![Item #10447 Maladie Cosmique: Psyographie [signed and inscribed]. Metallic Avau.](https://fugitivematerials.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10447.png?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759950384)
Maladie Cosmique: Psyographie [signed and inscribed]
Brussels: éditions aérosol, 1980. Offset, signed and inscribed in the hand of the author. Side stapled and tape bound in yellow covers. 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. 37pp. Text in French. Very good, with back cover detached from staples, but still attached to tape binding. Item #10447
A 1980 book-length poem by Metallic Avau, one of the pioneers of both graffiti and mail art in Belgium–this example signed and inscribed by the artist.
Together with his wife Violetta Wynants, he published the first Belgian zine on graffiti, Aérosol. He also used the fanzine to promote mail art, of which he became an avid practitioner, one of the first in Belgium, organizing several exhibitions in the country and abroad.
In this book, Avau practices "psychographie," writing dictated by a disembodied spirit. Its illustrations and themes of cosmic malady exhibit a relation to the xerox & punk aesthetics developing in Western Europe and the United States.
Not located in OCLC as of September 2025.
Price: $250.00