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Visca and Andrea Pazienza
Sandro Visca first met the young Andrea Pazienza in 1972, when Andrea enrolled in the Academy section of the State Art School in Pescara. The relationship between teacher and pupil soon opened up to an undercurrent of sharp humour, experimentation and research,
drawing them into an active, emotional collaboration that would bind them closely for life, both playfully and professionally.
Andrea Pazienza’s biting caricatures of Visca
Caccia e Fresca
“CACCIA e FRESCA” is the title of a prank devised and carried out anonymously between 1969 and 1972 by Sandro Visca on his friend Federico Fiorenza, a hunter from L’Aquila.
A gag planned entirely around absurd, often childish and surreal humour, intended to create laughter and amusement among their many friends in L’Aquila.
Andrea Pazienza, then Visca’s pupil in the Academy section of the Art School in Pescara, took part in the prank from 1971 to 1972. He produced numerous drawings, signed Paz, which were sent to its victim, directed and created the newspaper “Caccia e Fresca”, and wrote a series of hilarious poems on the theme of hunting.
The end of the prank, arranged after lengthy negotiations with Fiorenza through an intermediary, came on 27 December 1972 with a request from Sandro Visca, President of the International “Caccia e Fresca” Federation: a dinner for ten, paid for by Federico Fiorenza and reserved for mutual friends invited exclusively by the President himself, as set out in the agreement countersigned by both parties through the intermediary.
At the end of the dinner, Sandro Visca, President of the International “Caccia e Fresca” Federation, revealed to Federico Fiorenza that he had been behind the prank, which had lasted almost three years. Visca received a cup with a dedicated plaque, while Federico Fiorenza was presented with a commemorative trophy, “LA LEPRE D’ORO 1972” (The Golden Hare, 1972).
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