Half a century of comprehensive art. Writings 1964-2014

On the occasion of the publishing of the volume “Half a century of comprehensive art. Writings 1964-2014” for the publishing house Johan & Levi, the director of the Mart, Gianfranco Maraniello, has a conversation with the writer Tommaso Trini and the editor of the volume, Luca Cerizza.

This is the first anthology of the essays written by the art critic Tommaso Trini (Sanremo, 1937), cornerstone of the Italian critics, who, in his writings, has dealt with the work of the great personalities of the Italian and international art, such as Vincenzo Agnetti, Alighiero Boetti, Dadamaino, Luciano Fabro, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt, Lucio Fontana, Pinot Gallizio, Marisa Merz, Mark Rothko, Ettore Spalletti, Andry Warhol and Gilberto Zorio, whose first exhibitions were accompanied by Trini.

The volume includes about 50 texts of just as many years of critic activity. Among them we can find the writings on the photographic activity of Ugo Mulas for the Venice Biennale and the last interview with Lucio Fontana (1968), two key moments for the Italian critics, to which the figure of Trini is indissolubly linked.

The book portrays Tommaso Trini as a meticulous observer as well as clever reader of the best art of half a century.