The magazine MAQ September 2019 | Page 70

"Of course I saw it! And I also see that you are too erudite for my taste!... I think you do not want to remain a simple henchman!

"I like to learn, that's right! But in the clothes I'm wearing I'm comfortable..."

Peter was impatient. "I know! Congratulations, I see that every day more and more people are becoming less and less rapid and wiser!

"I am content with the little I have, like your peasants!"

"Perfect! But, now explain to me what has your wisdom got to do with Antonello da Mes-sina?"

"The perspective, Don Pietro... the perspective! With a play of lines one gives the illusion of a space within the picture..."

"So what?"

"Will there ever be a space inside a board? Nothing! And yet, we see it, this space... Parable means..."

"Enough! Now get out of baccàgghiu and talk like Christians! In other words, if I have understood correctly... should I, in your opinion, become the space between you and the baron? Something that doesn't exist, but that everyone must convince themselves that it exists!

"Let's say that power daughter power... said so, here the baron must take your name and your face..."

Background image: "Corte Capitaniale" main venue of the exhibitions "A beautiful November, in Caltagirone ..."