ANDREA ABBATANGELO’S STORYBOARD OF HIS MA FINE ART DIGITAL AT CSM 2021 2022
My Blog Journal is available on my website and the Archive is on Tumblr
POST 01
About a Blog
I will use this blog as a research oriented space. My first blog was in Myspace. In the years before Facebook, Twitter, Myspace was an authentic place to meet other artists, show your work and share interests and experiences. A real community. Then sadly, both Zuckerberg and Murdoch removed the empathy and created the second generation of social media, aiming to connect people and to sell (to) them. So I moved to Tumblr but didn’t last for long too.
I was frightened to start this new blog, not because I fear the adventure or to be exposed but I was worried to not to have enough to say.
But here I am with a completely different task. New eyes and new shoes.
POST 02
A Garden
Today I was imagining this blog to be my garden. Gardens really mean a lot to me; they have the ability to host, to show off and share but also to open and close. I really like this dynamism.
In 2007 I was commissioned to produce a site-specific installation for the second edition of the festival Es.Terni (the festival was permanently suspended after its edition of 2018 called The End of Now). It was a very challenging commission because I was the only artist with a background in visual art whilst the context was predominantly oriented to performance and theatre. I decided to explore something completely different of what was my practice. So I created a series of indoor gardens as places where both the visitors and the other artists participants were able to rest, to meet and to relax. Until then I was so focused to entertain “my public” and my collectors and supporters with artworks full of contents and meaning while now I was just offering an empty space to chill!
I hope to bring that ease and conscious relaxation to this space too.
By the way, one of my favorite albums at that time was Ende Neu from Einsturzende Neubauten so I guess I was influenced by one of their song: The Garden. Funny enough, today making a little research I found out that apparently Blixa Bargel (frontman and composer of E.N.) in 1996 was in the Prado Museumshop, when suddenly he heard an elderly English woman next to him saying to her companion: “You will find me if you want me in the garden, unless it’s pouring down with rain”. This is the only phrase he repeats and repeats in the song.
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