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How To Make Your Lucio Fontana Look Like A Million Bucks
Inadequacy
Concepts like art and life must mix with each other because there is no need for not separating the work of humans and human. Life is art (creative energy - sexual) Who said that? The most interesting art is that it talks about life that unravels various experiences, recounts the details, curiosities, and perspectives.

When it comes to living it is essential to defy the notion of a perfectionism that can be reached (in response to this kind of expectation the only form of art we could refer to is that of cinema). Error is the hallmark of being Human and the block that we've been at one point or another: lack of 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 see
If we slip, we hurt ourselves more or less intensely and are inclined to judge the fall as a mistake, or to make that the mistake was a result our expectations set of ourselves and other people. The injury is the actual point where we can see the truth. It is from here that we can no longer rely on the illusion of perfection (which if it were such shouldn't be hurting) and look at the things that are damaged: we examine the wound and examine ourselves.

Fontana cut her hair with the consciousness the possibility of opening up, breaking or tearing as destruction is often the strongest artistic act, particularly in a world in which, even from a young age, we are immersed in a strong, impregnating model of belief and values. It's no accident that Fontana stated in 1963 in an interview with Nerio Minuzzo:

"The people who criticize me have often criticized me, but I never thought about it. I just went with it and I didn't take any kind of salute. Over https://cutt.ly/N25pUrt , I was called 'the one that has the holes' with a bit of pity. However, today I can see that my cuts and holes have created a taste, are accepted and have even found practical uses. In theatres and bars they make ceilings with holes. Because today, you see that even people on the street understand the new forms. It is the artists however, who are the only ones to understand more '.


When Fontana talks about the street, he evokes the imagery of imperfection, where the hole is an identical form to any other in which the becoming of life is manifested. He is not afraid of dirt , nor of the violent nature of the creative act: he throws tar on a plaster sculpture of a man , and names it "Black Man".

The cut transforms into the conquer of space as an attempt to overcome sculpture and painting through an entirely new space that combines both breaking away from verticality, in favor of a crossing passage.

This palpitation, inhaling and exhaling of the canvas, is reminiscent from a distance, in a more scholarly and bourgeois form, of the work that Gina Pane later did on her body: the gesture is nonetheless the immortal character in the context of art is destined to be destroyed; the cuts and wounds are the path, boundary and exchange. OAI opens the canvas and proclaims the canvas's finiteness. the holes are transformed into black holes, which give an illusion of depth. They also reveal the vastness that we never be able to comprehend.

We are waiting for new discoveries that we don't yet know
Fontana named the cuts 'Waits', the openings from which new and new things are born that we don't know.

If we make a mistake, when we hurt or harm another person injuring or hurting another, we need to wait for a period before we react. It starts with the shock of the mistake and the failure overcome, and then figuring out what steps to take to remedy the damage or avoid it Then we await the consequences of that fracture, that mistake and the possibility of an amazing resource. But it's not.

Many people do not understand (and are able to comprehend) this notion because they are constantly judging the way that human beings and reality should be, too used to the two-dimensionality that is the nature of canvas. We fight every inch of our being the best methods, the correct method of presenting and being in the world, so so that we resort to standards that end up defining Normativity.

Nothing could be more incoherent. Convinced that we know everything, we apply our yardstick to every other organism and ecosystem around the globe however, in reality we see it from a narrow , biased viewpoint which has nothing to do with reality. Anthropocentrism as well as personal interpretations of the other which are almost never the right ones.

Accept: no perfection in the absolute sense.
This also applies to the society that demands us to be the best at all cost, but without reflecting on the fact that maybe, instead of improving standards, we could learn to be more accepting of what is, just the way it is. Do we accept pain? Do we accept death? Do we accept the bodies of others? Do we accept diversity? And, most importantly, once we accept, do you respect our differences?

Very often no, we resort to invisibilising those things that don't fit with the 'perfection' of our very own planet or the universe. This causes us to be horrified, angry, angry and pushed aside, then and swept under the rug and then we show the very imperfection that we are in reality, yet we refuse to accept it.

Understanding one's own limitations is crucial, as is realising the interconnectedness of everything in the global system. Either we are ALL put in a position to give our best or there is no competition or effort worthwhile to be put into it, unless for the motive of fostering inequalities. It's great and good that some after many hours of work have succeeded, like those who have been so lucky. But in the larger context, always stretching the boundaries a little further it's a perfection' in an imperfect' context; no 'Perfection' in the absolutist sense.

Does this even exist?


Cut: let the truth in
We can say that Fontana was a tyrant, as from the very beginning he resisted the straightforward routes to success, and opted instead to explore the unknown and unpredictability, which means he decided to leave the idea of being the only and following the research path that led him to uncover some facts.

For me, and in my very personal view, Fontana is the one who rips the veil and lets the light in, even though there are black sails that obscure behind the cuts. A spatial artist in the same way as the forerunners of the art that is understood not solely as a work but also as a gesture an act, in and around it. as a consequence of action in space, and performance as the activation of narrative, and this is the way it is being done today.

To me, his cuts reveal all of this, opening up new perspectives to art, new points of view on the world , and new questions. The wound for this, is more than pain: the wound reveals mortality, shortness, uncertainty and fragility. A wound can make us question our existence and makes us think the way we think, and this is essential to keep our feet in the right place. As difficult as it is to be a victim and as difficult as, in a perfect story of existence it would be wonderful (and right) to gain knowledge only through positive reinforcements. As long we as a species do not want to be a part of the suffering of others as well like our own, we're condemned to the unresolved and to live in an insanity.

So let's enjoy the cinema and its happy endings, its beauty and perfection that is taken for granted and which we mistakenly end up taking as a model of life since the visual arts however are the product of suffering, and any artist who wants to convey a bit of truth, has had to go through the pain.





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