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A BRIEF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
I was born in Volterra in 1948 in the heart of the little town, just in front of Palazzo Priori which looks over one of the most beautiful medieval squares in Italy. I lived in this environment till the age of five; and sometimes, when I return to that same square, I wonder what I saw or felt, what images and impressions fixed themselves inside of me, and I wonder if they still remain beyond my conscience in something inside of me. Because I have no memories of that period, of those five years of my life. Neither the rooms where I grew up, nor the people who together with my parents were around me, rejoiced with me, embraced my childhood.
In 1953 I arrived where I then lived with my family: a small town in the Versilia.
My education found its roots in rural culture and its values, its faiths, its sometimes absurd convictions; its judgements and sense of life, of social relationships that followed me up to the age of twenty, that is up to 1968 when the words I had heard up to then, and their meaning, seemed to have to change, eclipse, dissolve. After that 1968, I did nothing of what was supposed to be my life; I quit school during the last year and never had a job, a steady job. Everything passed without stopping to address what my age met. The only steady point was the company of a strong love that lived those years with me: a love for poetry, for the poetic word which then resulted in a volume, of poetry of course, that I published later on, in 1983.
"Opera Prima" a book made of the dreams that ideas are when they seem close and possible in life.
I dreamt of myself as a poet, and I thought of devoting my whole life to this as Cesare Pavese wrote: "To at least be able to go away, voluntarily starve, answer "no" to a life that uses love and piety, the family, the piece of land to bind our hands.
In 1976 I came to Florence for the first time and I lived in this city for four years with a woman who attended the Magistero. Thanks to her, her studies and her University texts, I became imbued in the "Gruppo 63" the "Girl Caria", "Tel Quel", the "Zero Degree" up to that visual poetry that found its core in this city. Once I found a publisher willing to publish my collection of poetry I started to become interested in visual poetry. I started to glue and compose images, to write on a different space than the page, then I started to use colours, carefully but improvising a lot.
But something of the work of those years remained and constituted an exhibit of visual poetry that I had in 1983 in a place set right in the centre of the town where I have always lived: in Stiava near Viareggio, in Tuscany.
I have kept something of what I exhibited then. They are cartoons surfaces that have the gift of improvisation, if this means anything at all. But that exhibit encouraged me. When I think about that period I see a poet and a painter: the former is incapable of writing poetry any longer and the latter hasn't yet been able to give birth to a painted painting.
Arturo Lini, Firenze, 1994
LANDSCAPE
Acrylic and collage on masonite
Cm. 67x69, 1998
TWO
Acrylic on canvas
Cm.80x70, 1989
OSSI DI SEPPIA
Acrylic and pencil on masonite
Cm. 68x60, 1988
FANTASTIC SHOES
Mixed on masonite
Cm. 40x40, 1988
FASHION
Acrylic on masonite
Cm. 70x70, 1988
ALARM CLOCK
Acrylic and pencil on canvas
Cm.50x50, 1991
BLUS
Acrylic on masonite
Cm. 50x70 1985
THE TRUE AND THE FALSE MAN
Collage and acrylic on canvas
Cm. 40x40, 1987
BOX PRE
Acrylic on masonite
Cm. 50x70, 1986
