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The artist and writer Bruno di Rosa is developing a praxis which essentially involves reading and writing. Much of his work consists in copying literary texts, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Joachim du Bellay's Regrets... and carrying on the writing of them, recently Le Roman de la Rose. In copying these writers, Bruno di Rosa is in no way trying to do away with them, but rather, like a smuggler, showing that the near and the far do not separate authors, who are eternally connected by the thread of writing.“I've always taken pleasure in seeing roadmen sweeping the street. The ones I prefer are those who walk along the pavement while, at the top of the street, a hydrant lets out a small stream which runs down the gutter. I am as if fascinated, gripped by the noise of the broom rubbing the wet asphalt; those box branches from another age dragged slowly and regularly through the water captivate me. I seem to be in perfect harmony with this gesture. Cleaning the street, pushing away the day before's dirt to prepare for the day that's just beginning, doing this work in a calm and nonchalant way, without any qualms, but doing it because we're responsible for it. |