SoCultures October 2018
portray particularly Venice of 1950s and 1960s, though his captures convey a very
global attitude as he has travelled extensively the entire world.
His subjects also vary from gypsies, the country sides Olivetti factory workers,
protests of 1960’s and 70’s, street life, privileged street scenes to odd, ironic or
bizarre encounters in both town and the country. In1968, when he brought alive the
situations of several psychiatric asylums with his pictures, it created a historic
uproar everywhere and helped accelerating the closure of such institutions in Italy,
A man takes some rest sitting under the shade of yellow leaves of a teak tree…
could be a normal scene for a passerby, no big deal about this humble man taking
rest and enjoying the little pleasures of life but it could be the subject of a painting
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