{"id":12324,"date":"2020-10-02T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.giacintobosco.com\/la-luna-nel-bosco\/"},"modified":"2021-11-25T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:59:05","slug":"boscos-moon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.giacintobosco.com\/en\/critics\/boscos-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosco\u2019s Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BOSCO'S MOON<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
By Vittorio Sgarbi<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t[vc_empty_space height=”180″ woodmart_hide_large=”0″ woodmart_hide_medium=”0″ woodmart_hide_small=”1″ woodmart_hide_extra_small=”1″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text text_larger=”no” el_class=”text-larger”]The moon, in Alcamo, is not like elsewhere. Its light is different, it is closer and brighter. One feels as if one can touch it. And someone has. Someone has started to speak about love right from here.<\/p>\n

The Sky, first of all, underneath this sun. In this light, with these fragrances, in this heat. But even more so, at night, before the sea, when everything is closer:<\/p>\n

“Most fragrant fresh rose, you appear when summer comes, <\/em>
\nwomen long for you, both young and married ones; <\/em>
\npull me away from this fire, if you wish to do so; <\/em>
\nI can\u2019t find peace, night or day, because of you, <\/em>
\nthinking of you, my lady.”<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text text_larger=”no” el_class=”text-larger”]Undoubtedly, these verses must have echoed, time after time, in the heart of Giacinto Bosco, a young sculptor from Alcamo who is, more than others, in love with the moon and close to it.<\/p>\n

He develops nearly his entire work around this theme. Two lovers who, in every way and by any means, try and climb to the moon.<\/p>\n

And they manage to climb using a rope. But a staircase will also do, it will allow them to reach it directly and comfortably. And, again, a spiral staircase, on which they both move to then grab the crescent moon, and take it with them or sit on it.<\/p>\n

How might it feel sitting on the moon? But it may be suspended on a cone, a shell with a staircase around it.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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Rosa Fresca Aulentissima<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t
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Tienimi la scala che ti prendo la luna<\/a><\/h3>

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row mobile_bg_img_hidden=”no” tablet_bg_img_hidden=”no” woodmart_parallax=”0″ woodmart_gradient_switch=”no” row_reverse_mobile=”0″ row_reverse_tablet=”0″ woodmart_disable_overflow=”0″ css=”.vc_custom_1608038443678{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text woodmart_color_scheme=”light” text_larger=”no” el_class=”text-larger”]When conquered, the moon may become a swing, but it is also what a tightrope is to an acrobat. The moon is the lovers\u2019 friend. And the lovers play with it.<\/p>\n

The moon is poetry. Leopardi speaks to it and asks, as we can recall:<\/p>\n

“What do you do, moon, aloft? Let me know<\/em>
\nWhat, silent moon, you do.<\/em>
\nYou rise at night, and go;<\/em>
\nYou contemplate the deserts, then you rest.<\/em>
\nAre you ever tired<\/em>
\nof never changing scenes?<\/em>
\nDo you not loathe returning, are you still <\/em>
\neager for these ravines?<\/em>
\nThe shepherd\u2019s life is like your life.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text text_larger=”no” el_class=”text-larger”]The moon is silent, the moon is the accomplice, the moon is Sabrina\u2019s nose, the moon accompanies the lovers in the solitude of the night.<\/p>\n

And Bosco does not narrate all this, he translates it into images; the lovers are naked and slender.<\/p>\n

They chase each other when they are far away and they embrace when they finally reach the moon, which is the destination of their thoughts and wishes. Bosco is a simple soul, an essential sculptor.<\/p>\n

He is romantic, he brings Folon\u2019s thoughts on the Sicilian sea. He makes Giacometti kind.\u00a0 To him, sculpture is a love declaration, the expression of the kindness of the heart. Some sort of romance.<\/p>\n

The man\u2019s skin is darker, the woman\u2019s skin is lighter. The lovers look for each other, they hold hands, they embrace, they caress, they help each other to grab the moon, they kiss.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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Colgo la luna<\/a><\/h3>

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Travolti dalla luna<\/a><\/h3>

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Rosa Fresca Aulentissima<\/a><\/h3>

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row mobile_bg_img_hidden=”no” tablet_bg_img_hidden=”no” woodmart_parallax=”0″ woodmart_gradient_switch=”no” row_reverse_mobile=”0″ row_reverse_tablet=”0″ woodmart_disable_overflow=”0″ css=”.vc_custom_1608038443678{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text woodmart_color_scheme=”light” text_larger=”no” el_class=”text-larger”]Bosco\u2019s touch is light, the surface is rough, like that of a lizard taken from inside a dried prickly pear, easy to find in Alcamo.<\/p>\n

His inspiration is lyrical, as it was for Attilio Torresini, Francesco Messina, Silvestre Cuffaro, Aurelio De Felice, Luigi Broggini. Bosco sculpts with delicacy, with discretion. He moulds the material with the precision of a chaser.<\/p>\n

Sicily felt the need for a \u201cnuraghe\u201d sculptor, an Etruscan sculptor. The Greeks thought of using small bronze statues as votive objects or in the cult of the dead.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text text_larger=”no” el_class=”text-larger”]That is where Bosco starts, as if to the idea, to absolute love, to moon contemplation, nothing has been added in the last two thousand and five hundred years.<\/p>\n

The thoughts of the artists of Magna Graecia, not so far from Alcamo, in Selinunte, in Segesta, go through Bosco\u2019s mind with unvarying spirit, and time stands still, with unchanged poetry, like in Sappho\u2019s verses, like in Alcaeus\u2019s verses.<\/p>\n

The Greek poets\u2019 Moon, and Ciullo\u2019s Moon, and Leopardi\u2019s Moon\u2026 that is Bosco\u2019s Moon.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1475586743184{margin-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column]\t\t\t

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