I live therefore I am: Armand Schulthess, the wild ticinese utopian

Abstract

The article talks about the Armand Schulthess exhibition with which the author intended to inaugurate the MAImuseo at Sospiro. After this exhibition the work of the bizarre artist was rearranged by Harald Szeemann in a new site, Monte Verità. She speaks of utopia therefore, but also of destruction and cruel elimination of its traces; she speaks above all of the "stake", a symbolic and extremely cruel destructive form, which has never interrupted its assassin mission in the service of power. To prove this, the author compare and brings together old and new facts, many of which are still firmly embedded in our memory. Then of course she analyzes the value of the "waste" and its dissemination of excrement in the landscape, which Schulthess redeems by bringing it back to the dignity of "thing"; she analyzes the value of the word and its communicative function used by Schulthess in a "four-dimensional" and almost Duchampian way; she wonders about the fate of this type of works and installations and conclude by opening a window of hope.

Keywords

• armand schulthess
• harald szeemann
• scarto
• memoria
• utopia