Rosaria Matarese Alzati e disegna un mondo nuovo

60 (H) x 80 cm

In Alzati e disegna un mondo nuovo (Get up and draw a new world) prevails the encounter of different techniques and materials typical of the artist’s research. The work is built on the contamination between word and image, creating a visual-linguistic short-circuit that focuses on the great social changes that were taking place at the time; particularly, a new central role attributed to the body, the liberation from the taboos of a repressive society and, consequently, a more problematic relationship between sexuality and religion. The inscription “idoli” (‘idols’), accompanied by the slogan “una nuova splendida offerta” (‘a fabulous new offer’), underlines how the dynamics of consumerism are accompanied by the emerging of new cultural models. The viewer, by mirroring himself into the work, can become an “idol” of the new society, accepting or not the imposition of the new canons. The fragmented messages, which reveal the artist’s closeness to the practices of visual poetry, correspond to the invitation, enclosed in the title, to “immaginare un mondo nuovo” (imagine a new world); just a few years before the cultural revolution of the 1968 which, shortly afterwards, would have maken yours the Herbert Marcuse’s slogan “imagination at power”.

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