CARRARA – “’Carrara deserves so much beauty’ said White Carrara curator Domenico Raimondi of its exhibition. We will say a few words about the initiative itself in a few days, but it is even superfluous to point out that the tones used by the politician-curator from Lucca far exceed the limits of the ridiculous”. Opposition councilor Simone Caffaz does not hide his disappointment when speaking on one of the most important demonstrations in the city.
“As well as the rest of the intervention on the damage to the statues – continues Caffaz -, for him the result of “curiosity and inattention” and “not of acts of vandalism”. Such was the eagerness to appear that the politician-curator replaced the mayor and the police commissioner. I don’t understand the reasons why he felt obliged to express himself in place of the police and, perhaps, Freud would be needed to understand it, but it is very clear as to why he intervened in place of the mayor and was stated by the councilor for Culture the other evening in the City Council in response to my question: ‘We only want to talk about beautiful things’.
Simone Caffaz then comments: “Apart from the fact that, if that were the case, they would have to remain silent indefinitely, but it is the community strategy itself that is incredibly absurd. It was the twentieth-century dictatorships that only talked about beautiful things, they even won wars the day before capitulating, they wanted to build thousand-year-old “Reichs”. This communication strategy could have worked in the 1930s, when there was censorship, showgirls (those of the Stefani agency and not those of Striscia la Notizia) and Minculpop. Certainly not today, in the age of the Internet, social media and artificial intelligence, when lies have short legs and long noses. The beauty that Carrara deserves, and is not given to it, starts instead from the ability to protect and safeguard the statues that are exhibited with an adequate set-up and security service, which is instead lacking by the municipal administration’s own admission. We have all, for example, seen the photos of adults playing football in Piazza Alberica amidst the White Carrara exhibitions without anyone intervening – the opposition councilor points out – It’s fine that Raimondi, who I imagine supports Lucchese, after the promotion of Carrarese to Serie B changed the logo of the event by coloring it yellow-blue, but accepting that Piazza Alberica is transformed into the Stadio dei Marmi seems a little too much to me. How too improvident his declarations seem to me – highlights Caffaz – on the fact that the damage did not derive from acts of vandalism, if only because this precludes a priori the possibility of obtaining compensation from the companies that were paid to insure those works . As mentioned, we will find an opportunity to talk about the exhibition itself, but what appears evident today is that the organization is at least fugitive in terms of setting up and security and certainly not the fault of the employees of the Municipality, Nausicaa and Imm who, on the contrary , they worked hard with passion and a sense of duty.”
The councilor then concludes: “Nice Marble Week, I have to say. And perhaps if the politicians from Carrara, instead of going to look for similar politicians from Lucca, had called whoever conceived that event and dedicated it to design with enormous success, perhaps we wouldn’t be talking about these things tonight”.
