003 - Campo Rom, Secondigliano 1999 Print - Limited Edition of 50

Politically Incorrect Art. Excerpt from the Parresiarte Manifesto A void seems to have seduced the souls of artists, conformed to the other-directed flattening of dissidence. Deprived of the art of opposing the barbarism of state abuses and engaged in pleasing the funders of commonplaces. Indifferent and complicit aphasia on canvas and in the square. Art is intimately linked to freedom, as creativity draws from the source of freedom of expression. In tyrannical epoch, art represents the inalienable part of unlimited human creativity and the will for truth and freedom. Long live the free gesture, instinct, and the irrational that exorcise the creative immobilism of authoritarian periods, but the historical moment requires creatively reaffirming freedom and truth, as critical thinking and doubt, foundational elements of reason, are adrift today. We reject the schemes of political opportunism; we know we will be attacked, but we do not desist from the desire for a society based on non-authoritarian principles, and we use expressiveness as a means of human emancipation and its free political imagination. Placing ourselves in the groove of the ancient virtue of parrhesia, from a position of subalternity, we have the courage of truth and spit it in the face of power. We navigate political discourse on the ship of art. Parresiart is the art responsible for freedom. The poetics of parresiart expresses the inner reality provoked by authoritarian policies implemented with shock by intergenerational and transnational criminals who decide behind closed doors the fate of billions of individuals. Artistic resistance, far from pure art and the good intentions of the social function—often declined as mere propaganda of cultural structures—bursts into the heart of the vertical struggle, delves into fundamental issues, brings emotions and thoughts influenced by the observation of the political environment to the surface. This must be reaffirmed by an art that rediscovers the taste of semantic and pragmatic rebellion, subversive of the prevailing illogical and in rejection of politically correct canons of globalist Agendas and, consequently, toothless arts. Parresiart does not want to educate but to dis-educate, to deconstruct the archipelago of institutionalized meanings. A pragmatic function that stimulates political critical thinking through the use of the art object, which makes one doubt what is considered right or inevitable.