Manifesto (in progress)

• Economy of materials, materiality linked to historical construction techniques
• Human scaled, man part of nature, studying man’s place in nature through historical uses of natural materials as well as contemporary technologies
• Technically primitive using contemporary technologies
• Apolitical
• Openly derivative,
• Not traditionalist, not craft
• Art not as a new statement, art not as an invention (non-innovative), Marcel Duchamp the idea to its limit in 1917, a lot of the last century of art has been attempts at emulating this level of innovation, often coming up short
• Following Arte Povera
• Same statement in another context can have a new meaning, importance

Quotes

• “the goal is liberation, rather than any addition of ideas or objects to the world as it presents itself today.” Germano Celant
• “Never imitate an architectural work (…) . In particular, never imitate anything after the Bronze Age, when many styles began to develop in various countries” Terunobu Fujimori

Influences

• Noguchi
• Terunobu Fujimori
• Mario Merz (Arte Povera)
• John Fahey
• Alberto Burri (AP)
• Giuseppe Penone (AP)