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Sanremo 2021: Achille Lauro’s first painting is “glam rock”

The turquoise hair, the metallic armor, the pink feathers that sprout from his collar and, at a certain point, the tears of blood that streak his face, completing an extraordinary picture, with Martian and space atmospheres, a little Winx and a little Knights of the Zodiac. This is how Achille Lauro inaugurates his first artistic performance at the Sanremo Festival one year after the exploit of I do not care, ready once again to amaze and make your hair stand on end, to leave a mark and launch a fluid, free, sometimes uninhibited message.

“I’m glam rock, I’m a face covered in makeup, the tear that ruins it, the veil of mystery of life, the loneliness hidden by a stage costume, sexually everything, generically nothing »explains Achille Lauro at the end of the performance while the lights dim and frame his majestic, powerful, contoured silhouette. «Exaggeration, luxury and decadence, sin and sinner, grace and blessing. They are the artists who undress and let anyone spy in their bedrooms and in all the rooms of the psyche “ Lauro insists, as if his clothes conceal a structural complexity that the most inattentive viewer must work hard to discover.

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«To exist is to be. Being is everyone’s right, God bless who he is “ the gloss before only a couple of feathers remain on the stage of the Ariston Theater, the only aftermath of the letter from the World to Humanity that Lauro read at the beginning of the performance: «Distant, unfriendly, alien, pierced. I know how you feel, I’m here, hurt by your mistakes, pierced by your preconceptions. Help me because I need it, as one needs a mother’s love. The pure need to be loved. Don’t forget who you were, naked bodies squeezing, desires. When the absence of a father, the passion of Christ, the gold rush. When in front of the insensitive, arid, dry and impassive me, you survived because a hug was enough for you ».

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