Bidspirit auction | SOUSA (Manuel Almeida e). [ELECTROGRAFIA].

SOUSA (Manuel Almeida e). [ELECTROGRAFIA]. Cascais. 1995. - SOUSA (Manuel Almeida e) [ELECTROGRAFIA] . Assinatura manuscrita e data «95» no canto inferior esquerdo. Numeração manuscrita «11/20». Elementos visíveis na composição: «DOCUMENTA», «SCHOOL OF CULTURAL WORKERS», «FLUXU / YOUR NETWORK / BE / NDOIED», selos postais, recortes de texto em italiano, banda desenhada. Cascais: s.n., 1995. 1 ff.: il.; cartolina; 165×130 mm. Electrograph on cardboard in an edition of twenty copies, numbered 11/20, signed and dated 1995, by Manuel Almeida e Sousa, an artist from Cascais active in the international mail art and Fluxus network, documented in the Lomholt Mail Art Archive. The composition, densely collage-like in nature, superimposes heterogeneous elements characteristic of the Fluxus universe: postage stamps from various countries, clippings of text in Italian, fragments of comic strips, references to Documenta in Kassel, the caption ”School of Cultural Workers”—a slogan associated with Beuys's concept of ”social sculpture”—and a fragment of a postal network manifesto (”FLUXU / YOUR NETWORK / BE / NDOIED”). In the center, a white silhouetted human figure emerges from the dense collage as a focal point. The piece is a typical example of international electrographic production from the 1990s, in which photocopying on cardboard functioned simultaneously as a means of reproduction, artistic support, and vehicle for network distribution. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate