Vittorio Sgarbi, the sublime critic and those basenesses. Why does he do this? – Corriere.it

Absolute character, much loved and much discussed, stubborn to always remain the balance on the tightrope of the political and intellectual provocation, held in a precarious balance by overwhelming passions and often magnetic dialectical arrogance, last June 21 Vittorio Sgarbi slipped and came down in a thud of vulgarity, sexist jokes and insults babbled suddenly on a cell phone with a stranger and in front of an open microphone, blow of sensational, brutal situationism. happened in Rome, on the stage where the awaited summer season of the Maxxithe National Arts Museum of the 21st Century.

Next to the new president Alessandro Giuli, a couple with deadly potential, the promise of a fireworks show that not even in Bari, for the feast of San Nicola: the singer Morgan and – precisely – Sgarbi, sublime art critic and undersecretary of culture, mayor of Arpino , pro-mayor of Urbino and councilor for Beauty of the municipality of Viterbo. Because this would then be his true, amazing primordial talent: bringing you inside the beauty of a work, of a fresco, revealing its profound mysteries, explaining to you – as he did one morning in Montecitorio, in the Transatlantic, an impromptu lesson in front of dozens of reporters and fascinated deputies – what it is possible to see in Caravaggio’s Vocation of San Matteo and make yourself find yourself sitting at the table of a seventeenth-century tavern, among troubled men and others with bowed heads, with that blade of light that enters and makes everyone uncertain, before the grandiose possibility of adhere to the Mystery of Revelation.

Now, however, the reasons why Sgarbi – barely solicited by – remain mysterious morgan — decides to go beyond Sgarbi, beyond his own original sin, performing an unacceptable sequence of swear words and sheepish allusions, regardless of the place, of his institutional role, of his magnificent biography, soiled by a mixture of baseness that is also useless to put here now to summarize, there is a video that has gone viral and you can find it on the web, or on the website of the Courier.

Seen and revised, renouncing all hypocrisy and indulgence, the question that remains: Vittorione, but why?

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