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Mariani likes to remember how meeting Beuys showed him the third way between capitalism and communism. A path that, presumably, an artist can accomplish better than any other because he already has it in the most remote presuppositions of his being himself. Beuys may not have revealed anything to Mariani but he certainly helped him to become fully aware of himself. And this is important because Beuys means a strange and within certain limits inextricable mixture in the context of the relationship between Art and Life. In the case of Mariani, this ambiguity does not exist. Yet it is enough to …