Florenses 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.
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