Cartoline personali
Gea Casolaro, Personal Postcards, 2003
"Personal Postcards" in the display built for the exhibition, Manciano, 2003
"Personal Postcards" spread among the postcards normally on sale at the tobacconist, Manciano, 2003
Manciano (Gr) - Public Library. "The library is very important to me: I come here every day after lunch for two hours. I read newspapers and current affairs magazines, to find out what's going on in the rest of the world. I was born in 1920 and I think that at my age, it's very important to keep your brain active." C.
Manciano (Gr) - The New Square. "I like the square because you can play without being squashed by cars." F.
Manciano (GR) – The bar under the stairs. “For a few years, in the summer, there was a bar under the stairs at the Avenue. It was beautiful: the youth would spend the evenings under the trees together, joking around. Unfortunately, they haven't opened it for a while now.” C., R., C.
Manciano (GR) – Old town. "I like the little alleys in the old town, under Piazza Garibaldi, because it is nice to play hide and seek." M.
Manciano (GR) – The square behind the schools "Ever since I was 12 years old, after the classes, we would always meet in the square behind the school with our friends. And that has always remained our meeting point, even later, with the motor scooters and then the cars. It was the place of many good and bad moments, of the first dates. We continue to meet there; now a pub has also opened there." E.
Comune di Manciano (GR) - The former mill of Pian di Macchina. "I spent my childhood and my adolescence in this area. It is a very dear place to me: this is where I started working the countryside and where I grew up. There are many legends and personal stories around this former 17th century mill that was converted into a dwelling in 1832, but whose ancient destination can still be seen from the old millstones and the buttress built where the old wheel used to turn'. G.
Manciano (GR) - La ‘Muretta’. "I really like travelling, that's why I come here: you can see the sea and the Giglio Island and, on clear days, even the Montecristo Island, and as far as Corsica, which is no longer Italy. There is this sense of openness that helps me to live here. G.
Manciano (GR) - View. "I wasn’t born here, but I've lived here for more than 20 years now and the thing that still surprises me every day with the same emotion is the view, towards the sea, especially at sunset." D.
Manciano - The playground at the Boulevard. "I have always gone to the park at the Boulevard, where all the children go to play, since I was very little, when my grandfather used to take me there." L.
Manciano (GR) – The 'little slide'. "As children, we used to play slide on the staircase ramp in the garden of Piazza Garibaldi: the one on the right, which had become smooth by and by gliding down it. You could use it as a normal slide or go down by hanging from the bar." B.
Manciano (GR) – Il 'Pensatoio' “The 'Pensatoio' [place to think] is a mythical place, linked to many stories, many evenings. It can be seen from the inscriptions on the walls, although some have recently been erased with a fine coat of lime.” C.
Manciano (GR) - The door of the 'Tora' "All the kids from class 1965 onwards went to ring the door of the Tora and then, they ran away! It was a mandatory stop. And she was so exasperated that she threw everything at them, everything she had on her hands: once even a hatchet." G.P., S., R.
Manciano (GR) - Via Felice Cavallotti. "Sitting on these steps to get air and sun one can often meet G. C. class of 1914. He once told me: - Don't listen to what those who want to give you advice tell you. Always do by your own mind: when you make a mistake, you correct yourself. -"
Manciano (GR) - Beauty and ugliness (The old town from Via Garibaldi). "Almost all my life has been spent around the old part, where I was born, grew up and where I worked for many years against the ugliness of progress, trying to preserve the beauty of this town, because I think that its identity, which is our identity, is the real wealth to be preserved." A.
Manciano (GR) - The 'little road'. "The little road, for those of us who lived in the part of the town near the cemetery, was the obligatory passage to reach the Boulevard, the nuns, the gymnasium and then also the industrial technical institute. There was the asphalt road as well, but the little road was a magical world full of adventures and secrets. It was where we hid when we skipped school, the place of our first love adventures, it was ideal for not being seen, yet remaining in the centre of the village." C.
2003
15 postcards printed in 750 copies each