Luciano Fabro

[abknight@zzzzzz]

Thanks Don!

I feel better now.

I understand that Fabro is polical and historically canny,
and that perhaps has much to due with his artistic stature
and inclusion in the book, but at my remove that is lost
on me.  Perhaps those things are always lost on me.  I
could have included a lot of verbiage with those photos
but I wouldn't want to ruin the dish.  I enjoy the stone
like ice-cream and the crusty quotations of columns like
pie.  Delish! Especially that one piece that is a la mode,
something about night and day, the day's expressive pastry
riding on the tightly rolled licorice of night.  What was
the name of that ice cream they used to serve at Italian
retaurants that was striped pink, chocolate, vanilla?
Neopolitan?  Don the piece you saw in Florence, in some
versions the roller, which in Florence was onyx, rode on a
bed of flour.  Fabro might have been pleased that the work
broadly slipped the confinement of being viewed as an art
object, an achievement given the setting, and a commentary
on the comparatively clotted language in which the David
and other works there elocute.

Fabro seems really to enjoy the richness of stone to the
point of percieving flavor.  Stone caught in a poet's
dream.  The blue-sky stone in a net!  Fun!  Dreamy.

Don't worry about Janson Inc. For today they are bringing
out the Fabro.  Mangia!