Vincitorio Collection
Francesco Vincitorio (1921–1992) worked as a journalist and art critic after studying art. In 1968 he founded the magazine NAC, Notiziario Arte Contemporanea (1974–1985), and worked for L'Espresso, as well as being involved in the organization of exhibitions. In 1978 he founded the Archivio di Documentazione Arti visive, which is now located in the MACRO building in Via Nizza in Rome. From 1984 to 1991, he wrote for La Stampa and collaborated with various RAI columns. Before his death, he donated his personal library of around 15,000 art volumes to the Bibliotheca Hertziana. These include many books with personal dedications as well as publications by galleries and artists that are rare today (“gray literature”). The collection is currently being scientifically examined and a system for labeling the volumes from his estate is being developed.
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Emilio Vedova (1919–2006) was an Italian painter of the Informel movement. Vedova first took part in the Venice Biennale in 1947 together with several members of the Corrente group. He then participated in documenta 1 in 1955 and again in documenta 2 in Kassel in 1959. In 1960, when this catalog with an afterword by Werner Haftmann (1912–1999) was published, he received the Grand Prize of the Venice Biennale.
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Domenico “Mimmo” Jodice (*1934) was a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli from 1970 to 1996. From the 1960s onwards, Jodice worked in Italy with representatives of various art movements such as Pop Art, Arte Povera, and Fluxus and only became a professional photographer at the age of 30. As in the case with this catalog, whose photographs of Naples and its inhabitants were taken for an exhibition at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Paris, Jodice focuses on the depiction of Italian and Mediterranean cities and landscapes, which he photographs exclusively in black and white.
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Vincitorio’s estate also includes several publications that belong more to the genre of artist's books, such as this catalog of an exhibition by Lidia Firpo at the Galleria dei Greci in Rome. Her small-format prints are mounted on gauze to form a kind of leporello (a double-sided “accordion” book). The Alessandria-born artist, who had exhibited in various galleries since 1968, was living in Rome at the time of the exhibition. Her interest in poetry is reflected in her collaboration with the Roman bookshop L’Oca, in whose place a “bottega della poesia” called L’Ocapoesia was founded with her help after the bookshop closed in 1979. In the same year, she also contributed to an issue of the magazine North. Laboratorio internazionale di sperimentazione poetica, visiva, intermedia.
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