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