Ouvrir le rien, l’art nu
by Henri Maldiney
Hardback (Published)
(June 2010)
ISBN: 9782350880211
Price: $72.00
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SE TENIR EN PRESENCE d’une oeuvre d’art ce n’est pas se tenir a l’ecoute de l’artiste pour en recueillir les confidences ou le message car ce qu’est l’oeuvre, l’artiste n’en sait rien avant d’etre surpris par elle. Maitre d’ouvrage, il n’est pas le…
English summary: MERELY BEING IN THE PRESENCE of a work of art is not the same thing as “listening” closely to the artist to receive his or her confidences or message, because the artist knows nothing about the work until it surprises him. He may have authority over the project, but he does not control its outcome. According to Malevitch, a work of art must emerge from nothingness. It proceeds not from any being – nor even from a vacuous being – but from the nothingness which it opens. Its manifestation takes place within the open space provided that the work opens within the latter in the form of nothingness. From a few Chinese Sung Dynasty landscapes to a diamond-shaped Mondrian and a few 20th-century paintings – all evading the world’s logic of intentionality or mondeity – appear, here and there, works whose systematically unique existence is an entry into the presence within the open space. French description: SE TENIR EN PRESENCE d’une oeuvre d’art ce n’est pas se tenir a l’ecoute de l’artiste pour en recueillir les confidences ou le message car ce qu’est l’oeuvre, l’artiste n’en sait rien avant d’etre surpris par elle. Maitre d’ouvrage, il n’est pas le maitre d’oeuvre. Une oeuvre, dit Malevitch, doit sortir de rien. Elle ne procede d’aucun etant, meme d’un neant etant, mais du rien qu’elle ouvre. Sa manifestation a lieu dans l’ouvert pour autant qu’elle s’ouvre en elle sous la forme du rien. De quelques paysages chinois de l’epoque Sung a un losange de Mondrian et a quelques peintures du XXe siecle – tous insoumis a la logique de l’intentionnalite ou de la mondeite du monde – apparaissent de cime en cime des oeuvres dont l’existence, a chaque fois unique, est une entree en presence dans l’ouvert.
- By (author) Henri Maldiney
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