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00:33 I am Giuseppe Ussanidesco, curator of the exhibition of Luis Alberto Alvarez Solis.
00:41 The exhibition is entitled "The Shaman on the Back of Quetzalcoatl".
00:46 We are making a journey with a modern shaman,
00:50 a lover of music, a lover of movement,
00:54 therefore of rhythm, and of movement of spheres.
00:58 So, actually, this geometry of knowledge,
01:02 this sacred geometry, which we see in its spheres,
01:07 in the concentric circles that create this dilation and continuous movement,
01:12 where there is an eye in the center, which is the eye of the Maya pyramid, the cenote,
01:19 but also the eye of the peyote,
01:22 and the eye of this magical universe that fixes us, studies us,
01:26 wants to lead us on an initiatory journey.
01:29 Alberto Alvarez Solis is a Mexican painter who has been living in Rome for 20 years.
01:36 I always tell my students that the origin of the image is sound.
01:44 If you do not take away the power that you have put too much on the image,
01:53 and you do not understand the silent origin that it has,
01:57 you cannot become good painters.
02:02 Painting is nourished by sound.
02:06 So, in what sense does music come in?
02:09 It comes in the origin of the creative process.
02:13 It comes in establishing a necessary silence to the mind,
02:19 which today in the West governs and is driving us crazy.
02:24 So, the musical element in the Western culture is necessary
02:28 to balance the obsessive vigor of the power that has been given to the Western mind.
02:35 So, mixing the technology of ancient civilization,
02:39 establishing the cultural bridge to the Eastern and Western world,
02:43 is necessary, especially for the West.
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