E IL TOPOPERIODICO D’ARTISTA ANNO XX N°12 2012

IT WOKE UP AND THE DINOSAUR WAS NO LONGER THERE

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Qui giace Raffaello Sanzio:da lui, quando visse, la natura temette d’esser vinta,

ora che egli è morto, teme di morire

D’AILLEURS, C’EST TOUJOURS LES AUTRES QUI MEURENT

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Though they’d been informed of the eclipse, everybody panicked when the streets went suddenly dark.

Raymond Hains ©Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris sent by Grazia Quaroni

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Dennis Oppenheim ©Robert Ladislas Derr sent by Robert Ladislas Derr

2011

André Raffray sent by Anne Dressen

2010

Arman sent by Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois

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Carla Vendrame © A. Guidetti sent by Simona Bordone

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Pierre Restany ©Giovanni Bai sent by Giovanni Bai

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Helen Frankenthaler sent by Archivio Careof

2011

Louise Bourgeois © Dimitris Yeros sent by Dimitris Yeros

2010

Sadamasa Motonaga sent by Margaret Honda

2011

Leonora Carrington sent by Michel De Gyves

2011

Una banana è ansia dal distacco, una banana inserita nel tacco.

Roy Lichtenstein © Christopher Felver sent by Christopher Felver

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Mimmo Rotella sent by Francesca Alfano Miglietti

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Aldo Tagliaferro © Bruno Di Bello sent by Bruno Di Bello

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Dennis Hopper © Giovanni Bai sent by Giovanni Bai

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Giancarla Zanutti sent by Antonio De Pascale

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Larry Rivers sent by Archivio Careof

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Nam June Paik © Giovanni Bai sent by Giovanni Bai

2006

He was told so many times it was forbidden, he understood it was what he must want.

Gino De Dominicis © Pio Monti sent by Pio Monti

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Michele Sovente © Fabio Donato sent by Maddalena Arcella

2011

Dadamaino sent by Archivio Careof

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Shusaku Arakawa © Dimitris Yeros sent by Dimitris Yeros

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Rammellzee sent by Franklin Sirmans

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Sigmar Polke © Klaus Staeck sent by Gunther Gastroph

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Jeanne-Claude © Wolfgang Volz sent by Matthias Koddenberg

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Wolf Vostell © Giovanni Bai sent by Giovanni Bai

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Aldo Mondino sent by Davide Nido

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Palma Bucarelli sent by Rachele Ferrario

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Joan Brossa © Pepe cobo y Cía sent by Pepe Cobo

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Fabio Mauri sent by Sebastiano Mauri

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Claudio Guarino sent by Steve Child

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Eva Ziesel © Brigitte Lacombe sent by Jean Richards

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Emanuele Luzzati © Davide Pambianchi sent by Nuvola Ravera

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Bandi Binder sent by Martín Giménez

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Paolo Cotani © Emiliano Zucchini sent by Emiliano Zucchini

2011

Juan Muñoz © Pepe Cobo y Cía sent by Pepe Cobo

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Antoni Tàpies © Gemma Mercader sent by Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

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I’m asleep now, in a while I’ll be rowing again

Steven Parrino sent by Elizabeth Periale

2005

Colin de Land sent by Craig Wadlin-Art Club 2000

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Davide Mosconi © Angelo Caligaris sent by Elisabetta Longari

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César sent by Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois

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Barry Flanagan © Braco Dimitrijević sent by Braco Dimitrijević

2009

Luciano Fabro © Pio Monti sent by Pio Monti

2007

Sol LeWitt © Pio Monti sent by Pio Monti

2007

Aldo Rossi sent by Antonio Angelillo

1997

Mario Schifano © Marcellino Radogna sent by Marcellino Radogna

1998

The perfect reproduction, the absolute copy as distinct from the original, the possibility to create, duplicate, to endlessly multiply in the realms of art, literature and thinking, texts, authors, quotations and references, in order to build a milieu of innumerable possibilities and eternal returns. These operations are both, fascinating and anxious. And now what?

