Rewind 003 | Lea Vergine | Art as a Mirror of Fears and Desires
b'For the second time speaker at FAR, Lea Vergine focuses her intervention on the figure of the artist within the social context. Taking up one of her best-known publications such as Body as Language, she describes the artists as those who "manage - and so do we - to get around the knots of life, to drift along the tangents of the question at stake which is basically always the same: the fear and trouble of living\\u201d.\\nQuoting Mario Fortunato, curator of the Ratti Lectures\\u2019 cycle: \\u201cthe idea was to address the theme of contemporary art, one rightly or wrongly considered too difficult or elitist, starting from keywords with a direct and clear meaning \\u2013 fear and desire, in this case.\\u201d\\nThen, Lea Vergine briefly addresses other pressing issues, such as the relationship between fashion and art, the globalization of art with particular reference to the East and a critical analysis of the contemporary art system, starting from the interference between the figure of the art critic and that of the curator.\\n\\n03.04.2009, Archive Fondazione Antonio Ratti\\nLanguage: Italian\\nTo download the english translation visit: http://www.fondazioneratti.org/pressKit/87/rewind_003_lea_vergine'