R.I.P. Enzo Apicella
Il Maestro Enzo Apicella is no longer among us.
Enzo was an extraordinary person and personality, an artist who left his mark, changing the way to see the world for anyone who has had the luck to meet him or just be aware of his immense production.
A tireless creative communicator with a marked and very personal style, he worked until he was 96 years old, always being on the barricades.
Enzo showed us the world for what it is through his brilliant, irreverent, bitter, real satire.
Personally, I had the chance to meet him about ten years ago when he began sharing his work with a collective blog that I managed with extraordinary people.
I remember an unusual, magical episode. I was in London for work, in the centre. I called him, hoping to organize a meeting. Nobody answered to his landline, but after a minute, I found him around the corner, in Soho. In the middle of the day, we ended up in a secret cellar, drinking wine among artists of yesteryear, heirs of Swinging #London. An incredible place!
His stories are tremendously true, starting from his life as an Italian who left a destroyed country to build his fortune in London. His direct style has shaped contemporary culture and will remain alive, in various forms, in everyday life and in the work of anyone who has had the chance to know him deeply.
He has been the creative soul of the British chain Pizza Express and many other successful clubs. He has published for The Observer, The Guardian, Punch, The Economist, Private Eye, Harpers & Queen, Liberation, and, not least, Reset Italia.
Goodbye Enzo, R.I.P., and thank you!
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