John Weber - Giovanni Anselmo - 1972

First edition. Excellent copy. An 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 and fade into one another in either direction. And so here—as elsewhere in “Lire,” a work where the verb is reproduced several times, varying its size until it becomes almost illegible, then enlarged again until it loses itself in black pages—the words “invisible,” “infini,” “tout,” and “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 into something else—as Giorgio Maffei notes in “Livres et documents. Arte Povera 1966 - 1980” — a simple catalogue into a true artist’s book. 17 x 17 cm, soft cover, pp. [12].