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THE
NEW FIGURATIVE SURREALISM
ART
OF "TOPIARIA"
Full
and empty in Art.
In this century
the "full and empty" binomial has had a fundamental role in Art.
"Full and
Empty" in decades, affected every trend or artistic movement underlining
thier course.
In order to
undestand the dialog between this two places artists looked at the relationship
between the two components of an art wok and at their positioning in the
space, adjusting this latter based on the necessity of the parts.The artis,
in composing his art work, have to pay attention not only on the selection
of the elements, but moreover on the way they have to be organized always
in connection to the meaning that he wants to communicate.
According
to my experience as an artis the criteria that dictate the organization
of the composition of a my art work are various and correspond to the numerous
ways an art work can be structured based on symmetry or asymmetry, ritm,
static equilibrium or dynamic equilibrium among the parts that compose
it.
In this my
latter production, for which I inspired to the Italian Gardens and on the
art of "Topiaria" the painting can have a load bearing structure or more
particularly fundamental axes that characterize the shape or the scene
around which all other elements are organized.
Simplifying
the main structure and highlighting its main axes we will obtain a structual
scheme. On this code we recognize similar the shapes giving a common meaning
to them all.
The main structure
in an art work of mines is not the only one possible, exists as well an
alternative tyoe of organization, the modular one that allows an infinitive
variety of compositive processes.The modular structure for instance in
the case of "Topiaria" is given by the repetition of an identical part,
even if diferent different in size, called modulus. Modulus is a
unity of shape when it is constituted by an element that is always identical.A
modula composition in a art work of mines shall start from an element
(hedges, trees etc...) tha will be repeted in the tridimensional space
by rotating the base element: by changing his orientation on
the plane and on the space (labyrints). The more complex will be the main
shape the more complex and articulate will appera the composition.
Symmetry
and asymmetry
The evaluation
criteria are really simple: symmetry-asimmetry, ritm, weight and equilibrium,
strenght lines.
The structure
or composition in some of my paintings transmit a sense of order and equilibrium,
a sense of staticity and immobility. Asymmetry in other paintings transmit
a sense of more freedom, movement and dynamism. In nature everything is
organized on rtims (the day and the night, the seasons) but its repetitivity
is not monotony thank to small variants that characterize every natural
creation.
Summarizing
we can say that from the organization of the elements and distances between
them rise many ritms with numerous communicative possibilities.
Weight
and equilibria
The part that attracts our attention so resulting
more important has in the composition a dominant weight. In my art works
weight is always determined by the positioning of the shapes, their dimensions
and by the colors of one or more elements. This means that the less heavy
parts are useless: every small part helps in decoding the whole.
The position of the weight in my art works determines thier equilibrium:
it will be stable when the weight is at the center.
Streght
lines
In the nature
as well as in art works we perceive shapes and colors that determine several
trends: the most evident attracts our attention and constitutes the strengh-lines
of the composition. Our sight individuate them even if they are not drawn,
since they are suggested by the shapes, by their colours, by their size
and by their position in the painting. According to the prevailing trend
of its strenght-lines an art work will communicate a sense of movement
or staticity, stability or instability. The strenght-lines contribute to
the definition of the structure of my art works and underline the organization
of the existing elements.
