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Artwork: [Sans Titre – Envoi postal]

T III 32

[Sans Titre – Envoi postal]

[No title – Mailing]

April 1968

by the intermediary of the Postal service in

Alternating vertical white and colored striped paper, each stripe 8.7 cm wide, envelope.

Each piece of paper: 52.2 x 76.5 cm.

Paris, France


Description

Mailing of a white and colored striped piece of paper, folded and put in a large envelope without a return address, mailed at the same time as a random plastering up of the same pieces of paper on the walls of Paris and at the paper pasting completed at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, for the "24e Salon de Mai".

Work completed alone, without invitations from a gallery or from the museum mentioned above.

The mailing served as the invitation to "look" for those who knew how to "see".

Second mailing, the first having taken place in December 1967.


Biblios

* Poinsot, Jean-Marc : [Sans titre], in Mail art / Communication à distance / Concept, Paris : : Cedic, collection 60+, novembre 1971, anglais, français, cit. n. p.


* Poinsot, Jean-Marc : "Méprises et préscriptions (sur un rôle oublié du cadre à propos de quelques œuvres de Buren, Parmentier et Toroni)", in Le Cadre et le socle dans l'art du 20e siècle, Dijon / Paris : Université de Bourgogne / Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges-Pompidou, janvier 1987, cit. p. 153


* Buren, Daniel; Casavecchia, Barbara; Honoré, Vincent : "Daniel Buren in conversation with / in conversazione con Barbar Casavecchia e Vincent Honoré", in Daniel Buren - Textile Works, Milan : Mousse Publishing, octobre 2014, italien, anglais, cit. p. 30



Collection
Work destroyed after the exhibition.