Archive of artist’s books and ephmera, 1974-1986
Artist’s books/exhibition catalogues all first edition & self-published as part of Cavellini’s â ”self-historification” project. Variable sizes.
GAC001
$ 600.00
Artist’s books/exhibition catalogues all first edition & self-published as part of Cavellini’s â ”self-historification” project:
Cimeli, 1974, pictoral wrappers, b/w illus, 44 pp, text in English, Italian & German
Cavellini in California and in Budapest, 1980, Living Room exhibition, pictoral wrappers, b/w illus, text in English
Autoritratti - Self-Portraits - Autoportraits - Selbstporträts, 1981, Living Room exhibition, pictoral wrappers, b/w & color illus, text in English, Italian& German
Continuo La Serie Mie Mostre A Domicilio, 1976, printed wrappers, b/w illus, text in English & Italian
1946-1976, In The Jungle of Art, 1976, white printed wrappers, b/w illus, 88pp, (2) b/w illus, text in English; 1946-1976
In The Jungle of Art, 1976, blue printed wrappers, b/w illus, 88pp, (2) b/w illus, text in English The Diaries of Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, 1975, printed wrappers, b/w illus, 60pp, b/w illus, text in English
The Diaries of Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, 1975, pictoral wrappers, b/w illus, 18pp, b/w illus, text in English & Italian, Pietro Cavellini Gallery, Milan
stickers: 2- Cavellini 1914-2014 round colored stickers; Graffiti of Altamira- b/w sticker;
2-Informazione cow stickers (red, red & green); Cavellini Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow sticker
postcards: Serie Artisti Anomali, set of (7) postcards, Living Room exhibition, Brescia, Italy; Ten Ways to Make Yourself Famous, b/w text; Venezia, Palazzo Ducale, b/w.
* Il sistema mi ha messo in Croce / (I Have Been Crucified by the System, 1986, 21 loose sheets in black folder, all color except 1 b/w title sheet, published by Stygian, Torino, Italy.
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (1914-1990), also known as GAC, was an Italian artist and art collector. Beginning his career as a painter in the 1940s and 1950s, Cavellini then became a major collector of contemporary Italian abstract art. In the 1960s Cavellini resumed his activity as an artist creating a broad range of works from Neo-Dada to performance art to mail art, and out of which he became known for his Exhibitions at Home and the Round Trip works. In 1971 Cavellini coined the term autostoricizzazione (self-historicization), upon which he created a deliberate popular history through self-promotion believing it to be his task to write his biography before it could be written after his death which he determined would happen in 2014.
