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Sirmione<\/strong>, over the years, has enchanted and captured the hearts of countless generations of people with its magical atmospheres and its timeless beauty.<\/span><\/span> A place that inspires romance and passion, values that have been captured and interpreted by the artist Lillo Marciano<\/strong> in a work that has become famous: Kiss… Please<\/strong>, an exhortation to kiss and love that finds its expression nowhere else<\/span><\/span> more natural location.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Kiss… Please<\/strong> is an artwork created in 2009 by Marciano<\/strong> in collaboration with Marco Cordini<\/strong>, on the occasion of the Public Art Sirmione ’09 exhibition.<\/span><\/span> The work is installed in the historic center of Sirmione, in a panoramic point on the lake which directly overlooks the Spiaggia delle Muse<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Defined by its author as a “Monument to the Kiss<\/strong>“, the work is a tribute to Gaius Valerius Catullus<\/strong>, a Roman poet (87 – 54 BC) belonging to the Veronese Valeri family and who was the owner of a house in Sirmione. Let us live, oh my Lesbia, let us live and love<\/span><\/span> <\/em> (English translation from the Italian version by Carlo Saggio, Milan 1949 – 1955)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n A praise to love and kisses and a symbolic invitation that has crossed time<\/strong> until reaching contemporary Sirmione in the poetic language of Lillo Marciano.<\/span><\/span> The artist has reinterpreted the theme through the use of an artist’s sign that welcomes and encourages lovers who arrive in the historic center of Sirmione and who willingly let themselves be convinced, demonstrating their love with a kiss against the backdrop of a magnificent view<\/span><\/span> on the lake.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The charm of Kiss… Please<\/strong> is not limited to the setting.<\/span><\/span> The installation is a work of art that exploits the pervasiveness of urban communication codes and fits into the typical language of street art<\/strong>, an artistic form that Marciano has explored for many years within the artistic formats of Progetto Utopia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Road signs are known all over the world, they are part of contemporary culture and their artistic reinterpretation is an effective way to communicate with people using urban language.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Over the years the work has been copied and reinterpreted in numerous other Kiss Places<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n A Fanpage article on Kiss… Please by Lillo Marciano (in Italian only)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/span>This illustrious “sirmionese” known for the intensity of the amorous passions expressed in his verses was the author of Viviamo, o mia Lesbia, we live and love, one of the most beautiful love poems of all time, in which the passionate kisses<\/strong> of<\/span><\/span> two lovers are the protagonists of the poignant poetic narrative.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nand the grumblings of the too grim old men<\/span><\/span> <\/em>
\nlet’s all count them a penny.<\/span><\/span> <\/em>
\nIf the sun sets it can return;<\/span><\/span> <\/em>
\nbut we, as the brief light fell,<\/span><\/span> <\/em>
\nwe have to sleep a perpetual night.<\/span><\/span> <\/em>
\nOh give me a thousand kisses and a hundred more,<\/span><\/span> <\/em>
\nand another thousand and then a hundred again,<\/span><\/span> <\/em>
\nthen a thousand more and a hundred more;<\/span><\/span> <\/em>
\nand when we have made many thousand,<\/span><\/span> <\/em>
\nwe will mix them, so as not to know them,<\/span><\/span> <\/em>
\nand let no wicked person envy it,<\/span><\/span> <\/em>
\nwhen he knows that there are many kisses.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\nInsights<\/h2>\n
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