Dissolution 1 (The end of the societies)

© Ivan Cangelosi, 2016

190X80 cm

Ink on paper

Technique – Handwriting of the essay of Alain Touraine – Original language (pages 1-470)

Category– Society/Politics

In 2008, in Vienna, seized by a creative fury that often marks the beginning of any artist, I made a sketch depicting some flying anthropomorphic figures which, at the mercy of the flow of time and life, dispersed themselves in different directions, intersecting each other .

I was in a Café and through the large window I watched the incessant comings and goings of people along a very busy pedestrian street. That scene made me rise in the mind a thought. I wondered:  where are they all going? Do they know where they’re going or not? Absurd thought, I know, but that’s what, at that time, went through my mind. Thinking about this, I started to draw. I wanted to depict that thought of mine and the result came out through quick gestures and in a few minutes. That strange question I asked myself by observing people, that “Do they know where they’re going?”, was the start of a broader reflection on human life in today’s society and on the awareness or, better said, on the ability to master his actions. The word that most of all continued to spin in my head was that of bewilderment; a concept that I tied to a feeling I had since a long time, and that concerned the progressive loss of traditional points of reference, in particular “ family” and “State”. It was all fault of the globalization and of the financial markets, I told myself. The first cancelled cultural identities; the seconds, undermined the concept of society, as we intended it up to 30 years ago, by subtracting capital for productive and social purposes. In between there was the State and its institutions, no longer able to foresee, to plan, to ensure health and safety. No longer able, in other words, to exercise its sovereignty and to make policy.

To a gradual but steady loss of  states’ sovereign power,  it was corresponding, in my opinion, the reverse process of dissolution of the social contract and the return to a contemporary form of anarchy characterized be the law of the jungle. And it is exactly this disintegration process, which is an indirect and unintended consequence of the  globalization, which put anguish.

Not knowing any literary text, novel or essay, which could make specific reference to these speculations, I put the drawing aside and I dedicated myself to other projects. Till when, in 2015, I came across an essay entitled, needless to say, “The end of society” by French sociologist Alain Touraine (Alain Touraine – La fin des sociétés, ed. Seuil, 2013). Alain Touraine summarized the main ideas of his essay in an interview to Fabio Gambaro of the newspaper “La Repubblica” in 2013 (note 1).

To conclude: anguish, anxiety, disorientation, disintegration, despair, anarchy. These are the concepts and feelings that I have tried to express with this work (to be followed by a second entitled “Dissolution 2”) realized through the handwriting of the essay entitled “La fin des Sociétés” of the French sociologist Alain Touraine.

Note 1  (http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2013/10/31/news/cultura_capitalismo_industriale_istituzioni_stato_classe_famiglia_intervista_al_sociologo_francese_societ_alain_touraine-69894444/).


THE DNA OF A LITERARY TEXT
ACTION DRAWING (Random Lines)
GOING AROUND IN PALERMO (BALLARO’) – 2024
THREE HUNDRED SECONDS (The multidirectional flow of time) – 2023
SIX HUNDRED SECONDS (The multidirectional flow of time) -2023
TEMPOGRAMME – 2023
ON THE ROAD (W.O.M.P. Series) – 2023
JUMP (W.O.M.P. Series) 2023
WOMP – Series (Conflicts) – 2023
FLYING INTO THE FUTURE – 2023
RESCUE – 2023
EPTACROM – BALANCE THROUGH HARMONIC DIFFERENCES
THE FLOWING OF TIME – VIENNA, 1996-2022
LIFETIME – ILLUSION OF FREEDOM – 2022
LIFETIME – THE LAST PART OF ME
THE TALENTED AND THE ENVIOUS
THE FLOWING OF TIME – ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN ONE SECOND
THE FLOWING OF TIME – HEARTBEAT – 2022
THE FLOWING OF TIME: THE INSTANT – 2022
THE PLAGUE – 2021
I BETTER GO HOME – 2021
UTOPIA – 2021
ILLUSION OF FREEDOM – 2021
THE PETITION AGAINST VAN GOGH – 2021
MEMORIES – 2021
MORS TUA LAETITIA MEA – 2020
VIENNA PANDEMIC – 2020
VIENNA PANDEMIC – U3 “Volkstheater” – 2020
SOLITUDES – 2020
LA RONDE (REIGEN) – 2020
NO WAY OUT – 2020
ADIEU – 2020
WHO WE WERE, WHO WE ARE, WHO WE’LL BE – 2020
EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITIONS – 2020
THE BARON IN THE TREES – 2019
FAMILY LIFE – 2019
THE LITTLE PRINCE (Private collection) – 2019
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY – 2019
ONCE UPON A TIME IN SICILY – THE OLD HARBOUR IN PALERMO – 2018
ONCE UPON A TIME IN SICILY (Private collection) – 2018
ONCE UPON A TIME IN SICILY – 2018
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Private collection) – 2018
ONCE UPON A TIME IN SICILY – 2018
TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD – 2017
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE – 2017
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT – 2017
SELFPORTRAIT WITH SILVER JACKET – 2017
SELFPORTRAIT WITH PASSION FLOWER – 2017
ONCE UPON A TIME IN SICILY – 2017
PORTRAIT OF ADRIANA FRANZA – 2017
SELFPORTRAIT WITH PENS – 2017
WIND OF BULLSHIT – 2017
ECCE HOMO (Selfportrait) – 2017
SELFPORTRAIT WITH GREEN HAT – 2017
DON GIOVANNI IN SICILIA – 2016
SELFPORTRAIT WITH BLUE SCARF – 2016
SELFPORTRAIT WITH GREEN SCARF – 2016
DISSOLUTION 1 – 2016
SELFPORTRAIT WITH WOOL CAP – 2016
SELFPORTRAIT WITH PANAMA – 2016
THE TRIAL – 2016
TRIBUTE TO VINCENT VAN GOGH (Sunflowers) – 2015
THE DIVINE COMEDY – PARADISE – 2015
LA CORDA PAZZA (SICILITUDINE) – 2015
THE ART OF BEING HAPPY (Private collection) – 2015
THE ART OF KNOWING YOURSELF (Private collection) – 2015
BUDDENBROOKS (Museum of the writing and the sign – Turin) – 2015
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA – 2014
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA – 2014
The Italian Constitution (Collection of the Presidency of the Italian Republic) – 2014
METAMORPHOSIS (Private collection) – 2013
REFLEXES OF ME
THE LITTLE PRINCE (Version 1 – Private collection) – 2012
THE DIVINE COMEDY – HELL – 2012
ANIMAL FARM – 2011
NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND (Private collection) – 2010
IL GATTOPARDO – 2009
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Version 1) – 2009
1984 – 2009
DUBLINERS – 2008
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (Private collection) – 2008
THE PROTOTYPE (Crime and Punishment – Volume 1) – 2008