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Spatola, Adriano, 1944-1988

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 19410504 - 19881123

Nationality

Italian

Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:

Geiger. No.5 / Adriano Spatola, Maurizio Spatola, editors ; Knizak M ; Ulrichs T ; Kriwet F ; Ben ; Spatola A ; Gut E ; Groh K ; Baruchello GF ; Finlay IH ; Radin B ; Staeck K ; DeRook GJ ; Xerra W ; Kozlowski J ; Osti M ; Bentivoglio M ; Higgins D ; Ori L ; Gerz J ; Vostell W ; Esposito A., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-10618-10827
Scope and Contents

Includes an essay on Intermedia by Adriano & Maurizio Spatola. This issue contains a photograph of a poem on Nixon by Anna Esposita that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Geiger. No.8 / Adriano Spatola, Maurizio Spatola, editors ; Costa C ; Blaine J ; Blank I ; Baroni V ; Spatola A ; Binga T ; Danon B ; Carrion U ; Minarelli E ; Gut E ; Schodl G ; Sitta C ; Poniz D ; McBride J ; Marcucci L ; Zabala H ; Ermini F ; Conte B ; Lai M ; Mignani R ; Fontana G., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-10615-10824
Scope and Contents

The cover is an original ink drawing by Corrado Costa. Compared to the earlier issues of this periodical, this issue has a greater content of original contributions rather than works reproduced from previous publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Geiger Poesia: Zeroglifico. No.20 / Adriano Spatola ; Niccolai G ; Oliva AB., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-10109-10310
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of the book first published in 1966 by Sampietro Editore, Bologna. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Geiger Sperimentale: Algoritmo. No.28 / Adriano Spatola., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-10110-10311
Scope and Contents

This book depicts several poems first published in 1966-1967 in various periodicals. One of the poems entitled "trittico' [Italian] in English means triptych and was a popular standard format for altar paintings from the middle ages and another composed of ditto marks and entitles "die ubung" [German] in English means repetitiion. A poem entitled 'variation' morphs to variateur [French] whch in English means light dimmer. Finally, "danger?" is a take-off on gomringer's "silencio." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Geiger Sperimentale: Quadri Miraggi Ritratti Di Francesco Guerrieri. No.22 / Adriano Spatola., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-50434-71502
Scope and Contents

The translation from Italian to English was done by Giula Niccolai. Spatola provides a critical analysis of the mostly constructivistic, optical artworks of Francesco Guerrieri, a now forgotten Italian artist born in 1931 who emerged in the Italian art world in the 1950s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Hacia una Poesia del Hacer / Ferrando, Bartolome ; Duchamp M ; Ulrichs T ; Spatola A ; Gomringer E ; Pinto LA ; Claus CF ; Bory JF ; Apollinaire G ; Isou I ; Fenollosa E ; DeCampos H ; DeCampos A ; Pound E., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-11229-11444
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of an article published in Cimal No.11-12. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Il Parlante Simbolico / Apolloni, Ignazio ; Fontana G ; Spatola A., 2014

 Item
Identifier: CC-58767-10002005
Scope and Contents

The book "Moi la Deite" contained in the Sackner Archive is pictured on page 7. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

In Concreto, 1968

 Item — Folder 75: [Barcode: 31858072538337]

Inch By Inch / Spatola, Adriano., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-02101-2139
Scope and Contents

This book was created for the "Artworks and Bookworks" exhibition, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1978. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

klankteksten ?konkrete poezie visuele teksten Exhibition: Affiche. No.192 / Adriano Spatola., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-38386-40290
Scope and Contents

This poster was hung in the most important exhibition of concrete poetry in its time. The numbering scheme used to classify the posters is based upon the pages of the exhibition catalogue with the same title. In this case, the poster was not depicted in the catalogue and the page reference is to Spatola's biography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

klankteksten ?konkrete poezie visuele teksten Exhibition: un point 1966. No.102a / Adriano Spatola., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-38253-40149
Scope and Contents

This print was hung in the most important exhibition of concrete poetry in its time. The numbering scheme used to classify the posters is based upon the pages of the exhibition catalogue with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

La Definizione del Prezzo, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-02600-2643
Scope and Contents

The drawings by Della Casa that are reproduced in this book depict images of Spatola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

L'Ebreo Negro, 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-58947-65899
Scope and Contents

The title translates to English as "The Nigger Jew." The English translation of the poem is printed in Spatola's book, "The Position of Things: Collected Poems 1961-1992 (2008). This poem apppears to be a post Holocaust poem without any direct allusion to it. It is not anti-semetic or anti-racial. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

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