Controcoltura: Pablo Echaurren

Pablo Echaurren, born in Rome in 1951, was one of the protagonists of the counterculture. His works from the 1970s, in particular his watercolors, notebooks, drawings and photographs, together with an extensive collection of material - including fanzines, posters, leaflets, magazines - that the artist has kept from those years, represent the most important archive of documents of political-artistic creation after 68, a key decade in the history of contemporary Italy.
The digital collection on art and politics in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s is the result of a collaboration between the Bibliotheca Hertziana and Pablo Echaurren and Claudia Salaris as part of Tristan Weddigen's Rome Contemporary research initiative. More than 1,000 documents were reproduced in high resolution in the library's digitization department, which corresponds to approximately 30,000 scans of rare publications. These include works by Pablo Echaurren and other protagonists of the time: leaflets, drawings, manuscripts, notes, photographs and magazines such as A/Traverso, Viola and Oask?

The library also owns numerous books illustrated by Echaurren.