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“A point, a hole, a gap. A cut, a gash, a wound. The gaze stretches out towards openings, discovers small and large concavities, focal lines converge and branch out between chromatic shadows and traces of light: we go with our eyes towards what wants to be looked at, the object of perceptive desire. […] The work as the starting point of a venture between what exists and what can only be imagined.”This book is a moment of reflection on Paolo Scheggi’s (1940-1971) multidisciplinary research and his intense investigation developed over little more than a decade: a seemingly insignificant stretch of time in the slow and irrevocable evolution of the history of modern and contemporary Western art which defines him as a very young protagonist of the Italian spatialist and monochrome neo-avant-garde, and pioneer of contemporary languages.Text in English and Italian.

This catalogue for an exhibition at Tornabuoni Art in Paris showcases works by the greatest exponents of Italian contemporary experimental art from the end of the 1950s to the late 1970s.

Documents a collaborative project by Vincenzo Agnetti and Paolo Scheggi that remained unfinished due to Scheggi’s untimely death in 1971: The Temple. Birth of Eidos.