aftermath of the long legal battle for the permanence of the artworks in Castel di Tusa, Antonio Presti takes yet another great action and artistic foray. In the district of Librino stands a door, the door of beauty created by local children and artists. It has some things to say and a lot of others waiting to take him to turn them into future action.
Francesco Luciani: May 15, 2009 was a memorable day of consecration of years of effort and work, how did you live now?
Antonio Presti: I felt happy because it was a gift shared with the whole neighborhood, with children and mothers represent a great job of planting and as wants another crop sowing the seeds of beauty may fail to recapture values \u200b\u200bto all citizens and children through the rediscovery of inner beauty. The beauty of I'm talking about has nothing to do with recovery, but turns to the future and can educate the new generations to a practice of doing and not ask.
Francesco Luciani: I'd like to know what it represents to you the district Librino and future goals which are contained in the "Terzocchio / Meridians of Light?
Antonio Presti: The neighborhood of the so-called periphery Librino is at risk, the utopian city that in the years '60 and '70 were made in Italy and satellite towns and utopian have been relegated to bedroom communities. Small book has 100,000 inhabitants and 10,000 children and can not remain inert to his "being at risk." So choose the path of art and beauty also means choosing the way of important tools such as that of knowledge. The donation of the Third Eye-Meridian Museum of Light wants to contribute to the position of a new consciousness and awareness. The Museum will acquire value every two years and two years will help to make Librino a district famous in the world because there is a willingness to exploit the proximity of the airport, creating a cultural and tourist-induced transformation of the territory.
Francesco Luciani: taking account of your long experience with art and artists, what is or should be the function of the artist in society today?
Antonio Presti: Unfortunately, the Arts, in the last twenty years, was approved against a system that was in the economic logic of its value in being, the artist has lost his ceasing to be a witness conductor of beauty and has less of a commitment to political, social and civic life. My biggest criticism of the art world has to stop to be self-respect to your system, but also to choose the way of "doing" that can find places on the outskirts of the true contemporary. The art would thus have at its disposal all the major suburbs national regaining a role not only aesthetic but also social. The artists should get rid of this "system be" free itself from a limited condition that comes from the creative industry critics, art dealers and museums. Under this, all that has been theorized in the past twenty years, I think, speaking of contemporary, he has no reason to exist. The artist has to regain its respect for the sacredness of their time as the art and beauty should not be touched by that money, but spending by major acts of devotion. If there is a system that speaks of beauty and appearance can be no other system is the artist that his testimony may recontact emotional states. An art that does not go for information, but for emotional states. All those present were excited to Librino confirming the manifestation of art in its honesty regaining the things of the soul and spirituality in our society that, unfortunately, have imploded.
Francesco Luciani: The Gate of Beauty has seen the involvement of young artists: the children. What are your intentions with respect to young artists, those who begin their path and increasingly need to be supported?
Antonio Presti: My intention is the value of planting and growth in the future that is its raison d'etre of the one part and then the children and other young artists to share the achievement of work in aesthetics and ethics. I can support young artists with my testimony a commitment to honest and creative acts that not only must represent themselves as sculpture, pitta or any other language, but it must surely be an event of recapture of a common spirituality.
Francesco Luciani: public art and contemporary art in general is often misunderstood by society, what do you think?
Antonio Presti: I think this speech is part of the old system that was and did not manifest itself. Let me give you an example: it's like to work, an Librino monumental sculpture of a great artist and is said to the inhabitants that this is the beauty and art and that this will change the neighborhood. Does not exist. The district would have a violent reaction and ask the meaning wondering if that action is the art and beauty and are convinced that nothing will change. Following the work is attacked or not recognized as the value of beauty. B Instead, we have represented in the art that is art Librino shared people's hearts is a way of being and expression, social art that is the beauty of sharing.
Francesco Luciani: Despite your long and courageous struggle for the affirmation of art and beauty, because the relationship between institutions and languages \u200b\u200bof contemporary art is still so difficult?
Antonio Presti: It 's difficult because there is a power that the masses prefer to have free thought, but only polite to spend and borrow and have debitit the only problem. E 'in place an economic dictatorship that wants to deconstruct the value of thought rather than the need to recontact the conscience and give new generations the tools of freedom passing through the culture. Institutions and politics have a duty re-design the future that is unthinkable without conscience and without culture.
Francesco Luciani: field of your actions is Sicily, you see the new and emerging generations of artists in Sicily?
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