This volume surveys the career of Venetian abstract painter Emilio Vedova (1919–2006) with a focus on the series Plurimi , Cosiddetti Carnevali , Da Dove , Di Umano and Oltre . The catalog includes Vedova’s writings, as well as a subsection with texts and archival material on the famous opera Prometheus, a tragedy of listening (1984), which brought together Massimo Cacciari, Claudio Abbado, Luigi Nono, Renzo Piano and Emilio Vedova.