CAPRA! (GOAT!)
"This is the sculpture that won 1st prize at the X edition of the Italian National Art Prize in 2013. It is shown at the Museum of “il Cassero for the Italia's Sculpture of 19th and 20th Centuries“ in Montevarchi, Tuscany.
This sculpture exhibited at in the miscellaneous hall of Museum, surrounded by portraits of the permanent collection with which the sculpture seems to speak. It is the bust of a man with a goat’s head made in fibreglass and fabric.
The polychrome of this work, which characterizes all the works on show, is a result of the need for realism and linked to the ancient pictorial technique practised by the artist. The idea was born from Vittorio Sgarbi, a famous art critic who repeats the word “Capra!” insistently and at length every time someone disagrees with him. The word “Capra!” indicates Man’s ignorance, lack of basic truth and lack of knowledge.
Therefore it is clear that “Capra!” (GOAT!) is the manifestation of Man’s refusal to see the horrors which afflict contemporary society. However, the presence of the Red Lion, symbol of the Venice Biennial present on the pocket of the figure’s jacket gives the work another dimension.
The figure denounces the system and the target this time seem to be the Art world- especially the world of official, international shows. These are elite places where talent is not always necessary in order to become famous, and where money interests and business deals dominate, even though they have little to do with genuine artistic creativity.
The work has an apparently ironic form but, in reality, it is also representative of an existential condition in which the visible is illusionary and misleading.
According to Schopenhauer the illusion covers the face of things, hiding their true authentic nature. According to Pirandello external reality , despite being unique and unchangeable, hides one hundred thousand realities - as many as there are people who invariably hide behind a mask.
The artworks of Fatima Messana come from the profound need to communicate social unease: her sculptures are “direct” and strongly conceptual or, as she loves to define them, pure visions, expressions which rise independently from her inner life."
Critical Text by Federica Marrubini
This sculpture exhibited at in the miscellaneous hall of Museum, surrounded by portraits of the permanent collection with which the sculpture seems to speak. It is the bust of a man with a goat’s head made in fibreglass and fabric.
The polychrome of this work, which characterizes all the works on show, is a result of the need for realism and linked to the ancient pictorial technique practised by the artist. The idea was born from Vittorio Sgarbi, a famous art critic who repeats the word “Capra!” insistently and at length every time someone disagrees with him. The word “Capra!” indicates Man’s ignorance, lack of basic truth and lack of knowledge.
Therefore it is clear that “Capra!” (GOAT!) is the manifestation of Man’s refusal to see the horrors which afflict contemporary society. However, the presence of the Red Lion, symbol of the Venice Biennial present on the pocket of the figure’s jacket gives the work another dimension.
The figure denounces the system and the target this time seem to be the Art world- especially the world of official, international shows. These are elite places where talent is not always necessary in order to become famous, and where money interests and business deals dominate, even though they have little to do with genuine artistic creativity.
The work has an apparently ironic form but, in reality, it is also representative of an existential condition in which the visible is illusionary and misleading.
According to Schopenhauer the illusion covers the face of things, hiding their true authentic nature. According to Pirandello external reality , despite being unique and unchangeable, hides one hundred thousand realities - as many as there are people who invariably hide behind a mask.
The artworks of Fatima Messana come from the profound need to communicate social unease: her sculptures are “direct” and strongly conceptual or, as she loves to define them, pure visions, expressions which rise independently from her inner life."
Critical Text by Federica Marrubini
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