By Silvia Moretti
When approached, in the pauses of festivals, Gianni Toti had an uncontrollable habit to overwhelm every other party in a universe in which a flash ruffled center of gravity, meaning and cultural references. In this displacement, however, a cardinal point was always in sight, the nerve center and more intimate than the conflagration: The Way of journalists, 25. Gianni Toti repeated over and over again to young people around him his home address - just add in one go by the house number. Viadeigiornalistiventicinque - he said.
generous conversationalist, the Poetronics opened his creative universe by snapping the lock of his first work in progress. His house. A cluster of rooms covered with writing. On the walls, the ceiling in the bathroom and hall. Books and other books. Posters, posters, photos, objects, drawings hung like a big board to mark the events of a lifetime. The house as his home planet to browse, the planetoti who portrayed Sandra Planetoti smooth in the video notes (1994).
On May 15, 2009, two years after the death of Poetronics, totiana The house has reopened. He simply moved the doorbell to a new address, house number attached. Via Ofanto, 18. Rome. Pia Abelli, his wife, he rebuilt the library, video library and archive of Toti along with his companions, scholars, Italian and foreign artists who founded the Cultural Association The home totiana.
The removal operation has proved a happy metaphor. Transport, ie, literally. A transport that carries with it new forms and new meaning: a move which is both a rediscovery of what is and what will be opening. The local street Ofanto are spaces, enlarged and equipped, whose perimeter is marked by the over twenty-five thousand volumes owned by that artist omnivorous and plywood. A closet - the archive - is carved from the agendas of its thickened poetry daily, its literary and film projects, published and unpublished, from the correspondence that has woven with his century. In addition to the shelves, the walls are dotted with paintings of his first wife, the painter naif Marinka Dallos (his other works are collected in a nearby primary school "Lante della Rovere") from the objects collected over countless trips in the four corners of the universe and the photographs are impressive shots of his life on the move. Zavattini and Toti, Toti and Che Guevera, Toti and Cortazar. Toti e. .. In these ellipses, dots that so often left at the end to his poems and videopoems, is the nature of the house totiana. Place that yes, it offers to the attention of literary scholars totiani or video-graduates, but to be born with creativity, riding new languages.
An initial response to this trial were "prototypes", three readings of how creative and poetic world totiano made by some students of the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome (during the "Cinema and Reality", prof. Daniele Segre). Along with the latest
VideoPoemOpere totiane, the "prototypes" will be screened November 21, 2009 in the Romapoesia Film Festival.
The House website is Totiana: www.lacasatotiana.it
The e-mail address: segreteria@lacasatotiana.it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Totiana House can be visited by appointment to be arranged.
Publicado en la Revista Predella, no. 26 (2009)
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