TENTATIVO ‘I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achiev
TENTATIVO ‘I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.’ Woody Allen. I was and I am intrigued and attracted by Gino De Dominicis (1947-1998), Italian artist, who mastered wide range of artistic techniques and left so little traces. It was an act of his will. Obsessed by death, metaphysics and immortality, he decided to be 'invisible’, ignored the press and resisted to all conventions like being categorized, titled, reproduced photographically. Gino even had reported his own demise in his biographical essay years before his real death, which was by the way first greeted with suspicion. The artist wanted to be present through his work, use it as a reactionary tool to object physical rules and art society.“The object of visual art is a living object; the main reason behind its creation is not to be seen. Being put in a museum to be looked at is a secondary fate for a true work of art.” These two photographs you see above are the stills from Gino De Dominicis’ early video performances. I took them at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. 'Tentativo di far formare dei quadrati invece che dei cerchi attorno ad un sasso che cade nell'acqua’, 1969 and 'Tentativo di volo’, 1970 respectably. There is something touching and naive and inspiring in them. Fairy tale. Gino De Dominicis made his trial to touch the eternity and he actually achieved everlasting life lying in his work. -- source link
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