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1976 · 1454 — <p>File box made of galvanized zinc 163 x 142 x 85 cm containing 1 folded colophon page 67 handwritten addressed and stamped numbered and dated envelopes containing a photocopied answer – to the question 'cosa la rosa per te - of each addressee one original piece by Angela Ricchi Lucchi being a rectangular piece of cloth with the handwritten text 'Profumo di… A.M.L. the cloth had been drenched in rose water. - First edition. One of 50 signed and hand numbered copies. Contributing artists non-artists: Eleonora Selvatici Emilio Isgro' Silvio Ceccato Rosa Rosa Tommaso Trini Giuliano Giuman Sebastiano Matta Luigi Ontani Stanislao PacusFranco Vaccari Veronica Sulpizio Ada Torquato Pipperi Romana Loda Marcanciel Stupro' Maurizio Osti Giovanni Mantellini Walter Amici Concetto Pozzati Corrado Costa Adriano Altamira Giuseppe Desiato Fausto Melotti Gabriele Amadori Claudio Parmiggiani Giulia Niccolai Adriano Spatola Tiziano Spatola Carlo Hollesch Iole De Sanna Valerio Miroglio Giovanni Battaglia Rosanna Chiessi Cesare Zavattini Franco Farina Elio Marchegiani Plinio Mesciulam Massimo Boni Luciano Ingapin William Xerra Franco Guerzoni Claudio Beria Rosa Rivista Femminile Giuliano Della Casa Marion Baruch Sandra Gavina Ugo La Pietra Gabriella Cardazzo Giorgio Zucchini Alberto Faietti Giuseppe D'agata Aldo Tagliaferri Roberto Lenassini Nino Migliori Jervant Gianikian Miro Silvera Renzo Lazzarin Nazareno Noia Ugo Sterpini Giuseppe Chiari Lucio Del Pezzo Takako Saito Maurizio Nannucci Giovanni Rubino Roberto Comini Francesco Casetti Ugo Nespolo Luigi Mainolfi. 'Angela Ricci Lucchi describes her work as follows: "I was already very interested in the use of the media and I started a kind of 'investigation' later published by the Pari & Dispari editions which consisted of asking everyone a series of essential questions: what is the rose for you Among others I asked Zavattini who sent me a beautiful letter. And I also asked Jervant whom I had just met. I started sending this message in June 1974; the operation continues to this day. Known and unknown people responded to me. Anyone who received these letters could send their reply. I didn't make any critical choices. This collection is in fact ordered only according to the date of the postmarks. In the same period the artist created numerous experimental and avant-garde cinema short films the so-called "scented films" Alice scented with roses 1975 the screening of which is accompanied by the diffusion of aromatic essences that interact with the film. The work is exhibited at the Mart museum in Rovereto and in 2018 it was part of the exhibition dedicated to "Rosanna Chiessi. Pari&Dispari" by the MAMbo Museum of Modern Art of Bologna and published in the catalogue." pariedispari website See also: "Cos'è la rosa per te" by Filippo Perfetti. This essay offers a reinterpretation of the early artistic work of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi through the lens of analogical thought exploring the meaning and structure of their initial creations. Starting from Ricci Lucchi's 1976 inquiry "Cos'è la rosa per te" it reconstructs an aesthetic and methodological path that intertwines fairy tale synesthesia and cataloging placing their work in dialogue with the contemporary scenes of independent cinema and visual art. The essay argues that for the two artists the film should be understood as a field of forces in which things are no longer fixed entities but relational nodes. In this light the question "cos'è la rosa per te" – "What is the rose for you" – becomes emblematic of a heuristic method based on plurality incompleteness and the tension between elements proposing analogy as the central epistemological structure of their artistic project.</p> Pari Editori & Dispari