For love's more important and powerful than
Even a priest or a politician.
..............................
W.H. Auden
"KAUFFMANN 0.7...The Trash becomes art"
is an Angela Caporaso exposure
for the Angelica Kauffmann death's bicentennial
a Swiss painter who exhaled on November the 5th, 1807.
The exposure is part of the cultural demonstration
AUTUNNO MUSICALE 2007
Suoni & Luoghi d’Arte / Itinerari Barocchi & Altro
With contribution of:
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e della
Regione Campania / Presidenza della Giunta
Regione Campania / Assessorato al Turismo
The exposure was realized in November 2007,
in Capua - Palazzo Fazio - to the Capuanova Cooperativa Culturale.
The whole artistic work is realized from re-elaborated garbage; above all plastic dishes and bottles , all unrecyclable materials, in a world overpowered by the commodities and information, for the artist, recovery TRASH becomes a primary necessity. In this way, inactive materials become symbol of quotation and, to the meantime, provocation and report to the society. It is carrier of sense and metaphor of the problem of the overabundance refusals. ''I have done my duty as I was perfect chemist: you have given to me your mud and I have made gold of it '' said Baudelaire, and how, an artist from Campania, who lives daily in every sort of garbage, doesn't say the same ? As a true alchemist, the creativity turns the unused into a suffered and transfigured work of art, budded together by the works of the eighteenth-century Angelica Kauffmann. On the artwork, with the Kauffmann there are also some postposts to Goethe and E.Vigée Le Brun, always accompanied to Winnie The Pooh, an ironic icon of our decadent post-modern society. The mocking presence of the disney 's bear, makes ridiculous History and Mith, Art and Knowledge, The Ancient and The Contemporary. Finally, THE FLOWERS OF THE WAR: horrifying eyes and mouths budded from torned limbs. It's the repetitive and obsessive Caporaso-Logo, just because war is around us, and it's impossible to ignore it.
Alberto Buzzo