Lawren and Steve Art Show- Verona, 10/2011.

Roberta introduces us to Fede.
Roberta introduces us to Fede- She remembered seeing the teenage Federico on his motorcycle back in the 60's, tooling around Piazza Vittorio Veneto. Now, all these years later, they had become good friends. 

 

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Fede's bad reputation- He had a bad reputation left over from a difficult and dissipated time in his life, things that had gone down years before. The Ladies of San Giorgio would speak of him in dark tones of disapprobation- Federico the Communist, the Druggie, the Anarchist, the Loner.

 

The recitation.
The recitation- Some of his old friends called him "Il Lupo Grigio", "The Grey Wolf," and I know he liked the name. But Lawren and I never called him that- to us, he was always "Fede."

 

La Pagina Accartocciata, or "The Crumpled Page."
The Crumpled Page in the center of Verona.

 

Getting ready for the second act.
Before night fell in the old cortile.

 

During the show.
Watching the Live Comic.

 

The band- Andrea on guitar.
The band- The Great Francesco Casale on drums, Davide and Andrea.
 

Art Farm Pilastro.

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Pagina Accartocciata (Crumpled Page).

 

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Venice Capitolo

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Page One

 

 

Arsenale Verona, Nov. 2010

 

 

Poem for Fede, Castelrotto Valpolicella, 2011

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Ink on Pizza Box Cardboard (320cm x 224).

I claim this Spring, Spring of 2011, for my dear friend Federico. This Spring will be for him.
Every birdsong; every tender bud; every soft breeze blowing through evenings newly green;
To Federico, I would like to dedicate the daylight hours; the smell of warm concrete in the 
rain; the constellations of Taurus and Cancer; the holy pine with its healing shade, unbowed 
by the press of Winter. Be well Fede- the Spring and I, we need you….. 

 

Gran Guardia, Verona 2010

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Giant Comic Book Page, Gouache on Reclaimed Wood (270cm x 225cm).

 

Back-side View.

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Ink on paper | 2009

A Stony Biscuit.

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Ink on paper | 2009

Teacher, 3 Pupils, and the Devil.

Soldiers.

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Cut paper and ink | 2008/2009

Aircraft Carrier and Chinooks.

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Cut paper and ink | 2008/2009

Fighter Planes.

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Cut paper and ink | 2008/2009

Christmas Card for 2009-10.