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Alessandra menzani
Aldo savoldello, In art Magician Silvan, Venetian, the quintessential Italian magician, sums up all his impressive knowledge in one book, The new magical art, more than 400 pages for La Nave di Teseo, in which he tells the history and secrets of illusionism from Pythagoras to San Giovanni Bosco, from the Tatar sorcerer to Moses, from the Celtic Druid to the Belle Epoque. “It took me nine years to write it,” says the artist who now sips appearances on television. The illustrations, archaeological finds and photographs included in the volume are multitude and they kidnap you; the preface is by Vittorio Sgarbi.
Silvan, you trace the magic back to ancient Egypt. So what spells were made?
«Terà di tettuusenerefu tectuus: is the name mutilated by the various linguistic translations of a famous magician who acted in 2500 BC before the pharaoh Khufu. He cut off the heads of two geese, one white and the other black, making the black goose with the white head squawk alive.
What was the most important historical time for magic?
“Magic understood as sleight of hand at the end of the 19th century – the end of the 20th”.
Here, can you explain the difference between magician, magician and illusionist?
«To pass from our language to the Latin praesto esse means” to be ready “: therefore, it is the art” to be ready with the fingers “. It would be logical to think of praestigiator, as Plautus testifies, and his Italian derivative prestidigitatore. Today it is commonly used by magician, magician or illusionist. Which are synonyms. The French say escamoteur or prestidigitateur. Anglo-Saxons use sleight of hand drawn from the French, which means light with the hands, or in fairy tales magician, equivalent to sorcerer, but the most popular term in the United States is magician. The illusionist deceives his audience with great honesty, aware that the magician uses a trick to astonish and deceive him pleasantly.
When did you realize you were going to be a magician?
“I was seven years old, in Bassano del Grappa, where I spent the summer holidays with my family. We went to a typical restaurant in the town. A magician in a southern tailcoat climbed onto the platform (a sort of tailcoat, ed.) In Eduardo’s Sik Sik, so to speak. He invited me up. He placed me, counting them aloud, some coins in the palm of my hand and despite clenching the fist that contained them, when counting them they had magically increased. The audience cheered me on. A shudder enveloped me, a spark exploded, the magic bacillus. When I grew up I would have been a magician, I said.
From what psychological need does the desire to believe in magic arise? You think that man “would rather believe than know”, but how do you explain it?
From the earliest years of our childhood we absorb everything we hear in our subconscious: magical characters from fairy tales, not Aesop fables, but real fairy tales told in dialect by our grandparents or mothers. These fairy tales settle in our subconscious to resurface with stimuli at the right time.
If you weren’t a magician, what job would you do?
«I consider myself only half, therefore, an illusionist. To improve I follow the Socratic saying: “Who knows more” ».
What do you do in your free time when you don’t make objects and people disappear?
«The priority is the children, the grandchildren, the family. I love the theater, the cinema, the concerts, the pleasure of rereading. Friends, travel, Venice. At night I dedicate two hours to manipulation ».
He did impressive numbers, body levitation comes to mind. Would you be able to make Covid disappear if you wanted to?
“Even the magicians mentioned in the Bible would not have this ability.”
But are you afraid of this disease?
“Like everything. My father, in 1918, was orphaned by his parents, both taken by the” Spaniards. “The deniers? I have always respected all opinions. Those who were not afraid were carried away like Johnson and Trump, to name only some: we know how it ended.
They found the Covid vaccine: is science magic?
‘Of course, scholars are magicians: they exist and are among us. Scientists have advanced humanity. Remember: man is born first, then magic, then religion and then medicine.
You are a member of the Italian Committee for the Control of Claims on the Paranormal. Fight scammers and charlatans. What battle are you most proud of?
“” Battle “is a misnomer, we just have to check if what they tell us is true, and then Cicap investigates scientifically. Actually, we would all like what is said to be true: it would open a new light for human progress, but sadly it is not. When I was a kid, I always looked for real magic to master. In my wandering around the world I have come across a multitude of paragnostics from all cultures. Unfortunately he has always disappointed me.
Is it true that no one knows his tricks, not even his wife?
“Not everyone. My son Stefano, director of my shows, knows more about them.”
Mandrake, Houdini, Copperfield: who is their myth?
“Mandrake was, precisely because he believed everything he did.”
Have you ever done magic numbers with political leaders? I read about Reagan (he guessed how much money he had in his pocket, to Ronald’s amazement). And so?
“Mentioning them would take away from their personality the charm, the charisma, the intelligence with which they conquered the world podium. Telling them the pages of this beautiful diary would not be enough.
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