My favourite works are all by female artists, who are so often absent from
Italian art history: Carla Accardi's fluorescent and candy - coloured Rotolo Arancio and Rotolo Verde (Orange
Roll and Green
Roll, both 1967), painted on sheets of
rolled - up transparent plastic sheeting; Irma Blank's Twelve Chapters (1977), 12 laboriously
hand - written books filled with the artist's elegant abstract signs, and Lisetta Carmi's I Travestiti (Transvestites, 1965 — 71), a pioneering and much censored photographic project about the trans community in Genoa.