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Primo alfabeto brings together a group of works Gianfranco Baruchello made between 1959 and 1962 with some additional examples from 1963. This extraordinary exhibition focuses on the notion of “alphabet” and includes painting, objects and drawings, from which emerge the formal and conceptual aspects of a research that was already peculiar in those years. Baruchello, in fact, seeks the unprecedented establishment of a personal alphabet, which he himself defined as “provisional.” As Carla Subrizi writes in Note a margine di una storia that guided the elaboration of this exhibition:
“Conceiving …