Stefano Gervasoni: Le pré

The French poet and writer, Francis Ponge wrote a book called "La fabrique du Pre' (the meadow factory). Stefano Gervasoni gives a double interpretation to this title - constructing from zero, creating a story starting from the beginning of life or working on the preliminaries of existence, trying to give consistency to this magic zone where childhood starts it's long process of becoming adult, magic starts to separate from reality, infancy from adult life and the reverse. Adult life feels deprived and nsotalgic of a purely emotional relationship with the world, later replaced by an aesthetic, by faith, by love, or by drugs, meditation, extreme sports or any artificial method to go beyond this present, heavy, concrete world. Gervasoni considers these things the leading thread in his works throughout this entire album.