“He was always brilliant; I and the other friends who spent time with him, especially Olga, the girl who would become my wife, felt every time that we were living unrepeatable moments. He was no ordinary person. Andrea’s genius lay in his boundless generosity, which then revealed itself in his qualities as […]
It is 1975. Nicola de Mattia films a late spring day spent with Andrea and other friends in their new out-of-town students’ house in Bologna, at via Emilia Ponente 223. Besides de Mattia and Andrea, the shots feature Massimo Carafa, Roberto Fratta, Gino Nardella […]
As every summer, Andrea returns to San Menaio, on the Gargano coast, to the house where his family spends its seaside holidays. One of these moments is captured in this photo album, shot by Andrea and Betta on the terrace of the house in August 1980 […]
At number 20 via Clavature, in Bologna, stood a squatted building renamed Traumfabrik (“Dream Factory”), where the following had taken up residence: Gaznevada, Filippo Scozzari and Nicola Corona.
“I met Andrea Pazienza in 1973 and we have been friends ever since. At twenty I believed I was a photographer and he believed he was a genius (something he soon convinced me of). These photos were born on the wave of that youthful passion, taken between 1979 and 1986 in San Menaio, where we met every summer […]
“Of course I remember him. The shopping and the cigarettes from the Peschici girls. A motorbike that always needed fixing. The dives and the days at the beach[…]
In 1984, having left Bologna, Andrea lodged for a few months in a house in Montepulciano, in via di Collazzi, where one summer day, on the way back from Jacopo Fo’s nearby Alcatraz, these photographs were taken […]
“That summer day, in July 1984, we were at the Club Tenco in Sanremo. Back then the Tenco took place in July. After Andrea had brought his drawing to the foyer of the Teatro Ariston for the daily display of the cartoonists’ drawings about the previous evening’s show (an idea of Vincenzo Mollica’s), we all went to lunch at a trattoria near the theater. […]
Three galleries collecting the shots taken at three different events: at the Circolo del nuoto in Milan, at the opening of the solo exhibition at the Nuages gallery in Milan, and at the opening of the solo exhibition at the Scapin gallery in Vicenza […]
Some photographs taken on May 30, 1984 in Mestre, in the Carpenedo-Bissuola Park, during the event Codex Anni ’80, organized by the Centro di Cultura Marcovaldo. […]
“I found the photos of Andrea in the depths of my archive: a few color slides and an entire roll of black-and-white negatives I had lost track of. They had hidden so well that […]
In August 1985 Andrea Pazienza is Vincenzo Mollica’s guest in Ascona, for the second edition of «Cinema e fumetto». As a tribute to his journalist friend, the creator of “Boopism”, he produces in a live performance the painting Zanardi & Betty Boop[…]
Miscellaneous 1968/1988 | Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1970 | San Severo 1974 | Bologna 1978-1982 | San Benedetto del Tronto 1981-1985