Maurizio
Brambilla
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Maurizio
Brambilla
PAINTINGS
GALLERY
"CLIK"
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The
art of Topiaria
"Le due veneri nel giardino"
70X50 - 1999
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Pensando al Golf"
60X30 - 2000
oil and acrylic on canvas |
"Labirinto"
Cammino dell'Uomo verso la Verità
80X60 - 2000
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Topiaria"
30x50 - 2000
oil and acrylic on canvas |
"Spazi e Mare"
40x50 - 2000
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Siepi nel Giardino"
30x50 - 2000
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Green Alpino"
30x40 - 2000
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Archi della Fantasia"
40x50 - 1999
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Architettura con Gazebo"
40x50 1997
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Architettura con Rose"
40x50 1995
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Gazebo dei Sogni"
50x70 1989
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Il Sonno di Dona"
40x50 1995
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Illusione teatrale"
40x50 1996
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Isola di San Giulio"
40x50 1997
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Architettura con giardino"
40x50 1998
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Viale della topiaria"
30x50 1999
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Venere nel giardino"
30x50 1999
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Geometrie nel giardino"
30x50 1999
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"L'alba sulla topiaria"
40x50 1999
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Geometria e simmetria"
40x50 1999
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Architettura con topiaria"
30x50 1999
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Giardino della topiaria"
30x50 2000
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Topiaria e green "
30x40 2000
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"La Venere del lago"
60x50 2001
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Topiaria e green"
40x30 2000
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Giocatore di Golf"
40x30 2000
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Presenze nella topiaria"
60x50 2001
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Giocatore di Golf"
30x24 2001
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Giocatore di Golf"
30x24 2001
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Giocatrice di Golf"
30x24 2001
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Giocatore di Golf"
30x24 2001
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Green mediterraneo"
30x24 2001
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Giocatore di Golf"
30x24 2001
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Giocatore di Golf"
diam. 30 cm 2002
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Green"
diam 15 cm 2002
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Green"
diam 20 cm 2002
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Cupido nel giardino"
20x30 2007
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Cupido nella topiaria"
30x40 2007
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Abbraccio di cupido"
20x30 2007
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Enigma onirico - Apparizione"
30x60 2007
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Topiaria toscana"
30x40 2007
oil and acrylic on canvas
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"Enigma onirico"
30x60 2007
oil and acrylic on canvas
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THE
UNREAL RELISM
DREAMS
AND GARDENS
The art of "Topiaria" consists nowadays
in tracing and developing, following strict rules, precises hedges and
trees in those fantastic and geometric shapes that were expression of order
and formal integrity in the greek and roman world. A technique that in
the Middle Ages has been maintained alive only in the ancient monasteries
and tha was rediscovered during the Renaissance, when with an essential
style myrtle, yew-tree, laurel and box thickets and hedges were elaborated.
In the big gardens the magnificence was celebrated while intimacy prevailed
in the smaller ones. A fashion extended through all the Europe, from Italy
to Spain and from Holland to France.
I think that a fixed point of cohesion, a sealing,
with what has been and the new Maurizio Brambilla's works, realizes in
the scission between reality an the oneiric world through the rigour of
a surrealistic representation of the natural interior structure of the
man. Maurizio Brambilla expresses through his geometrical gardens
or the primeval enigma or symbolic ideograms of labyrints a
natural order where today's man can find harmony and consolation. This
is clear from works such as "Topiaria" , "Green" and others where the nature
is rendered harmonious for the game of Golf. The search for wide spaces,
linearity and semplicity in the wide golf meadows built for playing.
The experience at "Accademia di Brera" and as
shenographer at "Teatro la Scala di Milano" have been two fundamental hinges
of the cultural path for the formation of a young lombard artist.
What dominated in his latest works is the relationship
between real image and imagination which highlits visible realities and
path of collective cross. Figurative vibrations originated from landscape
memories are expressed with omogeneous and well equilibrated chromatism.
It is the new figurative surrealism of
Maurizio Brambilla with aspects of interior realism interpreted skillfully
in a naturalistic form.
An ambitious target achieved through the complex
search between his own Es and art by one of the most coherent and interesting
contemporary artists in the italian and european outline.
Giuseppe
Patellaro
Directeur
des Operations Editoriale International passport
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"Labirinto: cammino dell'uomo verso la verità"
70x50 2001
oil and acrylic on canvas
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Lights
on the sea
LIGHTS
ON THE SEA
MY DIARY
OF IMAGES
In my education
as painter I think day after day more about an art able to express the
interior passions and feelings of the Man in the act of the search truth,
a truth that is mystrious and hard to investigate.
Painting is
a way of living, a way to gain consciousness, that is one's intuition or
allegory of the reality.
Novalis, german
romantic poet who lived between the end of '700 and the first years of
the '800, wrote: "What it is outside me it is really inside me its of my
own and viceversa".
