Everything

A sheet of white paper covered in transparent plexiglass is mounted on the wall. On the right side of the work, the word “TUTTO” is written in black self-adhesive lettering. The word, meaning “everything,” traverses the paper underneath the plexiglass sheet, the plexiglass itself, and the wall of the gallery. This piece belongs to a series of works in which the letters of “TUTTO” are positioned in multiple points in space. In the artist’s words, these arrangements “draw nearer to the ‘tutto’ much more than if I had indicated it in a single point.”

The surfaces of Tutto include the paper ground or conventional space of representation, the plexiglass cover (reminding us of a frame and therefore conditions of display), and the physical structure of gallery. These surfaces act as signals of all of the possible physical conditions in which everything might be present, everywhere and at every time. Within the context of the early 1970s, the title of this work also echoed the call of the Italian workers’ movement: “Vogliamo tutto!” (We want everything!).