Exhibitions, Slovakia, Bratislava, 04 July 2015
THE SEARCH FOR HARMONY
On one hand, contemporary art has been globalized and adopted a more and more anthropological approach, thus making more unstable the borders among non-European expressions and is open to new comparisons with so-called “exotic” culture, on the other hand is it really compelling the need for a dialogue among different artistic expressions of our territory, that still need to compare themselves with our recent or ancient past that is our distinguishing feature.
All the world looks at this with a growing interest.
The works exhibited are apparently really different as regards poetics, matters and techniques as each work follows the most recent contemporary artistic languages that, with the avant-garde of the first Nineties, have destroyed the traditional rules of making art and yet they maintain the spiritual energy that still today lead to a vision of the world based on perfection, beauty and harmony. Some artists reached it by means of a contorted and informal way, others in a plane and narrative one, some others by means of dreams and memories, others with conceptual reflection and new technologies.
And yet in each one is present the categorical imperative to eliminate any excessive decoration to aim to the essential, to open towards the so-called heart of the things; the final goal being the “sense of the truth” of what we see with our mind. The aim of art in general, and painting in this show, is not to embellish the world, nor to decorate or to simply reproduce it. The real purpose is to reveal the mystery of life; but nothing is completely “visual, without an hint of day-dreaming or of astonishment, a sense of magic and charm, the image has no life.
Giovanni Cordero, Torino 17 aprile 2015
On one hand, contemporary art has been globalized and adopted a more and more anthropological approach, thus making more unstable the borders among non-European expressions and is open to new comparisons with so-called “exotic” culture, on the other hand is it really compelling the need for a dialogue among different artistic expressions of our territory, that still need to compare themselves with our recent or ancient past that is our distinguishing feature.
All the world looks at this with a growing interest.
The works exhibited are apparently really different as regards poetics, matters and techniques as each work follows the most recent contemporary artistic languages that, with the avant-garde of the first Nineties, have destroyed the traditional rules of making art and yet they maintain the spiritual energy that still today lead to a vision of the world based on perfection, beauty and harmony. Some artists reached it by means of a contorted and informal way, others in a plane and narrative one, some others by means of dreams and memories, others with conceptual reflection and new technologies.
And yet in each one is present the categorical imperative to eliminate any excessive decoration to aim to the essential, to open towards the so-called heart of the things; the final goal being the “sense of the truth” of what we see with our mind. The aim of art in general, and painting in this show, is not to embellish the world, nor to decorate or to simply reproduce it. The real purpose is to reveal the mystery of life; but nothing is completely “visual, without an hint of day-dreaming or of astonishment, a sense of magic and charm, the image has no life.
Giovanni Cordero, Torino 17 aprile 2015
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