Ettore Spalletti - Equilibrio - 1972

Ettore Spalletti, Equilibrio. Milan, Edizioni del Naviglio, 1972. Artist's Book. Size 10 x 10 cm (closed), 10 x 100 cm (open). Editorial soft cover with title on the spine and colophon on the third page. Artist's book composed of a single sheet folded accordion-style, printed on both sides on 350 g/m² Bristol paper using the photoincision technique. Original edition limited to 500 copies numbered and signed by the Artist at the colophon. Our copy no. 427. In excellent condition. Auction without reserve!

This minimal work gently introduces the concept of ambivalence, where the beginning can become the end, in line with the rule that a work of art is so by the decision of the one who is reading it. In this work, Spalletti seems to renounce creativity—deeply reconsidered in the seventies, when there was an effort to redefine the status of the work of art—yet he does not renounce the craft of producing signs (another theme dear to those years), an eternal instrument of seduction for the gaze.