We were struck by an interview with Meneghetti on Ontoart, published in "Nuova Ontopsicologia", February 1998. The interview was granted to an Ontopsychologist from Bologna to discuss the inauguration of the gallery of Ontoart in Recanto Maestro (Brazil) on November 8th, 1997.
A true jewel!
Since
nobody knows exactly where Recanto Maestro is located, Mr Meneghetti
answered
as follows:
I have the
calm pride of knowing that masterpieces are exhibited
in this
gallery...
The exibitions
I have made around the world in so many places have
always
made me happy, and today I know that great art is made
where you
want to make it... great art is something you do at home.
By the
way, the true paintings, the most important ones, are no l
onger in
museums.
Anywhere
in the world, there is a little room which for me is the gallery of galleries.
In
other words, Mr Meneghetti, as a master artist, prefers not to have his
works mixed up with those of the mediocre people to be found in museums
(Raffaello, Cimabue, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Titian, to mention a few); so
he has decided to find a room in Recanto Maestro to exhibit his
great works.
Of
course, as often happens in Meneghetti's shows, the Ontopsychology followers
have to go to the show, sometimes paying to enter, and purchase the works.
Tonino is asked what kind of works are on exhibit:
The technique
used in my paintings is the most advanced known today in
terms of
craft and art...
There are
paintings which open up human horizons, natural horizons,
terrestrial
horizons, extraterrestrial horizons, material horizons,
spiritual
horizons. When I make a painting, I have a clear and definite
idea. When
I open up, a great many things I did not know come out. What I
open up,
in other words, is greater than what I formalized. I sometimes
have to
fight to not let some presences get into certain paintings.
I was missing
a painting, my favourite one which I did not have with me
here. So
I had to make it: it is the famous [sic]
dot and line painting,
where you
have to grasp the punctualization of being in relation to
existence.
It is a harmonious zenic proportion. Generally, I only use
black:
I like it very much because it is the most complete colour, which
possesses
the light of all the others [editor's note:
wasn't it white which
included
the full spectrum?].
It is hard
to dominate the proportion between space and light and there is
only one
point where the painting is perfect, there are never two. As far
as I know,
only a few Zen masters have succeeded. But I have not learned
from them.
As
you can see from the picture, Meneghetti does use the most advanced
pictorial
technique known so far... he paints with his feet!
But
the best is yet to come. Meneghetti tells the world he has also created
a
perfume: yes, you got it, a perfume!
I have made
a perfume for a definite reason. Like everybody, I have
emotional
variations, however at certain times my emotions give out
perfumes,
and I don't want other people to receive those perfumes, since
they are
transparencies of my soul. So I have made a perfume which can
cover everything
well. Semantic perfume [sic] is a quite frequent fact in
some human
beings, and should not come as a surprise.
For
example, if you have a pretty female parrot and she likes you, this
parrot
will start making circles and trembling with her feather, and after
a short
time, will start giving out a special, tender perfume.
The same
holds true for both men and women, when they are in excellent
erotic
shape...
I recently
made a new perfume. It contains whisky, tobacco, cigar, many
other
essences and an herb which is very good for the liver.
Dear readers, if you want to mask your excellent erotic shape and avoid raising overwhelming passions in a parrot, make sure you have one of Meneghetti's scent bottles with you (after paying a large amount!). Of course everybody will avoid you as you smell of cigar, whisky and tobacco (plus a plant against cirrhosis of the liver) - what counts is that the others will not be able to read your transparent soul!