Piero Simondo (25 August 1928 – 6 November 2020) was an Italian artistThe consul
Ralph Rumney - 2002 - Page 36. born in

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Biography

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, with

Asger Jorn Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest c ...

and Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio he founded the ''Laboratory of immaginiste experiences'' as part of the

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(IMIB). He edited ''Eristica'' the magazine published by IMIB and September 1956 he organised the ''First World-wide Conference of the Free Artists'', with Jorn, Gallizio and

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. He married Verrone two years later.The game of war: the life and death of Guy Debord
Andrew Hussey - 2002 - Page 116 At the Cultural Union of Turin he helped put on a demonstration

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in December 1956. In the summer of 1957 he took a holiday in his house in Cosio d' Arroscia. Here, with

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, Guy Debord, Pinot Gallizio, Asger Jorn,

Walter Olmo Walter Olmo (28 November 1938, Alba, Piedmont, Italy – 16 May 2019) was an Italian musician and composer. In 1957 he wrote ''Towards a Conception of Musical Experimentation'' (''Pour un concept d'expérimentation musicale''). He advocated avant-g ...

Ralph Rumney Ralph Rumney (5 June 1934 – 6 March 2002) was an English artist, born in Newcastle Upon Tyne. In 1957 lifelong conscientious objector Rumney - he evaded National Service by going on the run in continental Europe - was one of the co-founders o ...

and Elena Verrone the

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was founded on 28 July. Following a row with Debord, he left the organisation with Olmo and Verrone. In 1962 he founded in Turin the CIRA (International Center for an Institute of Artistic Research) with the purpose to expand the proposals of the Alba Laboratory. From 1968 he continued with his own artistic activity. From 1972 to 1996 Simondo worked at the

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where he organised experimental activities at the Institute of Pedagogy. He held the chair of Methodology and Didactics of the Audovisual Medium . Publications by Simondo include: * ''Ars vetus, ars modernorum'', SEI, Turin 1971 * ''What were the experiences of the Alba Laboratory'', Libreria Editrice Sileno, Opuscola, Genoa 1986 * ''The Laboratory as Situation'', Tirrenia Stampatori, Turin 1987 * ''The colour of colours'', La Nuova Italia, Florence 1990 * ''Jorn in Italy. The Years of the imaginiste Bauhaus'', F.lli Pozzo editori, Turin 1997

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