Date 2024 Height (cm) 21 Length (cm) 13 Depth (cm) 1 Weight (g) 200 Materials and Techniques Polymateric: paper, acetate, fabric, pencil, tempera, marker, similoro, vegetable juices, fire, sand. Subject/Description An autobiography linked to art and archaeology. Memories of caves, underground springs, snails, and salamanders, with the “memory of water” printed on glossy paper. Notebook of a journey into nature: juices of flowers, nocturnal animals, and point-like traces of lost paths. And Africa, the desert, to rediscover ancient men and their rock art, collecting remains of fires and imprints of chipped stones. Archival Fund AtWork Archive number 506 Bibliography Giulio Calegari, an architect and former professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera for the course “Archetypes of the imaginary,” is an honorary curator of the Palethnology Section of the Civic Museum of Natural History of Milan. He directs the periodical “Archeologia Africana-saggi occasionali”. Author of numerous publications and conferences in international venues and conferences, since 1983, he has directed all the archaeological expeditions of the African Archaeology Study Center and the Civic Museum of Natural History of Milan in Mali, Eritrea, Morocco and Togo. He has published several monographs, including “The rock engravings of Taouardei (Gao, Mali) and the “Repertory of the Rock Art of Eritrea”. His book “Ricette Atmosferiche-una guida situazionista di Milano”, Dejaco ed., was published in 2015; “Aperture all’immaginario - Tra archeologia africana e incertezze”, Quodlibet, was published in 2017. He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including, in Milan: Centro Internazionale di Brera; Rotonda della Besana; Palazzo Dugnani; Museo di Storia Naturale; Fabbrica del Vapore; Galleria Milano; Triennale di Milano; MUDEC; Teatro Filodrammatici; Teatro Out Off; at the Bandera Foundation in Busto Arsizio and in Japan: Biwako Biennale and International on Bamboo Art in Miyazu with conferences at the University of Kyoto and the Italian Cultural Institute in Osaka. Since the late 1960s, his works have been oriented towards social and ecological issues. He also develops artistic research with a strong performative character, often using methods borrowed from the “anthropological” field, recalling in an “elusive” way, even in his works of a visual nature or with the use of new technologies, his research into the most ancient past and his frequentation of unexplored spaces. Personal data Milan, 1948, architect, paleontologist.