Richard Hamilton © Braco Dimitrijević sent by Braco Dimitrijević

2011

Christoph Maria Schlingensief sent by Y Liver

2011

Merce Cunningham © Annie Leibovitz sent by Merce Cunningham Dance Company

2009

Emilio Vedova © Fabrizio Gazzarri sent by Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova

2006

Gianfranco Ferrè sent by Loredana Filice

2007

Andrea Zanzotto and Mario Luzi

2011

sent by Fabio Zanzotto

2005

Marco Colombaioni sent by Bert Theis

2011

Willem de Kooning © Christopher Felver sent by Christopher Felver

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Cy Twombly © Mario Dondero sent by Sophie Dondero

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Enrico Baj © Aurelio Amendola sent by Fondazione Marconi, Milano

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Leo De Berardinis © Marco Caselli Nirmal,1988 sent by Marco Caselli Nirmal

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Giuseppe Chiari © Luigi Ricci sent by Pio Monti

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What time is it? I mean right now: NOW. What time is it right now?

James Lee Byars © Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris sent by Hervé Chandès

1997

Harald Szeemann © Mario Gorni sent by Archivio Careof

2005

Luca Castellano sent by Peppe Esposito

2001

Roman Opalka sent by Sara Scanderebech

2011

Mario Merz © David Heald Courtesy Archivio Merz, Torino sent by Archivio Merz, Torino

2003

Colin de Land ☺Armando della Vittoria sent by Gabriele Di Matteo

2003

Pat Hearn ☺Armando della Vittoria sent by Gabriele Di Matteo

2000

The sea still calls me each summer, though I am forgetting the names of the fi sh.

Dennis Oppenheim and Stella sent by Emilio Corti

2011

Luciano Inga Pin © Giovanni Bai sent by Giovanni Bai

2009

Vettor Pisani © Pio Monti sent by Pio Monti

2011

Roger Bouvet sent by Beatrice Bouvet

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Jean-Louis Maubant sent by Homiridis Maubant

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Jason Rhoades © Andrea Stappert sent by Andrea Stappert

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Dash Snow © Wyatt Neumann sent by Wyatt Neumann

2009

Oscar Bony sent by Patricia Rizzo

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Fabio Mauri sent by Sebastiano Mauri

2009

Leo Castelli © M. Riboud sent by Federico Luger

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Gianfranco Pardi © Carlo Orsi sent by Fondazione Marconi, Milano

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He would never let anyone so near him again. He would never let anyone so near him again.

Robert Rauschenberg (selfportrait) ©Robert Rauschenberg Foundation sent by Christa Carr

2008

Vincenzo Accame © Giovanni Bai sent by Giovanni Bai

1999

Vincenzo Consolo sent by Eric Davanzo - Gruppo A

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Georges Adilon © Blaise Adilon sent by Jacqueline Adilon

2009

Crescenzo Del Vecchio sent by Maria adele Del Vecchio

2006

Lello Ruggiero sent by Angelo Ricciardi and Nello Teodori

2009

Tom Wesselmann © Dimitris Yeros sent by Dimitris Yeros

2004

Dario Bernardi sent by Violetta di Parma

2011

Ivo Bonacorsi sent by Valentina Tortorella

2007

Mimmo Conenna sent by MariaTeresa Padula

1998

John Chamberlain © Rafael Bueno sent by Rafael Bueno

2011

Paolo Rigamonti sent by Emilio Rigamonti

2002

Bob Law ©The estate of Bob Law sent by Richard Saltoun

2004

Pasquale Zazzara sent by Antonio De Pascale

2011

Luis Benedit sent by Julián Benedit

2011

Bruno Munari sent by Mario Gorni

1998

Giuseppe Panza di Biumo sent by Albarete di Gemito

2010

Victor Vasarely sent by Gyula Kosice

1997

Emilio Tadini © Alberto Taglabue sent by Fondazione Marconi, Milano

2002

Martin Disler © Andreas Züst sent by Mara Züst

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Chen Zhen © Galleria Continua sent by Maurizio Regillo

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Richard Baquié sent by où, Marseille

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Stan Brakhage © Tim Wilkins sent by Francesco Bertocco

