The relationship of art with freedom starting from the beginning, when the brush or chisel touches the material. Line, color, field and shape appear, and it appears that -- especially in modern art -- there's no fixed and definite geometry. All motion to free themselves from it, even the work of Mondriaan. "I incise the horizontal and vertical scratches in the canvas with" awareness", not with "calculation", "he said.
Almost without limits on its color variations, can be in the form of millions of different, and sometimes the gesture toward its own choosing. In short, the artist acts in the middle of the happenings that is not fully known: a situation in chaos cliff, but it almost has a shape. The artists choose the steps. More and more it seems there's a figure. But we will know, there is something looming: the chaos at its base: something that still can not be expressed. The next day the artist is painting again.
Perhaps creation is "an event". "Genesis" -- this word I collected blindly from Alain Badiou -- is something that can not be taken into account first. It's like a leap into the dark. But with it, a situation that looks intact is revealed, a cosmos collapsed, and something new is born - as if it is found and expressed for the first time in life.
Unlike what is commonly put forward by liberal thinkers, the creative freedom is not the freedom that comes from the "I", of the subject, the artist. In "the event", the subject is not an origin, but the subjectivity which is born of "the event". I exist because I am intrigued and moved.
This issue is important in the modern art. This pioneer is well known in the art to formulate a "revealed soul", or "visible soul." There are two questions that often arise from the dictum of art as "visible soul".
First, when art is considered to represent something that is already there, while we are more familiar with Paul Klee expression that "Art does not reproduce the visible. It renders it visible". The works in exhibition -- for example -- is intended to make the shape of a manuscript about independence. They are the spark of freedom itself.
Second, when the "soul" is considered transparent, then we remember that in human there is "a large and dark building, a place to hide our true spirit."
Indeed, there is "a large and dark building", but there is no" true soul ", because by assuming that there is "the true soul" is just claim on something that actually can not be measured, formulated, to be named. Each claim as it will be a kind of prison. Then the "visible soul" that appears in the creative process is not a unity, but a process of liberation from colonialism imposed by the world of symbols.
Of course, the creative process comes infiltrating, then disappear. Then what is left only in its footsteps. Let's say the trail is a framed painting. It is limited. Even so, it transcends the limitations when it brings something that makes it infinitely. We sometimes say that something is "beauty" - another name for the unexpected, which actually can not be appointed in each success works, always revealed the shadow of chaos.
When we are grateful, stunned, or we dither, it's because there seems something without limit - which is at once liberating the works with us who staring it.
***
No comments:
Post a Comment