“I’m fine”. This is Vittorio Sgarbi’s answer to Bruno Vespa’s questionwhich in the episode ‘Five Minutes’, broadcast tonight on Rai1, at the end of the interview – on the occasion of the release of his new book ‘The nearest sky. Mountain in art’ – a return to family events in which the art critic is questioned by his daughter Evelina as the protagonist. The girl believes that her father is sick and therefore needs a supporting administrator. The request “I found it beyond measure and beyond logic”.
“For me, Evelina’s request was a request that arose from a desire to get attention that she had never received before. – says Sgarbi – therefore to find a father, whom we hope for and have not found, then the idea that I have internal problems, disorders and difficulties or discomfort is a form of response, a way of him trying to assert himself and show what he asks and wants. So – he concluded – I understand what he did, but I think it is disproportionate and beyond logic”.
And to Vespa’s question about his current situation (the art critic was hospitalized at the Gemelli Polyclinic due to severe depression in the first months of 2025, ed.), Sgarbi answered: “I’m fine. A long journey to see internal and external things and I came out with this book that tells the experience of reality, the experience of what you see, the experience of what you have inside, what you feel, what you need.”
In the book – he continued – “there is a history of art and nature, there is a relationship with the great masters, there is a relationship with physical reality, there is a relationship with the inner grandeur and the outer heights indicated by the mountains leading to the sky”.
