Generally speaking intelligence seems to have largely diminished. This problem doesn’t only stem from the politicians who represent us. There is a certain cultural flattening that leads, for example, every fiction to a constant and eternal reproduction. At first it was "Beautiful" that proposed itself as a daily mantra, today there are TV shows with serial numbers: 2,3,4,5, they go on as long as the public wants it, as long as the audience is able to bear it. But today from the screens there are other signals that I would say are controversial. Monthly fees to be paid for distant pediatric assistance and then, stimuli and solicitations for legacies, wills, dispositions, linked to associations and foundations that are certainly noble and prestigious but lay bare, without too much pity, the pathologies of discomfort. This is a constant reference to the management of your future that is made of, among other things, mortgages, bills and debts, as if the present were not already so challenging. Not to mention the past, full of memories but also of grief and pain. Those who can, within the limits of the capacity of their pockets, illuminate their future with purchases related to art. From some recent studies it seems that one of the fundamental stimuli to the purchase of a work of art is, in addition to the eternal hope that its price will increase how easily it can be inherited. Often a painting has no particular bureaucratic constraints, does not require the burden of significant rights of succession. It remains there, attached to the wall, with its everlasting, eternal message, to show us alongside the strength of an artist that of a family memory. To remember the contours of a purchase, of a choice, of a scenic space in which to place it, with anecdotes of other generations that are lost in time. And so, in a society constantly bombarded by the media, the work of art, with its disruptive creative reality and its message of faith and hope, remains a natural refuge, an oasis of love and beauty that contemplates a thousand other economic and immaterial areas. It is something that, for centuries, beyond fashions, has meant fixing the world's imagination and being kind, above all, to ourselves. Without forgetting the need to be kind to others.
