The Mediterranean: Some Considerations on the Identityand 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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