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Gianni Sassi (Varese, 1938 – Milano, 1993) è stato un produttore discografico, imprenditore e fotografo italiano.
Inizia l’attività nel 1963 aprendo a Milano, con Sergio Albergoni, l’agenzia di grafica pubblicitaria Studio Al.Sa, che anni dopo creerà le copertine per alcuni progetti musicali italiani, come Osage Tribe, Antonella Bottazzi, gli Area e il primo Franco Battiato (degli album Fetus e Pollution), oltre a numerose copertine dell’etichetta discografica Bla Bla e tutte quelle della Cramps.
Nel 1967 fonda con Daniela Palazzoli, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti e Sergio Albergoni la ED912 (editoria d’arte) che pubblica la rivista d’arte, cultura underground e contestazione giovanile Bit, che presenta soluzioni grafiche e cromatiche innovative; fece scalpore la copertina “dipingi di giallo il tuo poliziotto”. Nel 1972 pubblica, con la complicità di Marco-Maria Sigiani e Sergio Albergoni, Frankenstein, trimestrale di tecnologia, poesia e mercato.
Nel 1971 fonda, in società con Franco Mamone e Sergio Albergoni, l’etichetta discografica Cramps, producendo artisti come Eugenio Finardi, Alberto Camerini, Claudio Rocchi, gli Arti e Mestieri, i Venegoni & Co, gli Area, gli Skiantos e molti altri … continua a leggere su Wikipedia
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Gianni Sassi, cultural organiser and art director: born Varese 8 October 1938; died Milan 14 March 1993.
If Italy in the last 25 to 30 years had a thoughtful left-wing intellectual, completely dedicated to alternative cultural action and promotion, that person was Gianni Sassi. He died in his home city of Milan, aged 54. He was very fond of the city and always felt strongly for the importance of its particular presence within the changing Italian and European cultural situation.
As an organiser and an art director, Sassi was at the heart of many intelligent activities. He was in love with the permanent avant-garde, both local and international. He saw himself as a ‘remover of obstacles’, so that the flow of research and experiment in music, the visual arts, poetry, dance, performance, video etc could be made accessible with true respect for their complexities.
In the Sixties, inspired by the artist Marcel Duchamp, Sassi participated in the loose interdisciplinary network of Fluxus. During the Seventies he organised key events for John Cage (such as Il treno) and promoted the Spanish group Zaj – ‘more zen than zen’, as Cage stated. Sassi was also the manager for the vocal experiments of the Greek singer Demetrio Stratos and for his progressive rock group Area. Sassi’s cultural promotion agency, AR&A, produced books for small presses such as the Co-operativa Scrittori based in Rome. He founded the label Cramps, issuing records by Juan Hidalgo, Walter Marchetti, Cornelius Cardew, Steve Lacy, Stratos, Cage and others … keep on reading Indipendent
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immagine: copertina di Bit No.5, Nov 1967 dipingi di giallo il tuo poliziotto
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