Al Di Là Del Volto

In the middle ground where worlds collide, poetry lives according to the same logic as images. A logic of contingency according to which every image, every poem defines its own principle through the encounters of life. According to Jiří Kolář, with whose works Guttman dialogues, a collage demands its own composition in the same manner as a poem. Life, too, Kolář wrote, is full of eruptions, crystallizations and landslides. There is always something in it that explodes or implodes, that steps out of the picture or withdraws in it. An unpredictable je-ne-sais-quoi, as in dreams, which are there to be dreamed as life is there to be lived. - Excerpt from the text by Chiara Vecchiarelli, curator, philosopher and prizewinning author.