Renato De Fusco’s «Op. cit.» is an authorial magazine. As they
were Bendetto Croce’s «La Critica», Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti’s «sele Arte», Bruno Zevi’s «Architettura. Cronache e Storia».
Magazines, namely, founded and directed by authors who characterized them in the name of their cultural biography. It was
born to critically reflect on the actual artistic debate but declaring it’sself against cultural trendsinstead of choosing long-standing themes. It chooses also, courageously, to renounce images in
the belief that they can be told with words. An editorial style that
always rejected judicial critic and never hosted unquestionable
critiques. Reviews of books, magazines and exhibitions are truly
essays because of their critical commitment and text’s length. A
graphic layout driven by refined minimalist classicism, that never changed for six decades. In brief, it’s not a periodical to flick
trough but a magazine made by thoughts to read. There’s the best
artistic historiography of the second twentieth century in it along
with its interdisciplinary intersections.
