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My new series “Drapes & Kitsch” tries to analyze various paradoxes. Is there a clear dividing line that marks the boundary between art and craft? Or is it rather not meant, with these two terms, the set of the same disciplines, observed from two different angles? During the Renaissance Giorgio Vasari had asked the same question to Lorenzo the Magnificent. This is a doubt that has been repeated cyclically over the centuries until today. Does a precious fabric framed and proposed in different colors have an artistic value or is it a representation of kitsch? According to the aesthetic philosopher Roger Scruton, "Kitsch is fake art, expressing fake emotions, whose purpose is to deceive the con...View all