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PIERO MANZONI (1933-1963)
155 • MANIFESTO PER L'ESPOSIZIONE
INTERNAZIONALE DI NIENTE. 1960.
11x11 inches, 29x30 cm.
Condition A / A-: creases and wrinkles in upper
left corner. Paper. Framed.
The “Manifesto for the International Exhibi-
tion of Nothing” was printed in Basel in 1960.
The manifesto was a work of art in itself, a con-
ceptual idea following in the path of the Dada
artists, although several of the signatory artists
actually held exhibitions of “nothing” in their
home countries. The participating artists were
Bazon Brock, Enrico Castellani, Fenkart Rolf,
Carl Laszlo, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, Ono-
rio (who designed the typography for this
broadside) and Herbert Pierce Schuldt.
[700/1,000]
JEAN MICHEL FOLON (1934-2005)
156 • LETTERA 32 / OLIVETTI PER TUTTI. 1968.
26
3
/
4
x39
1
/
4
inches, 68x99
3
/
4
cm.
Condition B+: loss in left image; abrasions and minor staining along bottom edge and in image. Paper.
Folon attended architecture school but abandoned that career in the 1960s and moved to New York
and later to Paris to work on his art. He quickly distinguished himself as a talented illustrator and was
known for watercolor paintings that featured wide gradations of color and recurring symbolic figures
with simple outlines. He began working for Olivetti in 1967, a relationship that resulted in several
posters, a calendar and a six and a half ton mural in London’s Waterloo Station (1975). This poster,
his second for the company, has only appeared in red. This white image is a previously unknown vari-
ant.
[2,500/3,500]