 Through to his presence in the Quadriennale, Corte was introduced to some of the representatives of the cultural and artistic world in Rome, including Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Enzo Cucchi, Gino De Dominicis and, in particular, the multimedia artist Luigi Ontani.Ontani and Corte belonged to different generations but shared a common sensitivity and culture; they developed a friendship that inspired Ontani to write a presentation in the form of a poem of Corte’s first solo exhibition in Rome, at the Planita gallery in 1989.In 1988 Corte obtained his degree (Laurea, in Italian) from the University in the History of Contemporary Art with a thesis on the Austrian body artist Günter Brus, whom he met and interviewed in Graz in 1987.