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existent to one of its possible aspects. Therefore, it mutable and discordant. Today human behaviors
is possible to configure the faculty of interpretative are induced, as needs are artificial. This is the
freedom with the creative participation of the viewer, historical condition of today’s mankind. This is the
who is capable of establishing a sort of creative new mechanism of its cultural production. If we ask
dialogue of the artwork he is viewing: sometimes for conditions (and concepts!) of such lost freedoms,
this dialogue is determined by the viewer himself, at we stray from the point (and at that same point we
other tunes it is determined by the inner intensity of will arrive) of not accepting reality, that reality that
the artwork itself. Consequently, it appears that only man compromises with, and corrupts day by day.
“simplicity” (intended as a lack of affectation) is the Inside this reality, human potentialities are strongly
value to be pursued; but how can this simplicity be reduced, while values are only dictated by the
possible, if nowadays art is surrounded by scenery individualistic, particular deformities of taste, and
of an extremely complex and differentiated reality, the unrefined uniformity of fashions. It is a reality
where eclecticism of the contemporary thought is that our comprehension has difficulties of holding:
dominant? Art cannot avoid observing and referring a reality often indecipherable, most of all because
to its own time, because to evoke other possible man obtusely continues to be an accomplice, a
or imaginary worlds is a form of mystification. slave, a victim of his own greed: he doesn’t research
Therefore, at this point, the six memoranda for the what he should be searching for. If it is true that
third millennium on which Calvino wrote about in his mankind moves towards a culture of “becoming”
“American Lessons” just few years ago - Luminosity, and not of “being”, we have to understand that
Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity, “becoming” doesn’t coincide with “having”. In the
Consistency, must be duly kept in mind. If we want to culture of “having” we would look like just temporal
improve and develop our culture, perhaps we should dwarves, deprived from each sense of “existing”;
pursue this way. However, it is also logical that if, instead, we were to choose the culture of
artists mustn’t deliberately look back on history: they “being”, we would still have some hope in simply
should be conscious that the most important thing to confirming ourselves as Men and Women. To be
do is to go over once again history’s space-temporal objective, honest, sincere, it doesn’t cost so much...
contest. Conflicts, contradictions, dystonias, in one However, a part from this personal consideration, I
word the continuos failures of contemporary art, believe that art, nowadays, must look for continuity,
follow the fact that today art seems to have the progressive shifting, gradual transformation, and
chance of realizing “possible utopias”, while, to the active integration, adopting languages capable
contrary, all it does is put mankind in front of its of sintomatica]ly and semantically re-conducing
ordinary condition, continuously covering it with mankind toward the present experience of “today”.
the fictitious veil of fiction. Enticed in this factious If the artificious and artificial needs of contemporary
process, art not only mystifies reality, but also itself man will cause artists to be more open and reflect
as it belongs to reality. Inevitably, both authors and on how serious the problem of the “artificiuos” is,
public become participants, protagonists who have only then can art be considered once again as an
lost all trace of innocent behavior because they “anticipation” of what will be tomorrow, giving us
are entrapped inside cultural habitats continuously new notable and logical answers to our questions.