CRITICAL TEXT
Putting the Pieces Together
Umberto Corsucci has little to do with the exhaustion of conceptual art and the agonizing struggles that consume the days of artists desperately seeking success.
I am talking about those who rush from one gallery to another, from one critic to the next; the spokespersons of a world of half-baked ideas and illusions.
A drugged world where sensationalism is everything, and daily, hardworking, honest research counts for less than nothing. This artist, born in Sassocorvaro in 1951, after studying at the Art Institute of Pesaro in 1970, graduated in sculpture from Brera. In short, he did not take shortcuts through social climbing nor benefit from career accelerations due to nepotism or, as we say today, politics.
Umberto Corsucci lives and works in Montefiore Conca, a small historic town situated on the hills of the Romagna Riviera, where he has his studio and personal foundry. Here, besides working tirelessly, he holds his sculpture courses, and his connections are of international caliber.
The fundamental feature of this author’s plastic investigation aspires to and manages to demonstrate that there is no separation between arm and mind, that the craft component of the sculptor’s work is no less important than the intellectual one. In other words, this Romagna artist refutes (in the sense of disproving) any mechanically dualistic conception that tends to overcome the body from the mind, the spirit from matter, the here from elsewhere.
Nowadays, this approach made tangible by Corsucci’s sculpture has the added value of countering a drift that bases its success on the fragmentation of reality, alienation, and the division between doing and knowing.
There is no doubt, in fact, that a people made up of simple consumers who have lost the sense of the complex unity of their being and their doing cannot be considered anything other than the plebs, or rather no longer the plebs but the public, a cowardly and decorticated television audience.
MISAM – International Open-Air Sculpture Museum
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