Author: Paolo

  • Permanent revolution, revolution of money

    Permanent revolution, revolution of money It was supposed to be the end of nigredo, the avant-garde, the last stage, the final self-destruction of the West that chose the devil as its archetypebut a losing character remains a loser foreverthe devil lost the fight against another devila dark being who has taken over every nook and…

  • Picasso’s snake

    Picasso’s snake Picasso is at least as fundamental to the so-called contemporary as Duchamp aesthetics, forms, concepts the contemporary has absorbed everything Picasso, the brilliant Picasso with Georges Braque Picasso developed cubism, so many points of view represented simultaneously he opened the door to abstractionism he deformed and fragmented beauty especially with Guernica he made…

  • Performance

    How it works

  • Feminism, the great deception

    Feminism: the very word we use to refer to it reveals deception Feminism, the great deception Feminism: a word that today is used as a value, a battle, a horizon to pursue. Young girls are convinced they are on the right side by saying “I am a feminist,” just as much as older women and…

  • Jon Fosse and I talking in Dante’s basilica (video)

    Jon Fosse and I got together to talk about big topics in Dante’s basilica Jon Fosse and Dante The 2023 Nobel laureate for literature accepted to receive the Dante’s Laurel, the poetic prize that I run and that is awarded every year in the basilica of San Francesco in Ravenna, Dante’s basilica, the one where…

  • José Rizal Heritage Award: I am among the 2023 winners

    José Rizal Heritage Award: I am among the 2023 winners I was awarded, as the only Italian, the international José Rizal Heritage Award in the ‘cultural achievements’ category by the Swiss foundation of the same name, chaired by Lady Estrelleta Borda Ruppert, also president of the Ladies of Rizal in Switzerland, and Sir Stephan Urs…

  • Terry Gilliam receives a calligram from me

    Terry Gilliam receives a calligram from me On January 4, 2019, at a screening of his film “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” organized by the Umbria Film Festival, I had the opportunity to meet and get to know the great director Terry Gilliam. A former member of Monty Python, the group that revolutionized world…

  • A poem for Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça

    A poem for Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça On June 24, 2023, I was received in audience at the Hermitage of Camaldoli by His Eminence Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, that is, a kind of minister of culture to the Pope. The son of a fisherman who…

  • A postcontemporary work of mine at the Rinaldo Zardini Paleontological Museum in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

    I donated my post-contemporary work entitled “When the Mountains Had Not Yet Raised Their Heads” to the Paleontological Museum in Cortina d’Ampezzo. In the presence of Regole d’Ampezzo President Stefano Gaspari, the donation ceremony took place. It is a multimedia mosaic poem, that is, a mosaic in which is inserted a QR code from which,…

  • Post-contemporary: what features?

    Post-contemporary: what characteristics must art have to already address the future? The lie of the contemporary The word “contemporary” is itself a lie. The instant we utter it, it has already been devoured by the past. But it has become an even bigger lie in recent decades, when instead of defining a chronological condition it…