Antonio Dias, The space Between, 1971. A) The theory of counting, B) The theory of density.
In 1971 Antonio Dias (Brazilian, 1944–2018) produced Record: The Space Between, a vinyl LP audio project, in an edition of just 180 copies numbered and signed by the artist. Both the cover and the LP itself were unconventional: eschewing the traditional paperboard jacket, the record was enclosed in a padded brown-paper mailing envelope, to which Dias affixed a photograph and a rubber-stamped title, a gesture toward mail art, which was bourgeoning as its own distinct medium at that time. The album went on to become internationally influential and has been included in important surveys of the record as a medium, yet it remains a work more frequently referred to than actually heard.
O disco foi a única obra de um artista brasileiro, apresentado na mostra Record as art work, curada por Germano Celant no Royal College of Art, em Londres em 1973.
