Piero Manzoni: Discovery

Piero Manzoni was Italian artist. Explore interesting quotes on discovery.
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“To arrive at such a discovery, fruit of a log and precious education, involves a whole field of precise technique. The artist must immerse himself in his own anxiety, dredging up everything that is alien, imposed or personal in the derogatory sense, in order to arrive at the authentic zone of values.”

Piero Manzoni

Source: For the Discovery of a Zone of Images', Piero Manzoni, 1957, pp. 18-19

Education , Sense , Personality

“The key point today is to establish the universal validity of individual mythology... The artistic moment is therefore that in which the discovery of pre-conscious universal myths comes about, and in the reduction of these into the form of images. It is clear that if the artist is to be able to bring to light zones of myth that are authentic and virginal he must have both an extreme degree of self-awareness and the gifts of iron precision and logic.”

Piero Manzoni

Source: For the Discovery of a Zone of Images', Piero Manzoni, 1957, pp. 16-17

Light , Universe

“Abstractions and references must be totally avoided. In our freedom of invention we must succeed in constructing a world that can be measured only in its own terms. We absolutely cannot consider the picture as a space onto which to project our mental scenography. It is the area of freedom in which we search for the discovery of our first images. Images which are absolute as possible, which cannot be valued for that which they record, explain and express, but only for that which they are to be.”

Piero Manzoni

Source: For the Discovery of a Zone of Images', Piero Manzoni, 1957, pp. 18-19

World , Search , Freedom

“Where the artist is concerned it is a question of the conscious immersion in himself, through which, once he has got beyond the individual and contingent level, he can probe deep down to reach the living germs of total humanity. Everything that is humanly communicable is derived from this, and it is through the discovery of the psychic substrata that all men have in common that the relationship of author-work-spectator is made possible. In this way the work of art has the totemic value of living myth, without symbolic or descriptive dispersion: it is a primary and direct expression.”

Piero Manzoni

Source: For the Discovery of a Zone of Images', Piero Manzoni, 1957, pp. 16-17

Men , Art , Way , Question