By Xesko
Since the beginning Stitt captivated the audience, writes in slang because is what life is, made from day by day and not for institutions. There is no doubt that he is a born performer, his intonations of voice during the presentation, the quieter moments, the lower and raise the tone at the right time… Anyway, we’re in the presence of art in person, the public absorbed his words in silence and during the brief moments of pause in the speech, we can hear a feather falls to the floor. From many years I didn’t saw such control of the public, reminded me of my time in lectures, in which masterfully similar, I dominated audiences of 300 persons and over. I was fascinated by him.
His performance was clear and concrete; we discovered his greatest influence, Joseph Beuys, an artist who he found one day at the market when he was only eleven years old and become strongly marked by him. We learn that his artistic career was involved in drugs, decadence and alcohol until the year 1992, when he was rehabilitated, and how he had entered in a creative marasmus, until 2000 when the political instability, became a new inspiration. How is possible that a description of a life, becomes a performance so well structured and perfect?
I could stay here for hours talking about his performance and what he described as the post-modern fuck, but it’s best finish here, than fall into the error of idolatry, referring only three things that marked me throughout the performance. The statement that “an artist, can´t be created, born an artist” and that “the impulse to final solutions is the dilemma himself”, and finally the way how ended his presentation:
But making art is not yet meant what it seems
But making art is not yet meant what it seems
But making art is not yet meant what it seems
But making art is not yet meant what it seems
But making art is not yet meant what it seems
Summarize it in one word. Brilliant.
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