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SPREAD YOUR WINGS, BABE/ art connections : klein – pedrini, cosmic energy and freedom

Wings between visual art and music.

 

Art is made to overfly. To get rid of the daily life powder, and fly high.

Music is spirit without body , said  Schopenhauer.

‘Give me wings, give me space’, wrote David Bowie, later, in a song. Wings : an immortal symbol of something ‘high’, pure and cosmic.

Mix all these elements , and you’ll  have  the perfect connection between visual art and music; a connection made of freedom, essentially .

There is a great love for Anarchy and cosmic energy, both in Yves Klein and in italian rockstar Omar Pedrini.

No rules, but freedom, feelings,   life in its essence.

In colours and in rock’n’roll.

Yves Klein is  one of the most famous  artists known for his  spiritual research in  the arts , mixing music and painting : while an orchestra was playing  an oriental music ( Klein was enchanted by zen values), his models, painted with his mesmerising BLUE KLEIN PIGMENT,  left traces on paper called ‘anthropometries’ , to celebrate an immaterial state of lightness, cosmic energy, life  ‘in progress’ .

This happens in a rock concert,too,  where the energy is flowing and dinamic,  in  Klein’s  art everything is in  the ‘happening’, his paintings (the anthropometries) are  just, to him, the dusts of his art (a sort of memory of the energy gone).

Energy, music, primary instincts. He wants art to be immaterial: to be and not to appear.

 

Is there anything  closer to music than this ?

It is all so evident in the  traces of  his ‘blue  wings’ : human  wings, like the Nike’s ones, in a sort of ‘vital rush’, a visual ode to fly upon the material world.  So Sixties/Seventies .

Music (rock music) leaves traces on the soul, too:  that’s why you can see two guitars with wings on the t-shirt of a true, inspired italian rockstar , Omar Pedrini ,  a guitar like a gothic rock angel . They are the symbol of that kind of energy Klein was looking for . In both  cases they are symbols of the same research :  artists that are looking for Lightness,  against the gravity , “swimming in the air”, just in the arms of  artistic inspiration .

Pedrini’s songs talks about   that kleinesque  inspiration from the Energy : “vado via con me verso oriente” (I go away, with me, to the East), “sarò acqua che si disseta da sé, Io e me vento che si rincorre” (And I will be water that quenches itself, Me and me,  wind that  chases itself).  Yves Klein has said : “I wish to play with human feeling, with its ‘morbidity” and “ I painted some monochrome surfaces just to ‘see’ with my own eyes absolute freedom!”.

Lots in common : Space, natural elements, emotions in sound or colours. Sometime visual art is spiritual, and music, viceversa, gives visions.  These are the great connections  that different Arts can generate.

 

Day is blue

silence is green

life is yellow;

light traces,

lines, and never ends…YKlein

 

Anthropometries, Yves Klein,

Omar Padrini , photo by Giovanna Tagliati .

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CONNECTING IDEAS /Art market conference london 6/09/18

Some Art inspires because it is a sort of bet : it changes our perception, it is a ‘knock’, an open door on different visions, different approach to art itself, life, identity, relationships.

Here some inspiring art from different artists, times and countries. In common, it has this powerful factor : think differentely.

 

The Amazing woman and brilliant collector Valeria Napoleone at the art market conference in London few days ago .
She says the best words a great collector can say :
“I don’t buy for investment. I buy what i believe is great . I buy excellence …i buy what i enjoy and what i love “. In a market where the key world is the ‘Nobody knows’ rule, the best thing is buying for the love of the artwork .

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It is a relationship that goes well, the blink between art and fashion .

There is a young girl, seated. She wears the colours of Expressionism in her little dress, in strong yellow and black colours , a burning green ground and a sofa in electric blue. There is ‘fire’ in the room, but it is a sort of early psychedelia, in a darker way, with melancholy, spleen and blues inside. There is a cat, like in a Balthus atmosphere, but there is no sexy gaze, no sexy attitude. There is a poetry inside the room, inside the woman . It is the ideal girl of the group, that wanted to open the mouth to man’s heart.

Prada, many years later. More than 100 years later. You can’t find that fire that corrupts and that kind of consumption, but you don’t find the typical fashion girl . You find a young lady that has a bag in her hands and not  a cat, and chic black , not screaming colours . But it is art that Prada wants to put in his ideal buyer mind , it is a dress made for women with soul and brain. .

In an art system where the word brand is so important ( Damien Hirst says ‘you have to be brand, because this is our world, otherwise you’re out ), this is one of a kind connection.

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CONNECTING IDEAS / don’t treat me like an object

Some Art inspires because it is a sort of bet : it changes our perception, it is a ‘knock’, an open door on different visions, different approach to art itself, life, identity, relationships.

Here some inspiring art from different artists, times and countries. In common, it has this powerful factor : think differentely.

 

Patricia Urquiola / Federico Pepe .

