Opere dal 1989 al 2009
Artworks
A Marina Piatti
Enamel bowl full of honey
You Marina, audacious buccaneer
roaming the seas of the improbable
and leaving tracks in the lairs of the possible
confess, then, your clandestine birth
from prodigious and guilty origins.
We know: you are the daughter of a comet
and were born at midnight
under the rump of a black camel
in the caravan of the Three Kings.
Everyone covered their eyes,
but a long-haired Persian page
played a four-stringed mandola
to draw the morning out of the night.
As your first venture you stole the twinkling
and restless tail of your mother
and hid it under your eyelids.
Thief of light, greedy for mirrors
and extravagant with enchantments, enigmas
holder of keys without locks.
Shattered words, signs and slaps
glue, paint, varnish or just rain
multi-coloured lightning bolts, columns and corridors
tender storms on festive rainbows
baroque charades to ‘show a miracle made sure’…
You make pavements bathed in moonlight come into flower
forests of paper, launch warrior
stone coriander, ballerinas without tutus
giddy and fleeting in the labyrinths
where Klimt lost the thread. Arianna of the Po Valley,
keep a drawing room where Circe and the Sybil
come to brew with Calypso philtres
and potions, suffumigations and techniques
because of which we, astounded and admiring,
cannot but hand over to you the keys
to our heart... But out of them you make a
lock pick for the safes of glory
and a string for the kite of fortune
on which fly high your hopes
Ugo Moretti
Sea Tales, 1989
Tecnica mista su tela cm.135x100
