AURELIO GRISANTY / BIOGRAPHY
The tyrant was killed in 1961 and with him died the persecution of my family. Free, my Grandparents bought an old Victorian house in the center of an enormous garden. I was twelve. For the next two years, which at that age are very long, I lived in that garden. It became the accomplice of all my plots and dreams. It became a refuge, a friend hard to forget. There I learned how green is shaded by red. How, without direct light, yellows become brown. How purple unveils its reds and blues in a transparency. And black does not exist. I learned that small things can make a big context and vice versa. I learned that the character of man is as complex as Nature.

In 1997 Aurelio Grisanty was granted citizenship by the Government of the United States as an Exceptional Individual of International Renown.