Sunday, January 17, 2010

Grecian Formula, Does It Work?

SHEEP: preface to Sandro De Fazi, "I am writing briefly to apologize for my silence. Gaetano Dimauro Life."

E 'no doubt the singularity of This book, which belongs to the genre of the novel and even that of biography. But we know that many in the vividness and vitality of a book rarely depend on whether to ascribe to a genre, imprisoning him in a category.
It is instead a book that is independent from genres as it mixes the rambling narrative thought, annotation, reflection, variety and velocity of the note, the continuation of a citation, the fragment of a memory. And the structure of the novel rejects probation, the performance ended. It is a writing that goes into his unstoppable flow, and also holds the reader and leads to unexpected returns, not even if such trespass in new questions, troubling to anamorphosis.
De Fazi aims to tell the life of Gaetano Dimauro, painter and set designer Luke's, a man of considerable quality, with deep and proven commitment to constant. And many of these pages tell and reveal the artist and la_ vastness and complexity of his work, but even before his son's tenderness, suffering creature, with an attentive and faithful friend, a person who lives with passion and with the participation his time.
But a single existence and carries with it many other lives, certainly those that have touched so closely by nurture, motivate, increase tenfold the strength and gifts. So the biography becomes the story of many, The knot is the hub of upcoming events and different. Time expands, the sites multiply, s'alleano voices in a choir.
Thus, the life of Dimatteo, intertwines and blends with that of Dario Bellezza and Anna Maria Ortese here present and pressing. We read their letters, listen to their phone calls, we perceive the pain, captures the uncertainties, I re-read the prose and verse, we learn the disappointments, the rare happiness. And friendship is tinged with love, understanding becomes close, sharing a journey. And painting and poetry, open and closed speech confidence expression come to be sought and achieved performance. The years go by
crossed seventies to today. Pass and stop Moravia, Elsa Morante, Pen, Amelia Rosselli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti. They talk and reveal themselves in a tangle of moods, of truth and take harsh. Friends Dimatteo, who has devoted exhibitions to Moravia and Visconti, and that for decades has had the affect of Ortese shared long stays in Nova Siri Beauty, are captured by De Fazio - who some of those "stars" friend was in an age which has strong nostalgia - with vigor and grace, with attention to the poet and critic, but especially the man who puts patients above all other feelings.
For this reason, in this book has the best aesthetics. By raising an altar words of the artist and man, and with him and for him to that group of authors which has been strongly linked Dimatteo, Sandro De Fazi evidence as it may take precedence over all vision and the right feeling, or what Proust called again the "heart intelligence": that is the measure of the world, its mandatory rule, its true inner health.

Elio Pecora

November 2009

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