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Luigi Ontani - Il clown della Rosa + inside correspondence emphemera from Ontani to Aggy, archive

This book includes several color images of the exhibition of Ontani Il Clown della Rosa, together with an introduction by Renato Barilli. Within the book postcard and photo correspondence from Ontani to Aggy can be found:

Postcard - Facciapule (Galeria Massimo Minini, 1984) (two copies)
Postcard - Luigi Ontani da Venerdi’ 15 novembre 1974 ore 22 (Associazione Culturale l’Attico, Roma, 1974)
Folded postcard: Dedicated to Lucius Richard O’BRien (title) invitation for Tableau Vivant (A Space, Toronto)
Postcard - Icoloca et Mitoloca (Galleria dell’Oca, Roma, 1986)
Postcard - I Profeti | La Raccolta della Manna (Banco / Massimo Minini, Brescia, 1980)
Postcard - Masks vernissage (121 Art Gallery, Antwerp, 1983)
Postcard - VERGATO | Chiesa Parrocchiale - interno (1983)
Postcard - L’INNO DI DON ODHINNO (Die Hymne des Don Odin) vernissage (Galerie Ingrid Dadic, Schöonblick, 1987)
Postcard - MONTAGNA SACRA ALLE ALPI (Galleria d’arte giorgio persano, Torino, 1982)
Postcard - Evangelista (Franz Paludetto, Torino, 1978)
Postcard - En route vers l’Inde (Associazione Culturale l’Attico, Rloma, 1978)
Photo - Post stamp from New York (year unknown)
Photo - Ontani in front of Plaza Colon fountain in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (postcard stamp from San Juan, 1988)
Folded A4 invitation - Riti Cabriti (Studio d’Arte Barnabò, Venezia, 1988)
Postcard invitation - Medici Prince (Sonnabend Gallery, New York, 1977)
Postcard - Attributed to the Taos Group | Our Lady Sorrows (From tje collection of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) Stamp from Albuquerque, 1999
Folder postcard invitation- La M&C Edizione d’Arte | Invitation for the presentation of Ontani’s lithograph portfolio (Associazione Culturale l’Attico, Roma, 1982)
Two separate postcards folded together: (1a) ...Montovolo Roma Capri New York Benares Taprobane Venezia Saturno... (Massimo Minini, Milano, 1981)
Two separate postcards folded together: (1b) Luigi Ontani (Mario Diacono, Roma, 1981)
Tri-fold A4 invitation - Overzichts retrospective 1965 - 1991 (Groninger Museum, Groningen, 1991)
Tri-fold envelop/aerogramma invitation - Raffaelo Sanzio 1483 - 1983 (500 years commemoration of birth) Lubilaeus peractae Redemptionis anniversarii MCMLXXXIII - Aperite portas Redemptori (Jubilee commemorating the accomplished Redemption, 1983 – Open your doors to the Redeemer.)

Also includes two bundles of folded papers:

Bundle 1 includes:
Notes, texts, and handwritten drafts for a publication on Ontani produced in connection with the Groninger Museum. Texts are in Dutch and Italian.

Bundle 2 includes:
Notes, texts, and handwNotes relating to art criticism and exhibition reviews of De Laatste Italiaanse Smokkelaar at the Groninger Museum, including references to de Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad, and Het Financieele Dagblad.itten drafts for a publication on Ontani produced in connection with the Groninger Museum. Texts are in Dutch and Italian.

An additional four-page inserted text on the exhibition De Italiaanse Smokkelaar at the Groninger Museum is located on page 9

Notable observation: Among the postcard and photographic correspondence between Ontani and Aggy is a postcard of Ulrike Rosenbach's Madonna mit der Kreissage, with a Feministische Kunst stamp on the image.