"... The
rose remains in the sky of light, in the sky of dream. Red,
incandescent globe, the very measure of matter and our mirror, beginning and end that has no end.
Reality, illusion, deceit.
I knew it would bloom, I was waiting for it, and I was no less sure
that it would bring with it the flower of its secret garden … that it would provoke the
blooming of deeply loved poems …
… 'The main problems of life' remain, is Breton's point of
view, and so it becomes indispensable to establish (and get verified) the way of being a surrealist
painter by the artist in question, to check whether or not, despite the change in the reasons which
marked the essential principles of Surrealism's provocation and accusation -- through the free use
of the freest freedom, in view of high goals, both ethical and political -- one must or can
acknowledge that … Cusimano, legitimately belongs to Surrealism here and now.
… So let me advance the hypothesis that [Cusimano], convinced
that the path of the Surrealists could still be followed, achieved [his] own artistic plateau by
softening the tones, diminishing the aggressivity, without descending, however, to futile
entertainment …"
Glauco Pellegrini
