Critical texts, Italy, Palermo, 11 April 2013
"I'm not in the here and you can grab.
I have my home so much among the dead as among the unborn.
Closer to the heart of creation than usual, but still not close enough. "
Paul Klee
The images we use to describe the creativity and the creative work of the brain are based on the division between the left and right hemispheres, and these normally process information independently and work in a complementary way, are specialized, but share and integrate information . Depending on the type of work we do, we develop more than one hemisphere to another. People used to use a lot of words and numbers makes use of more of the left hemisphere (digital), while those who are used to working with images and with insight, using most of the right hemisphere (analog). What happens to those who are skilled in creative thinking? Use both hemispheres, the left hemisphere in the creative process tunes on the facts, collects information, analyzes, while the right tends to flow around ideas, incubate the information is, it starts with free association develops insights. It is the stage production of ideas, the creative real, then enters again the left, which assesses possible solutions and implements them. Creativity, then, is due to a efficient and effective collaboration between the two hemispheres.
The artistic research of Peppe Denaro, thanks to this collaboration, follows two principal routes (which are not the only ones), the informal one-iconic-analog and digital, the first enriches the other and vice versa, the reality becomes matter and liquid the liquid becomes matter.
Recently, using expressions such as "liquid life", "liquid society" and "liquid modernity" to describe the characteristics of the world in which we live. The "liquid life" is a life in which it seems there are no fixed points; everything changes very fast, too fast. In this context, also the art, its meaning, its value, are subject to change in front of the global market. The art of "good" is the famous one, because exhibited in prestigious galleries, presented at exhibitions, with commentary in magazines, art "bad" or "not art", is that which has no market there is no other criterion, today, to distinguish the "value of a work of art."
One of the main elements that, to date, characterized the work of art was its permanence in time, his "immortal eternity." Hannah Arendt said that "the cultural object resists time" and that "an object is cultural, as it survives any use has been able to preside over his creation."
Today not more so, the economic system pushes forward quickly, and also the works of art to be admired, Used, fruite quickly and then be replaced with new works otherwise the market will stop. If we look from this point of view the various trends in contemporary art, will we find the condition of precariousness and of short duration in time: for example, the "facilities", the "video art" focused around the world of the artist in a few minutes and just as quickly disappear, the use of "poor" materials, degradable, friable, non-perishable withstand time; interventions on nature, made just to take pictures, paintings made with non-resistant paints, the images that vanish on computers ...
The track informal Analog
Peppe Denaro when he paints with matter, like getting your hands dirty and not only enters into a symbiosis with the color, rejects any form (figurative or abstract) built according to rational canons, "[...] rejects the composition and the control exercised by the mind on the hand, is the manifestation of the intolerance to the constraints of geometry and mimetic representation, is a painting that becomes matter, gesture "(Liliana Ingenito, in the sun, different lights -" Expo of the Sun "/ Art Exhibition contemporary, January 2010), creates images without the use of recognizable forms, nientifica the natural world of things, giving life to a world of entities non-objective, non-existent and yet real. The paintings of Money certainly refer to the Action painting and Tachisme, free brushstrokes, thick layers of color and stray marks and improvised sail smooth and free on the surface, the material support lumping, then slides, you suddenly liquid , drained of any residual formal value. Matter, sign, scratches, drips, interlacing, gesture and action deny a rational knowledge of reality and represent a chaotic universe, the only evidence of being and acting, release the inner energies. Its surfaces in-formal, which bind to the existentialist philosophies, testify to the vacuum of certainty and confidence in human reason. It is an art, this self-sufficient in itself, which is eliminating any representation which is not that of itself in all its physical features of space-time, is an art that rejects the value of any prior knowledge, gives life to the "negation of the world," a "iconography of no" (GC Argan) and an identification of the sign / matter with their existential suffering of which you direct transcription.
The iconic track-digital
Peppe Denaro also paints with the computer (digital art, computer art), using a mouse or a tablet, you scanned a photograph or an image drawn using vector graphics software.
Personally - certainly for my limit - I asked myself with a certain mistrust of this form of expression because I had not yet met with the creations of computerized Peppe.
The artist, through the use of technological means, combine, edit, and manipulate in a non-trivial. His creations are highly iconic, they are images which tend to depict elements of reality (figurative) external, are the real "windows that face the sky," the "royal door" through which manifests the invisible and transfigures the visible: in it there is neither imitation or representation, but communication between this world and the next. In these works, generally with a strong socio-political content, the reality liquid - through the use of the plotter (peripheral specializes in printing large-format media) - becomes matter. His works, using the sepia / copper / gold, become memory of a past that is today and, at the same time, it is already the future.
In light of the foregoing, in all the works (informal-iconic-analog or digital) Peppe Denaro, thanks to its artistic and philosophical training, meet ideals and reality; meeting described - referring to the Greek techne as a means of knowledge based on concrete human activity - from Martin Heidegger, in his essay on "The Origin of the Work of Art". Liquid art to Peppe Denaro, art of our time.
