Florense
Passion
--Born
in a summer bathed by the blood of Genoa,
overturned by the heat and the hedonist fury of
entertainment at all costs, produced during another
emigration fortunately in Rome, inspired by the
experience of a love story contrasted by prejudices
and inevitably lost, these images speaks a lot about my being radically, passionally,
painfully Florense.
--Beyond
the goldsmith tradition, in the course
of the History, the
woven is the one that characterized the handicraft
production of San Giovanni in Fiore,
with bedspreads and trousseaus with strongly coloured
geometrical motifs, some directly inspired by those
of the Doric colonists who in their turn had been
instructed by Persian craftsmen. It’s useless
to say that, beyond small sporadic examples, currently
this tradition is practically extinct.
--With
various expressive techniques and various functions, in the course of the years, in my
works on several occasions (as an example mine are
the panels in coloured granite mosaic on the road
crossing between the sport field and the cemetery;
Palla-Palla, summer 2000), re-appear the motifs and the colours of the bedspreads of my early
childhood.
--Probably
as rebellion to the concreteness, the greyness, the
uselessness of the contemporary San Giovanni in Fiore re-appear the memories: the most colourful shutters,
or frames and transoms of the “Timpune”,
some rare, sensitive person, still colours the contours
of its door differently from that of the neighbour;
inevitably the green of the pines of the Sila, the
blue of its nocturnal sky, the
red of the blood of Christ and of all the men of the
earth.
--In
a dramatic summer like this, with a future
of glacier-melting, reappear naturally this will of
belongings to a particular ancient culture, an identification
research in sure roots even in a form of new expression
in the used instruments and materials.
--What
the East evokes is in general homage to mine juvenile
passionate studies on the Yoga and
the Zen, and to the elimination of
the prejudgments specific to these philosophies.
--The
objects are reflected in the water, exactly in the
hypothesis of glacier-melting, Santa
Severina could become a sea-city on a desert coast.
--The
proposed images are neither a precious "Ozaturo" (bed-spread), neither a delicate "ncullerata" (brocade), are more modestly small virtual worlds,
entirely built with the computer, in which I shelter
each time I fear the future of the human being.
More I travel, grow, work, become cosmopolitan, more
I tie to my origins, trusting in the idea that the
development of the Man consists in the diversification
of the Cultures, in
its exchange in a pacific cohabitation, and not in their flatting imposed
with the hunger
and the war.
Francesco
Saverio ALESSIO
Fantastic
Mediterranean Architecture
da "Le città della
Gojia": La fabbrica delle anime
Francesco Saverio ALESSIO, copyright
2002
--San
Giovanni in Fiore is a small medieval town was
founded in the XIII century around the Florens
Abbey which was built by Joachim
of Flora.
Emigration
memories
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