“Costruiremo le case come una volta senza tetti e senza mura,” translation by the author, quoted from Vincenzo Agnetti, OBSOLETO (Milan: Vanni Scheiwiller, 1968).
The Zero House was named after the pan-European Zero Group of which Vigo was a peripheral, yet influential member, having organized the first Zero exhibition at Fontana’s studio with twenty-eight artists from all around continental Europe. See ➝.
See Nicholas Cullinan, “From Vietnam to Fiat-nam: The Politics of Arte Povera,” October 124 (Spring 2008): 8–30; Pier Vittorio Aureli Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture Within and Against Capitalism (New York: Buell Center / FORuM Project and Princeton Architectural Press, 2008).
Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del carcere, ed. Valentino Gerratana (Turin: Einaudi, 1975).
“Rhetoric of the Image” in Roland Barthes, Image-Music-Text, trans. Stephen Heath (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978).
Emilio Ambasz ed., Italy: The New Domestic Landscape (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1972): 160–169.