Has post-virus art already started? I think that, if any new kind of art has actually started, it is that of nostalgia, which was already approaching us. An art that consists of the re-reading of our past, in the search for a childhood of which the pandemic traumatically deprived us, in more than one case, stealing from us our close relatives, the very people who took care of us while we were growing up.
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Whether it depends on his character or his Piedmontese roots, Claudio Rotta Loria has always stood on the fringes of showbiz, despite his long career as a programmed artist, which started 50 years ago. This self-effacing man took a secluded and silent road dominated by the study of the interferences of light with space fields.
Venice appears as an entity in perpetual, liquid movement; it is an immense boat projected into a dream, into the nostalgia of all those who frequent it. For its natives, Venice is a desire that comes true, day by day. For Fabrizio Plessi, a great master of video art and an adopted son of the city, Venice is the projection of the creative gesture: “Its fluidity exerted a great influence on my thought; Venice represents the grammar of my language.
Mala tempora currunt. Yes, we are going through hard times, for our physical and mental health, for the economy, for social stability. It is a planetary crisis. In a world that is no longer the same, that is changing and we do not know how, in order not to succumb we decided to change ourselves first. Instead of letting ourselves be overwhelmed by paralyzing fear, we tried to react by pursuing a dream. Relying on the overwhelming force of dreams.
A new section is always an act of love. To readers, to whom the solemnity of definitive judgement is reserved; to the plots of art, which have never been so uncertain and confused as in this delicate period; to ourselves, to measure the parameters of our independence and the thrill of our writing.
