THE LONELY LIFE OF ANTONIO LIGABUE
HIDDEN AWAY
9th January - 21HS - ANFITEATRO - 120'.
Giorgio Diritti (2020).
Toni, the son of an Italian emigrant mother, is deported to Italy from Switzerland, where he spent his childhood. He lived for years in a shack by the river without ever succumbing to loneliness, cold or hunger.
Meeting the sculptor Renato Marino Mazzacurati was his chance to return to painting and the beginning of a story of redemption in which he feels that art is the only way to form his identity, a chance to be known and loved. "The Tudesc", as people called him, was a lonely, scrawny, ugly and often mocked and humiliated man. He became an imaginative artist who painted a fantasy world of tigers, gorillas and jaguars on the banks of the Po. Ligabue's art is a "fairy tale" from which a great diversity emerges and his work over time has proved to be a gift to all mankind.