Page 8 - The Venice Biennale 2001 issue of World of Art Magazine

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by Andrea Pagnez

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oday, in artistic and poetic activities in gener4l, i think it is erhaps, too pretextly, contemporary art abusing metaphors
absolutely necessary to retrace past paths again; from a strictly even if ripe with undoubtful evocative values), has focused
tobjective and not a deliberate subjective point of view. only Pits effort on finding the most suitable symbol. But symbols -
in this way is it possible to express the complexity of our time. the apart from a few involuntary, sporadic cases - can’t be configured
importance of recovering the concepts of “place” and “continuity”, as autonomous objects.
the necessity of historiographical revision - avoiding any cult of trend
and tendency - will produce a vital, synergetic development and a oday, in contemporary art, the tragic sedimentation of signs,
straightening in whatever the artistic expression. words, objects, its addition to something that is totally contrary to
twhat it really is and being less, is due to the fact that art seems
deologists subdued by the concept of “progress” (material, intellectual, to become a perfect surrogate of fiction, an analogical simulation of
etc.) have partly increased a sense of “uncomfortablness” in the imitation. rather than conceiving forms and images, we presumptuously
ihuman condition. the results of this progress have contributed to give form to ideas!, we communicate a sense or a meaning, without
the destabilization of man. he is no longer able to find his own center having previously understood its content, or, worse still, without
(both socially or individually) within reality. he is constantly conditioned having previously singled it out.
to achieve accumulation, to acquire wealth, to pursue arid careers
etc. - not only for economic safeness but mostly, to affirm his own ithin this progressive exhalation of the artifice, concepts are
identity consequently he has lost a certain sense of profound deprived from their substantial dynamically, consequently
aesthetic pleasure. he wrongly tries to find his own legitimacy Wand inevitably producing, an affected effect, rather than
exteriorly, but doesn’t find it due to a consumistic system solidly the necessary debates and participation. What should evolve will
founded on deprivation: a necessary assumption needed for its subsequently devolve.
surviving and affirmation.

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