White Resonances
By Massimo Congia
5 Nov 2007
Sure,
the art pieces exposed inside the Modern Art Museums are important.
Temporary expositions with interesting explanations of the artists lifes and careers and meanings of their works... yeah, that is great.
But what really makes me vibrate, what makes me forget about the time that passes by, is the museum itself.
The atmosphere of silent attention and the slow carousel of people that goes from a piece of art to another one in an unconscious ballet fills me with faith in human beings.
From a painting to a sculpture...pause.... to a photography... longer pause... a quick glance at the description of that piece and move again to another painting...
Peace.
And what about the museums caretakers... serious guards that seems to shift from a body to another one... always different and always the same.
Inside these places everything becomes art.
A simple chair gains the right of different analysis; a forgotten ladder have meanings that the maintenance staff didn't understand.
Maybe real ART should be moved to other spaces: grocery stores, forgotten alleys, sad hospitals.
Maybe one of the meanings of art is to become contagious patients of beauty.
So let's spread that disease!
1 response
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John Shanahan said (28 Nov 2008):
It's so true....Life is art, and each and every creation can and should be viewed as such. Some good, some bad, some wonderfull, some tragic. The world is the real museum, and should be protected as such!
