«Materiale interessante. Estremamente. Siamo alla frontiera»: Dino Buzzati tra avanguardia e Pop art

[Machine translation] The comparison with Pop art that Dino Buzzati entertained in the first half of the Sixties represents for the writer and journalist a fruitful opportunity to expand his knowledge of contemporary art, to focus on his aesthetic convictions, and to stimulate the pictorial activity that recently came to public light and is now accelerating rapidly. The encounter with the provocative experimentations of young American artists also profoundly affects his experience as an “art chronicler” that began in 1949, in vigorous development, especially after obtaining in June 1960 the position of envoy for the “Corriere d'InFORMAZIONE” at the Venice Biennale, and which will find an illustrious culmination in October 1967 with the appointment as art director for the “Corriere della Sera”., The Buzzati reports of the Sixties on the “paints” of public and private exhibitions, on visits to artists' studios, in Milan, in Italy and abroad - in particular in Paris and New York - published in the two Milanese newspapers constitute a precious mirror through which the evolution of the Italian and international socio-cultural systems of the mid-twentieth century is manifested with clarity, wealth of information and representative hyasticism attributable to the dual role of authoritative witness and actor involved — the journalist by a on the other hand, the author and painter on the other — that Buzzi practiced with regard to the cultural industries of the time. , The writings on Pop art are extremely exemplary because they take place in a period of intense upheavals and alterations of balance both in the artistic field and in Buzzatia's biography, and they bear conspicuous traces of it.