EXPOSURE DEVICE exit strategy
VIP ART FAIR: until 30/01/1911
RMS, SPACE: 'Impossible THE SHOW' : until 04/02/1911
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art is not against what sometimes could be a sensible analysis, place of contradictions and heirs of the Enlightenment. Nor, incidentally, an educational body and even less ornamental with which to better digest our daily drama. Art has a very special logic, though in part the above, not anywhere near complete. His dialectical logic is here her not to meet in a synthesis, but not therefore be entirely encrypted in its non-concept. Always located in between which lies between the intension and extension is encrypted the epochality of its concept, the art moves to the beat of strange dialectic.
The vaunted art deaths are only moments in the development limits of the very concept of art: if at first it suggests a regulation of what would become the artistic practice efficiently, in a second stage, in a twist, shift analyst decides that far from the works of the time give a good account of what the actual concept demands and, therefore, is postulated as a finishing of the body art. Not otherwise be understood famously by Hegel that "art is and remains for us, by the side of his ultimate determination as a past." And hence, too, that strategies such as recoding, resemantization, recollection, or the allegory as a way of connecting the past and the new, never cease to be outdated for a progress-based art to escape from himself.
Generally, these epochality boundaries coincide with development limit the autonomy signed art. Thus, for Danto , if the autonomy of art is its open character, the fact that the existence of art is finished (in the embodiment of the boxes Warhol brightness) to involve its own concept, the fact that From that moment everything can be art is a radical autonomy of such a degree that what happens is that it has declared the end to give some narrative to begin another, the post-history of the very concept of art. So we would have more than a series of deaths of art, a concatenation of different narratives with which to delineate the history of the concept of art.
Adorno , always more tragic, the death figure in a betrayal of art than art itself, at the time of the avant-commits against himself. Renouncing the autonomy, the avant-garde art and life merge intend thus falling into a totalitarian model of identity thinking. Appealing to a mysterious' il faut continuer ', Adorno argues that, despite the betrayal of art against itself, despite having dropped this in the networks of mass industry, we are forced to do' as if 'cupiese some redemption, "in view of the threat of barbarism is always preferable that art mute before go to the enemy. " Le
list of thinkers can be in this dense point all you want, but with these two examples we can point out two recurrent symptoms at the time to reflect on the history of art: one, that the regulations required to art is altogether circumstantial - Why glossy boxes and not for example, Duchamp's urinal ? Why Adorno saw in the vanguard of breaking the historical place from which to think the contradictions of bourgeois society art? - And, two, that despite being the progress of these breakpoints quite random and problematic yes it is true that leave behind a progressive enlargement of the artistic field which is increasing the concentric circle of what might be called 'art'.
Adorno, again, it could see this strange dialectic that marks the development of art and desartización call for strategies that art itself mobilized for development. Among the negative moment of the movement, one that would appeal not to give up the promise of autonomy, and positive momentum, one that, by contrast, would have no qualms about flooding left by life, the history of the concept of art answers and a series of movements are refusing to go strangely overcome. Adorno himself concludes that "art is desartiza" because "is presented as part of that adaptation to contradict his own principle."
is, as mentioned, in this 'between' where distilling art goes against the concept itself. And, taken as a matter of all, both points are false, it goes without saying that the alleged autonomy of art as a separate sphere is an illusion when establishing a legacy of the Enlightenment was a perfect example is the inanity critical in any movement falling clinging to l'art pour l'art- tasteless, like all claims of life is given, rather than with the aim of safeguarding the art, with the intention of going reified 'worlds of life 'til then open.
In this regard, Rancière , perhaps the latest addition to the aesthetic reflection from the primates theorists of this constant movement back and forth, it is clear that while the goods you want to be art and after its beautification is the dissolution of art itself, does not make it menso true that "when art is only art disappears. "
no intention to be exhaustive, they are pretty well known that both strategies as part of another exercise their domain: in front of commodity fetishism, the dematerialization of the art object, in front of the spectacle , introspection and self-referentiality maximum, compared to the glamor of the badness of the artist, the author's death in front of the cultural industries, the self as a champion of artistic autonomy, compared to the profusion of hipervisible, the scopic hiding, facing the hiperestetización d elo visible, a radical absence object-art, against the logic of hyper figure in the entertainment, some duplication machines which, as representing not-present sinister, leads to boredom and tedium.
In general, if the former is postulated as commercialization of the art object, the latter are understood as political resistance
The core of this dialectic of desartización operating inside art is a paradox inherent in the inability encrypted intractable that the development of the concept art pair tilt to one side or another. In this regard, what we said at the beginning of that art is not the place to resolve contradictions must be taken as axiomatic foundation. As many say, in an adjectival impossible merges Deleuze and Adorno , that art itself escaping strategises: if it resolves the aporia, art, this time it would be dissolved disappear immediately.
This impossibility of resolution is understood, Lacan, and the inability to get into the Thing, in the Real, so that when art gets too close, the art itself desartiza, or the same as saying that when subject is very close to look at the subject itself is de-attached. In this regard Miguel A. Hernández-Navarro emphasized plausible connectivity, following the Seminar X of Lacan, which is between the feeling of anxiety that occurs in the subject at the sight of the sinister with the dimension of the Real. Thus, the sinister, quasi-equity category is for much of contemporary strategies, would be the way out, the signal that the subject is too close to the Real.
