“Giobatta Meneguzzo. I had so much fun!”
volume by Francesca Interlenghi,
ed. Allemandi, Turin 2024.
This volume tells the story of Giobatta Meneguzzo, a visionary man with a thirst for modernity. Meneguzzo began by participating in the process of renovating the urban center of his town, Malo (Vicenza), while also devoting himself to collecting art books and collecting contemporary artworks. In 1969 he commissioned Giò Ponti to design his futuristic house “The Beetle under the Leaf.” Nanda Vigo, to whom Ponti left total creative freedom, designed its interior in an unusual and original combination of white ceramics and synthetic fur.
“Young and Revolutionary. An Autobiography within the Art of the Sixties,” autobiography by Nanda Vigo, edited by Carmelo Strano, ed. Mimesis –
The Words of Art, 2019
“In the taverns we most hang out at, like the Pino Pomè or the bowls club Maria alla Magolfa, or the Pino alla Parete, there were two very nice guys going around with guitars and Lombard songs. They were Cochi and Renato. At the Jamaica, you would find Mariangela Melato, or Gian Maria Volonté, who were studying at the ‘Piccolo’. We would often go to a very hospitable house of a man named Franco, who later turned out to be Franco Maria Ricci. In 1973, for the atrium of the Triennale, I was curating 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 at Marco Mondadori’s house.”