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Artist Exhibitions:
24th June 2001
Saco Exhibition
At 112 Regent Street Cambridge
ENGLAND
Restricted number of guests
admited.
For information, please
contact Saco by
email....
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Artist Galleries:
PRIVATE GALLERY
Via Porta del Pozzo n°65
71020 Castelluccio
Valmaggiore(FG)
ITALY
Tel. 0039 + 0881 972154...
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Artist Statement for Savino Coppolella
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...All that follows doesn't have a purpose, only an end
.....LASH endlessly the "minds" of people that often "give in" at any type of PAIN
..... I haven't "studied"
..... together with this "WHEELED THRONE" :
I was given my primary school licence,
turned adult I understood..... it was worth nothing
.....With strength I entered at a new DEGREE.....that of LIFE,
which nothing is given for free!!!.....And for those like US:
....Like "me".....are obligated to "GIVE"
"ALOT" for a little "smile"
.....who have legs to run, eyes to see..... "believe" that they have donated all of their "lives".
That in reality they have "only" passed by us.....
A.D. 10th March 2000.
Presentation :
I am Savino COPPOLELLA, born in 1943 of a father who was a
carpenter and a mother who worked in the fields..... in this often
forgotten small village of the south of Italy, one of many. My story, similar to the one of Jesus written in the gospel.....No point
remembering that being born under the bombardments of the last war,
wasn't a nice experience .....In the mending, at the age of eight years,
a fall, a medical blunder, they confined me to a "WHEELCHAIR".
In my childhood I turned adult, soon after they said: You will never
WALK again! In which that was my CRUCIFIXION.
After many unimaginable years: There was war in myself between good and bad, love and death.....I understood in this prison without bars that if I wanted to be exepted by REAL-MEN.....! would have to pay my toll. In that dramatic silence, I started to find out what I have to give in able to receive a smile.
I sculptured wood, sat in my fathers workshop. I was aware of that not being enough.....! braided belts with coloured threads..... and that still wasn't enough.....At night, I wrote hard lines! THE TRUTH!!! I had started to enter the sane world but that was cursed little. By chance, I noticed ART; inspite of being very hard for someone like me, who just had a hint of instruction.
I understood in a few years, that this was the right way to be equal in this society which doesn't allow inactivity.....45 years in a wheelchair.....
They should shout to the world: let man live..... with all that he can give in his walk of life!!!
Here you are: this is Savino.....his physical shadow here is: Saco, who gives you..... his very own life on a white canvas.....
January 2000
Yours dearly
Savino Coppolella.
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