Imperfection Concepts like art and life must mix with each other since there is no point in maintaining a separation between human activity and the human itself. Art is life (creative energy - sexual), who said that? That is why the most fascinating art is one which talks about life, that reveals different experiences, recounts details, curiosities, points of view.
In life, it is necessary to reject the idea of a perfectionism to be attained (in order to respond to expectations of this sort The only art that we can think of is that of the film industry). The nature of error is the essence of being Human and the block that we've been at one point or another: superficial judgment, haste and anger, the constant search for security and control, wrong choices. Don't tell me you have not made any of these mistakes?
Open: new perspective from which to look When we slip, we hurt ourselves more or less intensely and are prone to judge the cause of our fall, and to think the error as a result due to the expectation we set of ourselves and others. The injury is the actual point where we can are able to see the truth. From there, we stop taking refuge in the idea of perfect (which in the event that it was so shouldn't be hurting) and examine what is damaged: we examine it and look at ourselves.
Fontana cut with the awareness the possibility of opening up, breaking or and tearing as destruction is often the strongest creative act, particularly in a culture that, since a very early stage, https://squareblogs.net/traysearch0/the-insider-secrets-of-lucio-fontana-discovered we're immersed in a deeply ingrained systems of values and beliefs. It is no coincidence that Fontana stated in 1963 in the course of an interview Nerio Minuzzo:
„The people who criticize me have often been a slam on me, but I have never was concerned about it. I went on regardless and never accepted anyone's salute. Over the years, I was called 'the one that has the holes', with a bit of pity. Today, I realize that my cuts and holes have earned me a reputation, are accepted and even have practical applications. In bars and theaters, they make ceilings with holes. Since, today that even people on the street understand the new designs. It's the artists that are the ones who know more '.
When Fontana talks about street people, he is evoking the imagery of imperfection, where the hole is a shape that is similar to every other one where the transformation of life is manifested. He's not scared of dirt nor of the violent nature of his creative work He throws tar onto an artifact made of plaster of a man , and names the piece 'Black Man'.
A few years later, the cut is transformed into the conquest of space, as a triumph of painting and sculpture, through a new form of space that combines both the break with verticality, in favor of an open passageway.
The palpitation that occurs, both inhaling and exhaling from the canvas, is reminiscent from afar, in a more intellectual and bourgeois way, of the work that Gina Pane would later perform on her skin. The gesture is nevertheless the eternal character in the context of the art will eventually be destroyed. The cuts and wounds are path, boundary and exchange. The artist opens the canvas in two and proclaims the canvas's finiteness. the holes become black holes that give an illusion of depth. They also reveal the infinite , which we'll never know.
Wait: we are discovering new things that we haven't discovered yet Fontana called the cuts „Waits,“ the openings from which new and unique things emerge which we do not know.
When we make mistakes, and end up hurting or causing harm to someone else one, we must wait a certain period before we react. It starts with the shock of making a mistake and the failure to be over, then finding out the best steps to take to make up for it or to get it out of the way Then we await the consequences of that break or error, which could actually be a innovative and valuable resource. Or not.
Many people do not understand (and understand) this concept because they are constantly assessing the way that human beings and reality should be, too used to the two-dimensionality that is the nature of canvas. We continue to defend every inch of our being the correct methods, the correct way to present and function in society, so much that we turn to rules that eventually define normativity.
It's impossible to find anything more confusing. Convinced that we know everything, we apply our yardstick to every organism and ecosystem on the planet, but in reality we view it from a narrow and biased perspective that has nothing to do with reality. Anthropocentrism, but also personal interpretations of other theories which are rarely the right ones.
Accept that there is no perfection in the absolute sense. This also applies to our society, which demands to be better every chance they get, without pondering the fact that, instead of increasing standards, we need to become more accepting of the world the way it is. Do we accept pain? Do we accept death? Accept bodies? Do we accept diversity? Most importantly, after we accept, do we honor our diversity?
In most cases, we resort to invisibilising what does not coincide with the „perfect“ of our own little planet or the universe. It makes us feel angry, shocked, and disgusted, pushed away, covered up and then we show the very imperfection that we are in reality, yet we refuse to accept it.
Being aware of one's limits is essential, as is realising the interconnectedness of all that is the global system. Either we are ALL put in a position to give our best, or there is no incentive or competition worth the effort, except for the purpose of fuelling the spread of inequality. It is all well and great that some people with a lot of effort have achieved it, just like the ones who are lucky. However, when you look at it in the larger sense, constantly stretching the boundaries of what is possible the definition of 'a perfection' in an 'imperfect situation; not a 'Perfection' in the absolutist sense.
Can this be a reality?
Cut Let the truth come out We can say that Fontana was a tinkerer, as from the very beginning Fontana rejected the simple routes to success, and opted instead to explore the unknown and the unknowable, that means he decided to leave the pretense of being the only and following the research path that led him to uncover certain truths.
For me, and in my very personal view, Fontana is the one who rips the veil and allows the light shine through, even if there are black sails that obscure in the background. An artist of spatial art and one of the early pioneers of the art that is understood not solely as a work, but also as a gesture a gesture, around and as a result of action in space, and performance as the activation of a narrative, and this is the way it is practised today.
His cuts are a great example of this, opening up new perspectives to art and new perspectives about the world, as well as new questions. The wound for this, is more than pain: the wound reveals the fragility, mortality, and fragility. Wounding makes us question as well as make us doubt the way we think, and this is essential to stay on the ground. As hard as it is to be a victim and as difficult as it is in a perfect tale of life, it would be great (and right) to learn only by positive reinforcements. As long that we as a nation are unable to avoid one another's pain as like our own, we're stuck in the unsolved, and to live in an incomplete reality.
So let us enjoy the cinema and the happy endings it brings, its perfection so taken for granted and which we take as a template for our lives since the visual arts, however are the children of suffering. Every artist who wishes to speak the truth, has had to traverse the pain.