Pino Caminiti knows the city and looks at it from his perspective which is that of the centre-left. Born in the PCI, after leading the Reggio secretariats of the PDS, Ds, Pd, the virus of politics has not abandoned him even in his artistic “reincarnation”. Indeed, the artist’s eye helps him see things that go beyond politics.
How do you see this war within the Democratic Party?
«I don’t know if what we read in the newspapers is all true, that is, if there is a clash taking place between a Falcomatà PD and the Irto PD, nor where it will lead. In any case, and regardless of how you think and how it ends, two things seem clear to me.”
Which?
«The clash, real or presumed, is manna from heaven. It removes the theme of defeat, therefore (the poet would say) the stench of death, and broadcasts the noise of the living. After years of fake unanimity, of chloroform, of calm, we finally make sense of the things that happen. Which are the things that people understand.”
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