Philosophycal background for the 'fundación'.
Promote exhibitions, studies and art initiatives, with an emphasis on
expressionism and based on the human figure as a central theme. We prefer art
with a strong social commitment.
The creed of the Foundation is an art that contributes to the positive change of
the human condition.
Philosophy
María Zambrano Alarcón (Málaga, 1904 -
Madrid, 1991)
"The characteristic of man is to
open a path - says María Zambrano - because by doing so he puts his being into
exercise"
A method is a path, a path through which one begins to walk. The curious
thing here is that the discovery of this path is not different from the action
itself that must lead to the fulfillment of the person who performs it. The
characteristic of man is to open a path, says Zambrano, because by doing so he
exercises his being; man himself is the way.
The ethical action par excellence is to open the way, and this means
providing a mode of visibility, since what is properly human is not so much
seeing as giving to see, establishing the framework through which vision - a
certain vision - is possible. Ethical action, then, as well as knowledge, since
by drawing the frame a horizon opens, and the horizon, when it clears, provides
a space for visibility.
Ernst Fischer (Austrian, 1899 - 1972)
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also
reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art
must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Paul Kingsnorth - 2018 (English, 1972)
Something is wrong deep down in our
civilization, in the growth and progress myths that we hold dear, and that is
not going to change, because we prefer to fall asleep with false solutions, such
as sustainability, just so as not to break with our lifestyle.
We must stop talking about the environment or nature, as if that is something
separate from us, outside of ourselves, that we can stop, analyze and then
control. Let us accept that we have gone too far, that our civilization is
coming to an end. Yes, we are going to the abyss.
But the
environmental movement is still waiting for us to save the world with some
treaty or some clean technology. But they forget one thing: people don't want to
hear the truth at all. And the greens? They have been encapsulated. Their fight
against the continued destruction of the world through our unlimited consumption
is now called 'sustainability', worse: CO2 reduction. While we all feel that
there is a great fall. Our empire is being eroded from within.
"We live in a time of social, economic and ecological disintegration and we want
to face this reality with honesty."
"We believe that the roots of these crises lie in the stories we tell
ourselves: the myth of progress, the myth of man at the center of everything,
and the myth of the separation between people and nature ".
" It attracts me more and more, the idea that there are at least small places
where, the character, the beauty and the meaning of life remain." If I can
protect one of them against devastation. That may be enough."
Art is a way of seeing the abyss in the eyes. As a form of shame processing.
Lev Nikoláievich Tolstói - 1887 In
a letter dated 1887 to Romain Rolland, a French writer (Clamecy, Nièvre, January
29, 1866 - Vézelay, December 30, 1944). Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 Yasnaia
Polyana, Russia - 1910 in Astápovo) continued to present his ideas on art.
Only that has value, he said, that unites men; the only artist that counts is
the artist who makes a sacrifice for his convictions. The precondition of all
true calling must be, not love for art, but love for humanity. Those who are
filled with such love can hope that sometime, as artists, they can do something
worth doing. Dominico
Losurdo (1941 – 2018), was an Italian historian, essayist,
Marxist philosopher, and communist politician, about
Stalin
Stalin sees the 20th century as
a battle between colonianism and anti-colonianism.
Hitler had from the very beginning
planned to take up again the colonial tradition and to implement it in Eastern
Europe and especially in Russia, ‘savaged’ by the victory of Bolshevism; on the
other side from the beginning Stalin called his country to face the danger of
colonial subjugation and interpreted precisely from this point of view the
Bolshevist Revolution. Even if without any straightforward idea, Stalin began to
recognize the essential characteristics of the millennium that had just
commenced. On the wave of the October Revolution Lenin hoped that the exclusive
or the main object of the 20th century will be the battle between capitalismon
the one side and socialism / communism on the other: The colonialworld was in
the meantime completely occupied by the capitalist powers and each new partition
followed the initiative of the defeated or ‘disadvantaged’ countries would lead
to a new World War and would represent a further step in the direction of the
definitive destruction of the capitalist system: The conquest of the new
socialist order is immediately on the order of the day. But Hitler made an
unexpected move: He recognized in Eastern Europe and especially in Soviet Russia
the still free colonial space which is at the disposal of the German Reich yet
to be erected. Similarly behaved the Japanese empire that invaded China and
fascist Italy that (with the exception of Ethiopia) aimed at the Balkans
andGreece. Stalin started to realize that the 20th century would be marked, in
opposition to all expectations, by a clash between colonialism and
anti-colonialism (supported and promoted by the communist movement) in Europe.
On the other side, Stalin welcomes
and supports the cultural rebirth of the national minorities of Eastern Europe
that have been suppressed for so long. Telling are the observations that he made
on the 10th party congress of the Russian Communist Party in 1921: “About fifty
years ago all Hungarian towns bore a German character; now they have become
Magyarised”; also the “Byelorussians” experience an “awakening.”
Stalin underlines that socialism does not at all signify the vanishing of
national languages and particularities but leads to their further development
and evolvement. Each “policy of assimilation” was therefore to be condemned to
be “anti-popular” and “counter-revolutionary”: It is particularly “fatal,”
because it does not comprehend “the colossal power of stability possessed by
nations”. “If one seeks declaring war on national culture” one is “an advocate
of colonization”.
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