The journalist Annalina Grasso, the poet Calì and the actor Bianucci accompany the largest surrealist group exhibition in the world with a video

The city of Évora in Portugal these days is the center of surrealist contemporary art, a splendid UNESCO heritage location, which houses the paintings of Santiago Ribeiro and hundreds of other artists he has gathered around him.

The event marks its first presence in this Alentejo metropolis this month after the pandemic.

The initiative is by the company MatosCar, an automotive group present in the Portuguese cities of Guarda, Fundão, Castelo Branco, Portalegre, Évora and Beja, official representatives of 24 brands.

This time the exhibition will be permanent (until 11 July) because the entrepreneurial group has decided to buy the works that are about a dozen will be exhibited in the new structures of Évora and will be able to be seen by many thousands of people.

A video that shows the surprising implications of Ribeiro’s surrealism

The exhibition is accompanied by the images of a video promoting the surrealist art of Ribeiro made by the Sicilian poet A.S.A.S prize Vincenzo Calì, the journalist and curator of Campania art Annalina Grasso and the Roman actor Maurizio Bianucci.

The video promotes the exhibition of the Portuguese artist, founder of the New Surrealism Movement, of global reach.

The video, which currently has more than 100,000 thousand views on instagram thanks to the persuasive and mysterious voice of the Italian actor Maurizio Bianucci who has taken part in important and successful series such as Suburra, in numerous theatrical representations and RAI fictions and who declaims the poem in the Italian version entitled “Profluvi” by Vincenzo Calì, while the English version “Flows” is played by Annalina Grasso, creator together with Calì of this cultural initiative which is enjoying success also abroad.

In fact, the video frames the works of the international artist, through restless and alienating words, showing us how we probably would be if we totally freed our unconscious and our impulses: naked and blind, not really free, but lost; euphoric, not happy.

This initiative, which combines art, poetry and acting, questions ourselves on the value of free will, on the will and on the true meaning of the word freedom.

Unconscious and will

Santiago’s art was, is and could still be a vision of the minds of each of us, especially in this historical moment, made up of lockdown, distance learning, physical (non-social) distancing that generate anxiety and stress in us. fear for the future, anguish.

What could be inside our minds exhausted by restrictions and at the same time by the fear of contagion? A desire to get rid of the clothes of the decent citizen, of the civil, Christian, rational man, snubbing free will, and following only one’s instinct, the dark side of oneself; confide.

Living in a society as the Marquis De Sade imagined and hoped for, where there can be no punishments or trials for evil deeds, as man follows what Nature creates and destroys.

However, the video implements what is called heterogenesis of purposes, that is, through “the vision of what could be if”, it leads us to aspire to something else and to make us increasingly aware of the contradiction between necessity and good and, rediscovering the true foundation of the dignity and worth of us human beings, to be neither blind nor naked and wander in perennial uncertainty, but by appealing to the impersonal that is present in each person to overcome and overcome our anxieties and fears.

Art with the support of technology helps us to do it, even at a distance, showing us how similar we can be in this complicated moment and how the human mind is not actually reducible to a mere mechanism with algorithmic functioning on the basis of which we act without conscience. and discernment and we are reflected in the protagonists whether they are hominids or figures, in the brightly colored canvases by Ribeiro.

The hypothesis that the important choices depend on a person’s conscious awareness, whether it is a neuronal process, not yet well specified, or something else, cannot be falsified, this is the basic message of the video dedicated to surrealism by Santaigo Ribeiro .

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