John Weber - Giovanni Anselmo - 1972

First edition. Excellent copy. Artist's book that summarizes the fundamental themes of Giovanni Anselmo's aesthetic and poetic research, namely the progression from small to large and vice versa, from the invisible to the visible, from the finite to the infinite. A play of opposing forces and concepts that succeed one another and fade into each other in either direction. And so here—as elsewhere in «Lire», a work where the verb is reproduced several times, varying its size until it reaches near illegibility and then is enlarged again until it disappears into black pages—the words "invisible", "infini", "tout", "dissolvenza" are written on the white pages not only to refer to the works actually exhibited in New York in October 1972 in place of traditional photographs, but also to declare Anselmo's conceptual world. Transforming for something else—as Giorgio Maffei points out in «Livres et documents. Arte Povera 1966 - 1980»—a simple catalogue into a true artist's book. 17 x 17 cm., softcover, pp. [12].