NEWS | 28/12/2021 | 07:50
by Marco Pastonesi
Feet on the runway, hands on the balustrade, eyes to the photographer, hair blowing in the wind. Not with the streamlined bodysuit, but in a formal, elegant, ceremony dress. Not in national blue, but in dark blue. Bright, promising, charming, seductive. Who does not know her, would think of an actress, a model, a Miss Universe. Instead she is a cycling champion. But yes, come on: Letizia Paternoster.
Until 6 January Letizia rules under the arcades of via XX Settembre in Genoa (free and open viewing), star of the photographic exhibition “Energie” by Stefano Guindani, 10 “totems” and 20 works dedicated to Italian sport, which in the very year of the cloister opened us up to the world, and which in the very year (the years now) of the pandemic sanitized us with feats and victories and sanctioned us with flights not only fancy and technical gestures sublimated into memorable feats.
From tennis (Lorenzo Sonego) to skiing (Elena Curtoni), from a boxing gym (the Excelsior Boxe di Marcianise) to a gymnastics gym (Udinese Sports Association) and another judo gym (the Star Judo Club of Naples, that of Maddaloni family in Scampia), from the hands (those of the volleyball player Paola Egonu) to the knees (those of a Zebre rugby player), even the shadows (those of the basketball players of Fortitudo Agrigento). And for cycling there is also the quick, instantaneous, stealthy image of four pistards – impossible to stop, so much so that the image is moved – engaged on the track.
Guindani wanted to “realize a work on the world of sport without talking about results but recounting its values“. In the case of Letizia Paternoster, passion without hurting the profession, strength without diminishing femininity. In short: beauty.
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