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Edgardo Antonio Vigo and Artists’ Periodicals
October 9 - November 28, 2025
Artpool Art Research Center
1135 Budapest, Szabolcs u. 33. D épület.
opening: 9 October, 2025, 5 pm - facebook event
by Marie Boivent, Professor of Visual Art at Université Rennes 2, curator of the exhibition
Display from Artpool's collection of selected issues of the artists' magazines created by E. A. Vigo, including Diagonal Cero (1962–69) and Hexágono ’71 (1971–75), selected pages from the periodicals enlarged on the walls, a selection of postcards sent by Vigo to György Galántai / Artpool, László Beke and Peter Küstermann of Germany in the 1980s, as well as his works published in the publications of other mail artists.
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RELATED EVENTS:
➤ 10 October 2025 from 15:00
E. A. VIGO IN THE MAIL ART NETWORK
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Participants::
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Marie Boivent, Professor of Visual Art at Université Rennes 2, curator of the exhibition
Her research focuses on artists’ publications, in particular those inspired by popular forms such as calendars, postcards and periodicals.
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Viktor Kotun, archivist in Artpool Art Research Center.eeeeeee
He is specialised in artist’s books and mail art-related collections and is compiling
Artpool's Mail Art Chro-No-Logy.
• Henar Rivière, Professor of Art History, the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
She specialises in international intermedia art, with a main focus of experimental writing in its various forms, including mail art and its expansion into the field of artists’ archives. She lead the research project « OBASA and Artpool: Collecting, Connecting, Archiving. The Active Archive as a Cultural Alternative on the Global Stage” (2021-2022)».
Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Argentine artist (1928-1997) a well known figure of Latin American artistic resistance in the 70s – born in La Plata, a city located sixty kilometers from Buenos Aires. He developed a prolific, multifaceted, and experimental practice over the course of his forty-year artistic career, one that defies categorization. From assembling impossible machines to new poetry, from wood engraving to photocopying, from collages and paintings to actions in public spaces, he constantly navigated between techniques, media, and genres. Influenced by the avant-garde and concrete art, his work engages a conceptual stance as much as it evokes Fluxus attitudes.
This collection display at Artpool aims to highlight Vigo’s special relationship with artists’ periodicals and show how he embraced this medium, having quickly realized that these publications, as shared creative spaces that are simple to produce, we are also powerful means of dissemination. Vigo was constantly involved in alternative collective periodicals, both as a contributor and as a publisher. He himself launched several series, including four periodicals: W.C. (5 issues, 1958–1960), DRKW ’60 (3 issue, 1960), Diagonal Cero (28 issues, 1962–1969), and Hexágono ’71 (13 issues, 1971–1975).
The collection display is based on the mail art exchanges of György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, founders of Artpool, which made it possible to assemble a collection of postcards by Vigo, as well as numerous Mail Art periodicals from Europe, North America, and Latin America to which the Argentinian artist contributed (sometimes with Graciela Gutiérrez Marx, with whom Vigo formed the duo G. E. Marx Vigo from 1979 to 1983).
Altought Vigo’s work has long been recognized in Argentina and Latin America thanks to numerous academic studies and several landmark solo exhibitions, he remained relatively unknown in Europe, as his works were shown at very few evenst to date.
This collection display at Artpool, the essential historical archive of mail art, aims to contribute to Vigo's recognition in Europe by howcasing the art of this marginal yet essential poet, artist, and publisher.
Curated by Marie Boivent
