«Un time of intimacy.” As Vittorio Sgarbi defines his life today. The art critic, politician and TV personality returns to bookstores with a new book Nativity, Mother and child in art published by La nave di Teseo. A book that comes at the end of a complex year between resignations as Undersecretary of Culture and investigations into various conflicts of interest. He talked about it in a long interview with Corriere della Serain which he also told how his life has changed with the disease.
Vittorio Sgarbi and illness
The art critic spoke about the disease in 2021. «I am diagnosed with cancer. There is an enlargement, there is something they are analyzing” he said in an interview with Corriere della Sera. Pointing out: «I have no metastasis of any kind and, fortunately, it is limited. Doctors are studying the situation. I will have radiotherapy.”
Vittorio Sgarbi talks about the disease and how he has changed
Vittorio Sgarbi at the Rome Film Festival (Ansa)
Sgarbi then underwent prostate surgery. An operation after which – he revealed in Luca Casadei’s podcast – he no longer has the sexual effervescence of the past.
«Now I’m very focused on reading these things which then became the book» explains to Courier. Revealing how the illness also led him to change his family relationships, starting from «intense relationships with my sister with her maternal presence: it seems that I have lost weight and therefore need to eat more, and she and my partner Sabrina come to follow the rhythms of my daily day».
The relationship with the body has changed
What also changed was his relationship with the body. «Before, I didn’t even see my body, in the sense that I didn’t take care of it. Now I have to see if I can sleep well, if I can go to the bathroom” he explains. And he adds: «I have a dialogue with my body that I have never had before». A dialogue which, however, he does not find interesting. On the contrary. «It was better before» he admits without mincing words. «I preferred to be indifferent to him. In any case it keeps me busy in terms of usability and maintenance”.
Old age? Dangerous because you are more fragile
Then, in the interview, Sgarbi explains how he experiences the passage of time. Reveal to consider old age is «dangerous «because one is more fragile in the sense that death is closer to old age» tells. But there is also something positive in his vision: from the “role of authority” to the “respect for the wise” to the “idea of dedicating time to people to whom you have not dedicated it in the past”. This is a reference to the children he says he has seen “more frequently in recent times. And I feel satisfaction in their willingness to do and shape their lives. Seeing the planning grow.”
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