A multi-faceted artist spanning from graphic design to exhibiting at the Venice Biennale, Pino Pascali in just 10 years of career managed to create an impressive body of work that makes him one of the most unique and fascinating Italian pop artists of the 1960s. We talked to Claudia Lodolo – painter and daughter of Pascali’s collaborator Sandro – about the artist’s intimate life and his lesser-known but extremely valuable and pioneering work in advertising with Lodolo Films.

Cocoricò was pyramid-shaped club on the North East Italian coast that gave a voice to the Italian second summer of love generation and that forever subverted the rules of clubbing. A new book - E’ amore. o è follia? Cocoricò 1991-1992 - visually explores the activity and tremendous creativity of the discotheque that marked a pivotal time in the history of Italian and European music and pop culture.