For decades, Maurizio Nannucci has preserved exhibition invitation cards. The collection comprises both invitations and announcements from artists whose approaches to art are close to his own. Yet many also come from wider circles of artist friends, colleagues, galleries, and museums, allowing a chronology of relationships and information exchanges to emerge. The selection in this volume makes visible how this kind of communication – often conceived by the artists themselves – superimposes the purely informative value of the printed matter with the freedom of artistic expression; evidence of a holistic practice where such cards can become artworks in their own right.

Daniel Buren writes on his friend Robert Ryman to highlight some questions raised by his oeuvre and by his own work.

Co-founder of the BMTP group, Daniel Buren (born 1939 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France) is a major figure on the international art scene. He made a name for himself on the art scene in the 1960s. In 1965, Daniel Buren settled into an approach based on a striped canvas with alternating white and coloured, 8,7 cm‑wide stripes. The introduction in late 1967 of what he called a “visual tool” laid the foundations for a practice that broke with tradition and opened up a multifaceted body of work in which freedom was born, as the artist likes to point out, out of both internal and external constraints. Daniel Buren explored this “visual tool” by developing it on a flat surface and, from the end of the 1960s, in three dimensions.

Produced on the occasion of Daniel Buren’s exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya, April 15 – June 25, 1989 and the Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, April 28 – June 11, 1989.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of Daniel Buren’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 30 April – 7 June, 1976. With texts from Michel Claura and Germano Celant. Designed by Total Design.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Parallelepipede & Trame Travail in situ by Daniel Buren at the Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, 1 – 19 December, 1997.

A brochure produced by Jean Claude Lefèvre on the occasion of Daniel Buren’s exhibition Points de vue at ARC/Musée d’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, May 5 1983.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.