Statements about Art
The pillars on which my artworks are based and built
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I don’t want to be an artist of this time. I mean: I don’t want to catch the essence of this time, but I want to catch the essence of the time; I don’t want to catch the essence of the man of this time, but I want to catch the essence of the man. I know, it is a quite ambitious task, but there are so many artists that are in line with this time, that are catching these times in a very good way. All these artists that work with plastic, photography, computers, video, toys… they have very good techniques, some of them are like cameras… they are good reporters. I don't want to be a reporter, I try to be a researcher about inner principles and universal principles that never change, and nevertheless they remain hidden to most of us.
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I am not looking
for a style to shock or to flatter the public and to reproduce in series my
personal vision of the world. I am looking for a
language to express some universal truths that cannot be communicated with
words.
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In art, as in life, four things should be pursued: freedom, creativity, beauty, and evolution.
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What can be written has to be written, what cannot be written has to be painted.
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On the way the Symbol came to me and said:
"I am the beginning, the center, and the end... I am below and above...
I am the beast, the man, and the God."
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the symbol works inside the human being producing its effects.
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When the technique of an artwork overcomes its meaning, art becomes decoration.
(Enrico Magnani)
Commentary about Art
by Enrico Magnani
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