Attilio Rossi (Albairate, 1909 - Milan, 1994) Barges in the Dock, 1969 Acrylic on canvas, 73x92 cm Signed and dated lower right A.Rossi 69 Painter, editor, graphic designer and active cultural promoter. It stands out for its fruitful collaboration and friendship established with the writers of the Spanish language, known during his time in Buenos Aires - before his return to Milan - 1935-1950. Long period of Argentine testimonies are related to important cultural events, now transformed into open dialogue and works: Rossi attends Borges, Ernesto Sabato, Macedonio Fernández, Victoria Ocampo, Pablo Neruda, Rafael Alberti, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Guillermo de Torre, theoretical avant-garde movement of the first Spanish painter and husband of Norah, sister of Borges, and numerous other artists and intellectuals, Argentines and Spaniards. In this rich cultural context fits Attilio Rossi, now active in the creative city where, in the forties, comes the sculptor Lucio Fontana. Soon after, became the artistic director of the publishing house Espasa Calpe, creating the series Austral, the first collection of paperback books editorial argentina, then move on to the important Editorial Losada, of which he became artistic director. In 1939 began his friendship with Ramon Gomez de la Serna (father of modernity, as he calls Octavio Paz), and then the association with Rafael Alberti and José Bergamin and, above all, he began collaborating with Juan Ramón Jiménez, which illustrates the Book Platero y yo. From that closer ties are born literary and artistic graphics and publishing interesting initiatives which, in 1950, the publication of the book Buenos Aires collective en tint china (Buenos Aires in ink), composed of 130 drawings of Rossi, a presentation of Borges and a composition in verse by Alberti. After returning to Italy in 1950, Rossi participates actively in the artistic and cultural life in Milan, continuing to paint and exhibit in numerous galleries, also contributes to the realization of important exhibitions, including one dedicated to Pablo Picasso in the halls of the Royal Palace, opened on September 26, 1953: an exhibition that appeared for the first time the large panel Guernica, obtained thanks to the personal intervention of Rossi. Ten years later another book of drawings, this time dedicated to the old Milan Navigli, Milan ink, accompanied by verses of Quasimodo: it repeats itself so the operation has been successfully completed many years ago in Buenos Aires with Borges and Alberti .