by alessandro butera may 5, 2022
I am annoyed by this modus strongly conditioned by factors that are anything but artistic, of making art today.
Given that to "be", to exist in short, you must "be visible", with all the following obsessive compulsive illnesses deriving from this need which would be equivalent to being present at any cost on the various social media etc. etc.
My question and I ask you is the usual one and it is the one that has always been asked by many, at least since Marcel Duchamp changes the cards on the table and is the following: What is art and what is not?
Considering that for some time I seem to notice that the prevailing idea consists in the fact that it is enough to emulate a fact, a brand, a logo, a popular work, and that this alone is enough ... to become an artist. So taking advantage of the banal principles of elementary psychology of "similitude and authority", it seems natural that I assume luster, importance, precisely by tracing the prestige, value of this or that "Vuitton or Prada or even Dollar or Banksy on duty.
The resulting equivalence is therefore the following: important logo or famous work, is equal to “I am an important and prestigious artist.
We have therefore passed from the brilliant intuition of Andy Warhol that we all know as the famous 15 minutes of fame, highlighted and elevated to art as a banal moment in everyone's life can be art in and of itself, so a detergent like Brillo it becomes art rather than the stereotype of the image of Marilyn Monroe or David Bowie being art in itself. And this, long live God, is an established concept that has been present in the art world for more than 70 years.
The distortion, in what is happening today, would seem the exact opposite! In other words, the artist, by emulating the brend or the important work, appropriates their visibility, importance and prestige with the aim of elevating himself and his work to art.
In this delusional context, I decided to take a stand, take sides and strongly decided the collector with the new idea of: "being an art myself", therefore, in convinced opposition to this clumsy attempt to appear, take advantage, make use of for pleasure and be there at all costs, I decided instead to "be worth" and to impose myself as an artist, simply because I am, or I decided to be! And everything underwater from what I create and from the feedback I have on the collector, I am worth as: "I am an artist" and so? Overcoming the wonderful concept of Manzoni and his "artist shit" which, even if symbolic and conceptual in the end, is philosophically and materially supported by matter, therefore the can containing his presumed or real feces, I decided to evolve the concept making it purely theoretical and virtual. The provocation therefore becomes: today my essence is art, therefore, even just my name or everything I am or do is art "!
At this point the step is short, the value is no longer absolute measurable and conventional. There is no longer a hypothetical gold to measure the value of my doing but only the ability to calculate, to think it, becomes the true absolute value ... Crypto currency, nft ...?
Well ... And so my purely academic and symbolic crypto currency is born: "The Wawakiki Art Coin, by Butera"
Every revolution has always had its tangibles, so by objectifying my concept, I created symbols a physical and simply symbolic coin consisting of a limited edition bas-relief with all the typical peculiarities of the minting coin apart from the very important difference that here the I attribute value arbitrarily.
The work is made in p.l.a. biodegradable finished, colored and signed by hand. The dimensions are cm. 20X20 height cm. 3.5 resulting in fact a unique work.
#nft, #cryptoart, #popart.
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05 May 2022
