FLASHBACK is the exhibition dedicated to ancient and modern art which takes place in Turin in the month of November in the name of the imperative: All Art is Contemporary.
FLASHBACK hosts the best ancient and modern art galleries with the highest quality, which, selected on the basis of the importance of the exhibited artworks, represent change, transformation and originality.
FLASHBACK, as a rhetorical figure of literary narration, proceeds through some rewinding of the narrated history and brings the past into the present.
All art is contemporany, and FLASHBACK sets itself the objective of modifying the perception and image of what has already been historicized. The discrimination is no longer the time that art work was created but rather- its uniqueness and quality. FLASHBACK represents the suggestion of a ‘no-time’ whose main actor is Art.
mv: don’t you believe that contemporary art, founded on the principle of subjectivity, is radically different from ancient one?
gdd: art is actually all contemporary. otherwise it would be like if you see a 1920 car arriving and you decide to cross the road safely, thinking you won’t be invested because that car is from another era. but this is not true. for artworks is the same. they are always ‘alive’.
mv: so according to you there is no difference between a madonna by brunelleschi and a portrait by picabia?
gdd: there is a difference. but they are both contemporary. the work of art is a living thing.
marina valensise interviews gino de dominicis – il foglio, march 20th 1997
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