FINA 相簿

No, it's not quite the feminine Italian adjective, nor is it the International Swimming Federation. The Latin root (boundaries) comes a bit closer, but this isn't it, either. But, yes, it is an acronym - and a pretty flexible one at that. I took "INA" from a text on J.-L. Mazieres' incomparable Flickr site of (on 2020-01-01) some 47,000 high-quality photographs gleaned from a wide variety of European museums of fine and modern visual art. On the Jean Louis Mazieres <Flickr site, INA stands for "Institutional Non-Art". What he means (I think): Paintings and sculptures dating from roughly the 1950's on, which are shown in the state-owned, taxpayer-financed, luxurious museums typically called museums of contemporary art (or modern art, or 20th-century art, etc.). There exist probably a hundred or so of these prestige institutions around the world - the oldest, most prestigious and best known of these likely being the MOMA in New York. I have taken the "INA" acronym and added a popular first word to it: "Fake". "FINA", in the world of today, stands for "Fake Institutional Non-Art" Why "fake"? Because this is a photographic album, not a contemporary-art one. I have taken photographs, changed them around - made an "abstract" of them, if you will - by common digital filters (from a Ulead Photoimpact program from the end of the last millennium). Why fake? Because there is no reality to these images. Why fake? Because these images, emulating INA non-art, are in fact non-non-art. Why fake? They hang in no museum, they are not for sale. [However, they can be freely accessed for non-commercial purposes => see my Flickr conditions.] But they can be quite helpful, or so I believe, to produce works of contemporary non-art on a dime. And, with the stars willing, this could mean big bucks for the contemporary non-artist (favored by our rulers) from the 'institutional contemporary museums'. NB: Why did I call the INA acronym flexible? Well, you see, I thought of adding the F for fake. But, really, other letters would serve fine, too. Like G for geometric. GINA describes all these interminable squares, rectangles, columns, etc., that command such high prices today. Or like C for conceptual. CINA describes all the "conceptual" non-art, all these heaps of coal (or worse), these draperies and ropes and walls smeared with whatever it is or even isn't. Or, nomen est omen, all these projectors running. Or like N for non-figurative. NINA describes all of those abstracts full of scribbles and lines. Not to put too fine a line on it, all of these are, of course, FINA. Fake. My apologies for all those infantile word and image games. If you do not become like children, said Jesus, thou shalt not enter the Kingdom of my Father.