NEXT BIG THING

«It is not art that is dying, as we often hear. It is our society that is heading towards its end, and the main cause is the suspension of discourse between individuals. The end of public discourse, which connects identities and makes every object produce meaning (among the most important the work of art) you enter a terrain of comparison. This comparison is vital because it redefines the contours of public life and consequently of individual life, revitalizing both and allowing the individual to exist. And the work of art needs to be inoculated into that arena, under penalty of its loss of meaning and the definitive separation between art and life, which we absolutely cannot afford today."
Taken from the text Next Big Thing by Stefano Castelli.

Catalog created on the occasion of the exhibition Next Big Thing at Associazione Contemporarily, Milan (10 June – 13 July 2008).