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2 Ugo La Pietra, La sinestesia delle arti. 1960-­2000, Mazzotta, Milano 2001, p. 68.
3 Gino Di Maggio, Per lo meno ci abbiamo provato, in Ugo La Pietra. Dal minimalismo sperimentale..., cit., p. 6.