According
to Novalis there is no contraddiction between internal world and external
world, the direction of the mysterious path is towards us, inside our hart,
he truth is inside ourselves.
When I set
about to begin a paint or a study, I start from a real fact nevertheless
anything wrapping the reality have to be overhelmed and I try go beyond
the real; a kind o fantasy take place that translates sense perceptions
in mathaphisical images that can not be expressed in language or conventional
images.
In my painting
everything is suspended between dream and tangibilty of the matter: the
Milanese art critic Alberico Sala wrote in 1982 during my exhibition
at the gallery "La Nuova Sfera" in Milan "... Maurizio's painting is of
mediation that though clearly figurative creates and stirs up atmospheres
of methaphisical strains".
My imagination
makes abjective travels to the heart and viceversa, transfiguring thing,
landscapes and shapes with sharpness so creating a a surreal/metaphisical
dialogue that I call "the new raffigurate surrealism".
In my last
expression named "I FUOCHI DEL MARE", lighthouses are depicted as
towers glittering the light for the sailors in the night "one of the wonders
of the world", towers on which top is placed the big lantern to give
the man a guideline through its nocturnal path to help him in finding the
goal to be reached.
In these my
paintings with the symbological and metaphisical entailings I wanted plainly
express the above concepts: images and shapes can not, according to me,
escape from their own fate of symbol and communication with the people,
they are necessary to communicate and stiring up many feelings in the watcher
in which making visible what it is not visible since the image brings the
object to the sensorial experience.
Maurizio
Brambilla
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MAURIZIO
BRAMBILLA
Painter and
professional scenographer Maurizio Brambilla was born in Milan in 1952.
He got a diploma at the "Beato Angelico" Institute of Milan, then
in 1975 he graduated as "scenographer and custumer" at the "Accademia
di belle Arti di Brera" under professord Varisco's and Purificato's
direction. He has prepared personal art exhibitions in Cagliari, Savona,
Milan, Bordighera, Legnano, Muggiò, Valle Crosia etc... He has taken
part to several manifestations and ghaterings, receiving awards and
recognitions. In scenographical field he has signed scenes and customs
in many theatres, lyric corporations and for the state's TV channel
RAI on Milan.
SCENOGRAPHIES
1974-75 Techical
assistant to the Director.of scenography Prof. Tito Varisco at "La Scala
di Milano"
for the Opera "Norma" and "Un ballo in maschera".
1976 "Rancore"
by D. Fabbri for the "La Compagnia di giro del Teatro italiano" - Teatro
Sociale di
Lecco - Theatre San Babila di Milano.
1976 "La Confessione"
by S. Fuga - Opera-house of Genoa - Scenes.
1977 "La Scala
di Seta" by G. Rossini - Opera-house Genoa - Scenes and costumes
1977 "Il Barbiere
di Siviglia" by G. Rossini. - Theatre San Carlo - Naples - Director V.
Patanè.
1978 "La Sentenza"
by C. Fontana - Teatro Nuovo Milan.
1978 "Il barbiere
di Siviglia" by G. Rossini - Theatre San Carlo - Napoli - Director V. Patanè.
1979 "Manzoni
chi era costui?" by M. Maranzana and R. Pagan - Theatre in the neighborohood
Cuoco square - Milan.
1980 "Così
fan tutte" by W.A. Mozart - Opera-house - Turin - Scenes and costumes.
1980 "Don Chisciotte"
by Cervantes - Opera-house - Barcellona - Scenes and costumes.
1980 Scenographies
and costumes for the "Corso di Italiano per Stranieri in Italia"
on RAI 2.
From 1981 to 1986
has signed the scenographies for "La TV del Mattino" RAI Television - Milan
with journalists E. Sparano e R. Battaglia.
From 1982 to 2003
has been examinator for scenography courses at "Accademia di Brera"
- Milan.
