Enrico Crispolti

We must remove myths and drama from art and make it a natural extension of everyday life.
We do not mean to impoverish it or to deny it: on the contrary, we mean to return it to its real nature, to its most genuine dimension as a spontaneous and truly natural game.
The artist must simplify art and remove from it all pompousness, all false conceptualism. These are in fact ways in which society imposes upon art its commercialism.

Nespolo instead fights for imaginative freedom and genuinity, for real values meant for men rather than for the bureaucratic tradition of artistic commercialism. lt is a defence mechanism against regimentation and against any attempt to freedom. We must be free to be able to experiment and notice how the most authentic dimension of reality is so problematic and dialectic, full of ambiguity and bivalence, in which the power of intelligence is the only way to freely overcome this managerial imposition.
Nespolo uses the game with this purpose in mind, in order to reach an area of elementary freedom.

(From the book: Ugo Nespolo, Collana Primo Regesto, Gianpaolo Prearo Editore, 1972)