GIULIO SQUILLACIOTTI
Inside stands to outside as one to infinite
Art is a private matter
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OPENING: Saturday, 19 June 2010 – H. 9.00 pm
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Lotte Baumgarten Sarkis
FasanGasse 34/19
1030 Wien – Osterreich 20/02/2010
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Dear Giulio,
This letter of mine is the last communication I send you regarding the research you are carrying out on my husband Aghan Sarkis. Since we left Istanbul, the last time we stayed there, a sense of peace has pervaded us both. We never returned there, shortly after he died. I think the time is now ripe to tell the story of his life and what he has done. But I’m afraid I can’t help you, as per your request, in telling his biography myself. I have no objection to you doing it. You have acquired enough knowledge about him during our time together, compared to all the things I have told you. There is one thing that I feel like asking you, however, given the reserved nature of him in his life, I would like you to maintain a certain discretion in talking about him. He tries to do this not for your success, but for the sake of knowledge.
He speaks only in front of an audience of interested people, do it at night, do it only once.
I wish you success in your presentation.
Lotte B. S.
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Art is a private matter
Curated by FRANCESCO PANDIAN e MARIA ROSA SOSSAI
Art is a private matter. In recent decades, art has transformed into a public arena that involves a growing number of people and professionals in the sector, thanks to the growing interest and attention of the media and the market that have emphasized its commercial aspect. This economic-strategic state of the arts produces what Paolo Virno defines as an infinite proliferation of differences of the multitude, which is counterbalanced by the intimate and personal sphere of the aesthetic dimension, or rather a notion of complex and explicitly non-essential subjectivity. Art therefore qualifies as an individual’s tension towards an infinite and non-apparent becoming. To be part of it and make it come true, it is necessary to recognize this vocation in us and prepare ourselves to accept it. In the wake of conversations around these themes, Francesco Pandian and Maria Rosa Sossai invited four artists to occupy the gallery for one evening and to recreate the uniqueness of the creative moment, an unrepeatable here and now that allows that kind of sensitive experience that follows development of the artist’s thought. During the first four meetings focused on the relationship between art and music, private biographies, sound creations, moving images, live actions will stage different forms of individuality to reaffirm the centrality of experimentation and the sensuality of the aesthetic experience that it still maintains today. the characteristics of a substantially private and subjective fact, extraneous to the reproductive processes typical of the exhibition context.
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