Comme l'exprimait un jour à sa façon le peintre Francis Picabia: "Notre tête est ronde pour permettre à la pensée de changer de direction".
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This week we are, as the title of our text suggests, waiting for the news to come – in the break. So, we decided to think in brief lines, about the phrase of the painter Francis Picabia (born in Paris, in 1879), which opens our text.
A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts (Paris), Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia seemed to have a taste for scandalizing the public, both for his spontaneity and for his irony. He allied himself with Cubism in 1909, then with the Dadaism of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray (1913). Later, he joined Surrealism and finally returned to abstract painting. He died in Paris in 1953.
One may question so much "movement" through different areas, schools or modes of expression. However, at a time when specializations are so many and often so specific and almost exclusive or particular, we believe it is good to remember someone who brought undeniable contributions to the arts in such a unique way, precisely because he was so plural.
Thus, in a time of so much contradiction, between the monotony of equal discourses and the sameness of thought in efforts to make us "homogeneous" in thinking and living, diversity and plurality are urgently imposed. But, for this, it is necessary that we keep our minds open to different opinions, ways and ways of thinking and doing, feeling and being.
And that is what we are here for – to bring diversity of thought, themes and reflections. That's why our heads, like Francis Picabia's, are "round" — to allow thought to change direction.
