BOOKS

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MINIMA PRINCIPIA

Leonardo. Dante. Hitler. Stalin. But also Peter Pan, a new form of pornography, the most extreme concept of purity, the pi-greek ...
Charlie Waters - the architect - came to me in two phases synthesized in a single moment, when I was approaching minimalism and when a friend of mine was telling me about an apartament furnished like a ship's cabin. These two elements made me conceive Minima Principia. It is a book I don't hesitate to define 'presumptuous' because its purpose is to deconstruct the character in all of his aspects - psychological, sexual, professional - is to analyze him in his lowest and cruelest details. Presumptuous because, where and if possible, it tries to understand the relation between art and artist, the union between art and psychosis.

Charlie Waters is a middle-aged man and a successful architect. In him - in his mind, in his memory - there is no trace of his recent past.
Totally clear, he 'wakes up' in an airport without a name and starts, following clue after clue, a journey that means recovery of his removed identity.
He recovers his business partner that brings him back to London.
Recovers his old love and finds new ones.
Recovers psychotherapy sessions and diet problems.
Recovers his professionality and the resulting tendency of architecture to define things geometrically…

Slowly, each piece of the architect's puzzle goes to its place. And when he arrives at the apex of the composition, when everything seems to be complete, the architecture of his personality starts to collapse…

The interpretations of the text are various and equally important: the circularity of existence, the unconscious and exhausting work of symbols upon human soul, the impossibility of the hero to be different from what he is, the need to go back to origins to
'metabolize' and understand his nature, till to the inevitable rebirth...