Our relationship with reality can produce, in the sphere of the representation and language of science, a model which, replacing things, constitutes for us a “simulacrum” built to our measurements. This simulacrum, this perceptive image, is capable on the other hand of protecting us from the unpredictability of becoming: the meaning of episteme, of science, includes that of “might”, of the possibility of controlling reality. It is different in the artistic sphere, where an intuitive impulse seems to be at work, pressing us to penetrate things and making ourselves become one with them.
Now art can be the place where language is set free, language released from the conventions and the arbitrariness of signs, therefore open to the multiple meanings- polysemic - of reality and to the ‡omplexity of its relationships, therefore going beyond the mirror, and grasping aspects of reality that are not apparent, nor familiar, accepting also a global, total image, as the experience of reuniting the fields of cognition and of experience, the final step in the transformative course of man and reality. Thus, the work of art of the future will belong to the person who is able to find in his creativity the utopian strength of the person who wants to assert the impersonality of the objective value of life, believing in the contrapositions between worlds of different values, in order to develop and mature a culture, and expand the horizons of the meaning of the world, the person who, therefore, aspires to refound the beauty of the cosmos and entrust to art that which Goethe called the “genius of action.”

Ivano Spano