Mèla post card book : a collection of artists' postcards : una raccolta di cartoline d'artista

MODERN ART - A FAMOUS ARTIST'S BOOK - MAIL ART - POSTCARDS BY 48 INTERNATIONAL LEADING ARTISTS. NANNUCCI, Maurizio (ed.) et ALII. Mèla post card book : a collection of artists' postcards : una raccolta di cartoline d'artista. Firenze, Biancoenero Edizione d'Arte, 1979. FIRST and ONLY LIMITED EDITION. Photomechanical prints published by Maurizio Nannucci and printed in an edition of 1000 copies by Biancoenero, Florence, in original folded card sleeve. Sporadic very light flaws to the sleeve. Excellent condition. The conceptual/performance artist Nannucci's work includes: photography, video, neon installations, sound installation, artist's books, and editions. Also involved with Concrete Poetry. Lives and works in Florence and South Baden, Germany. A complete set of 48 artist postcards by various international leading modern and contemporary artists: Eric Anderson, John Baldessari, Luciano Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Berd & Hilla Becker, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Alighiero Boetti, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, John Cage, Sarah Charlesworth, Giuseppe Chiari, James Coleman, Claudio Costa, Coum Transmissions, Herman de Vries, Mario Diacono, Antonio Dias, Hans Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Jud Fine, Hans Grappmayr, Marco Gastini, General Idea, Paul Armand Gette, Pieter Holstein, Dorothy Iannone, Ray Johnson, Milan Knizak, Jiri Kollar, Jean Le Gac, Sol LeWitt, Tom Marioni, Paolo Masi, Fabio Mauri, Maurizio Mochetti, Massimo Nannucci, Maurizio Nannucci, Luigi Ontani, Claudio Parmiggiani, Dieter Roth & Arnulf Rainer, Edward Ruscha, Fulvio Salvadori, Franco Vaccari, Ben Vautier, Emmett Williams. Nannucci had been a pioneering figure in Europe since the mid 1960s in furthering the artistic use of postcards, both as exhibition invitations and in mail art generally. In 1976 he founded the newspaper Mèla and this gathering of postcards by numerous major art figures relates to contributions to this publication, its last issue was in 1981. In his account in 2014 of his Hotel Carlton Palace postcard project in 1993, Hans Ulrich Obrist wrote: 'In the early Seventies Nannucci had done this very beautiful [postcard] box which I carried around with me everywhere I went.' Exhibition history: 2019, Feb 7 4 Aug, London, British Museum, G90, The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard artists' postcards from 1960 to now. Copies in the UK: British Museum, Tate Library at Tate Britain. Copies in the US: MoMA, SFMOMA, Carnegie Mellon University, Rhode Island School of Design, Savannah College of Art & Design, University of Utah, Virginia Commonwealth University, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection).