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Today, in artistic and poetic activities in general, communicate a sense or a meaning, without
I think it is absolutely necessary to retrace past having previously understood its content, or,
paths again; from a strictly objective and not a worse still, without having previously singled
deliberate subjective point of view. Only in this it out. Within this progressive exhalation of
way is it possible to express the complexity the artifice, concepts are deprived from their
of our time. The importance of recovering substantial dynamically, consequently and
the concepts of “place” and “continuity”, inevitably producing, an affected effect, rather
the necessity of historiographical revision than the necessary debates and participation.
- avoiding any cult of trend and tendency - What should evolve will subsequently devolve.
will produce a vital, synergetic development Art is changing its own identity: it is becoming
and a straightening in whatever the artistic a way of a conceptual communication that
expression. Ideologists subdued by the concept just produces effect however, requesting and
of “progress” (material, intellectual, etc.) have soliciting an effort of acknowledgment that is
partly increased a sense of “uncomfortablness” the exact contrary to the deceitful appearance
in the human condition. The results of this of its supposed “truths”. This, at the same time,
progress have contributed to the destabilization creates difficulties for the artists as well as
of man. He is no longer able to find his own for the creative management, and definitely
center (both socially or individually) within creates difficulties for the fruition of shown
reality. He is constantly conditioned to achieve art works in galleries, museums or alternative
accumulation, to acquire wealth, to pursue spaces. The public should be totally free to
arid careers etc. - not only for economic choose “how” to view, in accordance to its real
safeness but mostly, to affirm his own identity effective needs and desires. Contemporary
consequently he has lost a certain sense of art is truly art when viewed and recognized
profound aesthetic pleasure. He wrongly tries to in all its passed meanings. It ought to have
find his own legitimacy exteriorly, but doesn’t qualities such as continuity and openness,
find it due to a consumistic system solidly though now unfortunately, it only seems to
founded on deprivation: a necessary assumption survive because it has been dequalified to an
needed for its surviving and affirmation. inferior range, as if it were simply one of the
Perhaps, too pretext, contemporary art abusing many ordinary commodities. The congestion
metaphors even if ripe with undutiful evocative of signs and images that characterize our
values), has focused its effort on finding the society and culture is subdued by a constant,
most suitable symbol. But symbols - apart progressive impoverishment of the messages’
from a few involuntary, sporadic cases - can’t inner meanings, which the artists wish to
be configured as autonomous objects. Today, profuse in their works. Today, messages only
in contemporary art, the tragic sedimentation exist as mnemonic stipulations, weakly reactive:
of signs, words, objects, its addition to they are mere graphic or decorative signs.
something that is totally contrary to what it Nevertheless, if the artists’ desire is to reach an
really is and being less, is due to the fact that almost absolute ethical beauty, they will have to
art seems to become a perfect surrogate of conceive a highly ‘opener” art, and also maintain
fiction, an analogical simulation of imitation. a boundless faith in the public’s fruition. In fact,
Rather than conceiving forms and images, even if the artwork is autonomous and definite,
we presumptuously give form to ideas!, we it will still give rise to the inevitable, personal
