Il Tirreno Giornale (PISA, Italia, Saturday 30 June 2001)
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A Work Realized by the Artist Alberto Berti |
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PISA. The Leaning Tower, separated from the architectural complex of the Cathedral and the baptistery, seems to point out a celestial path, that of the equilibrium between spirit and subject, exactly as it has for many centuries, one of the most famous monuments of the world. A less and less precarious equilibrium, as recorded in the writing in Gothic characters "Turris restitutoribus XVI dicatum Giugno MMI".
It is this image carried by the medal celebrating the occasion of the reopening of the Tower, realized by the artist Alberto Berti, that the Work of the Primaziale has made into a coin. Not less beautiful, the other side of the medal, reproducing, at the center, the "Fountain of Cupids" that supports the coat of arms of the Work, it seems decidedly more, peacefully shouldering the work of Bonanno Pisano, finally reestablished and crowned by an eloquent writing: "The Work of S. Mariae Maioris Eccl. Pisanae". The work of Berti, realized in 200 samples struck in bronze (diameter 60mm) and 50 samples in silver of the same diameter, produced by the renowned mintage of the Pazzaglia brothers of Pisa. Alberto Berti, not new to these realizations, is mostly known for the his large sensual paintings, based on the use of colors in his most personal style. Colors that speak about a man and artist who has not ever accepted compromises, shade as sensible, of a sensibility that is also apparent in his work "services" like his incisions (Berti made parts, in 1982 at the prestigious Academy of the Arts of the Incision) many of which were unveiled in the catalog "Pisan Incision of the Nineteenth Century" curated by the critic Nicola Micieli who, describing a work of Berti, on the theme Piazza dei Miracoli, points to "Pisan jewels that seem to emerge from a remote distance, from a dimension of time made unreal far more by the absence of an any horizon that attaches the composition to any recognizable scale ...". Translated by Gary Feuerstein, 30 June 2001, from the Il Tirreno article
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