• Recto (the front): Gianni Piacentino, Stampe, Galleria Plura, Milan, 1980. Recto: applied colour photograph of installation view showing three engineered sculptural works — two wall-mounted linear forms and a wheeled floor vehicle — mounted onto cream card stock.
  • Verso (the back): Gianni Piacentino, Stampe, Galleria Plura, Milan, 1980. Verso: postmarked Milan 1980, red STAMPE stamp, Italian Republic stamps, handwritten address to Galerie de Varenne, 61 rue de Varenne, F-75007 Paris.
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GIANNI PIACENTINO — Stampe, Galleria Plura, Milan, 1980

GIANNI PIACENTINO — Stampe, Galleria Plura, Milan, 1980

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Galleria Plura, Milan, 1980. Original mailed exhibition postcard, 15 × 11.25 cm. Applied photographic image to recto; postmarked and stamped, handwritten address to verso.

Issued for Stampe, Galleria Plura, Milan, from Thursday 16 April 1980. The recto carries 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. Addressed on verso to Galerie de Varenne, 61 rue de Varenne, F-75007 Paris — the Paris gallery associated with publisher and dealer Jacques Damase, known for exhibitions and publications around figures including Sonia Delaunay.

A modest but unusually complete piece of gallery ephemera: part announcement, part mailed object, part distribution trace. Stamped in Milan and sent onward to Paris, 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.

Condition: Very good. Light surface wear, soft corner wear, minor creasing and age toning consistent with handling and postal use. Original period item.

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