{"id":15521,"date":"2024-12-11T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=15521"},"modified":"2024-12-18T22:53:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:53:13","slug":"poem-by-matteo-preabianca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=15521","title":{"rendered":"poem by Matteo Preabianca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The dilemma of artist&#8217;s dress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Painters, like Antonio Tapies, appear to be bank clerks, but as I observe other painters,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">they wear the same clothes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All in jackets and ties, with the same boring haircut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doubt crept into my mind. So I began searching for photos of writers, composers, and various artists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Externally, they are ordinary people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They don&#8217;t need to transform their bodies into conceptual art because they have the artwork within themselves!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So what is the difference between you and them? Shame and instinct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0You have the former, they the latter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We, however, are out of the ordinary games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our gazes are like tears in canvases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They serve to look through reality, not to surrender to it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Perhaps, the artist dresses like this for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>They don&#8217;t need to be original because their works are<\/li>\n<li>They fear being judged as time-wasters too<\/li>\n<li>They don&#8217;t have much money or simply don&#8217;t value it<\/li>\n<li>They don&#8217;t give a damn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So fashion isn&#8217;t art, but expensive charlatanism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;d like to see an elementary school teacher with purple hair, at least two earrings on their face, maybe a tattoo on their neck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instead, they&#8217;re often boring, frustrated women dressed like elderly ladies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Or they dress too much like women, attracting the attention of young students&#8217; penises.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But society is fine with this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Everyone locked in their own compartment: artists, teachers, poets, railway workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Each with their own outfit, pressed and tidy, sometimes different, but so similar that it&#8217;s hard to distinguish who the poet is, who the whore is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Often they&#8217;re the same person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When you go beyond a tomato for dinner, everything is transition, prostitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clothing isn&#8217;t a commodity but a business card for conformity, for approval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So you know what I&#8217;m going to do? I&#8217;ll take the hammer and smash all the paintings, statues, cinema screens, concert stages, including amplifiers, and with this attack,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ll reclaim the anarchy of clothing. The greatest moral, non-visual performance that life can offer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have to hide my notes, if Abramovich finds them she&#8217;ll steal my idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0I have a painter friend who won&#8217;t sell his paintings for less than 5000 euros (do the math in dollars or pounds, the world isn&#8217;t Anglo-centric).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I worked on it for 15 hours, then the canvas, the colors&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My father worked in a factory, at least 40 hours a week, earning less than 2000 euros a month, driving four to five hours a day to get to work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Much more dignified than any artist who, in some countries, lives on unemployment benefits or by giving metaphorical and real blowjobs to whoever&#8217;s the patron.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My conclusion is this: to declare yourself an artist, you must do another job, dress differently: not too eccentric or ridiculous. and have the courage not to listen to the judgments of those dressed like you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dilemma of artist&#8217;s dress Painters, like Antonio Tapies, appear to be bank clerks, but as I observe other painters, they wear the same clothes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730,77],"tags":[1728,1123,1739],"class_list":["post-15521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-83","category-english","tag-egophobia-83","tag-english","tag-matteo-preabianca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-42l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15591,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions\/15591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}