From the removal of the Venus of the doctors in Berlin to the proposed bills forgotten in parliamentary drawers, passing through surreal national days and ideological debates. A lucid story of the cultural and institutional contradictions of our time.
Why don’t you take care of the end of art?, They suggest me from the editorial staff. The case, in fact, is absurd: the federal office for the assets of Berlin has removed the statue of the Venus of the doctorsbronze copy of the early eighteenth century of a work kept to the Uffizi, as the nude would be sexist. Aridagli with the history of sexism: but wasn’t the hangover over? Macché, we are in full anti-sexist intoxication: it is now all sixteenth, even to give a flower. And if you compliment you are equated to a rapist.
But then I wonder: if we were to apply the used criterion throughout the art world of art for the Venus of Berlin what happens? At the Orsay Museum should remove the Déjeuner sur l’Erbe of Manet. And also theOlympia. And at the Prado they should hide the Maja Desnuda of Goya. And what about the canva statues do we do? Do we send them directly to the landfill of sexism? And while we are there, for the part of the genre, we put the underpants to the David by Michelangelo? In 2016 he scandalous the idea of the government to cover the naked statues of the Capitoline Museums on the occasion of the visit of the Iranian President. “Our art cannot be canceled out of respect for an Islamic country,” he said then. Now let’s do better: we delete our art and without even respecting anyone.
I was therefore meditating to write the column on this theme, when I read another suggestion that teased me. Why don’t you talk about the bills of parliamentarians? In fact, in this legislature deputies and senators presented 3,300 proposals (2,120 in the Chamber and 1,200 in the Senate). Where are they? Firm. For 2,400 the discussion never started. For 400 there was not even the assignment to the commission, for the others yes, but they do not do in some drawer. So much so that by now the only laws that pass are those that are proposed by the government. Peones can resign themselves.
On the other hand, it must be said that we don’t lose much. I went to sift through the bills that languish waiting for a go -ahead. There are fundamental proposals such as that to establish the National Sartoria Day (we lacked, in fact) or the National Day of the Panettone (I did not find the pandoro: discrimination?); There are the proposals to regulate eco-scrituality and motoring tourism, and even the one to change the name of the Chamber of Deputies, so that it becomes the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies. You understand that if the proposals are those, well, maybe it’s better to let them sleep …
This is also an interesting theme, it is clear. But at this point, however, I discovered myself undecided. What do I do? Do I deal with the absurd law proposals of parliamentarians? Or the return of the Cancel Culture applied to art? Or of one of the other themes that have been suggested to me such as the Superbonus (a great classic) or the schools of Prato where we no longer speak Italian? I confess that I went into confusion.
