“If all the world’s cultural heritage was contained in a time capsule, what would you include to demonstrate the legacy of your country?”

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Antonio Auricchio 02.03.16

Each of you probably know something about Italy.

So you won’t see here any pictures of pizza, pasta, spaghettiand other fancy clichés about my country…

If anything, I took profound inspiration from the great geniuses Italy had the privilege to be the birthplace of, but, again, I preferred not to talk about Leonardo, Raffaello, Michelangelo, Dante and other similar fellows, since their endeavors belong to humankind as a whole.

I gathered here what, in my opinion, has the same strength to not let anyone walk by without being captured by its beauty. They have only the guilt of being “lesser” known, and indeed that makes them more intriguing to me.

I strongly hope what I chose to show will enchant you the same way it enchants me!

Enjoy

“ [...] It can be concluded that drawing is nothing more than a discernible manifestation and declaration of what is there in our soul […] ”

GIORGIO VASARI, De Pictura

CANVASES

Lorenzo Lotto“Venere e Cupido”1540, New York

Andrea Mantegna“Madonna della Tenerezza e bambino sognante”1491, Padova

Cimabue“Crocifissione del transetto sinistro”1277-1283, Assisi Masaccio

“Crocifissione”1426, Napoli

Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio)“Conversione di Saulo”1601, Roma

Guido Reni“Atalanta e Ippomene”1625, Napoli

MARBLES“You see a block, think at the figure:it is kept insideyou only have to undress it”MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI

Gian Lorenzo BerniniDetail of “Ratto di Proserpina”1621, Roma

Antonio CanovaDetail of “Le Tre Grazie”1816, San Pietroburgo

Benvenuto CelliniDetail of “Perseo con laTesta di Medusa”1554, Firenze

Alberto GiacomettiDetail of “L’Hommeau Doigt”1947

MUSIC“Without music, life would be a mistake.”FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Fabrizio De André“Anime Salve”1996

Giorgio Gaber“Il Signor G”1970

Mina“Piccolino”2011 Giovanni Verdi

“La Forza del Destino”1862

PICTURES“If through the viewfinder you see the person, let her go.It’s her thought that has to be portrayed.”UNKNOWN

Mario Giacomelli“Je n'ai pas de mains qui me caressent le visage”1962 Piergiorgio Branzi

“Ragazzo con Orologio”1955

Tina Modotti“Manos con Tìteres”1929

Gianni Berengo Gardin“No Name”1968

WRITINGS“ […] Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. […]”ITALO CALVINO

Carlo Emilio Gadda“Quer Pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana”1957

Eugenio Montale“Ossi di Seppia”1925

Luigi Pirandello“Uno, nessuno e centomila”1926

Giovanni Verga“I Malavoglia”1881

CINEMA

“A Film is a Petrified Fountain of Thought.”JEAN COCTEAU

Sergio Leone - Director“Per un Pugno di Dollari”1964

Vittorio De Sica - Director“Ladri di Biciclette”1948

Toni Servillo - Actor“Le Conseguenze dell’Amore”2004

Vittorio Gassman - Actor“Il Sorpasso”1962

It’s just a hint of what the Italian heritage contains; nevertheless, I trust you got a good impression about its essence.

Thank you for your attention.

Hope to join you in Madrid!