As if guessing the second part dedicated to him was going to be posted now, a new letter from Aldo Piromalli arrived today at the pavilion.
What brings me to the second part of my musings. The presence of Aldo Piromalli in the pavilion is due to the invitation he received from The Museum Of Italian Art In Exile. His presence in the archive The Inadequate was formatted, since the very beginning, as letters sent to the pavilion. But what I did not know then is that this was the main form of distribution of his work.
Once, a young lady came to me in the pavilion, she was Giulia Girardello. She explained to me she had been the person mediating between the pavilion and Aldo Piromalli, so as to make this contribution possible. She had got to know Aldo in another very, very special place: The Museo Casabianca in Malo.
http://www.museocasabianca.com/
The museo Casabianca is a museum as all museums ought to be. A personal collection, an indifference for the number of visitors, a surprising installation of the works, and an excellent choice from the international to the local. Is the work of one man, Giobatta Meneguzzo.
One good day, Aldo Piromalli passed by the museum, had a little conversation with the people working there (Giulia among them) and decided that it was a good recipient for his work. And I say “recipient” because I am not sure that “collector” was exactly what he had in mind.
From that moment on, he started a compulsive sending of packages and letters to the museum la Casabianca, letters that in the beginning were opened and classified –they contained (as the ones being sent to the pavilion) drawings and poems.
But soon enough, opening and classifying the postal sendings of Piromalli turned out to be a time-devouring task, one that could fill more lives than we are given to live, and the packages were left unopened.
Was this enormous volume of unopened postal packages what Aldo had in mind as a final form for his work? It is likely, I would say. Let us remember – as Francesco Matarrese reminded me- that Bartleby worked in a postal office department, very adequately called “The Dead Letter Office”.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_letter_office
Cordiali Saluti, Aldo Piromalli.
Thanks so much for your letters, Mr. Piromalli. We feel very much honoured.
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