with an article by Ken Friedman, member of Fluxus. Cavellini made a new Exhibition at Home titled Cavellini in California and Budapest. Then the documentary Cavellini in California was published. On 24 March 1981 Cavellini's wife Lisetta died. The artist made some new Relics using some of his wife's personal belongings: belts, umbrellas, bags, gloves, hats... In the same year he made a new Exhibition at Home, titled Self-Portraits. In June 1981 Emilio Villa visited him in Brescia and informed him that he was readying and essay about self-historicization. In the summer of 1981 Cavellini traveled to Paris and visited the Jeu de Paume and the Beaubourg. Tommaso Trini published an article about Cavellini on the Panorama magazine. In October 1981 he was invited to exhibit his work at the São Paulo Art Biennial. There he met Urs Fischer, Georg Karl Pfahler, Pierre Restany, Antonio Dias and Roberto Moriconi. In 1982 Buster Cleveland and Diana Siprelle went to documenta in Kassel and pasted Cavellini's stickers everywhere. The same happened in Venice outside of the Biennale. In the same year Cavellini shot the video The Day of a Genius, showing his daily activities of self-historicization. In 1982 he participated in Artexpo in Brescia with a hundred works. On 2 October 1982 he went to New York City, where the following day he met Ray Johnson, the father of mail art. In New York he was also covered in stickers by his fans and then painted in green, white and red. On 8 October 1982 the Store Upstairs gallery inaugurated an exhibition of his works. Later that year he participated in the Festa dell'Unità in Mantua and in Arte Expo in Bologna. In September 1983 he partecipad again in Arte Expo with works from the Cavellinian Museum. In 1978 Cavellini named Fausto Paci, former mayor of Porto San Giorgio, as his ambassador. In the 1980s Cavellini was published in Who's Who by Marquis, but they mistook his invented autobiography for truth. In the summer of 1984 Belgian artist Guy Bleus, director of the Administration Center in Wellen, organized a festival in his honor in Brussels, close to the European Elections. There he was proclaimed President of the United States of Europe. On 7 February 1984 his family's business, Magazzini 33, closed down. The Modern Realism gallery in Dallas organized an exhibition of his works, and in Italy Enzo Rossi Roiss made one