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order to reach new horizons. If we want to undertake this journey, we
need bridges. And Art is one of these: it allows us to get to the other
side, it leads us back to a situation which is in any case consubstantial
with man. A situation in which thought begins once again to logically

restructure a new grammar and language. New in the sense of re-found.

All contemporary art, in fact, is nothing other than a reflection of
the idea or philosophy of a transversal, complex and at times even

incomprehensible (if superficially interrogated) cultural era. This is why
it seems ever more willing to provide innovative spatial dimensions,
new temporal dynamics. It attempts to represent the interior world
of man. It simulates the feelings, sensations, emotions that he would

be experiencing if he were faced with his own thoughts and wanted
to completely traverse these thoughts.

A work of art is thus the end result of a specific process – possessing

a specific form and aesthetic, it serves no purpose except that
of channelling a very specific form of energy. It is always a sort
of communicative performance. It allows man to plumb his own

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