3 Quotes & Sayings By Luis Camnitzer

Luis Camnitzer is an award-winning Spanish author. He has been a professor of literature at University of Vigo since 2011. He has published twenty books, including his latest novel El Caminante, which has been shortlisted for the National Novel Prize. Camnitzer was born in Madrid in 1973 and now lives in Vigo with his wife and two daughters.

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Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the environment. Its products serve as a retarded correction of perception braked by the system of conventions and stereotypes that stabilize society. They create a slightly updated system which, eventually assimilated by history, will require a new system and so on without end. Art objects serve as points of identification alienated from the consumer, requiring more sympathy than empathy. . Luis Camnitzer
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Passing from legality to subversion, the need of finding a minimum stimulus with a maximum effect appears–an effect that through its impact justifies the risk taken and pays for it. During certain historical periods, at the level of the object, this meant dealing with and creating mysteries. At the level of situations, and in this case, it means the change of social structure. Luis Camnitzer