Friday 7 May 2010

I'll just leave you with this..


















This is Ettore Guatelli. He spent most of his 79 years gathering tools from Italy's agricultural past and filling up his, former, granary in Parma with them. Pinned onto walls, stuffed into gaps, squished onto shelf after shelf and carefully placed anywhere that would take them, his collection is pretty incredible, if not perfect in his eyes. I read that his younger cousin, Gianni said that 'that wall of spanners and wrenches really tormented him', 'he always complained that he had never quite found its true form'

With his simple sentiment 'to accumulate things..then sort them out' and a shared belief of bits and things one day, maybe, coming in handy he must be my favourite self-made anti-museum owner there is.
It's just a pity I read about him 10 years after he died.













































































































































































































































































'We're so used to going to museums to see beautiful or "important" things that it's difficult to conceive of a museum of un-beautiful things.'

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