a multifaceted soul
Poetry
Emilio Tadini, a multifaceted soul, was a charming man with many qualities: active in the cultural debate, surprising in writing and painting in cast acrylic, without ever missing a line.
We met him for the first time in his studio in Milan, in a long, narrow basement of a typical Milanese house, with big doors and vents facing out over the busy street, allowing the light to filter in. We entered in the factory of dreams, filled with books and silhouettes of fairy-tale characters, organised precisely, with a myriad of virgin canvases arranged on the one hand, with many finished ones on the other, and at least four on tripods, ready to be painted.
And there he was, sitting on an old barber chair stained here and there with colour, to observe the work just finished. Two minutes before starting to daydream with us.
Forms and figures of the dream world are told in the reflections of light on the glass mirror surface; a fantastic language amplifies the changing moods that seem to have no border and gives real depth to their characters, animating life of their own.