Unfinishedness encourages us to explore the artistic reason for negative gestures of abandonment as sprezzatura or as destruction, as nonchalance or as iconoclasm, in short as a disembowelling of the artist's craft. To what extent does the work of an artist not take shape as an unfinished-or unfinished-(of the work) of another, or even of oneself? Shouldn't we then ask ourselves, both historically and aesthetically, about the forms and consequences of the phenomenon that makes it possible, paradoxically, for art not to go without "artlessness" and for what seems destined to be exhibited - including the artist - to be exhibited only on condition that, at the same time, it hides what makes it what it is? In fact, the question of "unfinished art" and "hiding art" or of "art without art" and "art without an artist" encourages us to look for what inactivity and hiding mean in art and for art, to identify what art does not complete and hides or shows when it hides (art and its unfinished business) and, to use Daniel Arasse's expression, to try to explain how and why "One sees nothing" - except the artist as a snob.
Du vertige au prestige. Notes sur l'artiste en snob
Fimiani Filippo
2022-01-01
Abstract
Unfinishedness encourages us to explore the artistic reason for negative gestures of abandonment as sprezzatura or as destruction, as nonchalance or as iconoclasm, in short as a disembowelling of the artist's craft. To what extent does the work of an artist not take shape as an unfinished-or unfinished-(of the work) of another, or even of oneself? Shouldn't we then ask ourselves, both historically and aesthetically, about the forms and consequences of the phenomenon that makes it possible, paradoxically, for art not to go without "artlessness" and for what seems destined to be exhibited - including the artist - to be exhibited only on condition that, at the same time, it hides what makes it what it is? In fact, the question of "unfinished art" and "hiding art" or of "art without art" and "art without an artist" encourages us to look for what inactivity and hiding mean in art and for art, to identify what art does not complete and hides or shows when it hides (art and its unfinished business) and, to use Daniel Arasse's expression, to try to explain how and why "One sees nothing" - except the artist as a snob.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.