4840. "Ah," he exclaimed,
"To have been like Franco and to have just gotten through that wretched
time."
4841. "And why is it so
important to you that Rome have a Chelsea?" I asked. "Everyone here
seems too busy to look at art."
4842. "Because we need a
Joseph Beuys, and we need an Anselm Keiffer and we have neither. Modern art in
Rome is used only as the frivolous backdrop of aristocratic society events, and
we have to understand that it is an activity that is capable of redeeming the
soul of a nation."
4843. "But Beuys and Keiffer
did not come out of New York," I said.
No comments:
Post a Comment