta writes in an accompanying letter that the most important sign of sickness is shortness of breath. In this picture, he depicts breathing as a diamond shape which becomes smaller from outward inward as breathing shortens owing to environmental damage present on earth and in air, such as smoke, toxins, wasteful consumerism etc. In hundreds of cells, he writes the names, causes and possible causes of these insults. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1990

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 drawing (ink, ink colored, handwriting) in [frame (wood, plexiglas)]) ; 70 x 96 cm, in frame 78 x 104 x 5 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

1904 wall

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Novoli, Italy : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: Em 8-11-90 (l.r.); Em 90 (l.l.- verso). Nationality of creator: Italian. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: AMANDA.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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