19/05/2025
Literature and art are two forms of human expression. Both arise from the human need to communicate emotions, ideas and worldviews with different languages. They are worlds capable of provoking reflection, expressing the time in which they were born and addressing universal themes.
Their connection is a bridge between sensory and intellectual worlds, allowing us to have intense emotional experiences and interpret reality in surprising ways. Sometimes they are ways to find clues and solutions to our complex society, which not even our legislators can achieve.
Last Friday evening, Galleria Frilli presented the book “The Wall” written by author and friend Giuseppe Delle Vergini.
It is a small book, just over 100 pages. But despite being small, it is dense with meaning.
What is narrated in this novel is the story of a conflict, between Israel and Palestine, with two protagonists: a young Arab student who plays the flute and a mature Israeli woman who offers to be his teacher.
It is a story of divisions that arise from misunderstanding and often also from symbols such as walls, created “artfully”. But that is a different, evil art, erected by power to create fear, to antagonise people, to control them.
In this context of ours, on the other hand, art becomes a magical, incredible, powerful point of encounter and at the same time of breaking down many barriers and prejudices.
Be it visual art, literary art, or why not, the one described in “The Wall”: the art of music as a possibility of redemption, as a bridge between people. Music as peacemaking art.
