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determination, refusing to be bowed under by them and after their own personal career interests, and the
attacking them unexpectedly and suddenly on all fronts; publishers themselves are almost totally uninterested
because truth, which is beauty in a work of art, not for reasons, they maintain, that are purely economic or
only can but ought to reign supreme on this earth. Not because they are unwilling to promote a product that
fighting for this presupposes passively accepting the would otherwise be publicised and launched before
widespread dissemination of the new forms of barbarity another product that, albeit mediocre, has already
that are typifying our times. Art has to attack conformist proven its worth and is easier to market. what’s more,
society like a powerful acid, not by backing what or who there are artists who have been accorded privileges
profess, either thanks to the resonance or fame they even though they don’t deserve them, and who hope
bring to bear, or those whom we might be led to believe to maintain them while trusting that no other artist will
detain art and have the ability to evaluate it and, in fact, be discovered, published or made famous. It’s a hard
impose it, but by backing art itself. Art itself must claim life, therefore, for neo-artists in this cynical context.
this victory in its relationship with the public, a public
that is able to grow and that is therefore neither elitist Each individual is free to express his or her own ideas,
nor factious. A spontaneous art that is not channelled according the constitutions of democratic countries,
in specific directions and not subjected to the yoke of but these constitutions do not specify how this right
all-encompassing mediocrity, not procrastinated by the can be guaranteed to the weaker categories who
current plethora of artistic pseudo-production, in its have no direct links with the powerful or who are not
turn legitimated by a system that has been degraded economically independent. who knows, perhaps people
to the point of convulsive delirium: an uncertain, weak think that only people who are able to say something
system, incapable of holding itself aloft from the by-now have the right to say it, or that fate will set everything
repetitive motifs of compromise, corruption, nepotism right in the end. In truth, this is the truth: we are told that
and militancy. we have rights and we take this for granted, but these
rights are not guaranteed in any way. Often democracy
2 is also applied as a perverse form of government: the
supremacy of a dominant majority over an oppressed
Many talented artists who have the right to deserve minority or minorities. what’s more, political subjects
attention and publication are, on the contrary, forced now seem to come to life or consolidate their position
to endure ostracism and a priori exclusion from the exclusively in order to see to petty economic interests.
haughty, self-referential world of art publishing (which Cultural positions seem to end up being included
has become a sort of kasbah!). The same people are only as side-dishes to be brandished as a secondary
indifferent to their fate, intent as they are on looking or fragile apparatus of faded references that are

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