«Satyr Dance No.1» Sculpture

«I believe that art and thinking are precisely the same f***g thing, and both require not only a particular talent, like ages ago, but now also an extreme heteronymy as a supreme form of artistic practice, as a supreme fundament of any form of art, and all of that transforms by now the artist/philosopher into a poet/histrion, a mask of all possible subjects, like a modern Proteus. That’s why we must violate the essence of language through our art, to put it in some way, make it say what otherwise could not have been said in any f***g way. We must thus demonstrate the absurdity of language, but fundamentally of all that “logical” world that governs us, of all that logography, so to speak, which is the dictate of our world. It’s something that reduces the ancient lógos, that condemns it to a his merely historical appearance. But there’s something beyond that, you know that Wittgenstein himself finally denounced that modern “logical” ascendancy on the understanding of language. It’s the duty of the artist to settle in that “beyond”. Only by that we can transform by art the essence of modernity, the «cogito». Which means finally that we must destroy the technology of the identity, cause the police are the self. So, this is a mask, my mask; art as a mask, as histrionism; the truth as an art, that’s the challenge. What's art if not the most radical rebellion?» Interview, 2020