Uno Sguardo Profondo

Paolo della Bella, accompanied by Laura Monaldi and Claudia Paterna, takes a journey through the world of artists’ graphic humour in the context of 1960s and 1970s Italy, with some excursions into the 1950s, on the traces of the group of artists known as “Gruppo Stanza”, which included Graziano Braschi, Berlinghiero Buonarroti and Paolo della Bella himself. The group was particularly active in producing cartoons and political satire, bringing to the surface an unusual and bizarre humour that was hidden by the prevailing indifference in Italy during the period in question. Starting from his local setting of Florence and Fiesole, Paolo della Bella takes a profound look at humour and satire through the memories of the three young artists and the examples of humour that formedtheir satirical education, collected from books, newspapers and magazines, by the likes of Maurice Henry, Topor, Siné, Ronald Searle, Bosc, Chaval, Saul Steinberg. Among their memories are meetings with big names such as Umberto Eco, Cesare Zavattini and Oreste del Buono.Uno sguardo profondo leads readers into an extravagant, brilliant and stimulating world where the leading figures of humourous drawing reveal their penetrating gaze on humanity and society against a cultural revolution that readers will find surprisingly relevant to current affairs.