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Thoughts on design and its aesthetical functionality nowadays

Text by Pino Poggi

[…] There are carafes, wine, sparkling wine and water glasses which hardly anyone can drink reasonably from any longer… Cutlery which lies badly in the hand and dishes which are hardly suitable for use… or technical products – just think of the car, equipped with so many superfluous bits and pieces which almost extinguish its …

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What does it mean to be a “social aesthetic environment artist”?

Text by Pino Poggi

A social aesthetic environment artist is basically not a conventional artist anymore; he must be diverse, meddle in the present and the past, live and explore his own identity, constantly inform himself politically and socially, read and communicate. He must become a writer and scriptwriter, be ready to build his own productions, think and act …

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How to get from Beuys’s “Social Sculpture” to Poggi’s “Social Aesthetics” and back to Beuys again

Text by Simona Vidmar

Ever since the 60s the objects, installations, actions and manifestos of Pino Poggi have made us contemplate on the never ending phenomenon of Joseph Buys as well as on the concept of art, which has been gaining new dimensions. “Der erweiterte Kunstbegriff” Beuys’s contemplation on sculpture is not an academic one. He concerns himself with …

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