Giancarlo Politi Launches Newsletter Amarcord on Forgotten Italian Art Figures

Giancarlo Politi, founder and former director of Flash Art, has launched a newsletter titled "Amarcord – Incontri, ricordi, euforie e melanconie," a memory column dedicated to forgotten figures of Italian art from the 1960s and 1970s. The newsletter, sent to friends, colleagues, and readers, recounts encounters with artists, intellectuals, gallerists, and collectors who have disappeared from common memory. The first installment focuses on Francesco Vincitorio, founder of NAC – Notiziario di Arte Contemporanea, who was popular in the 1970s but is now forgotten. The second installment covers gallerist Luciano Inga-Pin, who first exhibited Marina Abramović, Gina Pane, Urs Lüthi, and Günther Brus in Milan, and the Poesia Visiva movement, sparking debate among readers including gallerist Massimo Minini and Letizia Ragaglia, director of Museion. The third installment recalls the intertwined stories of entrepreneur and collector Achille Maramotti and Mario Diacono, who opened a gallery in Bologna in 1978 with Maramotti's support, showing Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Vito Acconci, and Michelangelo Pistoletto. Politi reflects on artistic immortality, citing Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, and Enrico Castellani as enduring figures. The newsletter may become a book titled "Rimembranze."