Now
Instructions
– Take a seasonal fruit that you like.
– Place the fruit on a cutting board.
– Close your fingers so that the fingertips grip the fruit firmly.
– Press the knife slowly into the fruit.
– Push with gentle, firm pressure, cutting the fruit lengthwise.
– Divide the fruit into two parts.
– Place one of the parts on the other, looking for a precarious, but barely stable balance.
– Breathe with joy until the balance is broken.
Bio
Giovanni Ferrario, artist and professor of Phenomenology and art criticism at the Università Cattolica of Milan. His works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad in public and private spaces including: MART (Rovereto), Triennale (Milan), Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome), Museo Poldi Pezzoli (Milan), MA*GA Museo Arte Gallarate (Varese), Museo Diocesano (Milan), SMMoA Santa Monica Museum of Art (Los Angeles, USA). In 2003 he won the Computer Art Award at the MART in Rovereto. In 2014 is published: Quasi, la prima monografia scientifica sul suo lavoro artistico published by Edizioni Corraini. His recent publications include: Estetica dell’arte contemporanea (Meltemi, 2019), La sintesi spontanea (Edizioni Corraini, 2019).
