Il Tempio. La nascita dell'Eidos: The Temple. Birth of the Eidos

Paolo Scheggi and Vincenzo Agnetti worked on The Temple project between 1970 and 1971, creating a sacred place to contain linguistic objects representing primary forms of community, subjectivity, and power. The project remained unfinished due to Scheggi's untimely death in 1971. Previously unpublished preparatory sketches, drawings, and notes are examined in essays by Ilaria Bignotti and Bruno Corà and texts by Germana Agnetti and Cosima Scheggi, daughters of the two artists.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 14 February 2022
Publisher: Forma Edizioni

Between 1970 and 1971, Italian artists Paolo Scheggi and Vincenzo Agnetti collaborated on a project they called "The Temple." Birth of Eidos. Unfortunately, Scheggi's untimely death in 1971 at the age of 31 left the project unfinished. These previously unpublished preparatory sketches, drawings, and notes, which were exhibited at the Museo Novecento in Florence, are examined in essays by Ilaria Bignotti and Bruno Corà, as well as texts by Germana Agnetti and Cosima Scheggi, daughters of the two artists and directors of their respective archives. The project's concept was to create a sacred place, a temple, to contain linguistic objects representing primary forms of community, subjectivity, and power, linking these with the artistic and theoretical research the two artists were conducting at the time.

Agnetti died 10 years after his friend and colleague. His research followed a new route but remained closely linked with that idea born in 1968, that "any work, any artistic object, any gesture is a critical reminder of reality and our existence." (Germana Agnetti)

Weight: 400g
Dimension: 168 x 241 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9788855210836