The Connection to higher places
The event connected to the Subject, who in this instance is Castelli, would be the meeting of Castelli and Jean-Christophe Ammann. Jean-Christophe was a well-known curator and fellow artist. He was also a former assistant to the director of the Lucerne Museum of Art. He shared similar bohemian tastes to Castelli. Upon his move to Lucerne, he made it his mission to meet and connect with the local young art scene, engaging them in their new and Avant-garde ideas. At the time, Ammann was in a higher position of influence within the art community, and people like that are needed when it comes to the publishing of things considered illicit by the public. He would go onto collab with Castelli on the 1974 ‘Transformer’ exhibition that Spiegelsaal was featured in, this exhibition collaborated between Ammann and Castelli was a profound success, and for many years would be the only of its kind. His purposeful co-mingling of the local Swiss art scene around Lucerne with the wider European and even American scenes can be argued is what propelled the greater part of Switzerland to be a haven for Artists and other free thinkers. Without the meeting of these two minds, the photoshoot in question might not have ever happened.