Tuesday, November 18, 6:30 PM
The Italian Library #18
Quel che piace a me: Francesca Alinovi
Ornella Tarantola in conversation with Giulia Cavaliere and Olga Campofreda
Giulia Cavaliere, in conversation with Olga Campofreda, tells us about her encounter with Francesca Alinovi, whose name has unfortunately been handed down to history mainly through her murder and all the related crime news, and reveals the perspective that Francesca had on the world of art—indeed, on the world in general, because art and life are the same thing.
The author tells the story of a brilliant woman, full of life—with her weaknesses, her being a child of her time, those revolutionary 1970s so full of shadows, and her sharp intelligence.
Francesca Alinovi was a militant critic who grew up between the counterculture of Bologna and the underground New York of graffiti artists. Visionary, elusive, curious, and charismatic, she found in art her form of action, ahead of her contemporaries and hybridizing, through writing, pop and multidisciplinary artistic research. Giulia Cavaliere opens the door to her home, her diaries, her wardrobe, and her record player, guiding us on a journey into the work and burning intimacy of this figure who was both exposed and secretive, oriented toward the collective and the individual, dark and vital.
IN ITALIAN
Book HERE
Giulia Cavaliere is a music critic, author, and curator. She has collaborated, among others, with Corriere della Sera, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Linus, IL del Sole 24 Ore, and Domani. She has written and hosted radio programs for Radio Popolare, Radio Raheem, and RSI. For Chora Media, she has written and narrated five socio-cultural in-depth podcasts starting from music and cinema. She has published several texts in anthologies and collective volumes; for minimum fax, she published “Romantic Italia. Di cosa parliamo quando cantiamo d’amore” in 2018, from which a podcast and a Sky Arte television program of the same name were born, for which she was author and host. Her latest book, from November 2024, is “Quel che piace a me. Francesca Alinovi” for Electa. In 2022, she was elected by Artribune as “cultural journalist of the year.”
Olga Campofreda lives and works in London. She is a researcher, writer, and journalist. She writes about pop culture and literature for the magazines F, D di Repubblica, and Marie Claire. She is the author of the essay Dalla generazione all’individuo: giovinezza, identità, impegno nell’opera di Pier Vittorio Tondelli. Ragazze Perbene is her debut novel (NN Editore, 2023).