BLACK

FROM MOURNING TO ELEGANCE

“Nero, non è nero…nero!” (Black, he’s not black…black!)

And all the worse for the song.

Certainly, it’s about a color to be taken with the masses, like coal, but not as uniform and desperate – not so black – as one tends to believe.

The proof: if it still follows caskets and lurks among the last sacristies, it even dresses people in fashion.

Today, elegance is black.

But there’s more: with white, its comrade, black has given place to a different imagery, a representation of the world promoted by photography and movies, at times more truthful than that described by colors.

The black and white universe, believed as having been relegated is still here, deeply anchored to our dreams and perhaps our way of thinking.