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preface

THE CONTINUITY OF BECOMING need bridges. And Art is one of these: it
allows us to get to the other side, it leads
in an era such as our own, where us back to a situation which is in any
we are constantly faced with infinite case consubstantial with man. A situation
transitions, we are often tempted to in which thought begins once again to
wonder if it isn’t possible to codify the logically restructure a new grammar and
different phenomenologies of contemporary language. new in the sense of re-found.
art in a sort of cinematic ritual that would
make it comprehensible in its totality, in its All contemporary art, in fact, is nothing
unitary globality. other than a reflection of the idea or
if we start with the concept that all art philosophy of a transversal, complex
(and not only art) is matter, then it is only and at times even incomprehensible (if
natural to reflect on whether it is right to superficially interrogated) cultural era.
bring matter back to a level that transmits this is why it seems ever more willing to
pure energy. All this derives from the fact provide innovative spatial dimensions,
that, alongside the external world, there is new temporal dynamics. it attempts
also an interior world. As there are always to represent the interior world of man.
two sides to every coin, we would therefore it simulates the feelings, sensations,
have find the right, but certain, balance. emotions that he would be experiencing
And man, dealing with art, has, as it were, if he were faced with his own thoughts
the possibility to re-design his own role, and wanted to completely traverse these
along with his limits and boundaries. thoughts.
the meaning of all this lies in the fact that
art, metaphorically, reveals itself as a travel A work of art is thus the end result of a
companion able to accompany us towards specific process – possessing a specific
new dimensions of life. it asks us questions form and aesthetic, it serves no purpose
about which and how many resources we except that of channelling a very specific
are harbouring, about what we are able to form of energy. it is always a sort of
mobilise in order to reach new horizons. communicative performance. it allows man
if we want to undertake this journey, we to plumb his own conscience and to void