A new take on Romeo and Juliet that will surprise you

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is perhaps one of the most famous and romantic stories of all time.

The story, originally Italian and popularized by the Bard, is a cocktail of magnetism, drama, violence, and passion.

There is everything needed to make the story of two young people who may not have existed into something that will live on forever.

The plot has been revisited by a great many authors, so each of us, regardless of age, has a version of it in mind.

For example, a celebrated and famous version is portrayed with Leonardo DiCaprio, in a modern Verona that seems to come out of the local chronicles.

Yet something is not quite right.

If we were parents, there would not be much we could use in this matter to teach our children.
So perhaps the message the story leaves us with is what not to do: what not to do as a family, as a couple, as a relationship.

I don’t think any of us would ever want to have a child like Romeo or Juliet, or find out that the children we care so much about are involved in such a tragic relationship.

Thus, the story shows an extreme situation. The consequences of one’s hatred, of one’s selfishness, can fall on others, on innocents whom we would never want to hurt.

Here is the message that the original story can offer.

Here, then, is how a 500-year-old story is still paradoxically relevant today.

Our conduct, our actions perhaps do not fall directly on us, but they can hinder.

The hatred of the two families results in death and abandonment, in which the two tender lovers are the victims of a struggle in which nothing matters to them.

Brilliant, perfect plot. Which has a really positive moral despite everything. How then is it possible to add anything else to this almost perfect balance?

As an artist, I used the story to get a new point of view that I hope will bring additional food for thought.

What if instead of dying, in order to be together they had to eliminate their egos? What if that final and extreme act is, instead of the end, a metaphor for a journey?

The action of changing, metamorphosis, occurs by abandoning part of the self.

Like an insect that must shed its container in order to rise and grow, so the two lovers are forced to shed their inner egos, which would otherwise condemn them to being prisoners.

Thus, shedding one’s “selfishness,” one’s “darkness,” allows the relationship to survive.

In this artwork described by about 20 paintings, the path of change is then illustrated.

the plot of the two young men from verona is told atrtraverso paintings that become visual chapters
with which the reader follows the new plot.

This collection attracted and received the admiration of thousands of people during Art Basel art week in Miami. Many people had the opportunity to see the collection in person and hear the narration in person.

The collection will be exhibited in verona, italy as the next stop.

An exhibition, then, suitable for art lovers, but also for those who are looking for a path that, through art, induces the hope not only of finding one’s partner, but also of knowing how to preserve that relationship once created.