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Today, in artistic and poetic activities in general, a sense or a meaning, without having previously
I think it is absolutely necessary to retrace past understood its content, or, worse still, without having
paths again; from a strictly objective and not a previously singled it out. Within this progressive
deliberate subjective point of view. Only in this way exhalation of the artifice, concepts are deprived
is it possible to express the complexity of our time. from their substantial dynamically, consequently
The importance of recovering the concepts of “place” and inevitably producing, an affected effect, rather
and “continuity”, the necessity of historiographical than the necessary debates and participation.
revision - avoiding any cult of trend and tendency What should evolve will subsequently devolve. Art
- will produce a vital, synergetic development and is changing its own identity: it is becoming a way
a straightening in whatever the artistic expression. of a conceptual communication that just produces
Ideologists subdued by the concept of “progress” effect however, requesting and soliciting an effort
(material, intellectual, etc.) have partly increased a of acknowledgment that is the exact contrary to the
sense of “uncomfortablness” in the human condition. deceitful appearance of its supposed “truths”. This,
The results of this progress have contributed to the at the same time, creates difficulties for the artists as
destabilization of man. He is no longer able to find well as for the creative management, and definitely
his own center (both socially or individually) within creates difficulties for the fruition of shown art
reality. He is constantly conditioned to achieve works in galleries, museums or alternative spaces.
accumulation, to acquire wealth, to pursue arid The public should be totally free to choose “how”
careers etc. not only for economic safeness but to view, in accordance to its real effective needs
mostly, to affirm his own identity consequently and desires. Contemporary art is truly art when
he has lost a certain sense of profound aesthetic viewed and recognized in all its passed meanings.
pleasure. He wrongly tries to find his own legitimacy It ought to have qualities such as continuity and
exteriorly, but doesn’t find it due to a consumistic openness, though now unfortunately, it only seems
system solidly founded on deprivation: a necessary to survive because it has been dequalified to an
assumption needed for its surviving and affirmation. inferior range, as if it were simply one of the many
Perhaps, too pretextly, contemporary art abusing ordinary commodities. The congestion of signs and
metaphors even if ripe with undoubtful evocative images that characterize our society and culture is
values), has focused its effort on finding the most subdued by a constant, progressive impoverishment
suitable symbol. But symbols, apart from a few of the messages’ inner meanings, which the artists
involuntary, sporadic cases, can’t be configured as wish to profuse in their works. Today, messages only
autonomous objects. Today, in contemporary art, exist as mnemonic stipulations, weakly reactive: they
the tragic sedimentation of signs, words, objects, are mere graphic or decorative signs. Nevertheless,
its addition to something that is totally contrary if the artists’ desire is to reach an almost absolute
to what it really is and being less, is due to the ethical beauty, they will have to conceive a highly
fact that art seems to become a perfect surrogate ‘opener” art, and also maintain a boundless faith in
of fiction, an analogical simulation of imitation. the public’s fruition. In fact, even if the artwork is
Rather than conceiving forms and images, we autonomous and definite, it will still give rise to the
presumptuously give form to ideas, we communicate inevitable, personal interpretation that renders it