Mariarosa Mariech: Archives of Italian Underground at Mart

with Duccio Dogheria

The Mart’s Archivio del ‘900 [20th-Century Archives] are recognized by the international scholarly community for their extraordinary archival and book heritage dedicated to Futurism, art criticism, architecture, and the neo-avant-garde movements of the late 20th century. In recent years, the Mart has initiated a systematic acquisition program to document the aesthetics of Italian countercultures: a time span spanning the 1960s to the early 2000s, from the Beat Movement to the Luther Blissett Project, through the Metropolitan Indians, punk, and cyberpunk. Presented here to the public for the first time in all their complexity, these materials include collections of rare uniqueness in the national panorama: underground magazines from the 1960s and 1970s from the Archivio di Nuova Scrittura collection, an exceptional corpus of music fanzines (donations from Pautasso, Piccolrovazzi, and Assenzio), the complete documentation of the first Italian exhibition dedicated to fanzines (1984, donated by curator Luciano Trevisan Fricchetti), posters from legendary hardcore punk venues such as Virus and Helter Skelter, and the personal archives of “Pablo” Echaurren, Giancarlo Pavanello, Piermario Ciani, Luther Blissett, and Gianluca Lerici, aka Prof. Bad Trip. The meeting will be led by Duccio Dogheria, head of the historical archives, and Mariarosa Mariech, head of the Mart library.

Pablo Echaurren, drawing from the notebook Oask?! Facciamo un giornale anormale [Oask ?! Let’s make an unusual newspaper], ink on paper, 1977. Mart, Archivio del ‘900, Pablo Echaurren’s documents.

Mariarosa Mariech

Mariarosa Mariech holds a degree in Literature, with a focus on Modern Studies; she has worked at the Provincial Superintendence managing historic book collections; since 2005, she has been working at the Mart Library, which she has been coordinating as the head since 2012. Over time, she has overseen various Civil Service projects, while also hosting interns, volunteers, and external collaborators.

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