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Art Nucléaire

Arte Nucleare. Sauvage, Tristan

Milan. Galleria Schwarz. 1962
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Deluxe edition limited to 190 copies consisting of the book and an additional portfolio containing 30 original documents, catalogues and manifestos of the Nuclear Art movement (numbered in the portfolio).

The portfolio is entitled 'Registratore Nucleare', and provides an invaluable archive of the original documents of the movement. Each of the documents has a small numbering stamp on the right top corner, which refers to the index of the portfolio.

The documents are as follows:
IL GESTO. Rassegna Internazionale delle Forme Libere. Nos. 1-4 (all publ.). Milano, 1955-1959. Folio, original pictorial wrappers (original lithographs by Colombo, Fontana, Pomodoro).
Announcement notice for exhibition opening, Baj and Dangelo, Galerie Apollo, Brussels, March 1952 (verso with the artist's manifesto
Announcement notice - Prima Esposizione del Movementi Nucleare,Milan, May 1952
Announcement notice- Prefigurazione, exhibition Studio B, Milan, June1953
Laszo Varga - poem by E. Sanguinetti, November 1953
Arte Nucleare- catalogue, Venice, March 1954
Announcement notice -Il Segno e la Parola, Libreria Schwarz, Milan, 1954
Baj - catalogue, Galleria l'Asterisco Rome, May 1954
Jorn - catalogue (with original lithograph wrappers), Galleria l'Asterisco, Rome, June 1954
Asger Jorn- Immagine e forma, Milan, 1954
Joe Colombo, original lithograph, 1954
Incontro Internazionale di Albissola, catalogue, Milan, 1954
Esposizione Alt , catalogue with an original lithograph by Baj, Alessandria, 1955
Esposizione'Il Gesto', catalogue, Galleria Schettini, Milan, 1955
Baj, Milan, 1956
Per una pittura organica, manifesto, Milan, July 1957
Contro le stile, Contre le Style, The End of Style, Milan, September 1957
Arte Nucleare, catalogue, Galleria S.Fedele, Milan, October 1957
L'avanguardia, catalogue, Galleria Montenapoleone, Milan, May 1958
Manifesto del gruppo nucleare napoletano, Naples, July 1958
Le Manifeste de Naples, Naples, January 1959,
Baj, catalogue Rive Gauche, Paris, 1959
Documento Sud, Naples, 1960
Miriorama, Milan, 1960
Baj, catalogue, R. Cordier, Paris, 1961
Baj, catalogue, Galerie du Fleuve, Paris, 1961
Dangelo, Milan, 1961, with an original signed and numbered etching.
pp. (242). Large 4to. Colour and black and white illustrations. Cloth, dust-jacket. Together with portfolio housed in black card slipcase.
#41095

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