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Permanent revolution, revolution of money
Permanent revolution, revolution of money It was supposed to be the end of nigredo, the avant-garde, the last stage, the final self-destruction of the West that chose the devil as its archetypebut a losing character remains a loser foreverthe devil lost the fight against another devila dark being who has taken over every nook and…
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Picasso’s snake
Picasso’s snake Picasso is at least as fundamental to the so-called contemporary as Duchamp aesthetics, forms, concepts the contemporary has absorbed everything Picasso, the brilliant Picasso with Georges Braque Picasso developed cubism, so many points of view represented simultaneously he opened the door to abstractionism he deformed and fragmented beauty especially with Guernica he made…
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Feminism, the great deception
Feminism: the very word we use to refer to it reveals deception Feminism, the great deception Feminism: a word that today is used as a value, a battle, a horizon to pursue. Young girls are convinced they are on the right side by saying “I am a feminist,” just as much as older women and…
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Terry Gilliam receives a calligram from me
Terry Gilliam receives a calligram from me On January 4, 2019, at a screening of his film “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” organized by the Umbria Film Festival, I had the opportunity to meet and get to know the great director Terry Gilliam. A former member of Monty Python, the group that revolutionized world…
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A poem for Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça
A poem for Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça On June 24, 2023, I was received in audience at the Hermitage of Camaldoli by His Eminence Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, that is, a kind of minister of culture to the Pope. The son of a fisherman who…
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A postcontemporary work of mine at the Rinaldo Zardini Paleontological Museum in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
I donated my post-contemporary work entitled “When the Mountains Had Not Yet Raised Their Heads” to the Paleontological Museum in Cortina d’Ampezzo. In the presence of Regole d’Ampezzo President Stefano Gaspari, the donation ceremony took place. It is a multimedia mosaic poem, that is, a mosaic in which is inserted a QR code from which,…
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Post-contemporary: what features?
Post-contemporary: what characteristics must art have to already address the future? The lie of the contemporary The word “contemporary” is itself a lie. The instant we utter it, it has already been devoured by the past. But it has become an even bigger lie in recent decades, when instead of defining a chronological condition it…
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What is poetry? Why do we care to know?
What is poetry? Perhaps it is more interesting to understand why we care to know. What is poetry? To give a definition of poetry is very complex, because to define things is to confine them to a dimension of rationality. And poetry eschews this imprisonment and reaches out to the most mysterious dimensions of humanity.…
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What poetry is
I have been asking myself what poetry is for years, and perhaps I have found an answer. All humans have always wondered what poetry is However far back the memory of human beings goes, poetry is encountered. Our grandparents, Renaissance, medieval, Roman and Greek men made poetry, ancient civilizations made poetry, and perhaps already hominids…