A day will come... (and in part it has already come) when walls will no longer be made of stone and concrete, and wall plaster will cease to exist. Heights will become so “abyssal” that works of art, as we are accustomed to conceiving and seeing them, will be confined to historic centres and to those that failed to become historic, due to a clear lack of architectural quality, remaining mere buildings. Why? Because everything will be plastic (perhaps ecological and sustainable), steel, and then glass, glass, and glass, with all the light, invisible technology that even now (in our primordial age compared to what is to come; of which we are the first astonished observers) is already being used, with the progressive abolition of the horizontal and vertical, in transversality, enough to make eyes cross and brains melt. Of course, I am exaggerating and emphasising, but there is no doubt that a future very different from the past and our troubled present awaits us.
A message of all this can be found in The video makes people happy. Video Art in Italy (April – September ’22) between Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Gnam, in Rome, with an encyclopedia, of video, television, cinema, theatre, dance, photography, visual arts, (…and take a deep breath…), all things that can be encompassed by the designation of hybridisation, with multimedia incursions, contaminations, which make us understand the crushing of time in favour of the concept of duration. Gambles, innovations, hallucinations, provocations, show us an acute obsolescence, not only in the transition from analogue to digital, but within the timeless digital itself, where tomorrow is already today and today is already yesterday, disrupting images and words, with a preference for the former over the latter. Here everything tells a story, invention and discovery, in a continuous motion of hard and soft, in an uninterrupted duel, to ensure that the ultimate goal is wonder. Historic artists like Mauri, Buren, Viola, Plessi, and others already widely established such as Studio Azzurro and Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici, and much archival material, give us a glimpse of future events, that are soon to come.
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