NIGHT ENTERS

“Take one.” Night enters.

Colors and shapes are tomorrow.

The Night reserves for us

phantoms and games of light which

Francesco De Masi gathers up with

his lense to give us back images

of a different, unusual city; games

and ghosts which the goldsmiths Ugo Bellini,

Gianni Testi e Paolo Venturini

translate into silver and stone

re-creating within the small volume of a

jewel the magic spell of the sky and the stars.

Deadened noises and unclear sounds;

strange of the Night, queer outlines and

shadows of fairy-tales under the street-lamps

always amusing themselves making the darkness

the main actor, after the sunset

of the daily star.

Like the wind traveling through the nightly

streets and monuments and squares,

so the gentle verses of Carmelina Rotundo,

settle with the lightness of a feather

on the dreamlike staging of

Nicoletta Perrone who,

with her exactness manages to gracefully

challenge the contradictions of the Night.