Marcello Diotallevi between Visual Poetry and Mail Art

The exhibition presents in the Spazio e Immagini gallery in Bologna a selection of rare artist’s postcards by Marcello Diotallevi during his fifty-year career between Visual Poetry and Mail Art. Curated By Matteo Giacomelli, this is the first wide-ranging inquiry of Diotallevi's underground and offstream activity. At the end of the 70s he joined the group of italian Visual Poetry and during the 80s and 90s he practiced the network of creative correspondence of Mail Art.

It is an intriguing research in the name of one of the last strands of the avant-garde refractory to classifications and yet to be fully explored, addressed through the form of the minimal but not ephemeral medium of the postcard. Today the name of Marcello Diotallevi can rightly be counted in a supranational perspective that sees him alongside Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, Chuck Welch (Crackerjack Kid), Vittore Baroni and others, who have offered relevant contributions to this transversal avant-garde. From the collection of more than 100 postcards by Marcello Diotallevi on display, some were born as autonomous works, while others were conceived by the artist to respond to an informative function regarding his own exhibition activity.