“I have carefully considered. I do not laugh at human actions, nor do I weep, nor do I abhor, but I understand.” This is from Baruch Spinoza, who since 1670 advises not to laugh at human actions, nor to weep, nor to detest them, but to understand them. I apply this to Hermann Nitsch (and I...
Modernity, from its very inception, ushered in the sense of time, analogy, and difference, considering originality, no longer as an error, or a grammatical slip-up, but as a vector, whose vital point lies precisely in invention and change,...
A day will come… (and in part, it has already arrived) when walls will no longer be made of stone and concrete, and wall plaster will cease to exist. Heights will become so “abysmal” that works of art, as we are accustomed to conceiving and seeing them,...
It is called “London Calling: British Contemporary Art Now”, with 30 works by 13 artists, active in London since the early sixties. Living testimony of the British capital's ability to attract creatives from all over the world, to make them feel in a...
I never met Aldo Loris Rossi in person, the Neapolitan architect, urban planner, and landscape architect, author of a design vision that does not end with his death (which occurred in 2018), but his masterclass continues in terms of imagination, science and...
The wolf stood superior, the sheep far inferior. Then, driven by a wicked throat, the robber brought forward a cause for quarrel: “Why have you made the water murky for me as I drink?” The woolly one, fearing, replied: “How can I do what you complain of, wolf? The liquid runs from you to my draughts.” Repulsed, he...
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