NYAB Event - "you must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star" Exhibition

"you must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star" Exhibition

Onishi Gallery

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Onishi Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhi­bi­tion enti­tled “you must have chaos within you to give birth to a danc­ing star”, curated by Ste­fa­nia Car­rozzini, a Milan based inde­pen­dent curator.

The text of Niet­zsche, from which the title of this exhi­bi­tion was taken, is one of the most com­plex of the Ger­man philoso­pher. Writ­ten in apho­risms, Thus Spake Zarathus­tra devel­ops as exper­i­men­tal phi­los­o­phy and knowl­edge which pro­ceeds through poetic and highly evoca­tive images, which are not to be taken too lit­er­ally, rather are metaphors to under­stand that the search for truth does not stem from rea­son nei­ther from a pre-established order dic­tated by cul­ture or by moral thought. His thought is an exer­cise in accep­tance of the truth as a his­tor­i­cally con­di­tioned value. Thus Spake Zarathus­tra, is a mag­i­cal and fable-like tale, where knowl­edge, the real source which quenches the thirst of human beings, has an imme­di­ate com­mu­nica­tive power announced in a poetic and prophetic way.

The path of Zarathus­tra is an alle­gory of ascend­ing life where joy pre­vails over the suf­fer­ing and the anx­i­ety of exis­tence, light­ness over oppres­sive­ness, dark over light. The truth is an ecsta­tic shim­mer of light and life as a means of knowl­edge is a higher hope, a guar­an­tee of authen­tic free­dom in the game of life and of eter­nal return. I say: you need to have star inside you in order to gen­er­ate a star which dances. I say: you still have chaos inside of you: such a sen­tence com­mu­ni­cates vital energy and con­tains a propul­sion towards becom­ing, to the new, to pos­i­tiv­ity and harks back to what artists face on a daily basis as they tread their path between pain and won­der: that is the birth of ideas.

The abil­ity to lis­ten to one’s own inte­rior world and to soli­tude, wel­com­ing the void, the time of idle­ness to give way to the free flights of the imag­i­na­tion are the dimen­sions from which cre­ative energy and the power of inspi­ra­tion grow and develop. From an indis­tinct phase, before ideas take shape and through what­ever medium, the artist (but also the sci­en­tist) is the first hand wit­ness to the fact that order is born from chaos.

And chaos is not so rad­i­cally opposed to ratio­nal­ity: both are the sides of the same coin, as are Eros and Thanatos, instinc­tive dri­ves in the meta­phys­i­cal dance of life. In this dual­is­tic exchange cre­ativ­ity, which has always been in strict rela­tion with the abysses of mad­ness, inhab­its the irra­tional and feeds on chaos to gen­er­ate not so much new things, rather new visions of the world. Chaos, there­fore, is the bat­tle­ground where the inex­press­ible is expressed. How­ever, this chaos does need to be well orga­nized, the base from which one takes flight to be solid­i­fied, oth­er­wise the des­tiny will be that of Icarus! (S.C.)

The exhi­bi­tion is com­posed of 20 art­works; pho­tog­ra­phy, sculp­tures and paint­ings by 12 inter­na­tional artists. Cat­a­log will be avail­able at the gallery.

Media

• Painting
• Photography
• Sculpture

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