Maarja Kangro

KUNSTI LÜHILUGU

Idioma: estonio

Traducciones: inglés (A BRIEF HISTORY OF ART), italiano (LA BREVE STORIA DELL’ARTE), esloveno (KRATKA ZGODOVINA UMETNOSTI)

KUNSTI LÜHILUGU

Peggy Guggenheimi muuseumi
palavas aias Veneetsias
seisab Anish Kapoori skulptuur,
tumehall graniidist tahukas.

Halli graniidi sisse on raiutud
kaks nõgusat sõõri,
mis on lihvitud
siledaks ja süsimustaks.

Tumepruun mees heledas särgis,
võimalik, et Kapoori kaasmaalane,
küsib, kas see on peegel.
"Maagia. Meister, ma ütlen."

Mees vaatab end nõgusast sõõrist:
kaugelt paistab nägu laiem,
totakas, ja lähedalt pisem.
Ta hakkab naerma ja torgib veel.

"Näe! Näe." Ta vangutab pead,
naerab ja koogutab
suurte sõõride ees.
Lõpuks tõsineb ja pöördub.

"See ajab südame pahaks.
Pea hakkab ringi käima.
See ajab oksele, boahhh!"
Ja siis ta läheb.

Traducciones:

Idioma: inglés

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ART

In the hot garden of the Peggy
Guggenheim Museum in Venice
stands a sculpture by Anish Kapoor,
a dark grey granite block.

The grey granite
contains two concave circles,
so smooth and shiny
that they look black.

A tanned man in a light shirt,
perhaps a compatriot of Kapoor,
asks whether this is a mirror.
“Magic. A master’s hand, I say!”

The man watches himself in the circle:
from a distance, the face appears large,
silly, and close up it’s small.
The man laughs and pokes the work again.

„Look! Just look.“ He shakes his head,
laughs and stoops over
the big black circles.
Then he’s serious again.

„It makes me sick.
Makes me dizzy.
It makes me throw up, booaah!“
And then he leaves.

Idioma: italiano

LA BREVE STORIA DELL’ARTE

Nel caldo giardino
del museo di Peggy Guggenheim
aspetta la scultura di Anish Kapoor,
un blocco di granito grigio scuro.

Nel granito ci sono
due cerchi concavi,
limati, lisci
e neri come carbone.

Un uomo abbronzato in camicia chiara,
forse un compatriota di Kapoor,
chiede se è uno specchio.
“Una magia. Un maestro, vi dico!”

L’uomo si guarda dal cerchio concavo:
da lontano la faccia appare più larga,
scema, e da vicino piccolina.
Ride, e ficca un dito nel cerchio ancora.

“Guarda! Guarda.” Scuote la testa,
ride e si inchina
davanti ai cerchi grossi.
Alla fine diventa serio e si gira.

“Mi fa venire la nausea.
Mi fa girare la testa.
Mi viene da vomitare, bbhooahh!”
E se ne va.

Idioma: esloveno

KRATKA ZGODOVINA UMETNOSTI

Na vročem vrtu muzeja Peggy
Guggenheim v Benetkah
stoji skulptura Anisha Kapoorja,
temno siva granitna kocka.

V sivi granit
sta izklesana vbočena kroga,
gladka in sijoča,
skoraj čisto črna.

Temnopolt moški v poletni majici,
morda Kapoorjev rojak,
me sprašuje, ali je to ogledalo.
»Čarobna je. Mojstrovina, vam rečem.«

Moški se opazuje v krogih:
od daleč se obraz prikaže večji,
bedast, od blizu pa je majhen.
Moški se smeji in kar naprej dotika skulpture.

»Poglej!« »Samo poglej to!« Zmajuje z glavo,
se smeji, sklanja se
k velikim črnim krogom.
Potem se spet zresni.

»Od tega mi je slabo.
Vrti se mi v glavi.
Na bruhanje mi gre, beeeeek!«
In potem gre.

Maarja Kangro

* 20.12.1973, Tallinn, Estonia
Vive en: Tallinn, Estonia

Maarja Kangro was born in Tallinn, on December 20, 1973, where she currently lives. She has published five collections of poetry, a children's book and three collection of short stories. In 2011, a collection of her poems, La farfalla dell’irreversibilità (The Butterfly of No Return) was published in Italian. Apart from Italian, her poems and short stories have been translated into English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Russian, Slovene, Swedish, and Udmurt.

Among other prizes, she has won the Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Literary Award for poetry (for Heureka, in 2009) and prose (for Ahvid ja solidaarsus, in 2011), being so far the youngest author who has won this award in both categories.

Maarja Kangro writes literary criticism and essays and has written five opera librettos, texts for cantatas and other works of music. She has translated fiction, philosophy (Giorgio Agamben, Umberto Eco, Gianni Vattimo) and poetry by more than 100 poets (e.g. Jacopone da Todi, Giacomo Leopardi, Andrea Zanzotto, Valerio Magrelli, Philip Larkin, Bertolt Brecht, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Ernst Jandl). In 2003 she won the first prize in the Società Dante Alighieri competition for translations of Italian poetry. She is currently a PhD student in cultural theory at Tallinn University and works as a freelancer.

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