Our world is really a new one; it seems small if
you navigate in internet but, if you don’t have a route and
you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s
so wide to get lost: it looks like an unknown sea, as wide as that
one crossed by Ulysses, the first modern man who sailed without
getting lost, because he had Itaca in his heart.…Ancient
cultural affinities come out (tribalisms?: if you look back to
the past, beyond the last three thousand years when our western
culture of white people prevailed, ancient Sardinian, Corsican,
Ligurian populations are astonishingly similar in their artistic
languages: music, sculpture and food, actually, share archetypes
which are astonishingly tuned with other cultural affinities, only
apparently remote.
In cultures of African people, “remote” par excellence,
this agreement is like a flash of lightening in the heart.
With amazement before the need to explain logically everything, you
can look at Picasso, Giacometti, Fontana, or Senufo sculptures, Shoowa
textures, or Corsican Menhir, or Viddalba Steli, ...listen to ancient
songs of Sardinian or Ligurian people, pay attention to African rhythms
and to contemporary music: they share common archetypes, without
space-time interruptions, they are alive and contemporary, and offer
an answer to that need of absolute, of searching the “Difference” which
is the mystery of life, the beginning of artistic experience.
The famous artists of the twentieth century were the first ones to
feel this need, in a world where millenary certainties were beginning
to disappear but, at the same time, they were the last sailors who
cast off the moorings of
banality “per divenir del mondo esperti, e delli vizi e del
valore”.
Painters, sculptors, but even poets and musicians, from Picasso to
Josephine Baker, seem to have a common cultural DNA that allows us
to propose at the same time the work, for example, of a Swedish photographer
(Ewa Mari-Johansson), of a famous artist of the Twentieth Century
(Giuseppe Capogrossi) and of ancient weavers from Shoowa people of
Democratic Republic of Congo.
For Globaltribal we mean a journey in which those proudly belonging
to a culture claim their roots but have a curious and sensitive behaviour
to other cultures. It’s a journey in which “contamination” among
cultures enriches and allows people to be joined nowadays, when racial
integration is as much difficult as necessary.