No one, more than she, knows how to mold respect for life, beyond its skin. No one, more than she, creates beauty from the non-zone of the margin. On a journey between respect and its opposite, O13 meets Berlinde De Bruyckere.
Yesterday an academic background in Agricultural Sciences, today one of the most acclaimed artists on the international scene. Ossigeno 12 met Carsten Höller, who took us on a path - the one of his unmistakable imagery - to investigate the shelter offered by his art both to the human right to the land, and to the sacrosanct rights of the land.
The white surrounding the exterior of this Ossigeno issue also concludes its interior through the photographic series by Angelo Del Negro, immersed in the White Beaches of Rosignano, boldly renamed the Caribbean of Livorno. However, white sand and crystal clear water are nothing but the fake Paradise of the spill of bleaching agents by the nearby Solvay. Because appearances can sometimes be deceiving.
The introductory chapter of a path of reflection that Ossigeno here undertakes on the intimate relationship between human rights and contemporary art, between the body and the shelter, because critical thought is humankind's greatest line of defense.
To be outside, to be under, to be against, in order to give voice to the different. Ethics is the beating heart of aesthetics when it has the courage, freedom and power to be anarchist, neither indifferent nor complacent, becoming voice of the Third Landscape.
We immerse ourselves in the aesthetics of water and its symbolic power through the meeting with Gian Maria Tosatti – to whom, in 2022, Italy has entrusted its largest artistic institutions, the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadrennial – choosing him as a bright beacon to investigate the shelter that his art has offered to water as a universal right, and to culture as interdisciplinary fluidity.