From Torinosette of 05/26/2000
last week and 'dead Lorenzo Alessandri, painter, and the news of his death and I' came before it was made public, making a strange and twisted path that I will not tell. I felt that to ask me something, a final gesture of friendship. Ten years ago, in the summer of 1990, had wanted to paint my portrait, inviting me with a polite letter in which he wrote that often meets me along the stalls of the course books Siccardi but had not dared to approach. Attracted by its reputation sulphurous I immediately accepted the invitation and went more 'times at his home in Giaveno to pose, as they say. Napoleon felt so in front of David. At the last visit, when it was no longer 'to pose but to withdraw the picture that Alexander had wanted to give me, I showed up with a tape recorder and asked him to tell me about his life. I listened to the tape, the first part consists of a long and heartfelt defense accusation that haunted him of being a demon, even the bishop of the Church of Satan. "The bishops are in a Mercedes, I with my broken-down VW Beetle, I could at most be a country priest." Alessandri's paintings reproduce real environments reproduced with meticulous, obsessive precision, in which burst into fantasy creatures, devils, above all, then monsters, witches, naked women, painted with the same attention to detail. To my objection that all the devils portrayed as if he had before his eyes could lead to some suspicion, he replied: 'It's like people are put in mind that Agatha Christie and 'a murderer just because' his novels are full of murderers. " Alessandri's voice sounds swell of indignation: "Some newspapers have written that this house of Giaveno and 'a castle and that giavenesi in full moon nights are afraid to leave the house as if I were a werewolf. A couple of young keepers that I was assuming they started to calm fear and I had to send them from my pastor to ask for information. " At the same time as if you walked away with disdain from 'the prosecution of businesses with Satan, Lorenzo Alessandri claimed his interest in the occult world, for all that' beyond 'the real: "I'm much more interested 'the world of the dead that the living world. " Passion cultivated from an early age, in parallel to that for drawing and painting, fields in which it was moved by self-taught. Born in 1927, son of the owner of a printing started, Lawrence had to study by reason, without any provision for the numbers. After working for 19 years in the family business when his father died and in agreement with the brothers, had retired to devote himself entirely to his two passions, painting and the world of the occult. From his long story I choose some significant events. We are in the fall of 1944, Lorenzo in February next REACHES '18 years to avoid forced recruitment father gets him to admit that the Order of Malta in Turin, in the hospital is located between via Giolitti and Piazza Carlina, in front of the barracks Pogdora, cure the wounded without regard to the uniform they wear. One spring day in '45 lead a German machine-gunned from a plane that is dying, there are cots available and Lorenzo gave her. The soldier wore to a leather bag and a nun who assists him off, heedless of his protests, and replace it with a crucifix. The nun went away, satisfied with the dying Lorenzo deferring to the bag neck and he, with his last strength that remain, is the gift from his box in an envelope of parchment tied with a black cord. Years later, having reached the necessary maturity, Lorenzo will use 'instructions contained in the envelope to learn that "the magic and 'a state of grace that has nothing to do with the show. We must dig, seek and find within themselves. The magician and 'as the guardian who has the keys to the treasure room, where you will' help others but not himself. " I asked him if these magical practices had sometimes helped in his work as a painter. "I painted female nudes in size and could not solve the problem of how to give a rose color on the body the same day to avoid the saw arrived. I remembered that Caravaggio had solved this problem and I have mentioned. That night I dreamed that Caravaggio had the face of Amedeo Nazzari 'cause baby I had seen a film, "Caravaggio," where Nazzari Caravaggio portrayed. We were a study in strange, full of things hanging, rags, ropes, chains, ladders, lanterns. I have explained my problem and he said: "What brushes do you use?" He asks. And I tell him, speaking in Piedmont says, "Campa via tuti 'sti ca servu martur Labour's useless! You have to use Chinese hog bristle brushes, long and hard. " The dream ends, I followed his instructions and solve my problem. "
(article GAMBAROTTA BRUNO).
Opera entitled: THE NIGHT RAINBOW 82.59 (first sketch for the cover of the book).
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