31 May 1960 Cavellini published his second book Uomo pittore (Man Painter), that included his diary and his correspondence with Renato Birolli, who had died on 3 May 1959. In January 1961 Cavellini went back to Paris where he met Georges Mathieu, Jean Fautrier. On 16 and 23 April 1961 he published on L'Europeo his report of the two meetings. In Paris he also met Pierre Alechinsky, Philip Martin and Hisao Domoto. He was also visited in Brescia by Italian painter Tancredi Parmeggiani, who would commit suicide a few years later. In 1960 the Venice Biennale focused on arte informale, awarding Jean Fautrier and Hans Hartung. Cavellini visited the Biennale and met artists Renato Guttuso, Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova and Luigi Nono. The artist In the summer of 1962 Cavellini decided to resume his activity as an artist, initially with dadaist works. He experimented with materials such as imprints of leaves, enamel, blotting paper, collages, toilet paper, razor blades. In 1965 he exhibited a dozen works at the Apollinaire Gallery in Milan. With the help of Giovanni Fiorini he created homages to Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Giorgio Morandi, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Giorgio de Chirico. He also composed mosaics of painted wood, which he transformed in enormous stamps. Then he started to destroy his works, dissect them and put them in small caged. He also burned his works, creating the Carboni (Carbons), i.e. carbonizzate partly painted with bright colors. At the 1964 Venice Biennale Cavellini made contact with pop art. In the same year the Comune of Brescia decided to exhibit the artworks it owned at the Gallery of Modern Art in Santa Giulia. Cavellini was asked to contribute with some works from his collection, and he deposited 70. The exhibition was inaugurated on 15 November 1964. The contract would last seven years, then Cavellini would take back the works because of poor storage conditions and the missing promotion on the part of the Comune. In October 1965 he travelled to Russia with his son Piero and numerous artists and prominent figures including the Soviet Minister of Culture Yekaterina Furtseva. In 1965 with the advent of arte povera Cavellini met Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giulio Paolini, and acquired works by Mario Merz, Giovanni Anselmo and Gilberto Zorio, and then Luciano Fabro, Piero Gilardi and Jannis Kounellis. In this period Cavellini commissioned the first portraits of himself to authors Renato Birolli,