Delle Segrete, Silenziose Lacrime
Limited Edition - Poems by Mario Luzi and Tear Chalice design Ettore Sottsass
Delle Segrete, Silenziose Lacrime
«There is no object more absolute and sacred than the tear vase: no other object expresses the human condition so intensely. Laughter and the smile do not produce objects suited to their material preservation, they have no emblems as peremptory as tears have». Mario Luzi
Delle segrete, silenziose lacrime is the theme of the reflection proposed to the poet Mario Luzi and became the title of the collection of verses that Numa publishes in a small volume in limited print run, hand-bound.
The collection contains, among others, a poem dedicated by Luzi in the summer of 2004 to this project and remained unpublished until now. The volume includes five others, already published, which Luzi gathered at the time to “constitute a small group of verses, complete poems or fragments suited to the Numa project” in which Roberto Zani invited him to take part.
For the collection of poems Delle segrete, silenziose lacrime, Ettore Sottsass designed a tear chalice in Murano glass, as fragile and delicate as the poet’s verses, which, together with the book, becomes part of the Limited Edition 2006 collections.
The collection of poems by Mario Luzi is printed on Japanese Atsu Shi paper and hand-bound. The Chalice is in Murano glass with a mouth-blown glass bowl and a stem in milk glass worked freehand, with hot applications of glass in chromatic gradation.
Further reading: http://firenzepermarioluzi.chiavidellacitta.it/luzi-le-lacrime-delle-cose/
