FRANCIS BACON

EXHIBITION IN MILAN - PALAZZO REALE, 27/7/2008

The first truly great exhibition of Bacon in Italy!

Of course, I couldn't miss it.

(Not even seven and a half hours of train have seemed to me an obstacle)
What I can say....no words could explane why a Bacon canvas gently hits to death you.
If I think about those 4 hours, now, I clearly see - colours.
Actually, an aspect of Bacon I didn't delve enough before.
Colours are the key to understand the shock-effect of the first look to a Bacon canvas, specially the ones of the late period.
In those bruise violets, glowing pinks and full greens....
.....there's something magic.
They have a never-seen before vividness.
They capture a sense of reality, that remains altough deformations and shape distortions.

It's always a question of reality.
What kinda spell, this strage equilibrium.

P.S. I leave you with some beautiful photos of the painter throughout the years.

MISSION COMPLETED

I know....in the last days i've often talked about politics.

But how not to say that today parliament has approuved the impunity law for Berlusconi and his goodfellas, chief of Republic included. We're the only "civilized" country with this shit.
The mafioso from Arcore has completed his mission - no more possibility to die in prison, now.

LAST MAN STANDING

Antonio Di Pietro says explicitly NO to the italian nuclear turn today. "Governement must stop in time, and point everything on the renewable energies, of whom Italy is rich of. Or, at least, spend money on research on the fourth generation nuclear, wich is a totally different thing". I don't quote the second part of his sentence, and i don't say this man is a saint, but no way:

this man has the balls.

Ah....and his party, Italia dei Valori, it's the only one that is denouncing the turn to dictatorship. Describing the situation as it is, without rhetoric or false-dialogue-compromises. So, he wins my respect...for that it could count.

TRICASTIN, PART 2


No alarmism, but...

91 workers of Tricastin power plant contaminated with cobalt 58 radioactive dust.

The second "little" problem in two weeks.
This follows another "little unforeseen", one week ago, with the discovery of a broken pipe in a nuclear solid fuel factory in Romans sur Isère, south of France.
Pipe that accidentally is UNDER the ground and is broken from years, leaking uranium free to waste nature and contaminate ground water.
But we can be untroubled, governement always says "no risks", "everything's under control", "no real dangers".

Exactly the same kind of declarations of URSS governement in 1986, concerning Chernobyl, showing you the fact that ALSO IF THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A RISK, YOU WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN.

BREAKING NEWS: NUCLEAR ACCIDENT IN FRANCE
30.000 litres of radioactive fluid leaked from Tricastin power plant


Yesterday, 9/7/2008, a nuclear disaster occured in the nuclear central of Tricastin, near Avignon, France. A tank - used as container of radioactive fluid - broke letting leak 30.000 litres in the local mill run, wich reversed it in the rivers Gauffière and Auzon. The liquid contained more than 75 kg of uranium, a crazy quantity of radioactive metal.
Governement disposed extraordinary mesures to local towns, forbidding to drink, eat or getting in touch with anything that comes from that water. Farmers are not allowed to use rivers' water to irrigate fields. Special teams are working to contain the disaster and de-contaminate waterways before the substance reach the sea.

I can't believe it. I wrote a post about madness of italian nuclear future, and i fall on this news. I checked: NONE ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS talked about this news today, except "L'unita". That's disgusting, it makes me FURIOUS. Regime's press, controlled by political partits and industrial lobbies, hasn't reported a news - a very important news - that could be dangerous for their criminal plans, risking to increase discontent of public opinion about the nuclear turn.

Nuclear it's useless, it's the most expensive form of energy, it would be totally improfitable without public taxes funding. The quantity of uranium in nature is ridiculous, it can't guarantee an energy plan for the next decades. It's the biggest danger for our future, in this era of terrorism.

WHO REMEMBERS CHERNOBYL?

WHO REMEMBERS THE WORST DISASTER IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY?

Nuclear is an abort of our rationality.
It's against nature.
This will brings us to THE WORST of our nightmares.

THE FUTURE


Right to the end.
Italian government announces that we will move to the nuclear.
Good news, in fact, are always togheter.
This decaying country is totally hopeless.
Now we can also deny the result of a national referendum - that clearly sayd, in 1987, that nuclear HAS TO FUCK OFF.
So, now we have another brilliant proof that popular soverignty doesn't count anymore.

Hail to dictatorship!

P.S.: American specialists say that nuclear is a total madness in Italy: for demographic concentration, and for the sismical risk of our soil. In fact, it doesn't exist even a square metre of terrain that could be safe to build a power plant.

NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!

I was forgetting HOW BEAUTIFUL IS when your head is not filled up with stress.

God, I love this.
I need some time like this.

As you can imagine, in the last days I've finished something.
You imagine well.

All my 28 exams are over.
And I got my diplome on photography.

What a busy, damned busy year!!
I can't even realize how many things I've done at the same time.
Maybe, a little rest??
Just a couple of days, actually: I've already planned my summer.
Lot of work and no holidays - but that will be a pleasure!!
The worst, the worst, is passed.....

THE BEGINNING

"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical,
but that it exists"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, (1889-1951)

Today, expected an afternoon of harsh studies.
It wasn't so prolific, in the end.
Cause I think I've passed at least one hour on this sentence.

Simple. Clear. Immense.

There's a whole history of philosophy in a sentence like this.
The born of tought itself.
The reason why a human being starts to ask himself unconventional questions.

Goethe, once, wrote that the noblest thing a man can reach is wonder.
There's nothing higher than this, and it's useless to search for something "after".
Who understands what these words mean?
What are - the consequences?

Training our eyes could be the best act we can do in our life.

Kill the wonder, kill the human.
Plenty of killers exist.
Know yours.