Scope of the Catalogue Raisonné

The Catalogue Raisonné of Erik Brunetti reflects the multidisciplinary character of Brunetti’s practice and its movement across studio production, graphic systems, publishing, apparel, and cultural intervention.

The project distinguishes autonomous artworks, editions, archival evidence, production materials, and commercially distributed objects while preserving the historical relationships between them.

Areas of Research

The current scope encompasses:

  • Graffiti-period works produced under the name “Den” during the late 1980s

  • Paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation, and other studio works

  • Prints, editions, multiples, and collaborative productions

  • Original FUCT graphics, mechanicals, prototypes, and selected production materials from 1990 onward

  • Artist books, publications, posters, and printed matter

  • Preparatory studies, working drawings, source materials, and process documentation

  • Correspondence, photographs, records, and other primary-source materials relevant to authorship, chronology, provenance, or exhibition history

Not every item reviewed by the Foundation will receive an individual catalogue entry. Certain materials may instead be documented as archival records, contextual materials, related works, production variants, or components of a larger body of work.

Research Standards

Works and materials are evaluated through available primary and corroborating evidence, which may include:

  • Direct examination of the work

  • Studio records and archival inventories

  • Signatures, inscriptions, labels, stamps, and identifying marks

  • Technical and material characteristics

  • Photographs documenting production, studio history, installation, or exhibition

  • Invoices, receipts, correspondence, shipping records, and ownership documentation

  • Exhibition catalogues, publications, and contemporaneous press

  • Information supplied by collectors, collaborators, printers, publishers, fabricators, galleries, and institutions

  • Comparison with documented works and established bodies of production

The Foundation may request additional documentation or physical examination when the available evidence is incomplete.

Submission or review does not guarantee inclusion. Catalogue decisions will be based on the totality of the available evidence and the scholarly standards established for the project.