My Generations – Underground culture USA/UK/FR
Images, words, sounds and videos from the Beat Generation to the French May, on show in Rome at Studio Stefania Miscetti (via delle Mantellate 14) from Tuesday 19 November (opening h18/h21) to Tuesday 31 December (h16/h21).
MY GENERATIONS presents a wide and varied selection of testimonies produced between 1944 and 1976 from the eclectic collection of director, producer, writer and screenwriter Giancarlo Soldi. Through an itinerary of images, words, sounds and videos, the exhibition offers a never-before-seen cross-section of the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, between the United States of America, the United Kingdom and France, with a special focus on the beat generation movement, psychedelia, underground phenomena and the French May. Among the ‘finds’ featured are: the menabou of a book rejected by Italian publishers, with forty negatives of the beat generation, some previously unpublished; beat generation magazines such as Beat Scene and City Light Journal; American underground magazines such as Berkeley Tribe, The Other, Helix; British psychedelic magazines such as Oz and It, with their posters; photos, flyers and posters from San Francisco’s Fillmore East; posters, iconic photos, flyers and magazines from May ‘68 in Paris; posters, photos and specials from Time, Rolling Stone, Life, Observer, Telegraph, from Woodstock to Katmandu; underground comics from San Francisco.
