Dark forms of contemporary art

Authors

  • Silvia García Laboratorio de Investigación y Documentación en prácticas artísticas contemporáneas y modos de acción en América Latina Instituto de Investigación en Producción y Enseñanza del Arte Argentino y Latinoamericano Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • Valentina Valli Laboratorio de Investigación y Documentación en prácticas artísticas contemporáneas y modos de acción en América Latina Instituto de Investigación en Producción y Enseñanza del Arte Argentino y Latinoamericano Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Keywords:

Contemporary art, representation, form, function, massive aestheticism

Abstract

The work of art is, according to Ticio Escobar (2004), the result of the articulation of an unalterable link between the sign (concept) and the form (image). However, it is in the representation generated from the synthesis of these two movements where an incomprehensible distance becomes valid and attracts us to it. In an act of beauty, the representation reveals a certainty: part of its essence and part of its shading. The current outlook has made that link more complex due to the cooptation of the shape and beauty by the market and generated an antiformalist crisis. Nonetheless, art still has its expository power, result of its concept, as shown in Horacio Zabala’s Forma y función [Form and Function]. Even before this outlook, art still allows us to wander around the banned fields of the technical world and to get closer to the comprehension and reflection of Being.

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Published

2016-09-20

How to Cite

García, S., & Valli, V. (2016). Dark forms of contemporary art. Arte E Investigación, (10), 38–44. Retrieved from https://papelcosido.fba.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/aei/article/view/240

Issue

No. 10 (2014): Arte e Investigación 10

Section

Articles

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