The furrow flies where
"Christ stopped..."(1).
It seems almost a miracle,
but a man made fly
up to knowledge a part
of a poor territory amidst the poorest regions.
As well as Carlo Levi
made famous these places (Aliano is not far)by eans of the most
important thing
he had at his disposal (writing),
Angelo Caruso raised
to dignity the poor
brother of the landscape
(the furrow) through
the most suitable instrument
at present available (internet).
In these places split
by atmospheric agents it is possible to
admire numberless
"cracks" of burrian memory.
A part of the territory,
inconvenient, has a meaning
and this is given exactly
by the intervention of
the artist who makes
of it an important resource.
The lucan land needs a lot
of Christos to revalue
the poverty of a lot
of its wonderful places. So
Caruso in a picture
appears as a poor
Christo who carries
on his shoulders
his net with a few
aids in comparison
with the artist quoted.
Thanks to the new mass-media
the detatching from
the places of origin softens.
He not only proved
to have very good roots
in his land but took
a strip with him and
the possibility of showing
it to the whole world.
An intervention on the
land of a soft kind
and also not much invasive,
with the due respect for the
characteristics of the place.
He wanted to plant a seed
that in the future will grow,
not with the water which
in the south is lacking
but with the mind
of whom observes these
fanciful and
significant interventions.
Carmine Caputo di Roccanova
(1) Title of the book:
Carlo Levi,
Christ stopped at Eboli.
Italian title: Carlo Levi,
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli,
Giulio Einaudi Editore,1945.