A disenchanted and distant gaze – both physically and temporally – can help to “see” the reality of Reggio better. If we are talking about political reality, distance and disenchantment become essential tools to better understand what is happening in a city that looks with one eye at the buildings in Piazza Italia and with the other at the citadel of Germaneto, because the principle of communicating vessels is valid in physics but is even more valid in politics.
Pino Caminiti grew up on bread, politics and PCI. He accompanied the entire evolution of the old communist party until it became the Democratic Party and in the meantime he was also vice president of the Province. In short, in his life he has seen all kinds and today he looks at politics (or what remains of it) with a sort of aristocratic detachment, preferring the more daring and true paths of art. And yet when something extraordinary happens in the city, the political virus within awakens and makes the “old” Pino Caminiti once again the protagonist.
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