MAURIZIO OPALIO
'signs of the mountains'
ARTIST'S BOOK + 3” CD-R + DL code

Private Art Edition of 21 copies.

The artist's book is housed in 11x15cm handmade heavy cardboard jacket;
- front: original ink drawing on recycled paper by Maurizio Opalio, signed by the artist;
- back: art edition credits; handstamped, handnumbered
- artbook: "first numbered exemplars #/XXI" handwritten on back cover.

ARTBOOK: 10,5x15cm, 46 pages artist's book by Maurizio Opalio of My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA). Handbound with red string and eyelets by the artist. Cover in 140-gram grey faux leather paper. 20 b&w illustrations of graphite pencil drawings on cherry red fine paper. With “Divinités Irritées” aesthetic manifesto by Roberto Opalio. Manufactured in Western Alps.

MUSIC: The musical piece – a 10 minutes solo instantaneous composition by Maurizio Opalio – contains loops of field recordings of paper and cardboard during the action of cutting, bending, creasing, tearing, gluing, taping, stapling, stamping, etc – every sound that characterizes the handcrafting of this series of art books.

Copyright MMXVI Maurizio Opalio. All rights reserved.
Published by Opax Editions / Divinités Irritées.