MONZA - "When I draw, paint, paste the shards of glass and write I am a happy man". Luca Melzi is disarming, in his simplicity and at the same time in the energy he transmits when he utters these words. A happiness that can be read in his eyes and then comes straight to the heart when we read the first lyrics of his first collection entitled "The colors of poetry" and published by Giuliano Ladolfi Editore who proudly delivers us a few days before the official presentation.
Luca Melzi is a well-known and beloved character in the city: class 1960, employed in life but with art flowing in the veins so that, ended the day behind the desk, that art explodes in every action and word. An intense production, with works protagonists of personal and collective not only in Italy, but also in the world by exporting those of its flowers, the Via Crucis entirely painted on old X-rays, and then its glass shards that are transformed into works of art also in Cannes, London and New York.
Today Luca Melzi faces a new artistic adventure, that of poetry (always paired with painting) that has unhinged and regenerated his sensitive soul. Giving life to a collection where the lively pen evokes perfectly those images and those feelings well represented by the paintings combined with each composition.
"In relation to art I am very humble - he tells us by welcoming us in his house museum where his works are exhibited and his emotions are breathed - I am just as much in regard to literature as a poet." But neither the friends nor the insiders who have enthusiastically welcomed his productions, accompanying him in a process of refining the pen that led to the publication of this first work.
"It all started seven years ago, during a chat - he says - I was a river full of talking about my art and my production. Until when, at the end of the evening, I was asked a question: Why do you always paint flowers? Try for once to write flowers as well ".
It was a bolt from the blue. Luca Melzi, renamed also the painter of the florets, could not answer that question: why for twenty-five years had its production been fossilized on those flowers?
"They advised me to read the novel" Profumo "- he continues - It was my inspiration, I started to write, to produce, it had become therapeutic". Until then, however, he decided to go further and after seven years he pulled out of his drawer those poems he already shared with friends, to submit them to a publisher.
"This book was a lesson in life - he continues - The publisher explained to me that my lyric was late romantic, but that it had to be thinned out". It was not easy, for a baroque like Luca Melzi, to thin out those verses that represented his emotions, his feelings, his life.
"I love the challenges and I welcomed with great pleasure - he continues - Of course it was not easy. But that provocation allowed me to go further, not to stop, not to give up making me a different man today. It is a very important stage of my rebirth, focusing a point on my life journey ".
A condensation of emotions that Luca Melzi has now decided to share. Scheduled three presentations, conducted by the journalist and friend Andrea Loddo, who in him sensed a great talent and an ability out of the ordinary to hit the public. Not only for the beauty of his works, but by making the observer reflect, making him immerse himself in a world that goes beyond that dreamlike sense conveyed by his paintings and his works realized shaping, with sensitivity and mastery, glass shards otherwise destined for the sack of junk.
The debut will be at Monza, on Sunday 3 December at 4.30 pm at the Civic Museums (via Teodolinda). Then, on December 10th, he will be transferred to Prato Barbieri Bettola, birthplace of the poet-artist, and on December 15th at 6.30pm he will be the protagonist in Milan at the Spazio Alda Merini.
It is happy and galvanized. "Special thanks also to the Councilor for Culture Massimiliano Longo - he concludes - I met him by chance this summer on the occasion of an inauguration and with surprise I discovered that he knew and appreciated my art. And thanks also to the House of Poetry ".
"The colors of poetry" are an emotion to be given away and put under the tree.
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