EDGARDO ANTONIO VIGO

Works

Des Borde Del Borde Vigo: Ante-proyecto de Proyecto…

1958 / 1994-5lithograph on paper71 x 54 cm

Composiciòn mecànico-estètica

1958letterpress on paper 30 x 50 cm

BFGV 62

1962letterpress/woodcut23.2 x 15.9 cm (16 pp.)

One of Edgardo Antonio Vigo’s earliest publications, in collaboration with El Grupo de los Elefantes. BFGV62 takes its name from the initials of the names of the poets it features (Barragan, Fortin, Gancedo, Vigo) and from its year of publication. Contain peculiar leaflets produced by the participating the artists.

Primera Exposicion de Novisi-ma Poesia de Vanguardia

1968softcover book22.9 x 17.6 cm (5 pp.)

This small catalogue was produced on the occasion of Vigo participation to the exhibition of the same name at Galeria Scheinsohn on May 1968.

Poema Matematico

1968 letterpress on papercard23.5 x 12.3 cm

Novisima Poesia /69

1969softcover catalogue20 x 23 cm (20 pp.)

Catalogue for the exhibition at Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, La Plata, April 18 1969.

Poemas (In)Sonoros - A Record For Looking

1969printed papercard in a card folder18.5 x 17.5 cm

Poemas(In)Sonoros - A Record For Lo-oking [(In)sonorous poems] nicely em-bodies Vigo’s interest in the production of functionless objects. The Bi-trici-cleta ingenua is another example.The work is also a great example of Vigo’s extensive conception of visual poetry.

Obras (in)completas

19691 lithograph and 4 letterpress on paper25.3 x 11.5 cm (each)

A leaflet accompanying the Obras (in)completas says: “In line with the theory of participation art, a certain percentage of the creation is transfer-red to wherever you desire to place them”.

15 Anos al Encuentro del Tiempo Perdido

1969perforated paper sheets in a postal envelope, a hanging key 20.5 x 20 cm (folder)

Evoking Vigo’s obras censuradas [censored artworks], this piece of mail art can not be opened.

Manual e Instrucciones para la Construccion de una "Obra de Arte" (Occidental y Cristiana)

1969letterstamped, wax-sealed postal envelope with hanging papercut ‘La Marca de Vigo’21 x 12 cm

Armado de un "Poema Demagogi-co"

1969letterpress on paper22 x 16.8 cm

“On one of his first visits to Uruguay, in September 1970, [Vigo] presen-ted Poema Demagógico ([Demagogic Poem], a parody of the electoral pro-cess where votes had to be folded in a cylindrical shape to fit the special ballot boxes.” Extract from Clemente Padin’s text ‘Edgardo Antonio Vigo: A Liberta-rian Apiration’.

15 Anos al Encuentro del Tiempo Perdido

1969printed papercard, rope14 x 38 cm

Invitation to Galería de Arte “Opera”,La Plata, 1969.

Plebiscito gratuito: si – no

1969silkscreen on rubberstamped paper21.3 x 8.5 cm

The small leaflet of Plebiscito gratui-to: si–no [Gratuitous plebiscite] was distributed by Vigo to the participants of one of his earliest artistic gatherings. The artist invited a number of people to attend a talk entitled ‘Art today’. Once there everybody was asked to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ without any further expla-nation. This action was later developed in the Señalamiento IV.

Análisis (in) Poético de 1 m. de Hilo / (Un)Poetic Analysis of 1 metre of Thread

1970folded cardboard, rubberstamped tags, strings, postal envelope24 x 10 cm

Sonidos (Che Vida)

1970unbound papercard sheets, five xylographs, papercard folder24 x 28 cm

This portfolio is n. 42 from an edition of 500. Beisde texts and poems, it contains five die-cut xilographs signed and inscribed by Vigo.

Contempla y Vota

1971offset print on 2 pieces of card, strings49 x 13 cm

Contempla y Vota was first exhibited in July 1971 on the occasion of the Expo/Internacional de Proposiciones a Reali-zar at the CAYC, in La Plata. The piece consisted of peculiarly shaped electo-ral forms available to be inscribed and inserted in a locked ballot box placed beneath a hanging sculpture entitled Suero (in) estético para contemplar.

Comic Strip

19726 letterpress on papercard26 x 13.8 cm (each)

The Comic Strip is a fundamental work among Vigo’s pieces dedicated to his analysis of the social repercussions of new media such as television.

Fund[i]cion Vigo - Presenta al gru-po RPD’C - Quien no es nadie?

1972letterpress on paper, yellow telephone book pages, papercard envelope20.4 x 16.4 cm (envelope)

Señalamiento VII°. Señalamiento de tu mano

1972die-cut papercard and letterpress on cardboard24 x 18 cm

The instructions accompanying Señal-amiento VII ask to put a finger in each of holes die-cut in the papercard. One side is for the right hand’s fingers, the other side is for the left hand’s.

Bande dessinèe hermètique deu-xième

1973lettepress on unbounded sheets in a orange papercard folder10 x 10 cm

The introductory description to this co-mic tautologically defines what a comic is. The text is written in French.

Recuerda Trelew. La gota de San-gre.

1973printed papercard, hanging piece of plastic with string28 x 11 cm

This peculiar hanging multiple is a cle-ar example of Vigo’s political comm-mitment against the dictatorship. The work commemorates the massacre of Ezeiza and the 16 revolutionaries as-sassinated in the jail of Trelew on Au-gust 22 1972.