REFERENCE
ART GALLERIES
Art
Gallery Gelmi - Sesto S. Giovanni
Art Gallery
Eustachi - Milano
Art Gallery
Immagini Spazio Arte - Cremona
Art Gallery
La Spadarina - Piacenza
EXIBITIONS
PERSONAL
EXHIBITIONS
1974 - Art
Gallery "Lelli" Cagliari, presented by Giuseppe Congiù
1975 - Art
Gallery "Lelli" Cagliari, presented by Giuseppe Congiù
1977 - Art
Gallery "Pedrani" Legnano, presented by Lucio Martelli
1977 - Art
Gallery "Sant'Ampelio" Bordighera, presented by Ciardi D'uprè
1978 - Art
Gallery "Tesio" Milano, presented by Ruggero Bottoni
1978 - "Giovanni
Verga" Intitute Milan, presented by Carlo Franza
1979 - Art
Gallery "Goja" Muggiò (Mi), presented by Domenico Nicosia
1981 - Art
Gallery "Goja 2" Vallecrosia (Im), presented by Paolo Isotta
1982 - Art
Gallery "La Nuova Sfera" Milan, presented by Alberico Sala
1983 - Art
Gallery "La Nuova Sfera" Milan, presented by Dino Villani
1987 - Art
Gallery "La Nuova Sfera" Milan, presented by Antonio Carbè
1989 - Art
Gallery "Goja 2" Vallecrosia (Im), presented by Enio Bramato
1992 - Art
Gallery "Eustachi" Milano, presented by Giuseppe Martucci
1995 - Art
Gallery "Spazio Gardenie" Cusano Milanino (Mi), presented by Donato
Conenna
1996 - "Circolo
della Stampa Milano", presented by Donato Conenna
1999 - Art
Space "Francoli Center" Ghemme (No) - presented by Ezio Tamburelli
2002 - Art
Gallery "Immagini Spazio Arte" - Cremona, presented by
S. Fappanni
2002 - Roncalli
Palace - Sala Magnani - Vincenzo Roncalli Foundation - Vigevano, pres.
by di G. Patellaro
2002 - Art
Space "Francoli Center" Ghemme (No) - presented by Ezio Tamburelli
2003 - Blanchaert
Gallery - Milan, "The world of golf".
2004 - Il
"Circolo" in Desio - "Gardens Green and Compositions" - presented by Renato
Tomasina
2006 - Art
Gallery "Immagini Spazio Arte" - Cremona, presented by Lucia Siri
2006 - "Casa
Volta" - Lazzate - Mi, presented by Simona Vaninetti (deputy for Culture)
2006 - 17th
Mostra Mercato d’Arte Contemporanea “Arte Padova 2006” – PadovaFiere
2007 - Palazzo
Cusano - Cusano Milanino (Mi) - presented by Lucia Siri
2007 - Art
Gallery "La Spadarina" - Piacenza - presented Luigi Galli
2007 - 9th
Mostra Mercato d’Arte Contemporanea “Reggio Emila 2007" - Reggio Fiere
2008 - Art
gallery "Spazio Edas" - Mergozzo (VB) - "Topiaria e green"
2008 - 10th
Mostra Mercato d’Arte Contemporanea “Reggio Emila 2008" - Reggio Fiere
2009 - Hotel
Luna - Venere hall - Oleggio Castello (No) - Presentation of the first
persoanl monography.
COLLECTIVE
EXHIBITIONS FROM 1973 TO 2007
1973 - Menton
France, Art Gallery "Art du cadre"
1974 - Cusano
Milanino, City Library
1974- 2007
Sesto San Giovanni, Art gallery "Gelmi"
1974 - Savona,
Art Gallery "Vengelista"
1975 - Milano,
Collective of the "Gruppo Brera for scenographs" organized by Prof. Arch.
