Essential Art
What a paradox is this word, which has burst into our daily lives and become an integral part of it: confinement. True, it means constraint, confinement, but it derives from the word confins, which designates the extreme limits of a territory, including those that separate immense spaces like the sky and the earth. It is always used in the plural, as if to open the door to diversity. Looking at our current situation from this angle, without being angelic, can encourage us to push our living spaces to their extreme limits, and even beyond them.
Art is one of the realities of our expanding confines.
Perhaps it's at a time when we are deprived of access to galleries, exhibitions and museums, that we take more time to contemplate the works that surround us, that we remember past visits with nostalgia and feel more than ever the desire to return.
All those involved in the art world have understood this, and devote themselves to bringing art into our homes when we can't get it out. Our warmest thanks to them! Forced to close, they contribute to the effort in the general interest, since they are not among the places offering "essential" products or services. And we're reminded of that recurring question on the bac philo: Does Art have a purpose? The answer to which we should be pondering these days might be: "No, that's why it's essential". Robert Filliou's plan would have consisted of this maxim, which we recalled in our first editorial: "Art is what makes life more interesting than Art".
Clara Pagnussatt
