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[Untitled] / Algardi, Alessandro ; Ubeir Peeters, curator ; Comini R ; Accame V., 2006

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Identifier: CC-58640-10001871

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Scope and Contents

Ubeir Peeters commented: "The wide variety of single characters or letters join together to make up words which carry the meaning of ideas. Whereas, feelings and sentiments are easier to convey through a representation of plants, animals, humans, landscapes or objects. To the world of ideas, the letter is a building block for the concrete expression of ideas through words: no other medium is equal. Can you imagine a philosophy that could have survived without script? Inside our mind, deep inside, each word is related to a particular item, a given concept, a fragment of memory, but nowhere this appears more clearly than in a written text, where ideas are chopped and reassembled in a string of words. Writing is an incarnation or rather, the mirror of ideas. Algardi's cursives indeed have the liquid flowing quality of ideas. However, the writing itself is made illegible. By superimposing text over text Algardi conveys a problem regarding the eventual meanings. Thus his writing covers and hides any possible significance within the signs themselves, inducing a tension that remains permanent once and for all. His unreadable calligraphy generates a craving to understand the indecipherable text and claims our attention again for a fascinating and mysterious experience. The secrecy of these paintings is that magically they awaken fresh ideas in our mind. Indeed, anyone of us can bring his own ideal world over and over again into Algardi's works. Anyone looking at them is caught by their immaterial reality. The mystery of this apparently incomprehensible graphic writing is that it becomes a universal language accessible to all." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 2006

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book (197 pages) in dust jacket) ; 28.8 x 25 x 2.8 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

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Custodial History

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

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Algardi, 2014.

General

General: Title provided by cataloger or by Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Published: Monaco : Monaco Galleria d'Arte Moderno e Contemporanea. Nationality of creator: Italian. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

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

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