Street Art *fadi karnaby*

It 'Success in Toledo street, a street artist beaten during a performance review of the international art, Las Ramblas. A project, this, which takes its name from the promenades of the center of Barcelona, ​​where street artists performing, comedians, jugglers, and aims to raise awareness of citizens and public administrators and donate to the city of Naples a breath of street art level Europe. Marie Theresa, the street artist has been brutally assaulted by the owner of the shop Marella in via Toledo, on the corner of Via Santa Brigida, a result of the attack was rushed to hospital with breathing difficulties that occurred. Also destroyed the work material and a camera. And 'this the city of pizza and the mandolin? Crossroads of different ethnic groups and high sociability, people poured into the street in the summer heat? This is not the city that we all know and such an act is reprehensible. It should be noted that the Neapolitan street artists are not guaranteed a space and the objectives of the festival, now in its third edition, is precisely to promote the creation of a municipal regulation that recognizes and promotes the art of the street in the city. La Rambla is to bring the city of Naples to engage in the legalization of an extremely valuable cultural, tourist and economic development and as yet has been hampered by the absence of legislation in this regard. An appeal was launched on Facebook by the Neapolitan school of madonnari ensure the establishment of a table immediately between artists, dealers and institutions after the scandal around Naples.

WHAT is THE ART?

Wondering what art is like asking what is life, so great is the extension of the conceptual and practical human activity that operates under the name of artistic activity.
Today, in this hi-tech, explain what art is even more diffcile.
So it seems appropriate to focus attention on the outcome of these activities, ie the artistic product: it springs from the activity of a creator, the artist , who then submits it to the opinion of users who attach value judgments to that product.
The artworks are created to survive their creator and eternal spiritual values ​​they contain, resulting from the artist's personal experience about the social reality in which he lives or has lived or will live.
The works of art, therefore, have the important task of being a common source of evidence of temporal values ​​that have become eternal.
Bearing in mind that art is not just about purely cultural sphere, but each of us live with on a daily basis (see our clothes, the objects we use for our jobs ....) any attempt at definition is almost impossible since there are many sciences which have as their object of study this activity (art history, psychology, sociology, aesthetics, anthropology ,....).
The artistic product comes from a creative act of the artist, who by ancient craftsman par excellence engineering has gone through in history, all walks of life. This historical path led to the emergence of many "tapas" on the figure of the creative, the one who possesses the uncanny ability to create from scratch an "object" that there is now and not before, the result of an idea born in a place dark, mysterious, of his mind.
In the Upper Paleolithic man develops intellectual capacity of its own species. hours and subsequently graphic pictorial art activities that seems to have a communicative purpose and exorcism.
The Rise of the birth of man's cultural determines, in turn, built from its own culture within a dynamic process that leads down to us an experience of life along the ancient but ever new and renewable if the art itself as a Universal intrinsic characteristic of the human species.
The artistic product is born from a creative act, which always involves the concept of subversion "creativity".
The word creativity always includes the character of unpredictability, that is a thought process that totally escapes the influence of deterministic laws and the concept of "beauty" modern beauty is that which is spontaneous, original and generates individual responses.

When the fruit of this creative act is attributed also value judgments, it becomes art.

In the meantime / Meanwhile. Group Exhibition

At the Fruit Market in the center of Valeggio, a classic Art Deco style building in 1938 abandoned for years, on display, before it is restored or dismantled, from September 23 to October 16 next, in the meantime / Meanwhile, by Lucio Pozzi, artist of the original group of PS1, New York school, which in 1975 became the first alternative art space.

The peeling walls, the remnants of plaster and decor of the long history of the property, enter into dialogue with the works of some artists, very different, scattered into the large room.
Instead of a common theme, will connect them to the void that surrounds them and the indefinable difference that distinguishes them.

Giacinto Cerone participate, Arthur Duff, Bruna Esposito, Sara Faccin, Andrew Sheets, Raffaella Formenti, Armida Gandini, Jeff Hendricks, James Hyde, Alison Knowles, David Lindberg, Emil Lukas, Hector Mamet, Philip Manzini, Paolo Masi, Albano Morandi, Giovanni Morbin, Lucia Pescador, Giordano Pozzi Luca Pozzi, Lucio Pozzi, Roberto Pugliese, Giovanni Rizzoli, Fabio Sandri, Lorenza Sannai, Nida Simaokrot, Fulvio Testa, Blair Thurman.

