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ANDREA PAGNEs
Lives and works in Florence and venice, italy
 www://worldofartmagazine.com/readarticles.htm
artist contact
 andrea.pagnes@hotmail.com
CrACK sMOKer (seLFPOrTrAIT), 2007 mixeD meDia, coUrtesy tHe artist
Contemporary thought is eclectic.
Man is moving ever closer to a
culture of becoming, and not
of being. Art, in general, thus
becomes an evocation of other
possible worlds, provided that
it does not have history at its
complete disposal without having
first run through its spatio-
temporal context. But nowadays
this does not happen. Now man
is disappointed by art because
he expects from it the realisation
of something that is other-
than-himself. He expects new
indications, while art can only
manage to pile dust on dust. The
most tragic and painful aspect is
that in this culture of becoming
man is ever more aware that
he is a creature that can in no
way go beyond itself. Faced
with the rapid-fire mutations
of objective evidence, he is
destabilised and incapable of
finding his centre within the real.
The artist, the poet, incapable of
taking charge of the real that is
incessantly eluding his grasp,
substitutes it with a universe of
signs, colours and words that
endlessly repeat the painful truth:
“man is a creature that possesses
no means with which to move
beyond itself. he is a prisoner
of his own making, incapable
of fighting himself”. This is
an implacable repetition that,
however, remains immutable
before the void of life; it continues
to repeat itself precisely in
order to find an escape route,
a solution to dramatic, anxiety-
ridden tension. Yet in our era,
people often become artists to
satisfy a need for identity; art is TRENDS
used to affirm a depressing and
lamentable individuality, and
this is an agony we are all guilty
of having brought about. Art is
art. Poetry is poetry. Writing is
writing. And this is all.