Gianni Piacentino, Stampe — Galleria Plura, Milan, 1980

Original mailed exhibition announcement for Stampe, Galleria Plura, Milan, from Thursday 16 April 1980. Postcard format with applied photographic image on recto — a reproduction of Piacentino's sleek engineered forms, mounted into the card rather than simply printed as image-field, giving the piece a quieter, constructed presence. Postmarked and stamped; handwritten address on verso to Galerie de Varenne, 61 rue de Varenne, F-75007 Paris. 15 × 11.25 cm.

A modest but unusually complete piece of gallery ephemera: part announcement, part mailed object, part distribution trace. On the reverse, the card remains fully within the circulation system that produced it — stamped in Milan and sent onward to Galerie de Varenne, the Paris gallery associated with publisher and dealer Jacques Damase, known for exhibitions and publications around figures including Sonia Delaunay.

Seen now, it reads less as documentation than as a small exhibition object in its own right: image, address, postal handling, and gallery-to-gallery transmission held together in one surface. A useful reminder that the art world often moved first through the mail.

Condition: Very good overall; light surface wear, soft corner wear, minor creasing and age toning consistent with handling and postal use.
Shipping: Ships flat in a protective sleeve with backing board.