Thus, rhetoric of resistance, blindness effect in contemporary art, and a siniestralización and disturbance of the eye are the three negative moments of this strange dialectic with which art operates.
II
reaching here may well think and ask: What now?, Now where are we? Certainly the time seems, at least, important hated by some, misunderstood by many, unlucky for others, the art moves through the path of history blows that come from all sides. Because if it is well familiar contempt that art awakens in, shall we say well, the average citizen, for the vast majority of those who are part of the artistic fabric of the situation is no less regrettable.
By way of simple examples, Perniola not hesitate to describe the current situation as "the approval of cultural products, spreading a climate of consensus around plebiscite stars The disappearance of the critical capacity, coming within the conditions for appearance of the original works, the collapse of excellence ", and Fernando Castro Flórez not hesitate to point out accurately that this aesthetic its disappearance is a transbanalidad contraréplica the obscene that, seeing as fertile ground near the sinister with the abject, "launched its latest round in a long 'disappearance' which seeks to recover the power of fascinating and what happens is that gestures are prisoners of the comedy of obscenity and pornography. " That is, if the weather is not too buoyant, almost insoluble inability of art to escape their own nonsense seems to leave the field open for the marketing and spectacle.
However, the excitement of art is seen under the microscope these fluctuations to realize that, if it is true that the race towards industrialization of culture and denounced by Adorno has accelerated its pace in recent years almost giddy, it is also true that the forms of resistance are beginning unanimously to understand the legacy of the avant-garde as a simplistic model understanding of ideology, on the one hand, and as in open disbelief, pretend Foster pointed redefinition and re-encoding the chosen strategies when carrying out an artistic practice of resistance, and, moreover, stress, as claimed Rancière, these aesthetics of resistance to understand them as highly political practices in relation to the need "to create a new disorder," questioning the current political division, the sensible.
Thus, we could say that currently, any practice of resistance artistic vocation is to be understood as a political reaction that questions the status of sensitive and that primarily question the 'given to see ', what is tolerable to the eye, and who chooses to bury her in their own way autorelexión before us given, the visible. Reflection sovereign art, reflection on the political and reflection on the visual system to precisely meet here.
III
This microscopic view to the vagaries of art, reflecting on the exhibition, the exhibition event, has articulated in recent years own discourse has brought to it an exaggerated role. As far that could not be otherwise: if the aesthetics of resistance to the current arrangements have the visual your perfect target, then that is normal then the device itself visibility of art, the exhibition, there to where basis emergency has to be aimed any reflection.
The increasingly important role of the Commissioner, the successful joint exhibition, reflections on the "white cube", scratching it in almost ideology in favor of complete autonomy of the work- , its drift toward the "black cube" collide (or in addition, who knows by how much) with the pathological condition biennial as art system, with the fondness of many art centers to program all sorts of "isms "guaranteeing ticket sales, or the insane pleasure to have the manage political culture.
These days, almost one might say that in a plot typical of these strategies of escapism that surprising art, have coincided with two events attest that this unspeakable tension between art and non-art, this dialectic of desartización, far from understood as large singularities in the historical process of concept art, provide an effective 'here and now' to ensure that, far from being stranded, the art is, in this more radical serving in the meaninglessness of their future.
If art has become, in this game to speculate in which we have been insisting on the one hand, big business, the other has been transformed into art theory, and this, as touching the exposure device is about as brutal as contrary effects: if the RMS , Space is is mulling over these days in the exhibition made at the same time, in a place as close as you can be the virtual dela network is holding the first fair cyber art, VIP ART FAIR.
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"almost" nothing to do and an almost "nothing" to do that separates the two samples, mean the great abyss of artistic practice around the 'art world'. Both are necessary, fundamental, because even with a somewhat Hegelian, both devoted to art that it is saved, both represent a point of contradiction that, pending impossible to meet a new synthesis will expand the field of art.
think the role of the commissioner, to explore the explanatory format that usually accompany the exhibition, make art eminently a place of dialogue, self-centered and whose greatest guarantee is that the art work-and terminates start-and perhaps explain itself, are first theorist to collide squarely with the exhibition pandemic pushed to the limit of his histrionics, all with their pajamas and out of bed at a click.
However, that does not escape anyone that the art is and should be, a market is obvious, that the recession, crisis, and we want to call is doing great damage to art Meridian is also clear, and, more philosophically speaking, these events, as we argue, are essential to give an alibi to the escapism of art, do that only under certain assumptions can be criticized an exclusive sample-collectors, remember, like this.
Our mission with this text is not to criticize the initiative, just the opposite. Just note that, at this stage of the game, things are so disfigured in the dialectic between the two inclinations is played the game of art that emphasize them by foot in two events as those referred blows away any clinging to the speech Manichaeism resistance theoretical innocent or short haul.
Perhaps, to be brief, as you said Carlos Urroz in the latest issue of ABCCultural , although any initiative to invigorate the market is good, there are three lakes that are almost insurmountable: cancel the experience of the work, make art something like a secret club and end the meeting in the aisles, looking and being seen.
But here is essential, and not stick too close to the exhibition event, is that if all busy aesthetic dignity to the art from as close as possible to its alleged autonomy, but not so selfless as tasteless as uncritical, it must be understood as an aesthetic of political resistance, what can one do when they offered us the comfort of his robe, the glamor of the select and fetish insatiable on-line transaction?, what strategy take art to maneuver another exercise in escapism?