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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          on deprivation: a necessary assumption needed
             paths again; from a strictly objective and not a            for its surviving and affirmation. Perhaps, too

             deliberate subjective point of view. Only in this           pretextly, contemporary art abusing metaphors
             way is it possible to express the complexity of our         even (if ripe with undoubtful evocative values),
             time. The importance of recovering the concepts             has focused its effort on finding the most

             of  “place”  and  “continuity”,  the  necessity  of         suitable symbol. But symbols - apart from a few
             historiographical revision - avoiding any  cult             involuntary, sporadic cases - can’t be configured
             of trend and tendency - will produce a vital,               as autonomous objects.
             synergetic development and a straightening in
             whatever the artistic expression.                           Today, in contemporar y ar t, the tragic

                                                                         sedimentation of signs, words, objects, its
             Ideologists subdued by the concept of “progress”            addition  to  something  that  is  totally  contrary
             (material, intellectual, etc.) have partly increased        to what it really is and being less, is due to

             a sense of “uncomfortableness” in the human                 the  fact  that  art  seems  to  become  a  perfect
             condition.                                                  surrogate of fiction, an analogical simulation
             The results of this progress have contributed to            of imitation. Rather than conceiving forms and
             the destabilization of man. He is no longer able to         images, we presumptuously give form to ideas,
             find his own center (both socially or individually)         we communicate a sense or a meaning, without

             within  reality.  He  is  constantly  conditioned  to       having previously understood its content, or,
             achieve accumulation, to acquire wealth, to                 worse still, without having previously singled it
             pursue arid careers etc. - not only for economic            out.

             safeness but mostly, to affirm his own identity
             consequently he has lost a certain sense of                 Within this progressive exhalation of the artifice,
             profound aesthetic pleasure. He wrongly tries to            concepts are deprived from their substantial
             find his own legitimacy exteriorly, but doesn’t find        dynamically, consequently and inevitably













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