Understanding Contemporary Art

And start to love it

12 min readOct 11, 2017

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I really like contemporary art. I love it so much to be irrational about it. I called myself without modesty “a groupie of contemporary art”. Although I rarely understand it, visiting a contemporary art gallery is by far one of the things I prefer to do. Perhaps I do not always understand what this art is about, but I never think that the artist is incomprehensible. It’s always me: I have to strive more. I respect deeply the one who creates and so I want to understand it, never forgetting that

If you do not understand anything, it is contemporary art.

Anyway, I really wanted to understand what attracts me and many other people to contemporary art. It couldn’t be that it’s impossible to understand it because otherwise I should love quantum physics but I swear, I don’t. That’s why I started to go back in time.

Many centuries ago art was meant to communicate. Popes and kings used it as a mean to express their beliefs and power. Then something happened along the way and I wanted to find out what it was.

What happened?

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Martino Pietropoli
Martino Pietropoli

Written by Martino Pietropoli

Architect, photographer, illustrator, writer. L’Indice Totale, The Fluxus and I Love Podcasts, co-founder @ RunLovers | -> http://www.martinopietropoli.com

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