Magdalo Mussio (1925—12 August 2006) was an Italian author, artist, animator, book designer and editor. A native of the Tuscany town of Volterra, Magdalo Mussio served during the 1960s as the editor of several Italian cultural publications, including Citta’ Spazio, Senzamargine, Tropico, Marcatrè. He was also the creative artist behind a number of animated films, including Reale dissoluto, I ragazzi di Theresi, Il potere del drago and Umanomeno and published several books detailing his life and work and uniting his own creative writings with what has been described as an archaeology of images in a sweetly melancholic mixture. Among his best-known titles are 'In practica', 'Praticabili per memoria concreta', 'Il numero dimentico' and 'Il fastidio delle parole'.
online magdalo mussio gallery.
Here we are trying to complete a collection of books, magazines and ephemera designed by Magdalo Mussio. He worked as a designer for the Edizioni Lerici (Marcatre; Marcalibri, Senzamargine, Tropico etc.) Later he moved to the Marche Region where he worked as an editor/designer for the publishing house Nuova Foglio in Pollenza / Macerata, Mussio gave shape to books from renowned artists and writers like Vincenzo Accame, Claudio d’Angelo, Renato Barilli, Gianfranco Baruchello, Achille Bonito Oliva, Richard Burns, Ugo Carrega, Franco Carotti, Luciano Caruso, Giuseppe Chiari, Bruno Conte, Corneille, Enzo Cucchi, Romano Martinis, Mario Diacono, Giosetta Fioroni, Carlo Gajani (ritratto - Il chiodo), Félix Labisse - Charles Baudelaire, Wifredo Lam, Fabio Mauri, Elverio Maurizi, Henry Moore, Luca Patella, Oscar Piattella, Lamberto Pignotti, Hans Richter, Roberto Sanesi, Pino Settanni, Joe Tilson, Valeriano Trubbiani, Franoc Vaccari, Luigi Veronesi, Franco Vaccari, Emilio Villa and so fort.
studio montespecchio is pleased to offer for sale a large collection of ‘concrete / visual + sound poetry’.
With approximately1500 items that include books, anthologies, catalogues, magazines, large maps + portfolio’s, prints and posters, sound poetry, colloquia and theoretical writings by more than100 authors from Brazil, Germany, Great Britain from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland , United States of America, and former Yugoslavia.
The collection comprises works by Julien Blaine, J. F. Bory, Claus Bremer, Bazon Brock, Ulises CarriónJ.L.Castillejo, Giuseppe Chiari, Cf. Claus, Paul De Vree, Herman De Vries, John Cage, Reinhard Döhl, Vincenzo Ferrari, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Heinz Gappmayr, Ilse + Pierre Garnier, Jochen Gerz, Eugen Gomringer, Harzabal, Bernard Heidsieck, Helmut Heißenbüttel, Dick Higgins, Josef, Hirsal, Reimer Jochims, Jıři Kolář, Richard Kostelanetz, Ferdinand Kriwet, Hansjörg Mayer, Eugenio Miccini, Franz Mon, Michele Perfetti, Francisco Pino, G. Rühm, Konrad Balder Schäuffelen, Siegfried J. Schmidt, Schuldt, Endre Tót, Timm Ulrichs, Franco Vaccari, Jiří Valoch, Wolf Wezel, Emmett Williams.
The magazines include: agentzia, ah, approches, blocknoot, konkrete poesie – poesia concreta, diagonal cero, edition et, futura, geiger, integration, les lettres, material, nul=0, rot, studio brescia, de tafelronde, tlaloc, und etc. Many of the items we offer for sale here are signed by the authors/artists, which makes this to an even more unique collection.
please ask for a detailed description @ info@studiomontespecchio.it
studio montespecchio is pleased to offer for sale a convolute of Material related to Ray Johnson, Mail Art and the New York Correspondance School.
the convolute comprises a large collection of original correspondence, collages, collage-elements and other works, related to the early development of mail art and the New York Correspondance School. The material constitutes the collection of Marie Tavroges Stilkind, an early correspondent with Ray Johnson and the first secretary of the group in the years preceding 1968, when it was “officially” founded and named the New York Correspondance School.
Besides Ray Johnson, other correspondents include: Normon Solomon, Albert M. Fine, Ed Plunkett, Stanton Kreider, Vince Grimaldi, Karl Wirsum and May Anne, Marie and William Wilson. While this collection includes material stretching from the early 1950’s through the period immediately following Ray’s death in 1997, the bulk of the documents are from the early period of the New York Correspondance School, 1958-1968. Although both attended Black Mountain College they did not meet until Stilkind was introduced to Ray by Albert M. Fine in the autumn of 1960. The largest grouping of work in the archive is by Ray Johnson, and includes correspondence, collages, collage fragments and other ephemera from or in preparation for mailings.
please ask for a detailed description @ info@studiomontespecchio.it
via lucarini 600 - 41055 montespecchio (mo) - italia - m. + 39 339 5082069 - t./f. + 39 059980129 - e. info@studiomontespecchio.it |
