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fraNCo VerdI

1934 born in italy
lives and works in verona, italy

In his concrete painting Franco Verdi isolates the word on the presupposition that it embodies the pri-
mary element of the lexical, the narrative connection of the same words, not being so important for the attain-
ment of a rational meaning, arousing feelings and images, that go out also but from the presence materico-
graphics, to which it is tied up the freedom of the words. In the exchange of roles, the ideographic poet Pound
remembered that the poetry is “simply loaded language of meaning to the maximum possible degree,” while
Montale said, “nobody would write verses if the problem of the poetry would be the one to be understood.”
But to avoid the worry of Montale it is enough to load the language of which the word is the support. From
the moment, however, that “each word is a composite nature, resulting from the combination of more minimal
elements of vowels that consonants, it follows that the poetry, confirm Verdi giving reason to Pound and to
Montale on it, it is prone to isolate and to emphasize the word, for which it is the subject of architectural con-
struction of it,” soliciting as in the freedom of the words, in this regard, that active character that is quite of the
Poundian charge. Consequently these more active solicitations that determine the relationship between action
and acting, not so much a meaning of symbolic or rational value, as new feelings and as they are realized.
Those are not determined at the origin, but elaborated in an architectural construction during the lived-living
of whom lives time.But the isolated word and denied to completed lexical formulation in the intent to become
understood doesn’t exhibit the subject of the language, that is his autonomous and unrelated presence, from
the moment that - says Verdi- “the letters of the alphabet do not lend themselves to a reading exclusively
optics in which the varied chromatics recognize a new formal syntax, a new world of signs, of codes always
unpredictable, however always to surprise”
(L. MenegHeLLI, “the walls oF FranCo VerDi”, in the arena, Verona, Vi. 1981)
THE sEa, 1983 oil on cAnvAs / Mixed MediA 120 x 100 cM. /. 47½ x 39½ in. 
 MEGaHENs, 1984 Acrylic on Wood /Mixed nediA 120 x 150 x 5 cM. / 42½ x59 x 2 in.

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