“Giobatta Meneguzzo. I had so much fun!”
volume by Francesca Interlenghi,
ed.
Allemandi, Turin 2024.
The book tells the story of Giobatta Meneguzzo, a visionary man thirsty for modernity. Meneguzzo made his debut by participating in the process of renewing the urban center of his town, Malo (Vicenza), and he also collected art books and contemporary art. In 1969, he asked Giò Ponti to design his futuristic house: “The Scarab Under the Leaf”. Nanda Vigo, to whom Ponti gave total creative freedom, designed the interiors in an unusual and original combination of white ceramics and synthetic fur.
“Young and Revolutionary. An autobiography within the art of the 1960s,” autobiography by Nanda Vigo, edited by Carmelo Strano, ed.
Mimesis –
The Words of Art, 2019
“In the taverns we frequented most, like the Pino Pomè or the Maria alla Magolfa bocciofila, or the Pino alla Parete, there were two very nice guys hanging around with guitars and Lombard songs, and they were the Cochi and Renato. At the Jamaica you would find the Mariangela Melato, or the Gian Maria Volonté, who were studying at the ‘Piccolo.’ You would often go to a very hospitable house of the Franco who later turned out to be Franco Maria Ricci. In 1973 I was curating, in the atrium of the Triennale, a total environment of emptiness, outside the usual monumentalism. I did artist performances there, and one was by Franco Battiato, who also had no money like everyone else, he was sleeping in the Marco Mondadori’s house.”