Analgrammi. Politica, sesso, religione e attualità nei pizzini adesivi sparsi per il centro di Torino

The paper addresses a peculiar series of small handwritten stickers covering the walls in the centre of Turin, Italy, first witnessed in early 2012. The proposed descriptions, analyses, and hypotheses are based on an un–systematized corpus of 200 tokens circa, photographed between 2014 and 2015. The stickers are prominently sexually connoted; they are featured with a verbal component, including anagrammed parts, and a visual one, consisting in the stylized representation of a penetrated backside — whence the name “analgrams”. Scarcely observed by locals and not studied yet to any extent, the phenomenon may be a uniqueness; as a matter of fact, the “analgrams” hold many different features together (sticking, handwriting, graphomania, sexual content, attitude of protest, anti–religiousness, wordplay, enigmatography), which are usually displayed separately in similar street and outsider art phenomena.