In modern times, people seem to bring himself to associate art works in their definitions, programs or statements prepared in order to distinguish it from the past, even recently, is the mass of arts events around us. Less art performs functions established and more it seems to squirm in order to legitimize their own events in packages that limit.
Often, the excuse used are the formulas of the novelty or originality, or the artist felt compelled to decipher the reasons for the viewer of his work, what he believes to be its subject or content. Some rare times, the enunciation of the ulterior motives underlying the work is really necessary to increase the enjoyment, but often it is not 'that limit the creative contribution of the spectator, the artist and or channeling the agenda of the interpreter.

Lucio Pozzi believes that art is finally freed from the addiction which had been subjugated for centuries. His new freedom frightens many. In a panic to find themselves with no hooks on which there is mutual agreement, many people do invent constraints that echo the ancient lost consensus. Even the drive to get rid of old conformism, in the vanguard of the twentieth century and its followers today, is found mummified in parasitic formulas.

This shows the curator tries to avoid the pitfalls of 'explanation' acute infection, the virus that suppresses the modern art. Try to enable the highest degree and with modesty 'and there being a' work.
The various perspectives presented here are woven and memories in the immense variety of materials, processes and ideas that each author or the author chooses as the field in which to exercise his imagination and his intellect.
Lucio Pozzi want the sense of the exhibition proves, even to himself, only after it has been built.

The artist of our time in perennial and intermittent oscillation is only. It is not lonely, because it interacts with others who feel sympathy for the intellectual, but it is only because only handles its own decisions without reference sure, shared by the community. Even those who look or listen to it alone, bewildered by the multiplicity of horizons that is in art. Lucio Pozzi This is a big step forward in the global artistic consciousness. You can not lose sight of the various contexts within which the discourse of art is, but the loneliness of people who engage in it, makes it alive, like never before, the individual creativity of all who are interested in art.

"When I look, I follow a simple principle: if after all the factors enumerated in a work that I recognize nothing remains that escapes me completely, then I lose interest," said the curator, in the selection of works to be exhibited has decided to rely to subjective intuition, focused on this place and this gathering of works. "I entrust myself to feel affinity with the art of artists I've seen around and they have piqued my attention, even with the art of friends, relatives and acquaintances, some of which I included because I feel the importance in this specific context. There is also my work, "he says.

The title implies the presence Meanwhile, between a before and an after. The Fruit Market of obsolete Valeggio is full of layers. Placed in a place like this, works of art are on the one hand incontrovertible being where they are located, on the other hand changes. Wherever they are, but their addition changes the environment, it also absorbs the place of its forms, lights, shadows and history.

Meanwhile indicates transience. Not all the works presented here were made specifically for this site, some were born years ago, but put in this context suggests that the transition to longer term. Beneath all the noise that grows around the controversial contemporary art, beyond the arbitrary and competitive certainty about the quality of this or that form of art, Lucio Pozzi and melancholic feel an exhilarating sense of insecurity in our artistic culture: hilarious, because the oriented towards a permanent warning to exercise caution in a way that can not take anything for granted, because it opposes the permanent melancholy confirmation of the innate frailty of life, hope of eternal life.
This building is so steeped in history and art that it is now temporarily placed, are entities in transition.

"A well-articulated attracts me the most precarious of final solutions increasingly sought after by modern and always intended either to collapse or fossilized. I am fascinated by the symbiosis between art work and place of exposure, that it is the white cube or a local retired. I fascinated by this as I am seduced by the symbiosis between the person who made it and the viewer. Between the two formed a contract, an unbearable tension which comes from the intensity of the exchange, the gaze inevitably related to the time. Although rooted in lattice of its history and its terms of reference, the work falls more then that in all the cages in which both artist and the viewer then try to fence. The works presented here arise from extremely varied personal and social narratives I feel that here is not my job to decipher, so as not to lock to start an open dialogue. They contain different levels of accessibility and it will be interesting to hear the buzz of the comments they involve contradictory. In certain of these themes will recognize the most obvious, in others the issues are hidden. Some visitors will feel disappointed, while other stimuli to their deep feelings and thoughts. There are constructions and projections, and even sounds. Even the paint is applied by hand on flat surface and rectangular, eternal and often controversial basis for comparison of 'modern art, is here presented in two forms one of the most abused, the geometry and the landscape, just because you feel rediscovered as fertile fields of fresh creativity after their apparent exhaustion "Lucio Pozzi.

