LECCE – On Monday 8 July, in Piazza Carducci, at the former Convitto Palmieri, the Malebolge group, in collaboration with the Polo Biblio-Museale of Lecce and the Bernardini Library, will present “Costa es-posto”, curated by Pierluigi Scardino, a conference on the neo-avant-garde of the 20th century and specifically on the figure of the poet, director, performer, visual artist, but also lawyer from Reggio Emilia, Corrado Costa, exponent of the 63 group.
The day will be divided into three phases: at 6:30 pm there will be a conference to inaugurate the conference, in dialogue there will be Chiara Portesine, research fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, as well as editor of the three volumes on Corrado Costa for Argolibri (Children’s Poems, Poems and Theater), and Simone Giorgino, university researcher at the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Salento, as well as president of the Centro Studi Phoné, moderated by Giancarlo Greco.
Subsequently, at 7.30 pm, a temporary exhibition will be inaugurated of some works by Corrado Costa, still unpublished to the general public, created during his stays in the Mazzotta house during the 1980s. To conclude the day there will be readings on texts by Corrado Costa edited by Simone Franco and with interventions by Salvatore Bellanova. The neo-avant-gardes have certainly left an opening, which as a collective, we believe can still be explored and crossed. Contacts: [email protected]
Corrado Costa, born in 1929 in Mulino di Bazzano (Parma), lived in Reggio Emilia where he practiced law. He was a member of Gruppo 63 and collaborated, also as a designer and graphic artist, with the main neo-avant-garde magazines, including “il verri”, “Malebolge”, “Quindici”, “Tam Tam”, “North”, “Altri Termini”, “Il Caffè”, “Invisible City”, “Abracadabra”, “La Città di Riga”, “Anterem”, “Nuova Corrente”, “Alfabeta”. He worked in poetry, prose and theatre. His activity as a painter is practically in tune with his literary activity and has gone through various phases, including Visual and Sound Poetry.
