For those who believe the aesthetic experience is an intellectual and sensitive exchange, for whom the communication between the piece of art and the viewer should be intimate and personal, the expression «cultural tourism» is almost an oxymoron. Within the «must-see» museums is reproduced on a small scale what usually happens on an urban scale: the tourist goes through the corridors as transit zones to get in front of a «required selfie» masterpiece, and once […]
Para aquellos que entienden la experiencia estética como un intercambio intelectual y sensitivo, para quienes la comunicación entre la obra y el espectador debería ser íntima y personal, la expresión “turismo cultural” suena casi como un oxímoron . Dentro de los museos “de visita obligada” se reproduce a pequeña escala lo que sucede a escala urbana, que el turista recorre los pasillos como vías de tránsito para llegar ante esas obras de “selfie obligado”, y […]
Among all the living creatures only the human race is free and eccentric, to say of Pico della Mirandola, because her freedom allows her to rise to the supracelestial spheres and at the same time to descent and drown in the mud. His colleague Marsilio Ficino founded in Eros, love, the integrative principle between matter and spirit, between the intelligible and the invisible orders that live beyond the astral world. Because the longing for beauty, […]
