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by ettore sottsass
'I believe that one day, when he was young, fornasetti must
have had a truly startling vision. I don't know if it was during
the day or by night, but suddenly he must have seen the
whole world explode into the air, the whole world and all of
history and all the accumulation of its figures, memories and
all the stones, the bodies, the trees, the houses and the
monuments. everything flew into the air and finished up in an
infinite, opaque cloud full of rubbish that rose like a nuclear
mushroom and then, slowly, in chilling silince, began to
descent, falling havily - perhaps on fornasetti's head, or
perhaps on his table or on his paintbrush or perhaps even
simply on the floor of his room. it must have been a bit like in
an michelangelo antonioni film ....(read more)
*enter the world of fornasetti *
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