Giacomo Cuttone
I have my home so much among the dead as among the unborn.
Closer to the heart of creation than usual, but still not close enough. "
Paul Klee
The images we use to describe the creativity and the creative work of the brain are based on the division between the left and right hemispheres, and these normally process information independently and work in a complementary way, are specialized, but share and integrate information . Depending on the type of work we do, we develop more than one hemisphere to another. People used to use a lot of words and numbers makes use of more of the left hemisphere (digital), while those who are used to working with images and with insight, using most of the right hemisphere (analog). What happens to those who are skilled in creative thinking? Use both hemispheres, the left hemisphere in the creative process tunes on the facts, collects information, analyzes, while the right tends to flow around ideas, incubate the information is, it starts with free association develops insights. It is the stage production of ideas, the creative real, then enters again the left, which assesses possible solutions and implements them. Creativity, then, is due to a efficient and effective collaboration between the two hemispheres.
The artistic research of Peppe Denaro, thanks to this collaboration, follows two principal routes (which are not the only ones), the informal one-iconic-analog and digital, the first enriches the other and vice versa, the reality becomes matter and liquid the liquid becomes matter.
Recently, using expressions such as "liquid life", "liquid society" and "liquid modernity" to describe the characteristics of the world in which we live. The "liquid life" is a life in which it seems there are no fixed points; everything changes very fast, too fast. In this context, also the art, its meaning, its value, are subject to change in front of the global market. The art of "good" is the famous one, because exhibited in prestigious galleries, presented at exhibitions, with commentary in magazines, art "bad" or "not art", is that which has no market there is no other criterion, today, to distinguish the "value of a work of art."
One of the main elements that, to date, characterized the work of art was its permanence in time, his "immortal eternity." Hannah Arendt said that "the cultural object resists time" and that "an object is cultural, as it survives any use has been able to preside over his creation."
Today not more so, the economic system pushes forward quickly, and also the works of art to be admired, Used, fruite quickly and then be replaced with new works otherwise the market will stop. If we look from this point of view the various trends in contemporary art, will we find the condition of precariousness and of short duration in time: for example, the "facilities", the "video art" focused around the world of the artist in a few minutes and just as quickly disappear, the use of "poor" materials, degradable, friable, non-perishable withstand time; interventions on nature, made just to take pictures, paintings made with non-resistant paints, the images that vanish on computers ...
The track informal Analog
Peppe Denaro when he paints with matter, like getting your hands dirty and not only enters into a symbiosis with the color, rejects any form (figurative or abstract) built according to rational canons, "[...] rejects the composition and the control exercised by the mind on the hand, is the manifestation of the intolerance to the constraints of geometry and mimetic representation, is a painting that becomes matter, gesture "(Liliana Ingenito, in the sun, different lights -" Expo of the Sun "/ Art Exhibition contemporary, January 2010), creates images without the use of recognizable forms, nientifica the natural world of things, giving life to a world of entities non-objective, non-existent and yet real. The paintings of Money certainly refer to the Action painting and Tachisme, free brushstrokes, thick layers of color and stray marks and improvised sail smooth and free on the surface, the material support lumping, then slides, you suddenly liquid , drained of any residual formal value. Matter, sign, scratches, drips, interlacing, gesture and action deny a rational knowledge of reality and represent a chaotic universe, the only evidence of being and acting, release the inner energies. Its surfaces in-formal, which bind to the existentialist philosophies, testify to the vacuum of certainty and confidence in human reason. It is an art, this self-sufficient in itself, which is eliminating any representation which is not that of itself in all its physical features of space-time, is an art that rejects the value of any prior knowledge, gives life to the "negation of the world," a "iconography of no" (GC Argan) and an identification of the sign / matter with their existential suffering of which you direct transc
The iconic track-digital
Peppe Denaro also paints with the computer (digital art, computer art), using a mouse or a tablet, you scanned a photograph or an image drawn using vector graphics software.
Personally - certainly for my limit - I asked myself with a certain mistrust of this form of expression because I had not yet met with the creations of computerized Peppe.
The artist, through the use of technological means, combine, edit, and manipulate in a non-trivial. His creations are highly iconic, they are images which tend to depict elements of reality (figurative) external, are the real "windows that face the sky," the "royal door" through which manifests the invisible and transfigures the visible: in it there is neither imitation or representation, but communication between this world and the next. In these works, generally with a strong socio-political content, the reality liquid - through the use of the plotter (peripheral specializes in printing large-format media) - becomes matter. His works, using the sepia / copper / gold, become memory of a past that is today and, at the same time, it is already the future.
In light of the foregoing, in all the works (informal-iconic-analog or digital) Peppe Denaro, thanks to its artistic and philosophical training, meet ideals and reality; meeting described - referring to the Greek techne as a means of knowledge based on concrete human activity - from Martin Heidegger, in his essay on "The Origin of the Work of Art". Liquid art to Peppe Denaro, art of our time.
Giacomo Cuttone
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