This publication provides an in-depth examination of Blinky Palermo's works on paper from 1976-1977. The book focuses on the artist's late period, just prior to his death, exploring his diverse body of work that defies easy classification despite links to abstraction, Minimalism, and Conceptual art. Palermo's practice addressed contextual and semantic issues in art construction, exhibition, and reception, with these late works specifically investigating the contrasts between material and color, surface and depth, and signification and abstraction. The catalogue presents new scholarship on Palermo's understanding of color as a system of signs.

This catalogue is noted as the first to comprehensively address Blinky Palermo's works on paper from 1976-1977. The publication is built upon new scholarship by Christine Mehring and Christoph Schreier, offering detailed analysis of this specific period in the artist's career. The works themselves are characterized by their exploration of material, color, surface, depth, and signification, with a particular focus on color as a system of signs. The book aims to provide a thorough understanding of this significant, yet often overlooked, aspect of Palermo's influential oeuvre.