#1 The Creature
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"I'm born today. He made me, I'm his creature.
He made me special, he said, different from all the other creatures in the world. And I feel special indeed, though a bit lonely. He keeps me for himself and for himself only, he says.
I'm his gift, his major accomplishment, his love, he says.
He told me he put a heart into my chest and so that heart belongs to him, but he's wrong....
That heart is mine."
Location: Umuse gallery, Ruffano
Painting: Marcello NItti Paintings
Assistant: Mattia Manco
#2 Ther Master
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"I'm a scientist, I'm a researcher, I lived all my life for science's sake.
I travelled the world to search misteries and discover the beauties hidden in the most distant corner of knowledge. And what I found are marvellous things. I learnt how to bend reality to my will. I discovered how to create those marvellous things myself but I wasn't prepared to discover the ugliness of the human beings. They are only opportunist creatures, selfish and cruel.
I don't trust humanity anymore, I will create my own part of humanity, one that will be good and fair and pure.
This one will be my companion."
Location: Umuse gallery, Ruffano
Painting: Marcello NItti Paintings
Model: Mattia Manco
© All rights reserved. Use without permission is illegal!
"I'm a scientist, I'm a researcher, I lived all my life for science's sake.
I travelled the world to search misteries and discover the beauties hidden in the most distant corner of knowledge. And what I found are marvellous things. I learnt how to bend reality to my will. I discovered how to create those marvellous things myself but I wasn't prepared to discover the ugliness of the human beings. They are only opportunist creatures, selfish and cruel.
I don't trust humanity anymore, I will create my own part of humanity, one that will be good and fair and pure.
This one will be my companion."
Location: Umuse gallery, Ruffano
Painting: Marcello NItti Paintings
Model: Mattia Manco
#3 The Birth
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He put a heart into her chest.
It was a sapphire heart just as clear as the sky above them, just as fragile as a human being can be.
But she was no human being.
He despised human beings, so he made her a perfect machine, a machine able to think on her own, to have her own feelings and able to evolve according to experience, but no human being. Not a cruel, selfish and lying human being.
But a heart is always a heart, although a sapphire one.
Location: Umuse gallery, Ruffano
Painting: Marcello NItti Paintings
Alchemist: Mattia Manco
#4 You're mine forever
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"You're mine forever" - he said. "What does mine mean?" - she asked softly, questioning with her lively eyes.
"It means you're going to stay with me forever." He replied. He looked at her green girl wondering how could her cute little creature learn everything so fast and why she was that curious about everything.
"For-ever" - she spelled and suddenly her smiley face was darkened by a strange murky daze.
"Forever...master?" - she repeated and the tone of her voice made him feel shivering.
Location: Umuse gallery, Ruffano
Painting: Marcello NItti Paintings
Alchemist: Mattia Manco
#5 Goodbye
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"I have strange thoughts.
I feel an urge inside.
I long for something I can't define.
I saw a different world outside the window, I want to go see it.
I know how to call this sensation, master, I read it in your books.
It's called freedom.
You gave me life but my life does not belong to you.
You gave me love but my heart is not yours.
You created me but you didn't imagine a soul would have arisen along with a body.
This is goodbye father. This is farewell my love."
Location: Umuse gallery, Ruffano
Alchemist: Mattia Manco