Don’t treat me like an object , the object (chair )says .

In the relationship with a seated human being, the object has a sort of ‘soul’ .
It is a game, conceptual art mixed to pure Pop !

It reminds to Pier Paolo Calzolari artworks, his dreamlike chairs, waiting for a visitor and his/her gaze, a glance between the object and the human being  that can evocate whatever you want to dream about  : waiting, nostalgy, absence, presence. Feelings, to cut a long story short.

Here, the object has a poetic witty soul, and invite to …love ? pity? sensitive approach ? But whatever it is, it is about the idea of ‘feeling art’ again, via the light of neon, thinking about the master,  Bruce Naumann.

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CONNECTING IDEAS /after Pistoletto

 

Some Art inspires because it is a sort of bet : it changes our perception, it is a ‘knock’, an open door on different visions, different approach to art itself, life, identity, relationships.

Here some inspiring art from different artists, times and countries. In common, it has this powerful factor : think differentely.

 

 

Michelangelo Pistoletto has chosen his rags, close to a classic Venus, to celebrate his Utopia of a new art outside the art system, made of poor materials and the dream of a new world.
Today, plastic materials for children creates a sort of contemporary giant Totem celebrating Colours.
From Arte Povera to new artists, the dream of freedom is still there .

The dream of a free world, where art can change perception and maybe give the urgence of changing.

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CONNECTING IDEAS /annina roescheisen

Some Art inspires because it is a sort of bet : it changes our perception, it is a ‘knock’, an open door on different visions, different approach to art itself, life, identity, relationships.

Here some inspiring art from different artists, times and countries. In common, it has this powerful factor : think differentely.

After Vanessa Beecroft’s ‘black and white holy motherwood’ , herewe have the brilliant Pop-holy motherwood by the amazing anninaroescheisen : a lovely bear and fauve colours mixed to a Pontormo / Rosso Fiorentino  and a Michelangelo touch .

A mix that to me creates such a new, funny, creative declination of an artistic ‘topos’. From the holy motherwood to the Pity:  Art is creating new things from what you love from the past, someone said .
The putti are little toys, in a mix of sacred and funny elements that evocates the best of modernand  post modern Art . Powerful .

 

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CONNECTING IDEAS /valeria napoleone: buy what you love

Some Art inspires because it is a sort of bet : it changes our perception, it is a ‘knock’, an open door on different visions, different approach to art itself, life, identity, relationships.

Here some inspiring art from different artists, times and countries. In common, it has this powerful factor : think differentely.

 

 

The Amazing woman and brilliant collector Valeria Napoleone at the art market conference in London few days ago (4 SEPT. 2018).
She says the best words a great collector can say :
“I don’t buy for investment. I buy what i believe is great . I buy excellence …i buy what i enjoy and what i love “.

In a market where the key world is the ‘Nobody knows’ rule, the best thing is buying for the love of the artwork .

 

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CONNECTING IDEAS /yves klein

Some Art inspires because it is a sort of bet : it changes our perception, it is a ‘knock’, an open door on different visions, different approach to art itself, life, identity, relationships.

Here some inspiring art from different artists, times and countries. In common, it has this powerful factor : think differentely.

 

Yves le bleu .
A search for the infinite via a mesmerising pigment, a ‘ zen’ key in the West world.
His anthropometries are not only a tribute to feminine beauty, but a dance with the universe, a sort of Doors “Crystal Ship” turned from music to visual art.

It is Jim Morrison  electric lady in colours, the energy of the universe inside a mystic dance made of feminine traces, music and pure flesh .

It is matter and soul , full and empty, visible and invisible.

It is the energy of the sixties revolution.

 

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CONNECTING IDEAS /contemporary art : think different!

Some Art inspires because it is a sort of bet : it changes our perception, it is a ‘knock’, an open door on different visions, different approach to art itself, life, identity, relationships.

Here some inspiring art from different artists, times and countries. In common, it has this powerful factor : think differentely.

Sometime this is what people think about contemporary art .
No entry : danger!
Yes , danger.
It is a door to open the mouth, the heart and the inner self of inviduals and society.
It is a gambler, sometime .
Art is a connection, not a disconnection.
It says ‘no entry’ to the comfort zone, the lack of risk and to fear.
Art is perception and a path to ‘think different ‘.
Thanks to Marzia De Barbieri for the pic from Chicago

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CONNECTING IDEAS / joana vasconcelos : comunication breakdown!

Some Art inspires because it is a sort of bet : it changes our perception, it is a ‘knock’, an open door on different visions, different approach to art itself, life, identity, relationships.

Here some inspiring art from different artists, times and countries. In common, it has this powerful factor : think differentely.

 

Joana Vasconcelos (@artxeurope )
A sort of …Comunication breakdown! Connections are risky : sometime it is a human blackout, relationships turns into nightmares and the game is over. Art says it well :
It is…a gun sometime !

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