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Today, in artistic and poetic activities in general, it due to a consumerist system solidly founded
I think it is absolutely necessary to retrace past
paths again; from a strictly objective and not a
deliberate subjective point of view. Only in this
way is it possible to express the complexity of our
time. The importance of recovering the concepts
of “place” and “continuity”, the necessity of
historiographical revision - avoiding any cult
of trend and tendency - will produce a vital,
synergetic development and a straightening in
whatever the artistic expression.
Ideologists subdued by the concept of “progress”
(material, intellectual, etc.) have partly increased
a sense of “uncomfortableness” in the human
condition.
The results of this progress have contributed to
the destabilization of man. He is no longer able to
find his own center (both socially or individually)
within reality. He is constantly conditioned to
achieve accumulation, to acquire wealth, to
pursue arid careers etc. - not only for economic
safeness but mostly, to affirm his own identity
consequently he has lost a certain sense of
profound aesthetic pleasure. He wrongly tries to
find his own legitimacy exteriorly, but doesn’t find
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on deprivation: a necessary assumption needed
for its surviving and affirmation. Perhaps, too
pretextly, contemporary art abusing metaphors
even (if ripe with undoubtful evocative values),
has focused its effort on finding the most
suitable symbol. But symbols - apart from a few
involuntary, sporadic cases - can’t be configured
as autonomous objects.
Today, in contemporar y ar t, the tragic
sedimentation of signs, words, objects, its
addition to something that is totally contrary
to what it really is and being less, is due to
the fact that art seems to become a perfect
surrogate of fiction, an analogical simulation
of imitation. Rather than conceiving forms and
images, we presumptuously give form to ideas,
we communicate a sense or a meaning, without
having previously understood its content, or,
worse still, without having previously singled it
out.
Within this progressive exhalation of the artifice,
concepts are deprived from their substantial
dynamically, consequently and inevitably