‘Envy’, by F. Duranti[1] : interesting is the melancholy confusion present in envy, and failing to regain liking. Drawn from the exhibition ‘Glossario clinico di Psichiatria per Immagini’ – Pavia, ‘Hangart Studio’ October 8 – 23, 2022.

To benefit from one’s calling [2] / 25.

How is it that we neglect the connection with the reality of those messages which even we describe as sub-liminal[3] that is, coming from a not unknown place ?

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – September 1, 2023

[1] The biographical notes are drawn from the brochure available at the exhibition// Franco Duranti has an academic background in Fine Arts and in Conservatory  of Music in Milan : his own work merges with an activity as an Art therapist in hospital (Milan, Pavia, Legnano). In 1988 he begins a long quest to give life to a ‘ Clinical Glossary of Psychiatry for Imaging’ – these are notebooks of working – ended only in 2021 and starting from a field observation of patients attending the Art Laboratories inside the Health Units : it is a study aimed at distress and emotional sides, a trace to observe what cannot be observed with a strongly calligraphic graphic language, as supported by an active career as engraver.

[2] www.tutorsalus.net/index.php/en/pensare-da-partner-2/358-psychoanalyst-and-profession-1

[3] From Latin language ‘limen’ translates the doorway - or also the borderland - and describes the well known passage from a certain place, taken as a reference.