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 A poRTRAIT of LIsA, sARAs sIsTER. yoU CAN sEE sARA IN ThE REfLECTIoN  A poRTRAIT of fELICIA RAgNARsDoTTER, 2008 ACRYLIC ON CANvAS

IN ThE sUNgLAssEs, 2007 ACRYLIC ON CANvAS 9.5X12.5 IN. | 24X33 CM. 9.5X12.5 IN. | 24X33 CM.
 sARA’s sTUDIo, 2013 PHOTOgRAPHY | PHOTOgRAPHER: DAvID TOLF
Contemporary art is truly art when viewed and recognized in all its passed Therefore, it is possible to configure the faculty of interpretative freedom
meanings. The signs and images that characterize our society and culture is with the creative participation of the viewer, who is capable of establishing
subdued by a constant, progressive impoverishment of the messages’ inner a sort of creative dialogue of the artwork he is viewing: sometimes this
meanings, which the artists wish to profuse in their works. Today, messages dialogue is determined by the viewer himself, at other tunes it is determined
only exist as mnemonic stipulations, weakly reactive: they are mere graphic by the inner intensity of the artwork itself. Consequently, it appears that
or decorative signs. Nevertheless, if the artists’ desire is to reach an almost only simplicity is the value to be pursued; but how can this simplicity be
absolute ethical beauty, they will have to conceive a highly ‘opener” art, and possible, if nowadays art is surrounded by scenery of an extremely complex
also maintain a boundless faith in the public’s fruition. In fact, even if the and differentiated reality, where eclecticism of the contemporary thought is
artwork is autonomous and definite, it will still give rise to the inevitable, dominant? Art cannot avoid observing and referring to its own time, because
personal interpretation that renders it existent to one of its possible aspects. to evoke other possible or imaginary worlds is a form of mystification. (MOT)

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