Martina Cavallarin from Venice
We are dealing with a new time and space. What are you discovering or rediscovering about yourself?
I've been reading during this time The Studiolo, by Giorgio Agamben. The Studiolo it was the small room where the prince retreated to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings and objects that he loved in a special way. But in question, there, it is not a private space, but another experience of time, that concerns each of us. Here it is, today in this suspended time for the first time I felt I was living in space rather than time, but maybe it's just about living another experience of time.
We are realizing that we can live with less mobility?
Human beings live in time when they should live in space, he should be able to free himself from the hassle of passing by to unwind energy in a truly proactive dimension. It is utopian to think of separating the two things, yet desirable since, in transit in nunc, we could try to settle in’hic.
It seems to me, This, of d. C. (after Coronavirus), a uchronic time. Ukraine. f. [from the French uchronie (term coined by the philosopher Charles Renouvier in 1876), the., con u- of utopias «utopia», dal gr. time 'tempo, period of time"], down. – Substitution of imaginary events for the real ones of a specific period or historical fact. Now we are forced to rethink everything negative and positive we have experienced and discovered during this extreme time; a time lived in the suspension of future and past, now that the present has stopped. We have a past to correct behind us and a future at risk lies ahead. We are experiencing change in an unprecedented temporal contraction, unheard of and unexpected. We got there due to greater forces: the unforeseeable reached us in a sudden and dramatic way, and now it forces us to renegotiate our pact with survival and progress. Two horizons that today more than yesterday appear to be opposed and not aligned.
What you're missing? Your personal experience of "absence" and "lack".
The contemporary artist is in a state of motion, the movement begun with the modernist engine continues; the metaphor of wandering is also found in the work Horses Running Endlessly on Gabriel Orozco. The transit of the passer-by in the urban space is compared to the move of the knight in chess. I live in Venice and I know this tiring transit well. The devastating rapacity of politics has led to inept tourism, bulimic, unscrupulous, unaware, tremendously massified. Here it is, between time and space, I felt catapulted into the absence of the horse's move; and I don't miss it.
Martina Cavallarin. Art criticism, independent curator and essayist, deals with contemporary visual arts with a view that ranges between different languages and necessary contaminations. He plans and curates international exhibitions and publishes books and catalogs distributed in Italy and abroad. The interest of his research focuses on the investigation of relational and social systems through artistic and educational projects that involve contemporary culture and the human sphere. He holds courses and workshops at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, and at the IED European Institute of Design in Venice. In 2019 he is curator of 10 X 100 Contemporary art factory, an Art project / Company of Giovanardi spa and in Venice he founded and directed STUDIO Contemporary Art. In 2020 is called to preside and direct the cultural association 5400K EXPERIMENTATION OF ART AND DESIGN. He is a member of the commission promoted by the Treviso Department of Culture for the construction, restructuring and programming of the Bailo, Civic Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
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