Rea Nikonova

Serge Segay

14309

Carla Bertola and Alberto Vittacchio

OFFERTA SPECIALE

Torino: Offerta Speciale, 1988-2016

c. 230 x 160 mm. 56 pages.

Edition: 200 numbered  and 200 regular copies

Offerta Speciale, revista die poesia internazionale, is a magazine of poetry and multimedia art edited and published semi-annually in Turin by the visual and sound poets Carla Bertola and Alberto Vitacchio. It is a major magazine dedicated to international visual poetry and mail art. The first issue of the first series appeared in 1978 nad was published until 1987 in a total of 13 issues. The current series, started in 1988, continues to be published today (in 2017 issue 60 appeared). The issues are published in 400 copies, 200 of which are numbered, special copies with a limited number of original works by the contributors. Starting from 1990, Nikonova and Segay participated in 36 issues, including the posthumous publication in issue 57 of May 2016. For issues 7 and 8 Segay provided an edition of original artwork. To date the LS collection contains all 73 issues.

Bookwork 2016, pp. 336-337