FROM THE PUBLISHER

Presented here is a collection that symbolizes of a period in Italy's history characterized by great cultural growth. This is also the story of Sergio Casoli, who opened his gallery in the studio of one Lucio Fontana—one of modern art's legends and a visionary artist—whose works Casoli fell in love with the day he set foot inside his studio. Fontana's works are documented in this volume along with that of Giovanni Anselmo, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Luciano Fabro, Piero Manzoni, Fausto Melotti, Mario Merz, Maurizio Mochetti, Pino Pascali, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Cy Twombly, Gilberto Zorio, and others.Edited by Sergio Casoli.