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This drawing was damaged (foldings, paint peeling and paint bleeding to other areas) in shipping from Rome to Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The collaged elements are painted adhesive labels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing is similar to another one with the same title but was extensively damaged (folds, paint peeling) in shipping from Rome to Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text on the recto of the loose sheet is a calligraphic colored, sound poem using made up words intersperced with abstract images. -- 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.

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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This is the logo that is used in Inism exhibitions and on the cover of the Inist periodical, "Berenice." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.