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If you aren't a river
Be a stream.
If you aren't a street
Be a small road between the woods.
If you can't be the sun
Be a star.
It isn't for size
That one wins or loses.
But……
Be the best of what
You are.
M. L King
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These beautiful words, pronounced by a great
pacifist of the depth of Marting Luther King, give me the
inspirations to study in depth the spirit that moves the dear
friend Franco Brighenti.
In a society where all is entrusted to speed, the clamour
of journals and tv and to money, everything that is else of
these parameters doesn't find space anymore because it is
un-paid.Time to think, to visit those who are ill, to bring
a word of comfort to our own elderly parents, to help or aid
someone in need, to do an act of charity, to read a good
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book seem all wasted time and the ability to "give"
leaves space to indifference, boredom, laziness and dissatisfaction.
Our artist, didn't chose newspapers or the TV to express and
communicate his thoughts, rather to paint with oil on board
or canvas committing himself greatly both time-wise as economically.
In fact it seems that further than the aesthetic appearances
Brighenti is making a great effort to communicate; elevating
art,
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other than being a decorative instrument,
a privileged means to express thoughts, facts, opinions, events,
always filtering them with a veil of positivity.
He doesn't please himself with war, but he wants them to be
a reprimand to new generations to build a future of peace.
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The value of Brighenti's works isn't enclosed
in the simple market value but, the true treasure is in the
meanings that the works in themselves express.
This is the reason why his works deserve great exhibition
spaces, intended in the physical sense because they are numerous
and valid, but most of all for a correct reading and interpretation.
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We are in front of an artist who is making a big effort to
give the best of himself. We don't know if he will be a river
or a stream, sun or star, flower or grass, let's make it that
he isn't just a voice shouting in the desert, he deserves,
from my modest point of view, to be heard. I express my best
regards to an artist friend that locates himself in the whole
panorama of Modern Art, surely as a : "voice out of the
chorus".
Signature
A friend
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"Raffigurazione di Diogene tratta dalla decorazione di un
vaso"
(Painting of Diogene taken from the decoration of a vase)
50 x 70 cm. Oil on canvas
"Puma alato etrusco"
(Etruscan Winged Puma)
50 x 70 oil on canvas
This internal drive, gives him the way to find the
strength to study, research, to study in depth, compose, elaborate
sensations, impressions, facts and events, which he transfers
on canvas with incisiveness and that without this effort would
be lost.
Every one of his works, isn't aimed for itself, but is part of
a global design, therefore it becomes as a "word" which
is a composing part of a phrase.
The composition of the words forms a phrase that expresses an
"idea, a concept, a thought". To take out a work means
at times, to make the phrase limp with the consequent risk of
not understanding its meaning correctly.
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