The art game or is it work

* Art : 1) In old, know-how, human, any practice producing a result unnatural (artificial). 2) In the modern sense of aesthetics, production or creation of works intended to please (Fine Art), that is to say, to lead in appearance, a positive aesthetic appreciation.

* Work : From the popular Latin tripalium "machine three piles" designed to stop the horses for shoeing, which "instrument of torture." Any activity aimed at producing a useful work. Specifically, all activities performed by humans to produce goods and services in return for which he is paid. * The work is often associated with pain and suffering. Elsewhere in the Bible, God punishes sin by driving the first Adam from the Garden of Eden and now forcing him to cultivate a barren land, "You earn your bread by the sweat of your brow." * For Marx, human labor is helping to transform as well as human nature. Contrary to the animal, acting out of pure instinct, the man determines his consciousness in order to achieve it before you realize it. "What distinguishes early on the worst architect from the bee the most expert, wrote Marx, is that he built the cell in his head before building the hive. '* The wage labor is, according to Nietzsche, "the best policy", "It takes everyone in check and powerful means to hinder the development of reason, desire, taste of independence."


The art requires training, discipline, technique , concentration. It reports to work instead of play Art is serious work. But artistic creation is a free activity, disinterested e, whose purpose fun and entertainment .


The artist provides a real job, because the artistic application of effort and considerable technical skill.

The art requires a technique

Like any work of art requires technical know-how. The most obvious similarity between the artist and the technician is manual labor of the material. Focillon in this regard speaks of the "tactile values" of art: "Art is done by hand. (...) In Roman iconography, God does not blow on the globe of the world to launch in the ether. He puts it up in there with the hand. And it's a great hand Rodin (1840-1917), to include the work of six days, brings out a block where the dormant forces of chaos "(life forms). Similarly, the hand reveals itself technician intelligence of man.

* i) Art is a work rather than a game

a) The art requires a technique.
b) The art takes effort.
c) Art is serious.

* ii) The art is a game rather than work.

a) Art is not utilitarian.
b) The art is free.
c) The artist plays with the forms

Art and Olympics

With the founding of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894 and the celebration of the first modern Olympic Games , men "property in their heads and their bodies" which confront on a sports field rather than on a battlefield. Another of Concertina’s wishes is to combine sport and the arts , for which purpose he wishes to introduce art into the Olympics.
in this Olympics country giving priority to the art and Olympics 2012 tickets will be like no cost.


In May 1906 , Concertina organized in Paris a meeting between IOC members and representatives of arts organizations on the occasion of which is making the decision to hold art competitions at the Olympics. Divided into five parts (architecture, literature, music, painting and sculpture), the work to build the sport entirely.



It is first to organize these art competitions for the 1908 Olympics in Rome . However, the Italian organizers are facing financial problems and are forced to abandon the Olympics. The IOC will then designate 1907 London to host the 1908 Olympics. Lack of time leads to the abandonment of the test.



Pierre de Coubertin did not give up and insisted to include arts events in the program of Olympic Games 1912 in Stockholm . Although the Swedes were initially reluctant to the idea, they end up adopting these competitions. The number of participants is very low with only 35 artists involved, however, gold medals are awarded in five categories.



During the Summer Olympics of 1920 in Belgium ravaged by World War I , the art competition are again in the program but do not take a great importance, unlike the 1924 Olympics in Paris where competition is at the initially taken seriously with 193 candidates. Among these artists are three artists Soviet , although the Soviet Union did not take part in the Games seen as a "bourgeois festival" .



The importance of these competitions is growing at the Summer Olympics of 1928 , where more than 1100 works of art are on display at the Stedelijk Museum , not to mention the work in literature, music to architecture. Artists are allowed to sell their work at the end of the exhibition, which created a controversy because of amateurism advocated by the IOC. In addition to Amsterdam , the number of events has also increased, four of the five categories of art have changed their program for these games.



