1957 ALBISOLA MARINA AND AGAINST THE STYLE

On the 1st of August, he distributed the Albisola Marina Manifesto, published on the occasion of a group show in the Ligurian town, signed by Manzoni with Biasi, Colucci, Sordini and Verga, in which he wrote: “In spite of all its irreality, our work denounces the most lucid awareness of our physical life. Contrary to every abstraction and every vain decorativism, we create not an ideal vision but a kind of plastic translation of the most intimate emotions of our consciousness: art therefore has a means of becoming a natural and spontaneous continuation of our psycho-biological processes, an extension of our own organic life that organizes itself through the careful verification of consciousness and the immaculate wonder of the senses. Our only ideal is therefore a Reality.”

On the 12th of October Manzoni exhibited at the Galleria San Fedele in Milan in Arte Nucleare 1957, the occasion on which for the first time he endorsed a manifesto that he himself had not written, Contro lo stile. Contre le style. The End of Style, (signed by Arman, Baj, Bemporad, Bertini, Calonne, Chapmans, Colucci, Dangelo, De Miceli, D’Haese, Hoeber, Hundertwasser, Klein, Koenig, Manzoni, Nando, Noiret, A and G. Pomodoro, Restany, Saura, Sordini, Vandercam and Verga), but by the 9th of November he was already organizing the Mostra di giovani pittori al Bar Giamaica (Exhibition of Young Painters at Bar Giamaica), taking up a polemical position against the San Fedele prize presented in a manifesto he signed with Biasi, Aldo Calvi, Silvio Pasotti, Antonio Recalcati, Sordini, Verga and Alberto Zilocchi.