“Sic transit Gloria mundi” is what is written in burn marks on the white wall of Macro’s Enel Room.
That’s an epigraph that could sound powerful, but dramatic and resigned as well. It is not simple for an artist to deal with decadence. I mean, working on a concept so wide like “The word is falling apart”. He has to be careful, not to be demagogic or didactic.
He has to distance himself to the common sense, like your typical neighbour’s morning remarks “The word is changing. When I was young everything was totally different. Better than now, for sure. We have no autumn and spring anymore”.
Mircea Cantor luckly, succeed to be ecumenical not being banal.
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