Joan Miró, Constellation: Awakening in the Early Morning, 1941 They all clearly appeared. All of them, mother. All in the elusive essence of shade. Yet alive. Alive inside death, as the dead are alive in life. I tried to count them. The number got lost in emptiness, as the number of the leaves in the …
Annibale Carracci, The Choice of Heracles, c. 1596 Adesca, ma é micidiale. Le basta, per l’invidia un sasso. Per quanto sia cauto il tuo passo, rassegnati! Ti riuscirà mortale. Do you know this poem in English? Please contact me Go back to album – G. Caproni
Valentin Rekunenko (b. 1955), Untitled An idea swirls in me, silly as a rose. There is nothing after us. Not even the nothingness, which would be something, at least. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Un’ idea mi frulla, scema come una rosa. Dopo di noi non c’è nulla. Nemmeno il nulla, che già sarebbe qualcosa. This …
Leonardo da Vinci workshop, Bacchus (formerly Saint John the Baptist), c. 1510 Stop tormenting yourselves. If you wish to meet me, look for me where I am not; I know no other place. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Smettetela di tormentarvi. Se volete incontrarmi, cercatemi dove non mi trovo. Non so indicarvi altro luogo. This is …
Giorgio Caproni – Dove non mi trovo / Where I am not Read More »
Georges Seurat, Peasant boy sitting in a meadow, 1883 How high pain is. Love is such a beast. Emptiness of the words that dig into emptiness empty monuments of emptiness. Emptiness of the grain that already attained (in the sun) the height of the heart. (Transl. by P. Verdicchio) Com’è alto il dolore. L’amore, com’è …
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René Magritte, The tomb of the wrestlers, 1960 Throw away any works in verses or prose nobody has been able to say what is, in its essence, a rose. Buttate pure via ogni opera in versi o in prosa. Nessuno è mai riuscito a dire cos’è, nella sua essenza, una rosa. Go back to album …
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