the varied CONSTELLATION SYSTEM OF ART
Di Angelo Mazzoleni
If we wanted to be with un'mmagine natural, the complex system of contemporary art, it would appear as a tangled jungle where even today the law of the jungle prevails, because it often seems to be missing, especially in a global society, what centuries of human evolution should have produced a positive self-awareness 'and others' sensibilities and culture. justice, true love for the beauty and creative child who is us. Instead a few dinosaurs dominate dedicated only to the construction of its own territorial domain: rich financial groups, each local potentates with a cock, their own galleries, artists, art critics, museums and mass media culture where real and very little artistic interest., where, despite the liberal perspective, there is neither freedom nor real meritocracy, I 'shared rules, nor knowledge of the market players.
artists, those that fund should be true, the sole maker of human and system through art and whose work it is nourished, do not count for almost nothing. Along with art critics capable and honest, the few galleries and museum directors who do not want to sell or to follow the lines and artistic models imposed money, are largely forced to operate in the undergrowth. So, simplifying, we have: large merchant groups, foundations, galleries, museum directors and decide on the rules that monopolize the market and affect the public less undergrowth avveduto.Nel: small merchants, gallery owners, event organizers improvised survival advantage for artists a fee to display and then a very few, usually small gallery, and increasingly in the undergrowth, some critics illuminated or gallery owner, who still knows how to love the art beyond the mere expediency and personal gain and of course the great mass of artists, valid and less valid.
THE NEW ROLE OF THE ARTIST
In our analysis, we will not shirk this responsibility to the description of many artists in this game of mystification of the power system described above. There are artists who, by necessity, ambition or exaggerated self-centeredness (all artists are a bit 'necessarily egocentric) are sold, which lend themselves to that stage by the lure of money and successfully adapt and give up their freedom of research to adapt market, others, but they are really very few, that knowledge come through in the upper echelons of the system to try to change it from within, but ultimately they are often entangled. All others, of course we are talking about are those who have expressed quality art, those who are truly free inquiry but who are more introverted by nature, are often ignored, exploited, treated with arrogance and sufficiency, and yet they are the real holders of knowledge. But we believe that as in any self-respecting undergrowth, right here there is the lifeblood of today and will be found the true arte.Dunque down in concrete terms, how to change this system as well as unacceptable, as mentioned earlier, making counter?
ASSOCIATIONS AS A STARTING POINT FOR ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL REVOLUTION
The answer for us is quite clear: we need to, that artists who are still the pivot of the whole system, are aware of their strengths and learn to be independent, critical of themselves and the society in which they operate and not only through the messages of their works. should commit themselves, leaving the natural individualism and egotism and associating controarte struggling to create an alternative to models of the system, a countercurrent of thought and action taking on the commitment of a new social role even .
some time in Italy is intensifying the creation of new artistic and cultural associations. This is already a large signal in this direction, but it is essential that these groups be organized, to coordinate, which are allies (honest critics, journalists, men of culture, institutions, etc.) and, in our opinion, it would be important to be able to build in time of actual federations associazioni.Il next step concrete could be that you select the most valuable artists of any association with organizing exhibitions or participating in art fairs of the same, looking at the institutional level and support of tunnels to break the monopoly of large groups that are dominant. In the era computer you can 'quickly communicate, build a network of collaborative active discussion: the grillismo which will be discussed in Next, something even shown. That 's what we, in different ways and in our small, we have begun to do, but most of all, as associations connected, press on public institutions so that the conflict and the absence of rules of private monopoly market. In our view, there are different parameters and in fact more serious than those established by power and money to recognize the art of selecting quality subtracting the misinformation.
-originality, uniqueness' of the artistic and consistency over time, -quality 'and expressive technique combined with actuality and originality of the themes and poetic
-revaluation, next to the existing forms of art, painting and sculpture of quality', almost absent in the major art fairs, national and international exhibitions in public and private
- but above all that the verdict on what is art or not descended from a serious and transparent selection, not decided by private monopolies, but by a commission of competent people (artists, critics , art historians, men of culture, etc..) appointed by the national institutions, including associations of art indeed.
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