Statement

The mind is like a parachute, it only works if it opens.

Albert Einstein

 

«Man is but a cane, the most fragile of all nature; but he is a thinking cane» Blaise Pascal, 17th century. «We live as if we were to live always, never reflect that we are fragile beings» Seneca I century d. C.

 

Hegel: “(…) art digs an abyss between the parvenze and illusions of this low and ephemeral world (…) Far from being mere appearances and illustrations of ordinary reality, the manifestations of art have a higher reality and a more true existence (…)

 

My research work in visual art delves into the themes of Fragility and Existence. I investigate with all visual media: painting, photography, drawing, video, sculpture and installation. Parallel to the visual research I carry on the same themes a theoretical development with contemporary poetry.

The word «fragility» is often associated with women, with weak subjects, has the same root of frangere, which means breaking and the woman is able to break the patterns aware that fragility is an act of strength, not weakness in this society.

Fragile is the old man because aging in this age has become a disease. To speak of old age means to talk about the meaning and perspectives of human existence: the identity of the subject, communication between beings, similarities, exclusion, detachment from reality, melancholy, elements that we find not only in the elderly but also in the younger generations who suffer from lack of perspectives and where the word hope fills a mute space.

There is no work, no perspective for the future, no respect, no kindness.

Fragile is the youth that seeks references and ideals to pursue; “(…) as lifeless flesh in the freezing cell of my feelings” reports Vincenzo Leone – Doctor of Addictions, Emmanuel Community – in his testimony “The experience of experience”

Fragile are the borders where men, women and children are made vulnerable and fragile by wars, forced into exile, breaking their stories, annihilating hopes.

Fragility is also outside of us, if we look at our landscape with our history in neglect, with history that vanishes under the blows of carelessness, under the blows of mortars, under the blows of radicalism.

Art affects the short and long term memory by educating to beauty and respect, analyzing the condition in our society, a society, the current, often characterized by evil of living and fear. The events of recent years lead us to reflect on the danger of force, force destroys man fragility, perhaps, recreates it.