RANDOM EFFECT, 1964–66

The “sign” as the key to breaking away from a consolidated (predetermined) situation was the foundation for research that went as far as examining the structural systems underpinning the urban environment on a macro scale. It would emerge as the “disruptive elements” theory, which he would publish as The disequilibrating system. Gillo Dorfles called for the first time “randomic” Ugo La Pietra’s artistic research made in this period.