Giovanni Muciaccia explains contemporary art in a book: his art attacks start here again

Contemporary Art Attacks. To Understand Art and Stimulate Creativity: this is the title of the book by Giovanni Muciaccia, the historic host of Art Attack, the highly popular children’s program that taught how to build figures and objects from materials that everyone could have at home, such as cardboard, scissors and vinyl glue. Entire generations have grown up with his art attacks, thus developing creativity, and now with this volume Muciaccia intends to "take us by the hand to take us on a fantastic journey through the theories, works and experiments of the greatest artists, discovering concepts such as the visual weight of color and the shape of musical notes, phenomena such as radial symmetry and endless other wonders. Not forgetting then the practical and playful aspect, which is always present thanks to the activities, the proposed call to actions and the many QR Codes that refer to in-depth information and special contents."

Published by Rizzoli, the book consists of 288 pages and is available in bookstores from November 2021 at a cost of 18 euros. The publisher’s own presentation reads, "Mah, who knows here what he must have meant... If you too have found yourself at least once in your life muttering this phrase while wandering bewildered through the halls of an exhibition, perhaps in front of a seemingly incomprehensible work that also bore the words’Untitled,’ this is the book for you. Contemporary art is a rich and vast world, complex, fascinating, a stroboscopic labyrinth in which trapdoors open that send us back centuries, a great amusement park, a boundless field open to more or less explicit quotations, perceptual illusions, even theft. This world can be not only understood but loved with infinite passion, provided we have a guide who knows how to tell it in a simple and engaging way, who simplifies its language and makes it truly understandable to everyone.“ And this is precisely the goal Giovanni Muciaccia sets himself with this publication of his, because he is convinced that contemporary art is a subject little known by young people. In an interview with Ansa, Muciaccia said, ”Raphael and Michelangelo are important, but few people know that Duchamp was the inventor of the readymade; young people have too many deficiencies in today’s art.“ He added, ”In these pages I have tried to explain the processes that artists put into making a work and why that work then becomes so important. Technical analysis allows you to understand things that you may not immediately grasp. The whole practical part is missing in the Italian school: students are soaked in theory, but they have to experiment, even if they think they are not talented. Making mistakes also makes us grow, because mistakes are creativity, that’s where you find the solution."

Giovanni Muciaccia was born in Foggia in 1969 and trained artistically by attending the Mario Riva School of Theater and the Academy of Dramatic Art of Calabria in Palmi. He made his television debut in 1992 with Disney Club on Rai Uno. In 1998-1999 he began hosting Art Attack on the Disney Channel: it soon became one of the TV channel’s most-watched programs and gained so much notoriety that it began to be broadcast also on Rai Due until 2005 and then again from 2011 to 2014.

Giovanni Muciaccia explains contemporary art in a book: his art attacks start here again

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