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"Arms, legs, hands—so many hands—waving, grasping, pushing through to make space.
And faces, faces hollowed by fatigue, pale with tension, a frantic tangle of limbs and objects and lights—and the windows, the windows of the departing train.
They jut out of those windows, from inside the train: feet suspended in mid-air, slippers, handbags passed from hand to hand, heavy suitcases that seem to fly, weightless.
All these figures appear in stark black and white—the black and white of photography, with the grain of photography—which blurs the edges and amplifies the sense of movement.
And what movement! A frantic, frenzied motion; in the arrangement of these images, of these bodies, one feels the urgency in every gesture, one can almost hear the noise, the voices, of this breathless commotion."
(Gianfranco Pardi, "Un treno per il Sud", in Carlo Orsi. Un treno del Sud 1963/2004, catalogo della mostra [Bologna, Forni Galleria d’Arte, 14 gennaio-24 febbraio 2005], Forni Galleria d’Arte, Bologna, 2005, p.n.n.)
"Arms, legs, hands—so many hands—waving, grasping, pushing through to make space.
And faces, faces hollowed by fatigue, pale with tension, a frantic tangle of limbs and objects and lights—and the windows, the windows of the departing train.
They jut out of those windows, from inside the train: feet suspended in mid-air, slippers, handbags passed from hand to hand, heavy suitcases that seem to fly, weightless.
All these figures appear in stark black and white—the black and white of photography, with the grain of photography—which blurs the edges and amplifies the sense of movement.
And what movement! A frantic, frenzied motion; in the arrangement of these images, of these bodies, one feels the urgency in every gesture, one can almost hear the noise, the voices, of this breathless commotion."
(Gianfranco Pardi, "Un treno per il Sud", in Carlo Orsi. Un treno del Sud 1963/2004, catalogo della mostra [Bologna, Forni Galleria d’Arte, 14 gennaio-24 febbraio 2005], Forni Galleria d’Arte, Bologna, 2005, p.n.n.)
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