Second Manifesto of Spatialism
The work of art is destroyed by time.
Then, when in the final blaze of the universe, even time and space will no longer exist, there will be no memory of the monuments raised by humankind, though not a single hair from its brow will have been lost.
But we do not wish to abolish the art of the past or halt life: we want the painting to leave its frame and the sculpture to emerge from its glass case. An expression of aerial art lasting just a minute is as if it endured for a millennium, in eternity.
To this end, with the resources of modern technology, we will make appear in the sky:
artificial forms,
rainbows of wonder,
luminous inscriptions.
We will broadcast, via radio and television, artistic expressions of a new model.
If, at first, closed within his towers, the artist represented himself and his wonder and saw the landscape through glass, and then, having descended from the castles into the cities, tearing down walls and mingling with other men, he saw the trees and objects up close, today, we, as spatial artists, have escaped our cities, broken through our shell, our physical bark, and looked at ourselves from above, photographing the earth from rockets in flight.
In this, we are not exalting the supremacy of our mind over this world, but we wish to reclaim our true face, our true image: a transformation eagerly awaited by all creation.
Let the spirit spread its light in the freedom we have been given.
This translation was generated using AI.
