The Mediterranean: Some Considerations on the Identity and Territoriality of Thought

Abraham Lacalle

Visual artist

In artistic creation there are innumerable commonplaces related to Mediterranean sensibility, which supposedly must maintain fixed and well-defined characteristics in which we can all recognise ourselves. However, artistic production cannot and must not be classified according to these guidelines, which are no more than a historical burden that, perhaps, artists must shake off to develop freer work and greater creativity. And Mediterranean identity is in constant motion, belongs to a collective subconsciousness full of images that make up only one part of the scheme that sustains artistic production.

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