Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.Ĭontemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. While painting tends to sculpture, acquiring a three-dimensionality given by the violent and refined breakup carried out by the artist, in parallel the sculpture seems to liquefy or dig itself from the inside, almost looking for the dematerialization of matter and form itselfįrom dissolution to rebirth, through the continuous research that from the tragedy of death yearns for life, reached here in art, paradoxically, with the partial destruction of what was previously created.Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. With violent interventions, he punches, scratches, literally peels the paint through a sudden or meticulous gesture, giving life to new works that have their roots in the tradition of art history and then arrive at the expression of torment with a contemporary language. Starting from the meticulous copy of the works of great masters, especially from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where the clash between light and shadow dominates, Samorì transforms them and reinterprets them with the troubled spirit of our century.
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