Quel che piace a me. Francesca Alinovi

Francesca Alinovi has regrettably been consigned to history mainly in crime reports. She was a militant critic who grew up in the Bologna of the counterculture and the New York underground of graffiti artists. Visionary, elusive, curious and charismatic, she found her form of action in art, ahead of her contemporaries, by hybridizing Pop Art and multidisciplinary artistic research through writing. Giulia Cavaliere opens the door of her home, her diaries, her wardrobe and her record player, accompanying us on a journey into the work and burning intimacy of this figure both exposed and secret, who strived towards the collective and the individual, dark and vital.

The volume is part of the OILÀ series, edited by Chiara Alessi, which presents the stories of leading women of the twentieth century. Female figures who, on the Italian and international creative scene (from design to fashion, architecture, music, illustration, graphics, photography and literature) were distinguished in fields and occupations that have always been considered the prerogative of men. The books, designed to be read aloud from beginning to end in forty-five minutes – a short journey – are stories of people viewed through a special lens on their biographies, works, private lives and public achievements.

The graphic design is by Studio Sonnoli.