There will be always a fundamental confrontation between an object and its drawing, the same kind of confrontation that can occur in between the idea and the words that express it. This confrontation happens not only in an abstract form it happens as a real fact, bringing the object to exist in a permanent disappointed reality, a reality that can’t be as perfect and ideal …
- Can you tell me what’s happening here?, – I could tell you what’s happening, but I don’t know if it would really tell you what’s happening. (Solaris, Andrey Tarkovskiy 1972)
Blanco Lopez was one of those Cuban artist that back in the early 60′s embraced the Socialist Realism but already in the late 60′s Blanco L. started painting spaceships and ‘aparatos’ a sort of …
Ci sono tre giorni importanti nella mia memoria il primo quando ho visto il primo seno o popolarmente parlando la prima tetta, il secondo quando ho fato un’antenna di FM che ho sistemato sopra il mio tetto e il terso momento è stato quando ho dovuto togliere la mia antenna di FM. Particolarmente il secondo episodio non lo ricordo cosi bene perché ero tutto agitato …
Immagina che un giorno ti svegli di mattino e come di solito; vai a prendere il pane, burro, latte e un paio d’uovo per fare collazione, arrivi in negozio e il proprietario dice subito: Non abbiamo più niente di questo che mi hai chiesto. Il “più” pronunciato da lui ha suonato ovviamente infinito e senza discussione. Nella mia faccia si disegna un segno pallido di …
The scene of the action is not yet a scene of action, and, unless particular circumstances arise – which they won’t – never will be. A short section of the street between the now-closed cinema and the fifth streetlight from the left. The excellent lighting allows for a fairly detailed description. From the fifth streetlight there approaches the phantom of a woman draped in an …
And ‘Immortality’, Mildews - In the museum of the moon (Mina Loy, Lunar Baedeker, 1923)
On the Moon, in a dale between two mountains, lay all those things that men lost or forgot on Earth.
It has been like this forever, or at least since the expulsion from Paradise.
Along with the things, this dale keeps some particular beakers that contain the reason (the capacity …
inadvertently - Dear D.,
I am marking the start of a period of writing based on the theme of drawing, which is, as we both know, something which unites us and forms us and something which will remain of us, at the end. The skeleton.
Here, things enter, gradually, at the axes. These last months have been very tiring. However, this period is ending. We …