Anticipazioni memorative

"However we need to go back two years, to June 1970, in order to find th first experiment of the introduction of video into the normal activites of the gallery. During the exhibition Anticipazioni memorative [Memorative Anticipations] (with works by Anselmi, Costalonga, Fulgenzi, Patelli e Perusini) a videotape featuring some of the artists' speeches was recorded and then shown on a television in the exhibition room for the duration of the exhibition. It explained to the audience the artists' choices of artwork, faithful to the them suggested by the exhibition title which was drawn on an essay by Enzo Paci. This was actually the Cavallino's first videotape, lasting 30 minutes, made with one of the first video recorders produced by Philips, and of which now exists in the gallery archive with only a few photographs and a film reel that followed was to help the audience to 'read' an exhibition, by explaining the technical and mental processes that were behind an artist's work of art, interviewing the critics who had worked on the text for the catalogue, documenting some performances that took place in the galery space, or by taking a stand on events that permeated our city's cultural life." (Source : Paolo Cardazzo, La stagione del video dans Dino Marangon, I videotapes del Cavallino, Venezia, Edizioni del Cavallino, 2004 dans Laura Leuzzi & Stephen Partridge (dir.), Rewind Italia: Early Video Art in Italy, John Libbey, New Barnet, 2016, p. 123-124). (PDF : Source).