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It is not the object that possesses value, but our experience of it, of what it gives:
smell, touch, colour, taste…
Hence the force of Piero Manzoni’s Artist’s Shit resides not only in its
conceptual facet but in our physiological mechanism of perception.
The temptation for any collector would be to open it to make sure that the
piece is real and its content is as stated on the label. All the more so if the
collector is a professional perfumer. Then the value of the art would be in its
fragrance or stench.
The can is only a conceptual game, the experience is in the interior.
But it is not always possible to experience the work without destroying it.
Herein lies the paradox.
Joan Brossa
Perfume is the confetti of smell.
Martín Chirino
Martín Chirino’s sculpture has its roots deep in the Spanish tradition. Martín
Chirino feels indebted to tools as a human extension of his sculpture. He known
that iron, like all things mineral, has to be torn from the belly of the earth. ‘Here is
where my work starts from. In the unstable ground I tread it is a solid reference.’
The roots are the return of the aerovores to the ground. Their horizontality
prevails and retains the form, which escapes at the sides in an equilibrium matured
on the ground. It is a return to the origin. The earth appears once more, not by
means of the tools, but by way of the human eye, the eye that observes and takes
pleasure. Insular austerity is joined by pantheism, communion with the landscape,
a Romanticism with Central European roots.
According to Martín, landscape smells of earth, of roots …
—Jesus M. Castaño for the work by Martín Chirino
Eugenio Ampudia
It is time to take action
You think with the whole body. A thought is worthless, it is not true, if it is not
nourished by all of the senses. We need reliable data in order to fashion clear
and forthright ideas, capable of achieving the maximum possible depth in the
minimum space, capable of igniting the spark of a transformative action. It is
not enough to get used to sniffing life, to following trails, to perceiving signals
and reading signs. We have to go beyond the experienced. Smell is more than a
chemical sense detected by sensors in that cells that transmit electrical signals to
the brain. Smell supplies signals prior to sight, to hearing, to touch. Its mystery
is profound. It is linked to areas of the brain where associative reasoning takes
place and where emotions roam. Ideas can be smelt. In their essence.
Tom Carr
With this sculpture I have tried to give body and color to the evocation of an
odor. It is a work that occupies space without touching earth and which seems
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