BY NY BIENNALE ART
The artists who were acclaimed as the most important in the Western countries weren’t always the best representatives of the artistic research.
We can sometimes think that the most promoted artists were those who were the most antagonistic ones in order to prove the superiority of the liberal system on the collectivist one.
But there’s no doubt that the European vanguards expressed the best of the contemporary art after the World War.
The fall of wall of Berlin had very important consequences on the market of the art.
The artistic vanguards replaced the court minstrels.
Artists paint, take pictures, make installations and carve in order to entertain the new finance and trade princes.
Art exalts multimillionaires of any latitude: the multimillionaires of the ex communist countries and of the Asian rising markets.
Auction certifies the new entries in the Club of the Global Castle.
Contemporary art escorts and adorns this social climb.
For this reason art must be reassuring and vicious.
It must be a huge bottle of Prozac able to heal the depression of the contemporary man.
Relaxing and exciting, camomile and virtual sex.
The most important thing is to control the mood of the non-multimillionaires.
Two dates will make history:
September 16th, 2008
Damien Hirst sells for $ 200 million at Sotheby’s, directly to the market
Goodbey Gagosian and White Cube
April 25th, 2009
Victor Pinchuk open his personal Museum with 200 works of Damien Hirst.
The first marks the end of the galleries and of the distribution system based on the role of the dealer. The market demands a direct exchange between the producer and the consumer.
The second date marks the supremacy of the collector on the artist, which reverses a system of values and hierarchies valid from the Renaissance.
What can we do?
We must understand that men and women needs ideals otherwise they will trust the multimillionaires of the moment and a dangerous populism will use democracy in order to control us better.
During the last hundred years there was a dispute between two philosophies: the collectivism and the individualism.
Both of these philosophies are very different in social and culture field, but both of them are dominated by materialism.
By materialism I mean the fetish of the vicious circle made of science, technology, progress, wealth and individual.
Materialism used science against man and nature, consumed the most important resources of our planet, children above all, consumed consciences, isolated people and brought world on the verge of ruin without return.
This is the enemy of mankind.
A new immaterialism should prevail and the artists should become its followers.
What has got art to do with this?
It’s hypocrisy to consider art and artists as a separate entities.
The history of art, even the contemporary art, is witness of the conformity of the artists with totalitarian or democratic power.
So the problem is different and it regards the contents of the artistic research.
If art wants to be a portrayal of reality it will never be able to compete with television which broadcasts live the best of reality with one click: rapes, murders, earthquakes, ecological disasters, suicides, paedophilia, and so on vomiting.
Art must find again its universal vocation adapting eternity to reality.
The research of the reasons of immaterialism as dna of the history of art at any latitude and its unfold in our lives is the new frontier.
