Over the past ten years there have been many exhibitions of modern art, including museums, focusing on the theme of urban waste and reusing as many modern artists such "waste"; (With which our contemporary society, increasingly channeled towards consumerism and then forced every day to practice the rejection of the scrap, the raw material for artists abound!). The most popular exhibitions, among many others, were " Trash: when the waste becomes art "curated by Lea Vergine for MART and the Palazzo Forti Verona" Dada Dada "in which the curator Giorgio Cortenova reconstructed a historical tema.L on 'Last year I organized it myself, with the collaboration of the Culture of the Province of Brescia and support the mountain community of Sandy Valley in the cities of the province of Brescia Vobarno, Roc Volciano, and Odolo Gavardo, immense opportunities in all four ex-local factories (cotton mills and steel mills use recovered and restored for cultural events-and this fact had created a significant link between the works exhibited and their container-) , an exhibition on the theme of art made through re-use, recycling of found objects which artists appropriate and then reuse it in their works. The title of the show claimed to be indicative of "waste reused for art." A quick overview of where I had met the works of senior artists, already operational in the years between 1950 and 1960, together, and then also in comparison with the works of other artists of a generation or two younger. And in the Old Mill Gavardo had exposed a section of photographers during the 60's / 70 were chosen as the theme of their photos landfills urbane.Come we saw a way to work in Contemporary Art that comes from afar and whose ancestors historians have been recognized artists, "Dada" (working in the years after World War I, between 1912 and 1930). Then it was reassembled and accumulated objects with intentions against desecrating the same idea, yet romantic, "Art" and then items that they wanted to force the viewer to a reaction. And, as expected, this was, indeed, often of rejection or denial. Yet the introduction a gallery or museum in a bicycle wheel or a coat rack or in the case even more extreme and striking a urinal from process (entitled "R. Mutt"-fountain-), forcing the audience to question the concept of art " Art "on the same function and reception of a work of art in society and its functioning as an" object "loaded with symbolism and meaning. In my review I chose artists who still used items accumulated and reassembled but with a method of working closer to Dada than to that of Schwitters's Duchanp. In the sense that the objects selected and reused do not stop at the threshold of easy relocation and the displacement act to raise questions about the function of the artwork, but entered in the work and the same objects were selected and used for their color or because it forms ready, replacing, or detecting, others too recognizable . In fact you can see, in the works of these artists are close to us, a relationship that is derived from the distant ancestors Dadaists but then soon after, just as fathers denied, you still feel the close relationship with the works of the French New Realists of the '60s (artists like Arman, César, Tinguely, wheel, etc.).. In the items found and recreated the Novorealisti had changed a lot in comparison of the use which Dadaists were doing, both as regards the implementation of the work that the attitude of the fund. There is a sentence of Arman struck me very well and that clarifies the difference: " if an image of a bolt, five bolts placed inside a transparent box all assembled together, a bit 'loose, they give me another, and indeed enhances all forms and figures that I had not expected, but I find when I see . "Today the new generation adds something new, more contemporary, opening an unexpected side matching. The recent generation, in the works or in assemblies that achieves not only use more objects, planted there, accommodated or accumulated in bulk, but has changed and varied set, things to do is assemble the routes, they often reinvent the same imagery. And ironically playing quietly on the set, with a more contemporary look and disillusioned, now far from the fetishism of the Dadaist and irreverent contemplation existential Parisian Novorealisti. This makes their job very exciting and open to the public. It 'still look brand new artists on the things that helps us to look differently at the world we circonda.Perciò was with great enthusiasm that I accepted, when his friend David Scarabelli invited me to collaborate with him the initiative that was organizing the first. International Art Symposium from recycled materials " rifiutINarte " for the City of Prignano sulla Secchia, and I called on Italian and foreign artists whose work I knew and I found relating to the theme proposed by the works of artists rassegna.Tutte guests were categorically on this subject for the reuse of municipal waste, or industrial, in their work and each of them worked reusing many materials that came from the district. The results of these works, works created by them, were integrated in urban design and landscape of the country and are now part of the heritage of citizenship. Hoping to stimulate the observer his aesthetic sense, or his reaction to criticism, will in any way fulfilled their function principale.A my introduction and conclusion to this rambling a bit 'on me comes to mind is a paradoxical example of the usefulness of "social cycle of recycling a society "and how this is so well described in the old French proverb that roughly read:" were leftovers from the table of the prince who feed the poor of his court and the peasants of their land, but it was the hunting poor peasants and fertilizing making lush fruits for the table of the Prince . Enormously tickles my self-irony, given the profession I am doing, the idea Ritov & to one day in the halls of a prestigious auction house in London or Paris to buy the door of the old cabinet Arduina my aunt, who threw after his death, paying fine of millions of dollars for the mere fact that one of the Pop artists the most famous reused in its opera.Un esilirante model Ironically, but also an exemplary teaching that life continues to give us just the little things everyday, and on which it would be worthwhile to pause more often to meditate.
In this task there are artists of great help, if nothing else.
Roberto Peccolo August 3, 2006
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