Vito Summonte also worked with the company of the wife of the former Minister De Lorenzo, who later fell into disgrace… "I was already a converted brother evangelist and I also got doctors to talk to me about God"
Found by chance, in the headquarters of an association while he was putting old stuff collected from solidarity gestures into envelopes. All sweaty and with a white beard that colors his round face. I ask him where he is from and he answers me about Salerno and then he talks to me about Jesus.
Written by Robert DeGiorgi – agora magazine – SATURDAY, 30 JULY 2016
The village of Taranto is also a crossroads for these strange and positive characters. I ask him but why is he in Taranto?
"I am here as a volunteer to help Pastor Angelo for his Betesda association in Taranto which deals with the recovery of drug addicts, and I come from a long period spent in Greece in Athens, always in this organization of our evangelical church".
But how was this religious commitment born?
” For 25 years I have been converted to this commitment, but I was still in another world. I'm a graduate and I also worked with the company of the ex Minister Di Lorenzo's wife, who later fell into disgrace… and then separated from his atheist wife, jobless, homeless and penniless, so I chose to work for others.
With Vito Surmonte, that's the name of our friend, we went to Nova Siri last night in the white night of culture to bring his poems, because he had told me about his passion and the one hour journey by car allowed me to deepen .
I read on the internet that you graduated from the Academy of Art?
“I graduated and then graduated from the Academy, I was the youngest professor in Italy at 18, then at 21 I didn't pass the competition for professorships but I still had the qualification. I have been painting for forty years and my paintings are scattered all over the world”
How did this passion end?
“For the past sixteen years I have been a wanderer, for two years I was in Belgium in Brussels following a woman I had fallen in love with and opened an art gallery, I made a living by painting shop windows”
What kind of painting do you follow?
” I paint directly with a brush without going through drafts; I like painting on wood which represents many difficulties because the wood absorbs the color and attenuates it and you have to intervene continuously
Were you also a scientific informant?
“Yes, but for 25 years I had already converted as an evangelist brother and I also involved doctors to talk to me about God. Then I had two signs, twice I lost my car saving my life and when the company of the wife of the 'former Minister Di Lorenze entered the judicial storm, I lost everything but I decided to dedicate the rest of my life to others'.
Yesterday evening in his brief performance as a poet on the night of Culture in Nova Siri, he said that the poet transcribes what is already written in the sky, in the clouds and on the waves of the sea.
Our interview story ends here. Past two o'clock last night we left it near Bethesda as the blinking planetarium above us appeared nearer
PS Vito's drawing done with a biro pen.
