In recent months there has been much discussed in the Master and still discussing what art is , the artists who give birth, the prejudices that feed it and the red squares kill, according to some.
At the heart of the most heated controversy is always her: contemporary art, with its paradoxes and its oddities.
Before you begin this training course I was not prepared to respect, or rather I had not received the appropriate stimuli for triggering in me the curiosity necessary for initiation proper.
Acclaimed artists such as alders and because Barney with their originality captured my attention during the lectures, but only now I realize how vast and generous, the "realm" to which they belong.
With the stimuli received during these two months I read Master's books and I have documented , I am learning the "method" of looking at everything with a critical eye but also the participant and also to train this eye two weeks ago I decided to go to Biennale di Venezia, there had never been, I confess.
It also confess that many things I was not particularly impressed ... but yes, and I want to propose it.
The carousel of the objects found
If I gave you hand in these items ...
a barbie
a pair of scissors
a model airplane
a whisk to beat eggs
a souvenir of the Eiffel Tower
a miniature Statue of Liberty in a plastic bottle
Some bulb
you what would you do?
In perhaps an art attack prey at night, the German artist Hans Peter Feldman has created a beautiful work of art in the form of phantasmagoria. And not only built it, but brought in the last biennial art exhibition in Venice, where this caught my attention more than any other sight in the neighborhood.
But what is a phantasmagoria?
may be a rapid succession images, light and color, but also a congenital concepts, ideas and data that leaves people confused and bewildered. Feldman
That is perhaps a mixture of two things: a congenital objects that leaves you enchanted. It's called Shadowplay
and as the name suggests it is a series of objects glued on many turntables that cast shadows on a giant canvas at a distance, moving and twisting their boundaries.
I know ... someone might say that it is an idea so original, and looks more like a toy that a work of art ... in fact the description does not do justice to the magic view of the work live ... so trust me! How
says Francesco Bonami, esteemed critic and curator, the artist is the one who so dear what others think but can not do, and do it at the time and right place.
Feldman has managed to give a life and a role to objects apparently discounted.
made them special, not only because it put them in a museum, but because he created something new by making them interact.
Shadowplay is like an old recipe, homemade, made from simple ingredients.
If the artist is the intuition, the viewer is their imagination with this ... a whip to beat the eggs can become a little balloon, the neck of a bottle can appear like a chimney in the suburbs of London, to those seen in the paintings of the Eiffel Tower and 700 may have the better of the Statue of Liberty.
And so lifeless objects in the real world, perhaps abandoned in a drawer, may be the opportunity to live in the same city, melt and merge into what looks like a great ride in the dark.
I told you of this because I believe that responds well to the "mandate" of contemporary art today: the ability to communicate a message through a form attractive and which remains in memory.
Behind a poetic and there is that the 70 accompanying the production of the artist or the protest against the art market which reduces everything to economic object and search for originality is missing. The rebellion of the Feldman will also destroy all his works in 1980 ... luckily then he thought! Shadowplay
Before you stop to look at because it is curious, because it recognizes the work the ability to be simple, but let us briefly recall the amazement that we had as children and a pinch of magic.
And while I'm there I taste the carousel comes to my mind the words of Bruno Munari: "If anyone says - I can do this too ', I mean who knows how to redo, otherwise he would have already done!" Oh yes
I know so that we give up the idea: the artist is a great really curious that there will always before us.
Stephen Cogley
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