For economic reasons as well as the location of Los Angeles , participation in sports competitions at the Olympic Games in 1932 was lower than in 1928 . However, art competitions do not suffer from this problem, the participation is almost identical to that of the previous edition. The exhibition attracted 384,000 visitors to the Museum of Science, History and Art in Los Angeles. Art competitions are also present at the Berlin Games in 1936 and those in London in 1948 , with reasonable success, although the number of participants has declined considerably over the last Games.



In 1949 , a report presented at an IOC meeting in Rome said that almost all participants are professional art competitions and therefore the competition should be removed and replaced with an exhibition without price or medals. The report triggered a major debate within the International Olympic Committee. In 1951 , the IOC decided to reinstate the art competitions at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 . However, the organizers Finnish highlight the lack of time and no exhibition or art contest will be present at these Games.



This problem continues to be debated within the IOC and in the 49 th Session of the IOC is taking to Athens , the members voted to replace competition with an exhibition for future Olympics. Various attempts at rehabilitation of these competitions were held, but without much success ..



Since then, the Olympics have ties to the art through exhibitions. The Olympic Charter states that the organizers should include a program of cultural events to promote human relations, mutual understanding and friendship among the participants at the Olympic Games.

Art and Fadi karnaby Histry

For the future, he should have the recognition of peers recognized artists, and the public at large scale. But he has the soul.
The recognition of the builders, working in a field close to the creation, he is, meanwhile, gained. This profession is at the pinnacle. Especially after that as an engineer-administrator, he provided a tremendous job with the help of workers of the company Gazelle, in implementation of the structural work of architectural monument, designed by Le Corbusier: the church of Saint-Pierre in Family in the Loire. This singular character, the beautiful white mane, I would describe as having the original heart of the hand, loving to share with others: friends, family, relationships, his join the vivace, his love of people and freedom. His mind hot, crowded with new ideas, sometimes utopian, strives to make a difference in the to make life pleasant for everyone. As both bohemian and rigorous, it appeals to all who approach. patriarch, not bossy at all, but still spirited and attractive, "the ancestor "fall for her five grandchildren. Especially before the last born, Nina, 1 year, daughter of Raoul who runs for public works (he is the son of his father) in all countries of the world (currently in Johannesburg in South Africa soon Reunion, and previously, China, Japan ....) For Nina, this grandfather outsized drawing figures that do not leave us indifferent and that could expose one of these days. In this family, writing stories, knit dolls, or draw for children, denotes, in all cases, a good dose of optimism, tenderness and hope. In fact, I do have not said? Artist in the soul which I have painted the picture very quickly, my brother, Aurelio Fernandez.

Abstract art, an invention of the 20th century

During the second decade of the twentieth century, a radical and decisive occurs in painting, the invention of abstraction.
Of course, since the dawn of time, non-figurative forms were used in decorative programs, such as decorating the Greek terracottas of antiquity, the baroque arabesques of wrought iron or curls of Art Nouveau. But these motives were subject to external purposes, such as the beautification of a place or object.
The approach that characterizes the masters of abstraction of the early 20th century is to propose, simply, an "image abstract. "
The oxymoron is that this phrase, an image is traditionally defined as a replica of reality, says the new company. The abstract paintings are images that refer to self nothing else but themselves. In this sense they are similar to the icons of the Orthodox faith who demonstrate the presence of content rather than they are, but, unlike these religious images, abstract paintings break with the world of appearances. They reveal the existence of previously unseen and unknown realities, as determined by each artist in his own way, in his own convictions, their background and culture, folk art to the most speculative theories. Each of the four pioneer artists of abstraction, Frantisek Kupka , Wassily Kandinsky , Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian , resulting in his own language of abstraction, independently of the others.
However, they crossed the threshold of abstraction about at the same time, between 1911 and 1917, simultaneity can be explained by common concerns. They all had a spiritual practice or esoteric. They were also, for some, very attached to music, the least imitative of all arts, they have sometimes taken as a model. And, more generally, they worked in a cultural context, especially with the emergence of science of quantum physics and relativity theory, where the notion of reality becomes problematic. As noted by Paul Valéry at the time, "Neither the matter nor space nor time is twenty years since they were always". In this context culture and science of the early 20th century, the reality is less than what we perceive with the senses that an entity that is approached by thought experiments.
The inventors of abstraction propose a new form of painting in line with this worldview.