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Soppalco, Il (The Balcony): Home Art Gallery. Vittore Baroni,
Editor. EON (Eternal Open Network) Archives, Viareggio, Italy.
1989-1991.
(1989). Photocopy. 8 1/4"x5 3/4". (4 pages). "In the best tradition of
underground samizat art and neoist apartment Festivals, I have built in the entry
and living-room of my new house a small gallery composed of ten framed
panels, size cm. 50x70. I will exhibit temporarily selections of works by single
authors or collective projects, a drawing the materials from the EON Archives,
now situated in two small rooms under the roof. the opening party with a score of
local friends, was on April 1st, 1989, for a due tribute to the genius of Guglielmo
Achille Cavellini (the man who introduced me to Mail Art). the Maestro himself
visited the show in early July, leaving a trace in the log-book. IL SOPPALCO is
not a traditional gallery, nothing is sold or bought, visits are only by appointment
or, less formally, the audience is make up by friends, relatives, acquaintances,
neighbors and any person that happens to pass through my home (thieves
included). the other two shows of '89 are by Japanese noise-master and
exquisite prono-cop-artist Masami Akita & junkyard poet/copy-art graffiti maniac
Gustav S. Hagglund from NY City. Sole Curator: Vittore Baroni." Contributions by
Cavellini (Italy), Masami Akita (Japan) and Gustav S. Hägglund (USA).
(1990). Photocopy. 8 1/4"x5 3/4". (8 pages). After the first three test-show
of 1989, my little home-gallery IL SOPPALCO will present in 1990 six bi-monthly
exhibitions, with a selection of original pieces and editions culled from the E. O.
N. archives, belonging to six 'heroes' of the postal network: LON SPIEGELMAN,
whose dedication, generosity and colorful alien doodlings are still in our hearts
(will he ever rejoin the madness? can such wounds be healed in a lifetime?);
GUY BLEUS, reclusive archivist and untiring organizer of collective projects,
always accompanied by exciting catalogues; PAWEL PETASZ, genuine genius
of self-publishing, combining wit and poetry on little handmade bits of paper;
EDGARDO ANTONIO VIGO, for almost thirty years a one-man factory
distributing visual poems and his own brand of humanistic (marginal) philately;
RUGGERO MAGGI, indefatigable correspondent, shadow-maker, jungle lover
and now curator of the first mail art gallery in Milan; ANNA BANANA, publisher of
the seminal magazine Vile in the early seventies, still in the mail with her Banana
Rag newsletter, fruity graphics and collective stamps editions..." contributions by
Lon Spiegelman (USA), Guy Bleus (Belgium), Pawel Petasz (Poland), Edgardo
Antonio Vigo (Argentina),Ruggero Maggi (Italy), and Anna Banana (Canada).
(1991). Photocopy. 8 1/4"x5 3/4". (8 pages). "& We Remember G. A. C.
It took some time to realize that the master of Self-Historification, GUGLIELMO
ACHILLE CAVELLINI (1914-2014), is now residing in a different corner of the
cosmos, without a mailing address. In 1991 my little HOME GALLERY will
present bi-monthly exhibitions of SIX other ABSENT FRIENDS. Next year, 1992,
IL SOPPALCO will be used as part of THE STICKERMAN MUSEUM, a one-year
project devoted to the promotion of ADHESIVE ART." Exhibitions in 1991 by