Dear Patrizio
I have admired in real life your wonderful artworks, after knowing them from your monograph that you have dedicated to me.
It would be predictable to affirm that you are an artist of refined sensibility, so I will say that you painted some works of very high lineage, which I commented on, especially the one that reminds me of the Assyrian culture, with the figurative archetype of the image typically outlined in the profile, Egyptian memory and Minoan Mycenaean.
Your paintings exalt the matter, consumed by time, wearing of memory is that magical “three”, with its calcinate whiteness, message of universal eternity, and common to all cultures.
Other moments of late-romantic poetic take me back to certain heart-rending atmospheres of a Robert Delunnay, with his supreme hedonistic harmonies, saturated with orgic abandonment.
Patrizio, I thank you for the emotions you have given me. But do seek, every day, to live consistently your “Abstract” poetic memory of the ancient, always ahead towards the infinite.
Yours,
William Tode
(Director of the Uffizi Museum in Florence 60s-70s)