Tito Varisco
1976 - Bordighera,
City Libraryi
1978-1980
Muggiò, Art Gallery Goya
1978 - Monza,
Fair exhibition
1978 - San
Remo, Hotel Hilton
1979 - Florence,
Vicar Palace
1980 - Alassio,
City Library
1980 - Roma,
Palace of exhibitions
1980 - Torino,
Art space Lingotto
1983 - Genova,
"Palazzo delle esposizioni"
1984 - Palermo,
Municipal Art space
1987 - Art
gallery "Goya 2" - Vallecrosia (IM)
1990-91 -
Milano, Art Gallery "Eustachi"
1991 - Milano,
Central railway station - "Fantastic in contemporary art"
1994 - Arona,
Art Gallery "Immagine"
1996 - Cinisello
Balsamo, Arconati Palace
1999 - Olgiate
Molgora, Municipal Library
2000 - Cisliano,
Muncipal expositions space
2002 - Vigevano,
"Sala Leoni"
2003-2004-2005
- Cremona, Art Gallery "Immagini spazio arte"
2007 - Piacenza,
Art Gallery "La Spadarina"
2008 - Sesto
San Giovanni, Art Gallery "Gelmi"
2008 - Cusano
Milanino, Palazzo Cusano - Theme "La città"
2009 - Art
gallery "Spazio Edas" - Mergozzo (VB) - "Woman universe - Only woman"
SOME PRIZES
AND AWARDS.
1977 - City
of San Remo - 11th edition of the "Anguria d'oro" (1st Prize)
1978 - Florence
- Awarderat the 2nd Edition of the "Marzocco"
1978 - Prize City of Alassio - (1st Prize)
1978 - Milan - Hotel Hilton - Golden Plate of
teh Region Lombardy - 4th painting and sculpture contest
1978 - Salsomaggiore
Terme - Accademia d'Italia (1st Prize)
1979 - Milan - Hotel Gallia Excelsior - 1st Prize
"Tocco d'oro"
1979 - Competition City of Alassio - 1st Prize
1980 - Roma
- Contest "Mid Time" - Diploma of merit for the arts
1983 - Roma
- Diploma of Honour "International Order of art volounteers for the peace
in the world"
1985 - Milano - Plaque Region Lombardy as lombard
painter, for the activity done in the field of the
environmental art.
1988 - Milan - Awared with the medal assigned
by Rotary Club 204° District for the lecture
"Painting and Scenography"
1992 - Milan
- Art Gallery Eustachi - Prize Epifania (1st
Prize)
1994 - Milan
- Art Gallery Eustachi - Prize Epifania as symbologic and metaphiccs
artist
1995 - Milan
- Awarded by City of Milan with the "Environment Prize " for painting.
1995 - Milano
- "Premio Ambiente" per la Pittura assegnato dalla Provincia di
Milano
1996 - Val
Brembilla -Painting contest - Gold medla as award for the art.
1996 - Trezzano
sul naviglio - Gold medal for the dedication in the art of painting
1998 - Milan
- Diploma of participation - Lion's Club Milano
2000 - Parma
- Prize "Città di Parma" - Painter signaled by the panel for
the dedication devoted to
figurative arts.
2002 - Vigevano
- Sala Leoni "XII exhibition of paintings an sculpture (1st prize),
patonage by
Common and province of Milan.
2003 - Olgiate
Molgora - Contest Emilio Gola - Painter signaled by the panel.
2007 - 20th
Anniversary of "Brambilla Foundation" - Award by Tourism Alderman M.Orsatti
-
Comune di Milano, "For the artistic and cultural professionalism of his
Art"
2008 - Art
contest art gallery "La spadarina" - Piacenza - Teme : "Nascosto nel cuore"
HAD
SPOKEN AND WRITTEN ABOUT HIM
Domenico Purificato - Ciardi D'uprè
- Lucio Martelli
- Ennio Bramato - Paolo Isotta - Domenico Nicosia - Carlo
Franza-
Giuseppe Congiu - Dino Villani
- Alberico Sala
- Antonio Carbè - Giuseppe Martucci - Ruggero Bottoni - Donato
Conenna - Giuseppe Patellaro
- Gian Piero Rabuffi-
Ezio
Tamburelli
- Simone Fappanni - Tiziana Cordani - Tiziana Genovese - Renato Tomasina
- Lucia Siri - Gianluigi Guarnieri - Luigi Galli.
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