Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Back to Basics program / JULY 2022<br />
Antonio Caruso<br />
Italy<br />
About<br />
I am an aspiring curator living among Venice, Italy, and<br />
Aarhus, Denmark, but with southern Italian roots.<br />
My main interests are in conceiving and curating<br />
contemporary art, mainly visual arts, and how they relate to<br />
cultural heritage, as well as the very definition of cultural as<br />
everything that comes from the human sense, including the<br />
way the perceptions and interactions with the surroundings.<br />
Art as a practice of transversal relationship and<br />
unconventional investigation is the creation of a hybrid<br />
space where contents find new hierarchies, skills have to<br />
be transformed into practices and thus a context has to be<br />
generated. It is often a matter of finding new questions rather<br />
than giving old answers.<br />
Engaging the community and observers through arts-based<br />
interventions is another relationship practice that interests<br />
me. It helps to constantly redefine the role creativity has for<br />
society and individuals and thus its dynamic transmission as<br />
a vehicle of civilisation.<br />
Inspiring Butterflies<br />
My time at <strong>Arteles</strong> was extraordinary for the inspirational<br />
quietness it brought me and for the contact I recovered with<br />
myself, paradoxically precisely through interactions with<br />
others. These interactions are ontogenetically based on<br />
original and transversal bonds, the deepest manifestation of<br />
the conflict between Ego and Es that occur both inwardly<br />
and also outwardly. And where for once the role of the artist<br />
in the hic et nunc counts more than that of the art work in the<br />
space of reality.<br />
As social animals, we often forget the importance of returning<br />
to the essential, not in the sense of solitude, but as the<br />
essential of the relationships of affection and understanding<br />
on which the bonds of creativity should be based. The search<br />
for the obsession proper to the contemporary artist never<br />
fails, and so the curator’s eye never ceases to look and really<br />
see what is part of a creative process. The artist, in fact, is<br />
not only a creative person, one who brings creativity and<br />
invective. The artist is above all a creator, those who create,<br />
who have the ability to mould the mind and bind it to matter.<br />
In this period of my life, I have been able to talk, confront,<br />
research, experiment, participate, help and perhaps even<br />
advise. Always aware of my role and what belongs to it, as<br />
well as what does not.<br />
Every young person who works or wants to work in the field<br />
of art, creativity and culture should have such an experience<br />
in a small catalytic universe as <strong>Arteles</strong> Creative Center is.