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LOADING ART
| category | Other |
| subject | Political / Social |
| tags | italianstyle , arteitaliana , italia , gallery , italianartist , LOADINGART, FLEBO, staybaroquestayfoolish , VANITAS, LOADINGARTOSAVONAROLA, RESINA, rinascimentobarocco , artcouture , LORENZODEIMEDICI, MEDICIFIRENZE, artcollector , contemporarypainting , SAVONAROLA, contemporarycurator, wallsculpture , baroque , nuovorinascimento , newbaroque , galleryart , youngartcollectors , contemporarypainting , abstractart , curator , barocco , italianartists , artistitaliani , bellezza , arteitalia , beautiful |
| base | 70 cm |
| height | 100 cm |
| depth | 15 cm |
| year | 2020 |
LOADING ART (quadriptych: LA1; LA2; LA3; LA4; resins, wood, drip, tempera, plastic)
WORKS EXHIBITED AT:
2020, Personal Exhibition "RINASCIMENTO feat. Barocco. LOADING ART" (Palazzo di Sorbello, Perugia, October 2020)
INTRO TO THE WORKS:
If the Renaissance is a proclamation to "seek" lessons from the past, from which to extract new light in the present, on the other hand, the Baroque is a hymn to "wonder", to the extraordinary creative and as such, timeless. These two historical examples can be fused together and well spent as teaching in the contemporary: the resulting synthesis is a RENAISSANCE-BAROQUE where "Amazement" and "Research" elevate man, through art armed with beauty. Beauty becomes man's solicitation, a vehicle for ascent, a stimulus for growth, food for thought. It is a clear invitation to "loading art": a common and essential good with which we have nourished ourselves in the past and continue to nourish ourselves today not only with our eyes ... Let us load ourselves with art, therefore; we must put art in the place it deserves, encouraging the growth of our cultural heritage, as our fathers taught us in the past.
The Baroque and the Renaissance, therefore, do not become a reference to a specific historical period, but a hymn to creativity, research, human intuition. An eternal concept, to be spent in the present. The Renaissance promoted by Lorenzo the Magnificent is just one of the glorious and brilliant historical examples of devotion to art and beauty as a means of growth. In the Renaissance, human intuition was nourished, because they were aware that it was the greatest form of investment in existence. Artistic genius was cultivated; promoting its dissemination to inspire all peoples. And it is an ever-current model, an evergreen example of acumen of extreme simplicity and practicability.
It is the creation of art, understood as a common good, to be preserved and kept alive. This is the message that my works harbor in desires. The days of physical confinement made us aware that nothing will be the same as before. And all the rebirths after the great epidemics are formal renewals, aesthetic renewals, but above all ethical; rebirth of something that is not absolutely necessary for survival, like art, but for this very reason, of extreme importance to survive. So ... LOADING ART!
LOADING ART:
As first aid kits, these compositions of essential elements for survival stand:
those who are affected by anemia towards art, those lacking in sensitivity, weak in ideas, can charge themselves with new energy with the restorative drip of amazement, with transfusions of beauty and love for art. Loads of VANITAS for the Savonarolas of our time.
This series is conceptually connected to the installation " Vanities ‘ Bonfire" by Savonarola and the video-photographic project "LOADING ART TO SAVONAROLA!". Friar Savonarola and his followers on 7 February 1497 burned in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, with the famous " Vanities ‘ Bonfire", thousands of objects considered impure, sinful, immoral, which in their opinion could generate vanity precisely. Among these, in addition to mirrors, cosmetics, luxurious clothes, also musical instruments, manuscripts, numerous drawings and paintings including those by Botticelli. The friar, who historically ended his days burned at the stake, is instead cured and saved in the video-photographic imagination through a "TRANSFUSION OF VANITAS", a cure for art. This is to remind us that those who do not understand art must not "burn" it, considering it mere vanity: ART NEVER BURNS and, indeed, helps the human spirit to grow.
WORKS EXHIBITED AT:
2020, Personal Exhibition "RINASCIMENTO feat. Barocco. LOADING ART" (Palazzo di Sorbello, Perugia, October 2020)
INTRO TO THE WORKS:
If the Renaissance is a proclamation to "seek" lessons from the past, from which to extract new light in the present, on the other hand, the Baroque is a hymn to "wonder", to the extraordinary creative and as such, timeless. These two historical examples can be fused together and well spent as teaching in the contemporary: the resulting synthesis is a RENAISSANCE-BAROQUE where "Amazement" and "Research" elevate man, through art armed with beauty. Beauty becomes man's solicitation, a vehicle for ascent, a stimulus for growth, food for thought. It is a clear invitation to "loading art": a common and essential good with which we have nourished ourselves in the past and continue to nourish ourselves today not only with our eyes ... Let us load ourselves with art, therefore; we must put art in the place it deserves, encouraging the growth of our cultural heritage, as our fathers taught us in the past.
The Baroque and the Renaissance, therefore, do not become a reference to a specific historical period, but a hymn to creativity, research, human intuition. An eternal concept, to be spent in the present. The Renaissance promoted by Lorenzo the Magnificent is just one of the glorious and brilliant historical examples of devotion to art and beauty as a means of growth. In the Renaissance, human intuition was nourished, because they were aware that it was the greatest form of investment in existence. Artistic genius was cultivated; promoting its dissemination to inspire all peoples. And it is an ever-current model, an evergreen example of acumen of extreme simplicity and practicability.
It is the creation of art, understood as a common good, to be preserved and kept alive. This is the message that my works harbor in desires. The days of physical confinement made us aware that nothing will be the same as before. And all the rebirths after the great epidemics are formal renewals, aesthetic renewals, but above all ethical; rebirth of something that is not absolutely necessary for survival, like art, but for this very reason, of extreme importance to survive. So ... LOADING ART!
LOADING ART:
As first aid kits, these compositions of essential elements for survival stand:
those who are affected by anemia towards art, those lacking in sensitivity, weak in ideas, can charge themselves with new energy with the restorative drip of amazement, with transfusions of beauty and love for art. Loads of VANITAS for the Savonarolas of our time.
This series is conceptually connected to the installation " Vanities ‘ Bonfire" by Savonarola and the video-photographic project "LOADING ART TO SAVONAROLA!". Friar Savonarola and his followers on 7 February 1497 burned in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, with the famous " Vanities ‘ Bonfire", thousands of objects considered impure, sinful, immoral, which in their opinion could generate vanity precisely. Among these, in addition to mirrors, cosmetics, luxurious clothes, also musical instruments, manuscripts, numerous drawings and paintings including those by Botticelli. The friar, who historically ended his days burned at the stake, is instead cured and saved in the video-photographic imagination through a "TRANSFUSION OF VANITAS", a cure for art. This is to remind us that those who do not understand art must not "burn" it, considering it mere vanity: ART NEVER BURNS and, indeed, helps the human spirit to grow.
