bleu

Published in Mantua in 1920-1921, Bleu introduced the Dada movement to Italian audiences. Although the editors, Gino Cantarelli and Aldo Fiozzi, did not identify themselves with Dada directly, painter and poet Julius Evola used Bleu to promote the movement. He did so by contributing his own poems and essays about Dada as well as drawings and texts by recognized Dadaists. The second issue, for instance, presents two Picabia-like diagrams, Johannes Baargeld's 'The Dada Airship' and Max Ernst's 'Parafulmine giurabacca dei dada arp tzara ERNST baargeld picabia ecc' [...]
TEXT CREDITS
Emily Hage, 'Bleu', in The Dada Reader. A Critical Anthology / edited by Dawn Ades (Tate Publishing : London 2006) 258.

DESCRIPTION
N°1 (July 1920) - N°3 (January 1921)
Edited by Gino Cantarelli and Aldo Fiozzi
Published by Tipografia L'Artistica, Mantua
37 × 25 cm.

FACSIMILES/REPRINTS
printed
- Reprinted in 'Dada italiano', in Documenti e periodici Dada / a cura di Arturo Schwarz. Collezione di ristampe anastatiche diretta da Massimo Carra e Giorgio de Marchis (G. Mazzotta : Milano 1970).
- [anthology] 'Bleu', in The Dada Reader. A Critical Anthology / edited by Dawn Ades (Tate Publishing : London 2006) 257-260.

Gino Cantarelli
Gino Cantarelli (1899-1950) was a self-taught artist who became involved with the Futurist movement in 1916. From 1917 to 1920, he published the journal Procellaria, together with Aldo Fiozzi, which combined Futurist and Dadaist tendencies. In 1920 the two editors joined with Julius Evola to publish Bleu, which was devoted entirely to Dada and which appeared in Mantua like the earlier journal. In 1924 he returned to the Futurist movement only to abandon all literary activities shortly thereafter.