Señalamiento 14th: llamado del silencio.

19744 offset prints on paper13 x 20 cm

Published by Editorial Fundamentos, Señalamiento XIV is dedicated to ‘si-lence’.

20 Hilos de Tamanos Diferentes y una Estampilla Anulada - a Pablo Neruda (post-mortem)

1974letterpress on cardboard, rope, paper label29 x 15.7 cm

20 Different Strings and a Cancelled Stamp is a poem object dedicated by Vigo to Neruda. This piece reveals a more traditionally literary reference of the artist: poet Pablo Neruda. The whi-te and blue label collaged on paper-card is of the kind used to title primary school notebooks at the time.

Freedom

1974letterpress on paper25 x 13.5 cm

Sellado A Mano

197421 loose sheets (papercard, rubber-stamped) in papercard folder (rubber-stamped), rope21.5 x 15 cm

This portfolio includes experimenta-tions by Bercetche, Ginzburg, Leonetti, Pazos, Romero and Zabala. Vigo con-tributed with a small collaged envelope containing a piece of paper where the word “PERIMIDO” has been rubber-stamped.

tres detalles de una obra que no me pertenece / three details of a work which I have never done

19754 xylographs on papercard in cardbo-ard folder25 x 15 cm

Three Details of a Work which I Have Never Done is among Vigo’s pieces dedicated to his artistic concerns on the perspectives of artistic appropria-tion and of established ideas of artistic authority.

CORZIER VIGO ZABALA

1975papercuts in collaged envelope10 x 15 cm

Editions Hexágono ‘71. La flaca grabada.

Proyecto de anteproyecto de ar-quitectura poética

1977 ca.typed sheet of paper in a colaged papercard envelope22 x 17 cm

“We want to restitute engraving its no-ble status of popular printing techni-que. We want to highlight its value of marginal language, hidden in the me-mory of our ancestors”.

Anteproyecto de proyecto: realiza-ción de una tapa de revista, núm-ero 2/1986

1986papercuts and typed text in a postal envelope20.8 x 14.3 cm

This work invites to edit the cover of a magazine: “reader is invited to use some material, adding any conveniant one or refusing the offered one”.

Off; Off,,,

1987unbound pages + folder27 x 18.3 cm

This is the catalogue - edited by Vigo - of the exhibition taken place in 1987 at the Centro de Artes Visuales de La Pla-ta. The xilographed cardboard folder contains 3 collaged artist envelopes, 5 collages and 6 printed sheets of paper. Edited by Vigo.

Anteproyecto de proyecto de un anàlisis poètico matemàtico - de una tortuga de un cangrejo de un sapo / Preproject for a project of poetical-mathematical analysis of a tortois of a crab of a toad

1988mixed media, box20 x 20 cm (box)

This artwork includes photos taken by Vigo to coloured sheets of paper folded so to acquire the shape of ani-mals, which the artist photographed after submerging them in a pound.

Anteproyecto de proyecto de un pretendido panorama abarcativo

1991unbound sheets in cardboard folder21 x 29 cm (12 pp.)

This small catalogue was published on the occasion of Vigo’s 1991 re-trospective at Fundación San Telmo, in La Plata. Beside a finely edited se-lection of projects from Vigo’s oeu-vre, the catalogue also includes the print La Maga (n.83 of 600) and an original set of stamps by the artist.

Sras. Sres.

1993softcover book21 x 30 x .3 cm (8 pp.)

Edited by E.A. Vigo, Claudia Del Rio and Mario Daniel Germin, this is the catalogue for the 1993 exhibition at the Centro Cultural Victoria Ocampo. This publication is part of an edition of 500.

Edgardo A.Vigo, poeta de ladistancia

1997poster50 x 70 cm

A poster from Vigo’s 1997 retrospecti-ve at the Spanish Cultural Centre, in Buenos Aires.

Libro Internacional / International book, nn. 1, 2, 3

1976 - 1980 unbound printed pages + folder 23.5 x 18.5 x .7 cm (folder)

The three volumes of Libro Internacional - directed by Vigo - followed and completed the project of Hexa’gono. This small series of volumes was printed in an edition of only 200 copies.

Among the contributors: Banana A., Blaine J., Deisler G., Ferro A., Gaglione B., Glusberg J., Goeritz M., Groh K., Nan-nucci M., Porridge G., Perfetti M., Smith Pa, Vaccari F., Zabala H., Bruscky P., DeRook G.J., Fischer H., Caraballo J., Arethuse, Garcia C., Nannucci Ma, Romero J.C., Gutierrez-Marx G.

Our International Stamps/Cancel-led Seals / Nuestro Libro Interna-cionale de Estampillas y Matasel-los, nn. 1 - 20

1979 unbound pages + folder 23.5 x 18.5 x .4 cm (folder)

Our international stamps followed the publication of the Libros International. Each issue consists of loose leaves of texts, stamps and seals in carton portfolios illustrated with color woodcuts, seals, stamps, ribbons, and collages. The present collection includes the special issues ‘Blaine’ and ‘Harley’.

Among the contributors: Below P., Cavellini G.A., Crozier R., Duch L.F., Harley, Gruber H., Higgins EF-III, Gutierrez-Marx G., Petasz P., Rehfeldt R., Staeck R., Wolf-Rehfeldt R., Diggs E.