“Sun and Snow” at Mondadori, evening with friends

The first event in the presentation exhibition “Metti il Venerdì da Mondadori”, dedicated to Luigi Alfieri and his “Sun and Snow”, proved to be a pleasant meeting with friends in a relaxed and intimate atmosphere. After a short introduction by the author and the illustrator, the painter Enrico Robusti, the book spoke through the reading of some excerpts by Paolo Briganti and Mirella Cenni, refined declaimers of Argante Studio.

Half an hour of readings interpreted with feeling have given a glimpse of short stories that retrace fourteen years of life through the memories of the author, a puzzle spread between the twelve months, the portrait of a childhood lived in the province of Parma in 60s, felt (rightly) by Alfieri as privileged. Characters to whom the reader becomes attached as if they had known, stories that belong to a world distant in time.

“One of the passages I like the most” says Alfieri chatting with the audience at the end of the readings, ”is that of the child who, looking at the starry sky in a summer night, wonders about infinite. Asking himself the same questions to which adult has not yet been answered.” Enrico Robusti, author of twelve illustrations that accompany the texts reinterpreting with a different view, describing his doing: “charcoal that moves freely on a paper of humble origins, but made noble by rebinding. A distinctive sign which reflects in some way my soul and tells about a far childhood.”

After transformed into a pleasant conversation about art and writing, the presentation ended with Prosecco served by the publisher Fermo Tanzi and the bookseller Carlo Ferrari, host (with his brother) of the library in Euro Torri. While “Sun and Snow” continues with the introductions, next meeting at Mondadori is with Giovanni Ballarini and Cecilia Mistrali, respectively author and illustrator of the first book Fermoeditore, The isappearance of the kitchen.