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by gaetano_Archive
I desperately need someone to read this.
I'd bomb my hometown of Udine, Italy, home of red wine, alcoholics and workaholics.
It's a small town. 100,000 inhabitants, 95% of them being concerned with material possessions, status symbols, showing off...
In Udine there's a really strong work ethic. work and money are the thing here.
Free time is spent drinking. A lot. The idea of fun of the typical Udinese is going to a bar after work, getting a little drunk in order to relax and have very superficial conversations with people.
Arts aren't too well funded by local politicians.
You are an artist and need a little funding? You have to speak Furlan, the local idiom. Furlan is a minority language and gets all the money.
You are a poet and need funding for a publication? Either you write your poems in the Furlan idiom or you won't have access to the funds. Poetry in Italian, English or any other language is not eligible for funding. The same goes for musicians, writers and the like. I take this as an insult to artists.
But it's figurative artists (painters, photograpghers and the like) who have it worse.
TINA MODOTTI, one of the best photographers of the last century, was born in Udine. she is undisputedly the most famous artist to ever come out of this town.
Well, in Udine there is no museum or art gallery dedicated to her memory.
She took pictures, and pictures don't speak the Furlan language.
I'd bomb this town anyday: no one would really miss it.