Luigi Lineri, sculptor and entomologist;

A personage, a sculptor, a stone and pebble entomologist: Luigi Lineri who lives in Zevio, Luigi Lineri from his Zevio rich in orchards (apple, pear…) where I played during my childhood and where people live happly devoted to country, is a “case” and about him people whisper, rumour, with admiration perhaps mixed with doubts, uncertainties. The case remains and the personage too; an electric fellow, fast if not telegraphic, a little peevish and extremely passionate.
About the ceramist I’m going to write on his next art exhibition; now I’ll refer to the stone and pebble picker in the Adige river-bed. Lineri looks for images: male and female natures (the male ones are so strong...), tools (the point, the cudgel etc), bovines and ovines whole bodies or head/snout only, and in his innumerable choices, a petrified library, he has built up a theory which sector “technicians” don’t even discuss because they reject it “a priori”. I’ve got no weapons to oppose them, so I suspend the scientific judgement, but I underline the expressive-formal one. And at this point I don’t know whether it’s better, for modern art, the determinant one (Brancusi, Moore, Martini ecc) that Lineri is right or wrong. In other words whether chance (water, wind, almost endless time) is the sculptor or finds are really arcaic works made by our ancestors. Anyway, in both cases, stones exist and they’re multiplied, in many versions and variations.
Has weather a sort of artistic and formal predisposition, which is continous, respective, substantial, cyclical and incredibly figurative? The rest was up to Lineri’s scorching sensibility “seeing” and picking up, cataloguing (it’s a real cataloguing), listing, with a cleanliness of choice, of excited events which dismay also the most hardened and tired of the “insiders”. But I believe it would be fair to carry out his ceramic exhibition (since ceramics take into account stones with their brand and imprints) in other words a choice of these speaking pebbles, of these theatrical stones, to give the public, the young and the youngest a new occasion of wonder and tale.