As in a Big Bang, contemporary art started from the explosion of styles and art movements happened in the modern epoch, which fragmented the almost monolithic expression method of the ancient times. Surely, this dispersive process have not exhausted its energy; in fact we are witness also of the slow dispersion of big movements and art fluxes that characterized the history of modern Art. Today the artistic panorama offers such a diversification that the need to discern and to define typical collective features has not much meaning any more: the artists feel less the need to band together under cultural movements. We indeed assist to the birth of new forms of Art, generated by the chasing proliferation of new technologies that become accessible to more and more people; that is also contributing to this big diversification of the expression, although often it brings also a certain stylistic flattening.

In the contemporary world, and the artistic one in primis, we can notice two noteworthy characteristics: the progressive reduction of intercultural distances, and the strong charge of the transiency, of the instability. In good or evil, they are both complementary expressions of this epoch.
Today the cultural distances are shortening thanks to the possibilities offered by the new communication media, which promote a relation from the base, individual, of the masses.
If the cultural interference can contribute further to the local expressive diversification, in the other hand it determines some kind of standardization at the global level; for this reason, the aim of this exhibition series is to explore a panorama with a heterogeneous expression form, yet coherent with the global culture.
The transiency, the temporariness, it is perhaps one of the primary issues of the globalization, which tends to stress the social tissue with big tensions. The events seem to whirl in a vortex of indetermination and confusion, while people feel more intensely the subjection to the classical locutions of caducity: panta rei, tempus fugit, memento mori. If by one side these cognitions spur to the action, by the other side generate an agitation and an exhaustion that annihilate any effort.
For this sake, CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium selects artworks that are expression of our times, yet also offer intellectual breathing and relief for the soul.

 

Many collectors have come to understand that instability and turbulence are the main characteristics of the contemporary historic context, in which art above all has seen the crumbling of certainties and expectations of art lovers, which have been unfulfilled cause of a deliberately speculative system. But the causes of the evident effects on the market, must be searched in the sphere of semiotics, because contemporary culture dissolved cause of the relativism brought by globalisation, where paradoxically the public interest tends to escape the homogeneous diversification, then agglutinating in centres of absolute power, which thus increase more and more their own chances to conduct masses' attention toward what is in their exclusive interest. In few words: meritocracy hinders contemporary art, its knowing and diffusion.

Pondering, the collectors need no help to realise that such a speculative system surely can not play in their favour, it can not do their interest. Thus they will have to contrast that tendency on their own and with their own strengths, diversifying, creating their own centre of personal interest, starting from their own delight, imposing their own necessary egotism, supporting the more semiotically motivated artists, who can guarantee to the works of art the solid and fundamental support of an intellectual value that is superior to the inconsistency and the variability of the market.

 

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