A museum, which in its exhibition halls, only presents contemporary art made with the explicit intention of showing that the human being is vain in absolutely all its epochs; it has been a concept that has brought me really deep and polemic teachings. Even, writing it right now, if I say to you, ‘close your eyes and think about the following concept: vanity’, what would you answer?
Probably something that is not too positive, right? And even more so if we are talking about a context where the current social tendency is to be ‘conservative’, ‘austere’ and frankly with clear regressions towards a worse past but that for various reasons has been romanticized, to the point of being quite little understood. .... I'm not going to lie to you, my experience in ‘La Casa de la Vanidad’ has been simply magnificent. And the fact is that if art is not transgressive, one cannot speak of true art....
I felt like I was in the corridors of the Palace of Versailles.With its large windows. With perfectly cut glass and a geographical location, millimetrically thought out to take advantage of every second of sunlight each day.Marble floors of a quality I have never seen in my entire life.Every 2 or 3 steps, it was one art ibrade on top of another.Every moment reminding me, fighting against my personal tendency to believe that to be vain is to be ‘bad’.
Caravaggio, yes, the Italian painter group, charged fortunes for his art? But not to his peers, but to the clergy and the ruling, and therefore wealthy, class of the time. Where the sex workers he frequented were his muses... Unthinkable within the religious philosophy of all ages but certainly a hchoquw reflects the true contradictory and at the same time impressively creative character of the human being. Today, I think I was in a place just as similar to the painter's anecdote...
A preciousness of the structure as a function of a tremendously underestimated human action...Where we are the first to deny our own nature...So, it is powerful and beautiful that a work can produce in each one of us (me, speaking in the first person) these effects...Those debates where virtuosity is pitted against another branch of creation seem obsolete.Honestly, as I write this, I am still in shock for having witnessed such a beautiful place but one that moves so many things (inside me) so easily. Uff, a space to break with archaic paradigms and to understand the complexity of our Humanity...
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