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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Avant-testo , 2002

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Identifier: CC-46936-49673
Scope and Contents This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition of Irma Balnk at the Galleria Spaziotemperaneo di Milano in November 2002. In his essay Gillo Dorfles describes Irma Blank's techniques for the blue paintings. "Indeed the artist uses both hands to fill with signs the vast canvases and the series of polyester sheets, all realized with a wholly manual, or rather 'corporal' technique. In fact, holding a bunch of ball-point pens in each hand, and giving each of these a synchronous rotary movement from the edge towards the centre, in close correspondence with her respiration and heartbeats, she impresses on the surface of the canvas, of polyester sheet, skeins of bright, stratified colours that - as the writing proceeds - thicken until they cover the whole surface of the painting, while maintaining imperceptible openings between one line and another: this is, in a sense, the breathing (the einatmen, or inhalation, and ausatmen, or exhalation) of the colour." -- Source of...
Dates: 2002

Con gli acchi del linguaggio / Balestrini, Nanni ; Bonito-Oliva A ; Eco U ; Barilli R ; Dorfles G ; Barilla R., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46340-49064
Scope and Contents

A collage held by the Sackner Archive is depicted on page 162. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

in principio erat / La Rocca, Ketty ; Dorfles G., 1971

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Identifier: CC-50188-71252
Scope and Contents

The catalogue consists of photographs of pairs of hands and multiple pairs of hands, at times with accompanying text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Revue Nul=0. No.2/Apr / Herman de Vries, Henk Peeters, editors ; Manzoni P ; Klein Y ; Dorfles G ; Aubertin B., 1963

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Identifier: CC-38793-40707
Scope and Contents

This issue was dedicated to the memory of Piero Manzoni and Yves Klein. Four issues were published and the Sackner Archive is missing No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

schriften 1964/1973; writings 1964/1973; scritture 1964/1973 / Nannucci, Maurizio ; Dorfles G., 1974

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Identifier: CC-38295-40191
Scope and Contents

The covers of the folder are photographic reproductions of the poster in greatly reduced scale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

[Untitled] / Ori, Luciano ; Dorfles G., 1966

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Identifier: CC-05312-5415
Scope and Contents

This catalogue that was written by Gillo Dorfles depicts Ori's non-musical visual poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

[Untitled] / Simonetti, Gianni-Emilio ; Diacono M ; Celant G ; Dorfles G ; Palazzoli D., 1967

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Identifier: CC-34993-36712
Scope and Contents

Also designated Edizioni di arte contemporanea catalogo n.4. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967