1960 THE NEW ARTISTIC CONCEPTION

The 4th of January saw the inauguration of the group show at the Azimut gallery La nuova concezione artistica (The New Artistic Conception), also exhibiting along with Castellani and Manzoni were Klein, Mack, Kilian Breier, Oskar Holweck and Almir Mavignier, accompanied shortly afterwards by the second - and final - issue of Azimuth: the texts were by Castellani, Manzoni, Piene and Udo Kultermann, who a little later, on the 18th of March, was to present the vast exhibition Monochrome Malerei at the Städtisches Museum in Leverkusen, in which naturally Manzoni and Castellani also exhibited.