VISUAL PHONETICS


DEFINITION


Four-dimensional visual objets representing strings of thought and metaphor, tied together into acoustic knots by puns and alliterations thereby lending resonance of sound to meaning.

paraphrasing Arthur Koestler in "Bisociation"
















Hypnotic thoughts

Quick shifting sands
and time's clepsydra
shun
hypnotic thoughts
infinitesimal plankton
fluorescent lights
on heaving ocean swell
of life's existence.

                          Lorenzo 1974
2006-7


1975
Leave in my Dream

Leave in my dream
absurd creations
chaos in balance
on catastrophic line
random universe
in constant spore
where quanta hold and are
the entangled key.

Leave in my dream
the weirdest structures
living cells
conceived in chance
mutations wrought
by gamma rays and time
to twist this damned-forged
spiral code*.

Now place a stegasaurus
in my dream
a pterodactyl
and a dolphin too
then let that cell
present itself anew
to hand me an image
on mine own: mankind.

Last, give me nightmares
on evolution
future breeds
and star's demise
so that in anguish
and inept awareness
I may thus relish
this sweet despair.

                          Lorenzo 1984-2004
                      

* DNA.

Exhibitions:

1974 Galleria Etrusculudens, Rome - Italy
1975 Galleria l'Indicatore, Rome - Italy
1977 Galleria La Nuova Papessa, Rome - Italy
1978 Hamilton Gallery, Group Show, London - UK
1982 Art Expo New York City - U.S.A.
1984 Galerie Le Point, Monaco - Pricipality of Monte Carlo
1986 Italian General Consulate, Los Angeles - U.S.A.
2005 Galleria Angelica, Rome - Italy
2006-7 Galleria Angelica, Rome - Italy
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Until 1994 permanent exhibition at P. Navona 76 Rome, Italy. From 1994 Trebbio Castle Florence 50037 Italy.
His posters have sold in the U.S.. Lorenzo Scaretti's creations can be found in private collections in New York, London, Paris, Washington, Los Angeles, Montreal, Houston, Bruxelles, Acapulco, Buenos Aires, Munich, Florence and Rome. Lorenzo Scaretti lives on Rome's piazza Navona.



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