Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475- 1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artist of all time. He is very well known as an architect, sculptor and a painter, but very few know him as a poet. Michelangelo’s love for poetry has gone through an obscured historical journey. It was half a century after Michelangelo’s death that a selection of his poems were finally published by his grand nephew Bounarroti. While he made an attempt to remind the world of the prosperity and grandeur about Michelangelo as the poet, he also went a long way towards obscuring the quality of Michelangelo’s poetry. He did not publish more than half of Michelangelo’s poems. The jagged fragments were blithely and tactily completed, the colloquialisms of Michelangelo’s poems were banished, metrical irregularities ironed out and tortuous syntax rendered straight forward. Further, even the pronouns in the poems were changed so that to avoid any suspicion of homoeroticism.

It was in this blandified and bowdlerized versions that the story of Michelangelo’s life and his poems survived for next two hundred years. Aesthetics of the Unfinished is a devised performance of Michelangelo’s life using his poetry in its original sense.

Aesthetics of the Unfinished as a theatrical project is an amalgamation of Art, Poetry, Physical theatre and Music.