2003

Martin Kippenberger © Elfi e Semotan sent by Elfi e Semotan

1997

Martin Kippenberger © Andrea Stappert sent by Andrea Stappert

1997

Carlo Miroglio sent by Vanessa Michielon

2009

Czeslaw Milosz sent by Magda Podkowinska

2004

An empty page, specifi cally designed for the never present Félix González-Torres. A name that vanishes behind his oeuvre’s “permanent change”.Gabriele Di Ma eo, for this issue of E il topo devoted to the concept of me-as-magazine, requested a private picture/portrait of Félix González-Torres. Our request was turned down. We were told that it was an essen al part of the ar st’s statement not to allow any photograph of himself to be reproduced. This prohibi on is conceptually related to the idea that the image of the ar st places him in a determined me frame, while the inten on of Félix González-Torres is just the opposite: that of the perpetua on of melessness. Also, the personal image of the ar st would create an aura that wouldn’t allow the work to stand and live on its own as the only legacy to be le behind. We were also told that González-Torres, even went so far as to limit the number of interviews he gave, and chose to avoid the describing or talking about the meaning of his work, preferring to speak about general conceptual ideas.

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Mike Kelley © Fredrik Nilsen sent by Fredrik Nilsen

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Special thanks to:Françoise Lonardoni Grazia Quaroni Robert Ladislas Derr Anne Dressen

Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Simona Bordone Giovanni Bai Archivio Careof Dimitris Yeros Suzanne Fredericq Michel De Gyves Christopher Felver

Francesca Alfano Miglietti Bruno Di Bello Antonio De Pascale Pio Monti Catherine Elkar Maddalena Arcella Franklin Sirmans Gunther Gastroph

Andrea Stappert Eric Davanzo Davide Nido Rachele Ferrario Pepe Cobo Sebastiano MauriSteve Child Jean Richards Martín Giménez Emiliano Zucchini Fondaciò Antoni Tàpies

Elizabeth Periale Craig Wadlin (Art Club 2000) Elisabetta Longari Braco DimitrijevićAntonio Angelillo Marcellino Radogna Y Liver Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova Loredana Filice Zaccaria Di MatteoFabio Zanzotto Bert Theis Sophie Dondero Fondazione Marconi Maria Teresa PadulaJen Budney Hervé Chandès Mario Gorni Guglielmo Guastafferi Sara Scanderebech

Archivio Merz Wyatt Neumann Beatrice Bouvet Homiridis Maubant Patricia RizzoFederico Luger Franco Marrocco Christa Carr Jacqueline Adilon Maria Adele Del Vecchio

Violetta di Parma Valentina Tortorella Rafael Bueno Richard Saltoun Emilio RigamontiJulián Benedit Albarete di Gemito Maurizio Regillo où Francesco Bertocco Benedikt EnderAngelo Ricciardi & Nello Teodori Saverio Lucariello Magda Podkowinska Vanessa Michielon

Ignazio Gadaleta Pablo Janzana Matteo Vinti Silvia Fabro Mario DonderoRiccardo Notte Vladimir Vasicek Jr. Loredana Putignani Pasquale Campanella

Nicola Di Caprio Sergio Sansevrino Elfi e Semotan Monia Basso Denis Piel Margaret Honda Athos Zacharias Matthias Koddenberg Nuvola Ravera Fabrizio Gazzarri

Marco Caselli Nirmal Chiara Agnello Emilio Corti Peppe Esposito Mara ZüstFlorian Bachmann Klaus Staeck Thomas Mariani Mirela Stanila Gyula Kosice

Massimo De Palma Stefano Carezzali Debora Hirsh Bruno Muzzolini Fredrik Nilsen

Excuse my dust (Dorothy Parker)

E IL TOPO

E IL TOPO is reborn at Careof Milan on March 27, 2012

DirectorArmando Della Vittoria

Editorial StaffMattia Barbieri, Gabriele Di Matteo, Francesco Fossati, Giovanna Francesconi, Piero Gatto

Francesco Locatelli, Monica Mazzone, Luca Pozzi, Franco Silvestro

CorrespondentsMartín Giménez - New York, Y Liver and Frederic Liver - Paris, Gigiotto Del Vecchio - Berlin

Chiara Agnello - Milan, Debora Hirsch - Sao Paulo

ContributorsArt Club 2000, Valerio Borgonuovo, Gabriela Galati, Antonio Grulli, Giancarlo Norese

Steve Piccolo & Gak Sato

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