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La pietà ribaltata | Felice Tagliaferri | TEDxBolognaWomen


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good evening to everyone
I’m happy with ironcutters that I wonder
what I do here in the middle of all these
women, you also ask, but you
I assure you that I first think of myself
so they called to do one
miracle make me go back to view maybe I have
lost sight at 14 for one
illness with all the tragedies of the case
then at 25 I met one by one
sculptor named nicola zamboni that between
the other is therefore near Bologna for
i until 3 months ago he lived in bologna
and he wanted to experiment it to understand
how much you need to see physically for
the sculptor did two three
meetings with 3 4 3 4 blind children
that at the time I was a boy
for him the enigma was solved in the
sense that he understood that while not seeing
the sculptor could be made for others
it was a life experience for me it is
it was the experience that changed me
life
to the point that I left the job
in the public body where I worked in
province to devote myself totally
to art after presenting for two
years his laboratory
then like all things in life i
meetings are fundamental
I met candido cannavò who has
wrote the book and call them disabled
where my story goes back and from there
only started my popularity then
know how to do my jobs my things
which way and date the church of art in
a deconsecrated church here in the province
from Bologna
a school run by me managed by me
with workshops for everyone but
especially for disabled people
why do not you think it’s easy for
a person with disabilities go in
an academy or an art institute e
to present myself as a student
many times to find the roads closed
I decided then gives him a chance
especially for disabled people and then
even the skilled I could come though it was
a little bit the same on the contrary
let’s talk about the art I do then
my art is to be looked at but it is
especially to touch in the sense that if
you look at it, you only see a part
but like the whole world if you are a majority
but a beautiful woman
1 the guard says is beautiful then I arrive
who put their hands on them like that
nice but it’s fracid
so far or so much damage almost
total perception however the thing
important to me is that what is thing
It makes us appreciate something they are all
of the senses that then to udine but also one
another in the problem is the emotion that
touch us or see something
and the wonderful thing and when we do
let’s see something that makes us fall in love with it
also a painting a sculpture a person
if you love a child you want to have one
baby that live child inspires
tenderness
the first thing you do is make one
caress for what reason I say not
you can caress a sculpture that gives you
the same emotion is the market
of art not for mercenaries who
buy back because today 100 will buy it
questions sell 200 but the market
of art are sold for art because
I watch that work of art
work there gives me an emotion that
nothing else apple from the world then
learn to touch and I will tell you one
nice story now in 2008 during
my the various exhibitions
I did a show in Naples at the cloister
clear saint my teacher told me
happy if you go to Naples go absolutely
to see the veiled christ
I went to see the veiled christ
obviously he not made me play
so prone see if you do not do it
touch you do not exist
but I paid 5 euros for a user while the
5 and I insisted and they arrived there
guards before they took me out I have
asked for courtesy they imported from
mistress because it is a private chapel
I told him you will pay me
come out and unfortunately for them
I was with the director of the tactile museum
State Homer is the only museum in Italy
state that deals with tactile art
hello to all the reproductions of all
main monuments of Italy
closed the private collection including
of my sculptures because
if he would not take a sculptor he would not be worthy
nothing therefore and the director of the museum
humus said it happy I am fused
companies I would redo the veiled christ and I have
said you are crazy because it is still
a very beautiful impressive work
they had already told me a little
is that I closed three whole days
with massimiliano Trubbiani then a
man in a room he described it to me
centimeter per centimeter the difference
between a person who sees one who does not
see this who sees by the blow
a general eye then after it stops
on the details that interest him
obviously those who do not see instead recognize
the set starting from the details then
this fixed room had to describe
but it must be all people writing
that there are as many ata I put together
various details and in my mind and me
I create the image a bit like when you
put your hand under the sleeve
of your neighbor’s jacket if you want
try it that your eye does not see
what do you touch, however, your mind?
draw and then described to the centimeter
per centimeter made the small one
20 cm clay sculpture
I bought a block of marble from
four tons and I made the
my veiled christ is therefore called
Christ revealed revealed revealed because
veiled for the second time and unveiled ai
blind people is a very nice income
even when I was in Naples and I have it
brought to Naples rightly all the non
viewers of Naples said that mine
it was more beautiful but
but why
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it is not that it was more beautiful it is
simply because it is the original one
they did not let him touch then later
I ran it all over Italy
I blessed him as a blessing
I followed him on a journey with him
christ and he has run he unwittingly
put to have sex is put to eat
I support my christ
presented I said just you and me
blessed and from that moment on however
in napoli the veiled christ to the blind
they let it touch so let’s say that
we have a little peeling lindt or I know
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we have scrubbed the indologue from the wall of
omertà that there was then from there on
however many people like me are
giving it to do
in many museums many situations for
make art accessible to everyone
second of each one how he can appreciate it
because a person in a wheelchair if you
show a sculpture three meters high
this person ‘s face can not see
just put the ceiling mirror up
the head and having come to us therefore
it takes very little
but now I will tell you why
I think they invited me to this
ted for my new job that already
beyond the design already started in
make it happen and was born with museums
vaticans who opened pity for me
michelangelo made me touch it
underneath the sculpture of piety ho
made a small laboratory where
I copied the face of Jesus and of the
madonna because it’s my idea is to do
the overturned piety where there is no
madonna who holds the dead Christ but there is
the christ who supports the madonna a mo
of kokkola this as a symbol that i
children do not take care of parents but
especially the men of women in
this particular moment
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but here I am throwing a provocation to you
all of you if you want to work with me
the Madonna will be finished while the Christ
it will be left raw raw because in the
moment in which one by one the artists
always been hallucinatory and far-sighted
call them as you wish
but at the moment when one has a
thought is not that the day after you
achieve it would be beautiful
to think that it no longer exists
maltreatment of women
Christ will be crude because anyone
want to get out of the wizard
from something hard to cold man
healthy man clean and carry out his own
a discharge of nerves of tensions of
I cry poor my lab and
give me your hand, thank you
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