néo: Creativity
5. ARTISTS BEYOND THE LIMITS: WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO
Try to avoid taking on diversity, you can only be defeated.
The sound of footsteps became ever louder. Shadows of men grew longer. Shadows of men lengthened and become distorted like the corrupted images on a broken television. They had been following her for a while now and the only escape route was right there, before her eyes. Having gone through the door, Anna stopped for a moment just over the threshold, lit up by a single light and a few burnt out candles. She looked around, observing closely the decorations and the frescoes on the naves: she saw dead bleeding bodies, heads cut off, people being tortured and sacrificed. She began to ask herself why people enjoy images of martyrdom, of pain, of violence against man so much. Why, Anna asked, is it so difficult to represent the good? Perhaps it’s an old-fashioned question, because today there’s another trend in art: and that is to go beyond. Beyond what? Just beyond.
The sound of footsteps became ever louder. Shadows of men grew longer. Shadows of men lengthened and become distorted like the corrupted images on a broken television. They had been following her for a while now and the only escape route was right there, before her eyes. Having gone through the door, Anna stopped for a moment just over the threshold, lit up by a single light and a few burnt out candles. She looked around, observing closely the decorations and the frescoes on the naves: she saw dead bleeding bodies, heads cut off, people being tortured and sacrificed. She began to ask herself why people enjoy images of martyrdom, of pain, of violence against man so much. Why, Anna asked, is it so difficult to represent the good? Perhaps it’s an old-fashioned question, because today there’s another trend in art: and that is to go beyond. Beyond what? Just beyond.
BEYOND THE LIMITS OF ART
Maurizio Cattelan
You can’t miss him. After a very long and difficult rise to fame, which led to try anything in order to earn a living, today everything he does turns into gold. He’s the king of transgression, of extravagance, the classic example of an artist. The fifty-year-old Paduan is famous, not only for his objects and dolls which don’t work, in keeping with the trends of conceptual art, but also for his endless series of shows and his exhilarating operations, such as the workshops organised in natural beauty spots where anything can happen apart from artistic expression. Currently his installations are on display in Milan, in the Palazzo Reale and the Piazza Affari.
Video. You’re never too safe
Jonathan Meese
Always in black, with a sports jacket and long luscious hair: Jonathan Meese performs at the limit of good taste. In his universe, made of a crude mixture of porn, national-popular images and blood, he shamelessly mocks all the wicked people of the world, transforming them into the irrational. This guy, born in 1977, is the youngest German artist of the moment.
Video. Part wrestler, part druggy, part mentally ill and part provoqueur.
Wim Delvoye
The best-known work of Wim Delvoye, class of 1965, is the Cloaca. The artist built a human digestive system in the form of a machine, which feeds itself, shows digestion and creates faeces. In the rear section, you can acquire perfectly formed, vacuum-packed sausages. It’s an example of art pushing limits, and a grossly humoristic attack at the value system of our consumer society, which pushes to the limit the original provocatory concept of the artist selling shit.
Video. Don’t eat before watching...
Marcel-lì Antunez Roca
The founder of the Catalan theatre company Fura dels Baus, Marcel-lì Antunez Roca, created Epizoo, a metaphor for the contagion (epizoozia) of the support technicians, the birth of a new body “contaminated” by technology: dressed up in wires, hooks and pliers which respond to stimuli typed in by the public on a computer screen, it modifies its expressions and deforms certain parts of its body.
Video. When violation isn’t a crime
Stelarc
Another artist who expresses himself beyond the limits is the Australian of Cypriot origin, Stelarc. From the end of the Sixties, he made his name through Suspensions, a series of actions in which his body was lifted up with hooks inserted into his flesh, attached to ropes and left to swing in the air. After 27 suspensions all over the world, from skyscrapers to cliffs, in collaboration with a team of university researchers specialised in robotics, he was also given a third artificial hand and even a third ear on his left arm.
Video. Body modification: the human body beyond the limits of evolution
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5. ARTISTS BEYOND THE LIMITS: who they are and what they do
The sound of footsteps became ever louder. Shadows of men lengthened and become distorted like the corrupted images on a broken television. They were following her and the only way out was just there, before her eyes...
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Curator Stefania Mirani
33 year - Italy
