Sgarbi, 70 years old Sunday: “I would like to be the Minister of Beauty”

“The project is to build a political movement that has the values ​​of culture, justice, civilization, respect for people, beauty as its first point of reference. Here: I would like to be the Minister of Beauty!”. This is the personal perspective for the near future that Vittorio Sgarbi, interviewed by AdnKronos, indicates on the occasion of his 70th birthday on Sunday 8 May. “It is necessary to establish the Ministry of Beauty in Italy, which could also incorporate the current Ministry of Culture or live by its own light – suggests Sgarbi, who presented a bill in this direction last month – with beauty you live and be eats and many places that have focused on their beauty could testify, from Ravello to Capri, from Ostuni to Taormina to Rimini, among the happiest places in the world. That garden of the world that is Italy must be defended and on this political project I would like win the next elections and become a minister “. But is this passion for beauty and art innate in Sgarbi or did it just happen? “It arrived when I was 18, thanks to a formidable character like Francesco Arcangeli, whom I met at the university where I was enrolled, who explained to me how art and life coincide”, he reveals. And in Sgarbi did they coincide? “I would say yes”. Otherwise, without that meeting or that opportunity, what Sgarbi would we have had? A Sgarbi actor, a Sgarbi lawyer … “Maybe a Sgarbi writer”, he replies. Lively confrontation with Mughini at the ‘Costanzo Show’ – ‘Riccardo Muti at the Quirinale’ Uno Sgarbi also back from a ‘lively confrontation’ with Giampiero Mughini on stage of the ‘Maurizio Costanzo Show’. “I said that we cannot prevent Russian artists or Russian sportsmen from performing in Italy, he said instead that it should be prevented, I reacted and he tried to beat me – it is Vittorio Sgarbi’s reconstruction of the dynamic – It all started from that position of mine. I reiterate that art must have no boundaries, neither geographic nor political “. Speaking of politics, Vittorio Sgarbi’s opinion on the Government is rather negative:” I think Draghi has really lost his bearings – he says – I’m sorry to say, but in the space of a year he got burned. He’s a person of style but he should have had more courage rather than just jokes. that instead power has worn him out … “But on which personalities Italy can and must focus, according to Vittorio Sgarbi? “In the meantime, bringing Riccardo Muti to the Quirinale – he replies promptly – And then, I could mention Moni Ovadia, Michele Placido, Sergio Castellitto, Morgan … and Marco Balotelli for sport”, is the latest ‘counterattack’ signed by Sgarbi. Enzo Bonaiuto)