Inadequacy
Concepts such as art and life should be mixed with each other since there is no need for maintaining a separation between the work of humans and human. Life is art (creative energy - sexual), who said that? The most intriguing art is the one it talks about life which unravels different experiences, recollects the details, curiosity, and perspectives.
When it comes to life, it is necessary to disbelieve the notion of a perfectionism to be achieved (in order to respond to expectations of this sort The only art we could refer to is that of film). Error
chappell-mackenzie-3.mdwrite.net is the hallmark of being Human, the stumbling block upon which we've been at one point or another: impulsive judgment, haste, anger, the incessant search for security and control, wrong choices. Don't tell me you have not made one of these mistakes?
Open: new perspective to view the world from
If we fall, we injure ourselves more or less and tend to look at that fall, to consider the mistake a fault because our expectations have of ourselves and others. The injury is actually the point that we are able to are able to see the truth. From there, we can no longer rely on the idea of perfection (which if it were such shouldn't be hurting) and look at what is broken. We look at it and then look at our own self-image.
Fontana cut with the awareness that breaking and opening is and tearing as destruction is often the most powerful creative act, all the more so in a culture that, since a very early time, we are ensconced in a powerful, imprinted system of beliefs and models. It's no accident that Fontana said in 1963 in an interview Nerio Minuzzo:
"The people who criticize me have often criticized me, but I never was concerned about it. I just went with it and I didn't take the salute of anyone. In the past, they called me 'the one who has holes', with some pity even. But today I see that my holes and cuts have been a hit and are widely accepted. They even have practical uses. In bars and theaters, they create ceilings using holes. Since today, as you can see that even people on the street understand the latest forms. It's the artists however, who are the only ones to understand little '.
When Fontana talks about street people, he evokes the image of imperfection where the hole is a form similar to any other, that the emergence of life can be seen. He is not afraid of dirt nor of the brutality of creative expression He throws tar onto an artifact made of plaster of a man and calls it 'Black Man'.
The cut becomes the conquest of space, as an overcoming of painting and sculpture, through a new form of space that contains them both: the break with verticality to create an open passageway.
The palpitation that occurs, both inhaling and exhaling the canvas can be seen from afar in a more cerebral and bourgeois way of the work Gina Pane would later do on her body: the gesture remains the eternal protagonist in that context where the art will eventually be destroyed. The cuts and wounds are the path, boundary and exchange. The artist breaks the canvas in two and declares its finiteness; the holes are transformed into black holes that provide the illusion of depth and reveal the infinite , which we'll never be able to comprehend.
We are waiting for new discoveries that we don't yet know
Fontana described the cuts as "Waits," the openings from which new and unique things emerge which we do not are aware of.
If we make mistakes, and end up hurting or causing harm to someone else injuring or hurting another, we need to wait for a period before we react. First the shock of the error and the failure overcome, after that, finding out the best steps to take to rectify the mistake or to get it out of the way; then we wait for the consequences of that break or error, which could be a brand amazing and new resource. Or not.
A few people have understood (and do not comprehend) this philosophy because they are constantly assessing how reality and human beings should be, too used to the two-dimensional nature of the canvas. We fight every inch of our being the right methods, the correct way to appear and be as a person in society, that we turn to rules that eventually define Normativity.
It's impossible to find anything more confusing. Convinced that we know everything that we do, we compare our standards to all other living organisms and ecosystem in the world, but in reality we see it from a narrow and biased viewpoint that is not in line with the reality of Anthropocentrism, but also personal interpretations of other theories which are rarely the most accurate.
Accept: there is no perfection in the absolute sense.
This is also true for this society that wants us to be the best at all costs, without considering that maybe, instead of raising standards, we should learn to be more accepting of the world the way it is. Do we accept pain? Do we accept death? Accept bodies? Do we accept diversity? And, most importantly, once we accept, do we respect our differences?
Most of the time is it that we are able to hide what does not coincide with the "perfect" of our very own planet or universe. We are horrified, angry, and irritated to be swept away, ignored, or put under the rug, and so we manifest the imperfections that we are in reality, yet we refuse to accept it.
Knowing one's own limits is essential and so is understanding the interconnectedness of everything that is the world system: either we are ALL placed in a position where we can give our best, or there's no incentive or competition worth the effort with the sole purpose of fuelling inequalities. It's great and good that some who have put in a lot of work have succeeded at it, just like those who have been fortunate. However, when you look at it in the larger sense, constantly stretching the boundaries just a bit further the definition of 'a perfection' in an 'imperfect setting; there is no 'Perfection' in the absolutist sense.
Does this even exist?
Cut and let the truth be revealed
We can conclude that Fontana was a tinkerer, as from the very beginning he rejected the easy routes to success, and opted instead to experiment with the unknown and the uncertain, that is to say: abandoning the idea of being the one, he followed the path of study that led him to uncover some truths.
For me, and my very personal view, Fontana is the one who tears open the curtain and lets light shine through, even if the black sails are obscured behind the cuts. An artist of spatial art and one of the forerunners of the art that is understood not only as a work but as a gesture, a gesture, around and in the context of actions on the space, as the activation of a narrative, of which much is practised today.
His cuts illuminate all this, opening up new perspectives on art, new points of view about the world, as well as new questions. The wound, for this, is not just pain, the wound highlights the idea of mortality, shortness, uncertainty and fragility. The wound makes us think, makes us question, and this practice is vital to ensure that we remain in the right place. As hard as it is to be a victim and as difficult as it is in a perfect tale of existence it is ideal (and right) to gain knowledge only by positive reinforcements. As long as we as a society do not want to be a part of the suffering of others as well as our own, we're bound to remain in the unsolved and to live in an unfulfilled reality.
So let us enjoy the cinema and its happy endings, its beauty that we take for granted and which we misunderstand and take as a model of life as the visual arts, contrary to what they appear are the product of pain, and every artist, in order to tell a piece of truth, had to go through the pain.