The beneficial virtues of creative proteins.
Recent studies accredited by the artistic community have shown that the properties of creative milk are extraordinarily superior to those of ordinary cow’s milk.
Source of cultural enrichment and intellectual stimulation, if taken regularly, in fact, creative milk is able to stimulate the imagination, nourishing our life with beauty and providing us with all the energy our mind and body need to feel better.
Anyone who met me knows that, in addition to being a wine lover, I am also a great creative milk drinker. I have always liked to enjoy it during a break outside of my work commitments, on weekends and on all occasions of escape from the daily routine. A real panacea for those like me who have worked for many years in companies filled with packaged and standardized thoughts.
Creative milk is a completely different story.
It is not found on supermarket shelves, but in all those places where artists express themselves freely and leave their mark: museums, building facades, galleries, squares, city centers, small villages, but also former industrial areas such as Porto Marghera of which I spoke in one of my last FRAdays.
My long break at the 59th Venice International Art Exhibition.
Visiting the 59th International Art Exhibition at the Giardini and Arsenale in Venice was like being a little child again. Its title “The Milk of Dreams” fascinated and intrigued me even before my arrival, bringing my mind back to my childhood memories populated by fantastic creatures and fueled by an insatiable curiosity.
As Cecilia Alemani, curator of the exhibition explains, the title is a declared homage to Leonora Carrington‘s fairytale book: “the surrealist artist describes a magical world in which life is constantly reinvented through the prism of the imagination and in which it is allowed to change, to transform, to become other than oneself”. Ph
An exciting and introspective journey that catapulted me into places where only the imagination of the artists on display could take me, stimulating the visitors of the various exhibition pavilions to go beyond the work and question themselves about the change taking place both outside and inside us.
In my journey into the world of dreams, I was very impressed by the sculptures of Simone Leigh exhibited in the US pavilion: a large body of work resulting from her reflection on race and the study on the construction of black female subjectivity, using pre-modern and contemporary sculptural techniques.
Another space that caught my attention was the Italian Pavilion entrusted to a single artist: Gian Maria Tosatti. To tell the truth, initially I had the classic sensation of something already seen, perhaps because it is linked to the industrial past that is still very much alive in our collective memory and imagination. The large structures that populate “Stories of the Night” and “Destiny of the Comets” have exactly this purpose: to make us walk nostalgically through a past that no longer exists, to the notes of the romantic song “Senza Fine” by Gino Paoli that echo in the distance.
From the past I found myself catapulted into the post-apocalyptic and humanity-free world of Sandra Mujinga. A room illuminated with neon green light, populated by strange figures of humanoid-like ghosts, dressed in rags and deprived of all substance.
To find some inner peace and tranquility, I entered the exciting greenhouse garden where Precious Okoyomon‘s sculptures made with living materials and arranged against the background of a field of wild plants are exhibited.
Being a lover of Asian art, I certainly couldn’t miss the works of Korean artist Yunchul Kim who has created a universe where his installations are constantly changing and are influenced by cosmic events, atmosphere, light and nature.
Not to mention the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo who, through the use of fluorescent colors, manages to make every natural form surprisingly shiny and refined, transforming even a simple flower into an extraordinary modern creation.
This weekend let’s enjoy some healthy creativity.
The path taken in the Biennale should be savored in small sips to be better digested and internalized. That’s why I decided to share my personal experience in two distinct FRAdays.
The first, online today, is dedicated to the exhibitions visited in the Giardini and the Arsenale.
The following one, planned for next week, focuses on two particular artists who have created in me conflicting reactions and emotions, of which I do not want to anticipate anything just so as not to spoil the surprise effect.
If you have not yet entered the Biennale and want to enjoy a preview, you will find my photo tour on the Facebook and Instagram channels.
Keep Dreaming. Today is FRAday.
