"The Introspection of The Outside: Work by Fulvio Tomasi"
2001-11-26 until 2002-01-12
Biblioteca Statale Isontina
Gorizia, , IT Italy

Our mind assimilates, encodes, assesses, reassembles and puts again into circulation. As it works in this way, it develops and expands, taking part and interacting in the evolution of the external structure. This is what an active mind does.

And what does a passive mind doNULL

A passive mind absorbs and sends out its product without processing it. A passive mind usually possesses the truth; the more limited its sphere of action, the wider its truth. A passive mind lives on itself, is subjected to the established structure and encodes it as something immovable. A passive mind is constantly concerned about standardising to its yardstick everything it manages to deal with, otherwise doubt might arise and undermine its dogmatic certainty. If this happened, its neuronal movement would become too intense and imply commitment and hard work.

So, what does the artist doNULL

The artist uses (or at least should use) his talent in the only way it cannot turn against him. Being an artist means just this. The artist places himself at the margins and, moving along, explores the lines; he takes hold of them but does not belong to them. The artist scans the objective, breaks it up and processes it; then he blends the objective with the subjective, makes these two elements communicate (sometimes on a thin, sharp blade) and sends the deflected lines to the structure.

Fulvio Tomasi, 10th September 2001

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