Not the animal world, not the plants’ world, not the miracle of the spheres, but man himself is now the crucial mystery. Man is the alien presence (…) in whose image society is to be transformed.
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26 April, 2019
by Cristina Aymerich
Since there has been cultural evolution on planet Earth, we are not determined by the culture we belong to by birth. Both, location and the features of our body, are the starting point shaping our identity. But we are the ones saying the last word.
Read More›«The title of the Art Exhibition in Biennale di Venezia 2019, MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES, could be interpreted as a sort of curse where the expression “interesting times” evokes the idea of challenging or even “menacing” times, but it could also simply be an invitation to always see and consider the course of human events in their complexity, an invitation, thus, that appears to be particularly important in times when, too often, oversimplification seems to prevail, generated by conformism or fear. And I believe that an exhibition of art is worth our attention, first and foremost, if it intends to present us with art and artists as a decisive challenge to all oversimplifying attitudes.»
Paolo Baratta, President of the Biennale di Venezia
Cultural growth depends on substantive conversations (more…)
2 March, 2019
by Cristina Aymerich
More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. There is a TED Talk, by writer Pico Iyer, which helped me to reconsidered that apparently prompt question that comes out when meeting first time someone: Where are you from?
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