Message at The Di Tella This message is addressed to the small group of creators, simulators, critics and promoters; this is, to those who are committed with their talent, intelligence, their economic interest or status, or stupidity, to the so called “avant-garde art.” To those that methodically attempt to have their “cultural shower” at the Di Tella and to the general public. The avant-garde is the current of thought that constantly denies art and constantly recognizes history. In this path of simultaneous affirmation and denial, art and life have become intertwined to until they became inseparable. All the phenomena in social life have become aesthetic material: fashion, industry and technology, mass media, etc. “There is not any more aesthetic contemplation because aesthetics dissolve into social life.” Thus, there is an ever-present fight, necessary, bloody and beautiful, for the creation of the new world. And the avant-garde cannot avoid asserting history, asserting the just and heroic violence of this fight. The future of art is not linked to the creation of artworks, but to the definition of new life concepts; and the artist becomes the propagandist for these concepts. “Art” is not relevant at all: what matters is life. This is the history of the years to come. It is the creation of the most gigantic collective work of art in history: the conquest of the earth, of the liberty by mankind. Roberto Jacoby
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