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''Linee'' (lines) is an artist's book by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni, created in 1959. Each work consists of a cardboard tube, a scroll of paper with a black line drawn down it, and a simple printed and autographed label. This label contains a brief description of the work, the work’s length, the artist’s name and the date it was created. Most of the lines were made between September and December 1959. 68 are known to have been made,〔''Piero Manzoni Catalog Generale'', vol 1, Celant〕 each with different length strips inside. ==First public exhibition== The first public exhibition of the ''Linee'' was at Galleria Pozzetto Chiuso in Albissola Marina, between 18 and 24 August, occasion in which Lucio Fontana Buy the Linea m 9,48.〔Pola, Francesca. Una visione internazionale. Piero Manzoni e Albisola. Electa, 2013.〕 The second public presentation of the lines was at the inaugural exhibition of the Galleria Azimut, Milan, a space run by Enrico Castellani and Manzoni himself, between 4 and 24 December 1959. 11 lines were exhibited unopened on wooden plinths, whilst a twelfth strip was unrolled and attached directly to the entire length of one wall. The tubes were sold for between 25 & 80 thousand lire,〔''Corriere della Sera'', Milan, 1959-12-16, quoted in ''Piero Manzoni, Catalog Raisoné'', Battino & Palazzoli, p. 59〕 depending on their length, which ranged from 4m 89 to 33m 63. Manzoni seems to have changed his mind about the unveiling of the twelfth strip, as he wrote in May 1960 that the tubes ‘must not be opened.’〔Letter to Shozu Yamazaki, quoted in ''Piero Manzoni Catalogue Raisoné'', Battino & Palazzoli, p. 85〕 Despite this, the strips are still occasionally unrolled when exhibited. Originally the lines, when bought, would become a personal act of unveiling by the buyer, not dissimilar to an individual reading a book. There are documentary photos by Manzoni recording one such opening. Uliano Lucas, a friend and occasional collaborator of Manzoni is shown unravelling one such line, to discover the text '15 Capo Linea' (Head Line) at the end.〔''Piero Manzoni, Catalog Raisoné'', Battino & Palazzoli, p61〕 Once the practice of demanding that the work remained hidden had been established, however, the tubes became objects that record an unseen artistic event, at a specific moment in time; what Duchamp called ‘a kind of rendezvous’. The artistic act of drawing the lines becomes totally obscured, replaced by an imaginary idea of what they might look like, born witness by the labels on the tube, but not revealed. The works elevate the external text whilst diminishing the art object, implying that only the visualisation of the work in the mind’s eye is valid. This idea was to be taken further with his "Artist’s Shit", where the contents are unknowable without destroying the container, and reached its logical conclusion with the "Lines of Infinite Length", where the line only exists as a metaphysical speculation.
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