Between Poetry and Enchantment: The Sculptures of Italo Lanfredini, by Alice-Catherine Carls

Pandemic Dispatches Images courtesy of Italo Lanfredini / italolanfredini.it Invitations The outside brick wall of La Silenziosa, Italo Lanfredini’s house-studio-open-air-museum near Commessaggio, Italy, features a Wall of Song (Muro del canto). Amidst inscribed terra-cotta tiles, a poem by world-renowned Italian jazz musician Giorgio Gaslini greets the visitor at the gate: Concerto All’Aperto Il dolce maestro ispirato concerta i virtuosi del creato lasciate le sate affollate di metropoli acculturate. Sorride evocando armonie, intreccia del vento le polifonie e infine da’ il ria alla solo del gaio e sottile usignolo Outdoor Concert The sweet master inspires a concerto and the virtuosos of creation leave the cultured metropolis’ overcrowded haunts. Smiling he dreams of harmonies, of the wind’s intricate polyphonies and in the end he gives the solo song of the gay and delicate nightingale. In Librino, on the eastern coast of Sicily, another wall greets passersby. The “Gate of Beauty” (Porta della Bellezza) is a 120-square-meter terra-cotta installation made in 2008–2009 with contributions from the children of Librano; it adorns the sides and top of an underpass with a terra-cotta “veneer” inscribed with poems, signs, phrases, numbers, and drawings. Such are the artist’s invitations into his world. Inside of La Silenziosa, everything bears the mark of the artist’s hands, from the home that he rehabbed to the studio that... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

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