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to void it. In fact, it is only within empty spaces important in his life. Regardless of the variety
that energy is able to unleash its own creative and multiplicity of his products (whether they
force. Consequently, by asking how to develop are beautiful, ugly, weak, strong, sensual, cold),
this energy in the face of the complexity of the he none the less follows an extremely pro-
world, questioning the need for free mental gressive path: energy always needs direction,
space, man is experiencing a journey where otherwise it is lost. If the artist didn’t have any
reality and the virtual go hand in hand: two energy, he would not be able to define any form
dimensions which are no longer disjoined, in for himself, that is no behavioural form, and
that the virtual is nothing other than an “as-if” he would thus lose his own energy. All of this,
reality. however, provided he doesn’t undertake this as
an act of will; if he did, then he would inevitably
Now, the contents aspect of any work of art lie sacrifice his own happiness.
in the presupposition that the artist is in fact
able to explain the most concealed of man’s Considering what we have just said, this
movements and desires. Once this clarity has volume would therefore like to present and pro-
been acquired, the artist can purposefully use mote the understanding of just how important
the talent he has been given. His raw mate- it is to go from an artist’s notoriety to the
rial will always be the conscious awareness importance of his work, in an attempt to bring
of his own energy, his mental resources. His together different experiences within a possible
aim will therefore be to develop forms where product level, trying to create a tangible, and
his energy can be liberated and from which, at an equally subtle and ineffable, link between
the same time, he will receive new energy. In these.
fact, the artist is nothing other than someone
who gives form to something. He shapes new If art is put forward as the locus of communica-
images for values and then speaks of form once tion, then it is also the locus of self-reflection,
again. His is a continuous process as he is con- in that everything is inevitably related to eve-
stantly interrogating himself on what is really rything and everyone.
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