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“Universal existence, eternally unfinished and acephalic, a world like a bleeding wound, endlessly creating and destroying particular finite beings: it is in this sense that true universality is the death of God.” Georges Bataille The ...
Il silenzio esiste solo nei luoghi morti come le profondità dei deserti, il fondo degli abissi, lo spazio siderale. Nell’asepsi acustica delle stanze insonorizzate, oppure nella tomba. Negli anni Sessanta dicevano che il suono del silenzio è ...
Fame, what you like is in the limo Fame, what you get is no tomorrow Fame, what you need you have to borrow Fame David Bowie, Fame How does it feel to be One of the beautiful people? How often have you been there? Often ...
The bat, during its prodigious night-hunt, heard to the song of a nightingale. It came from a cage. The mammal asked to the bird the reason why he sang only during the night. The bird answered through the tears that one day, singing during ...
Una camicia dadaista ripiegata. Dal suo colletto fuoriesce un piccolo copricapo ottocentesco da uomo. Un cappello da uomo rimpicciolito, portato sul davanti, come il cilindro di Wilhelmina Murray in Bram Stokers Dracula. Concepito per ragazze ...
And it all got to damn much for me Just got to damn rough And I pushed away my plate And said boys I’ve had enough And I lay upon the table, another piece of meat And I open up my veins to them And said come on, eat !! Patti ...
There will never be Another one like you There will never be Another one who can Do the things you do The Doors, Shaman Blues I am Dionysus, generated by Zeus, and by the daughter of Cadmus, Semele, whose womb was melted by the ...
Graphic elegance, tribal vocation, a subtle eroticism in a morbid anatomy style. The classical statues are quoted by amputations in Francesco D’Isa’s art. The limbs, severed by time, integrate in a living body, becoming decorations, baroque ...
"I am glad that you are going to Egypt at last, little Swallow," said the Prince, "You have stayed too long here; but you must kiss me on the lips, for I love you." "It is not to Egypt that I am going," said the Swallow. "I am going ...
Andrea Paganini revisits the medieval tradition of bestiaries, in which human nature is inquired by one of its supposed opposites. Alien beings, and yet homologous to man in transversal ways and unmentionable manners, animals are one of the ...
“Naked, except for one sock and her charm bracelet, spread-eagled on the bed where my philter had felled her, so I foreglimpsed her; a velvet hair ribbon was still clutched in her hand; her honey-brown body, with the white ...
According to the ancient Japanese system of time measurement,the eighth hour, yatsudoki, corresponded to our 2 after midnight. Each Japanese hour was equal to two European hours,so there were only six hours instead of twelve: these ...
Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E. Full Metal Jacket Don’t contaminate the sacred semantic field of childhood with bad things. Show only the heroic, the humanitarian, the ...
You raise the blade, you make the change You re-arrange me till I’m sane. Here's someone in my head but it's not me. And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear, you shout and no one seems to hear and if the band you're in ...
A court of creepy little creatures, run away from the Goblin City in Labyrinth. Big eyes, bat-wings, little sharp teeth in a Muppet Show snout. A long before the Corpse Bride, blue China flesh, stitches, missing pieces: they are dolls with too ...
Trendy colouring, basic combining between black and yellow. Four wheel roller skates on ankle boots in 80's Nike-style. Fingers which form victory sign, erecting on arms entwined as a DNA helix. Mark Gmehling represents gummy beings, a sort of ...
1 in 10 seven- to eight-year-old child hears voices which aren’t really there. According to a Study by the University Medical Centre, Groningen, Netherlands Jeliza Rose, an eight-year-old girl, has got a father who dreams of ...
Time changes form. On a perceptual level, with its upsurges and decelerations related to the mood, the frame of mind and the age of man, but not only. Also in its pure symbolic aspect.The self-devouring snake of the beginning, the giant who kills ...
In the horizon of big urban conglomerates, the spectators’ eye expects to see - beyond the spaces occupied by advertising – the canon of stencils, the quick letters in stick or bubble style, the wild multilevel labyrinths. ...
Heretic pop. Very useful. To smash the aura of all the untouchables of art, to reveal the ridiculousness of princes, to scar the divine names of corporations. De Molfetta trains himself in committing little acts of semiotic terrorism, to the ...
THE BIG GOOSE WITH PEABRAIN In the Nineties I was a teenager and, just as teenagers usually do, I used to think that the world was a very interesting place, all to discover. Those years were made of squats, lilac plush jackets, piercings, ...
The artificial paradise of Francesco D’Isa is pervaded by a cruel and refined eroticism. Like going into a boudoir of tortures, covered by a pastel-coloured wallpaper. A place in which mutilations have to be shown off as something terribly ...
Ray Caesar is considered one of the key-man of Pop Surrealism. This label, on one hand, fits like a glove, but on the other hand doesn’t fulfill the range of his poetics. Expecially the most used synonym for Pop Surrealism, Lowbrow Art, is ...
The antinomies of our logical system set darkness against light and soul against body, but if we refuse submitting to the automatism of the opposition, and we perform a dialectical couple-swing, we may see that light and body could function ...
Danny Treacy is familiar in borderlands, and he has always practised the aesthetic de-construction of those conceptual polarities in which our culture is imprisoned. He is like a blade runner, moving on the ridge where opposites touch each ...