Neo-Concrete Manifesto

[John Bonanno]

"It is because a work of art transcends mechanical space that, in it, the
notions of cause and effect lose any validity. The notions of time, space,
form, colour are so integrated by the very fact that they did not exist
beforehand, as notions, as art, that it is impossible to say art could be
broken down into its constituent parts. Neo-concrete art affirms the
absolute integration of those elements, believes that the "geometric"
vocabulary that it uses can express complex human realities as proved by
many of the works of Mondrian, Malevich, Pevsner, Gabo, Sofie Tauber-Arp, et
al. Even though these artists at times confused the concept of
form-mechanics with that of form-expression, we must make clear that, in the
language of art, the so-called geometric forms lose the objective character
of geometry and turn into vehicles for the imagination. The Gestalt, given
that it is a causal psychology, is also insufficient to allow us to
understand a phenomenon which dissolves space and form as causally
determined realities and creates a new time and spatialization of the
artistic creation. By spatialization, we mean that the work of art
continuously makes itself present, in a dynamic reaction with the impulse
that generated it and of which it is already the origin. And if such a
reaction leads us back to the starting-point, it is because neo-concrete art
aims to rekindle the creativity of that beginning. Neo-concrete art lays the
foundations for a new expressive space." -Ferreira Gullar from the
Neo-Concrete Manifesto, 1959

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