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GIOVANNI CAVAZZON My Portraits The splitting of the dithyramb – which made the first form
of dialogue possible – permitted Dionysus to become a CHARACTER. And it is with
this character that the representation of a story was born. “Let Tragedy have
the high task of celebrating…” “Let Comedy have the arduous and demystifying
course between the meander of contemporaneity…” Aristotle or Plato – in any
case the Dramatic Arts – sanction the history of society over the ages, in
good and in evil. My coming into contact with set designing early on in life
evoked a desire within me to avoid framing the character with the proscenium
that separated him from the audience. On the contrary, I wanted him to be the
one who announced and enjoyed the event at the same time. I believe that a portrait is the least casual of pictorial
categories. It is expressed by very complex signs which are not always simple
to decode. And in fact, “... it is said that a good portrait is the portrait
of society as well”. I perfectly agree with the above statement made by the
painter Pasotti, a friend of mine (“Il
Reporter”, n.2, Milano, 1976). I have always believed that portraying a
person means making him recognizable to those who already know him,
and, overall, making him recognizable to himself in an intimate and global
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