Life is dark and strong

“So this collection of images organized to celebrate the anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize to my father pushes me to a journey in memory: I still hear in my ears the sound of my father’s voice, his rough and “definitive” words was a fairly closed man difficult a prickly pear that can sting you but which nevertheless inside is very sweet. His tendency to rigor, the difficulty he had in revealing his feelings in a way that was not mediated by the word poetic marked my growth. As if to counterbalance this fatherly severity, which also shines through from several images of the “private” Quasimodo, the figure of my mother Maria Cumani and her light yet assertive movements return to mind. Her discreet and constant presence even in difficult moments: she was a woman who knew how to cultivate her feelings and communicate them in an exceptional way…”

-Alessandro Quasimodo