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Leave a trace. Recall a feeling. Mark our own path. These are the key needs of a human being.
Among the centuries men modified things all around them, sometimes without utility, just to fight the sense of loss. Basically, this is the reason why the Art started.
This urgency of conservation could show itself as a quick sketch of a bison in Lascaux Caves, or a line “Anna was here” in your school bathroom.
Many contemporary artists work on that concept as well. We can say without any doubt that Richard Long is one of them.

In a private visit to Locarn O’Neill gallery’s last exhibition with a friend of mine, we were struck by the work in the Locarn’s showcase, in the window display between Via Orti d’Alibert and Via della Lungara.
This display is a secondary space where the Locarn Gallery gives a preview of the main attraction in the primary space. The showcase was of a circle of stones pieces, perfectly in line with Long’s way of working. Land Art and other stories like that.

The installation’s name was “Trastevere Spring Circle”, a name that thrilled my friend Mira, who has an obsession with aliens and crop field circles. “This Richard Long… I never heard of him, but maybe he could be one of the Messengers”
“Who are these Messengers?” I asked her
She stared at me, stunned by my ignorance.

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Dysfunctional Camouflage right lo res

I was ready to go to the beach, but then I came to know about this “South Yarra Opening Day” from the mother of my boyfriend, who invited me to the event on Facebook.
Actually the mother of my boyfriend, at sixty seems to have a life much more cool than me, in my twenties. So, if my boyfriend’s mother suggested me to go to the South Yarra Opening Day, I should go.
I unpacked my beach stuff and I made up my mind for an afternoon of contemporary art.

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It’s been two years since my collaboration with Art a Part of cult(ure) began. My first article was about the japanese artist Masachi Echigo, you can read it here.

I’ve met Art a Part director Barbara Martusciello in a gallery in Piazza di Spagna, she was doing an interesting series of lectures about contemporary art.
At that time I already wrote for the magazine Arskey and the webmagazine Teknemedia, but I wasn’t very happy with them because they give me sort of limitations of style and criticize the artists was totally forbidden.

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Potrebbe essere solo una posa, questo è vero, ma d’altronde quando si sceglie di fare l’intellettuale alternativo e ci si riesce pure, non è  categoricamente ammesso soddisfare le legittime aspettative di nessuno, né del più accanito fan né del più severo critico.
Infatti, ecco che vediamo che quanto più i critici musicali e gli ammiratori si accaniscono a dare del “poeta” al proprio beniamino, con la chiara intenzione di fargli un complimento, tanto più il beniamino stesso rifiuta sdegnoso la definizione.

A parte il fatto che i fan non hanno un minimo di buon senso; basti pensare che chiamano poeta pure Ville Valo degli HIM che certo, come musicista sa il fatto suo, sicuramente ha un’ugola d’oro, senza ombra di dubbio è un gran bel ragazzetto, ma in quanto a ispirazione omerica stiamo messi male. Chiariamoci: niente in contrario a continuare ad utilizzare i soliti ritriti concetti legati a amore e morte e farlo anche in maniera abbastanza banale, e d’altronde lo stesso cantante degli HIM non ha mai avanzato nessuna pretesa, quindi il problema non si pone per nessuno! Insomma, chissenefrega se sotto i video di YouTube le ammiratrici in fregola, solitamente ragazzine che non superano i diciannove anni, scrivono di Ville “Che uomo, che poeta” (“com’è sexy” “me lo farei proprio” etc. etc.) , problemi loro, quelli sono i loro orizzonti, probabilmente lo scrivono anche di Bill Kaulitz sotto i video dei Tokio Hotel (dove ad ogni “che uomo” segue un’inevitabile, oramai prevedibile “Perché? E’ un’uomo?”), ma di questo non sono sicura perché francamente non ho mai sentito l’esigenza di andare vedere un video dei quattro marmocchi tedeschi.

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