29 - 31 octobre 2009
Vernissage le 29 octobre, de 14h à 20h
Canto LXV
WITH USURA - Ezra Pound
With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
that delight might cover their face,
with usura
hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall
harpes et luthes
or where virgin receiveth message
and halo projects from incision,
with usura
seeth no man Gonzaga his heirs and his concubines
no picture is made to endure nor to live with
but it is made to sell and sell quickly
with usura, sin against nature,
is thy bread ever more of stale rags
is thy bread dry as paper,
with no mountain wheat, no strong flour
with usura the line grows thick
with usura is no clear demarcation
and no man can find site for his dwelling
Stone cutter is kept from his stone
weaver is kept from his loom
WITH USURA
wool comes not to market
sheep bringeth no gain with usura
Usura is a murrain, usura
blunteth the needle in the the maid's hand
and stoppeth the spinner's cunning. Pietro Lombardo
came not by usura
Duccio came not by usura
nor Pier della Francesca; Zuan Bellin' not by usura
nor was "La Callunia" painted.
Came not by usura Angelico; came not Ambrogio Praedis,
No church of cut stone signed: Adamo me fecit.
Not by usura St. Trophime
Not by usura St. Hilaire,
Usura rusteth the chisel
It rusteth the craft and the craftsman
It gnaweth the thread in the loom
None learneth to weave gold in her pattern;
Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi is unbroidered
Emerald findeth no Memling
Usura slayeth the child in the womb
It stayeth the young man's courting
It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth
between the young bride and her bridegroom
CONTRA NATURAM
They have brought whores for Eleusis
Corpses are set to banquet
at behest of usura.
Marie Cool Fabio Balducci
Sans titre, 2003
Sucre blanc, table
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Where does copper come from ?
Where does copper come from ? Where do copper wire and its braiding come from ? Where copper comes from is what this work is all about. Where copper wire comes from is a precious problem, I mean working with copper is precious to the extent that the question, where does copper come from ? is precious.
Anyway and above all copper comes from the earth and respects the earth because it is an internal product of the earth. Man has given the investigation and discovery of copper the brevity of space and the depth of time. The art of copper wire rediscovers the brevity of space and the depth of time. Copper follows all the discoveries of man. It reproposes, whole and brief, the life that he lives in space and in the complex of reality.
The brevity and intensity of copper discovered in historic time by means of wire is conversion, and conversion in this case is art. In historic time wood was discovered through art. Stone, iron, and gold were found, discovered the second time by art and only in art. Art in reality is the discovery of stone, wood, and gold, and so art requires today that copper and its wire again be brought into the light. Thus the child of the earth is restored to light.
Because art is cosmic in being art of restoring, rediscovering, a second trial of matter. Copper stretched to a wire, that is matter stretched to a wire, is the disposition of copper, that is, of matter, in time. Copper wire is the historic time of copper. First there was copper, today copper wire is its historic time.
Spider-floss on human and heavy everyday reality. The ability to fit into everyday reality. The everyday dimension is saved through art. Art does not rear up against the unknown except through daily events. The unknown is the child of the earth, the will of the planet.
Wire is the will of historic time, humanized by man, then placed in the heaven of daily events. Daily events work like a support for time because daily life compels us to a daily relation with matter and its logic is our own. This means connectiong the art of copper to the historic time of wire. To its absolute poetry of the present the past and the near future. Art is born in the birth of copper, everyday reality is reborn in the form of copper wire. It is reborn in its own child.
We will never be able to become wire because we are not primary elements, whereas copper is a primary element and it has its wire. Thus art, which is excitement, leaves the art of excitement for the art of birth. All the birth of wire through its development and its braiding in pure visibility. How is it possible to give the wire a home. Is it the home of the wire ?
Is it the vivisection of the home through the wire ? Or is it the wire that fits linearly into the world of the new ? Through its will to be in time the child of the earth, that is, copper. Time running along the wire presents itself to us. Matter running alone the wire brings to light the quality of being its own child, thus winning the immaterial domination of the earth !
Marisa Merz
