De Masaccio à Stalker: pour une esthétique du seuil et de son franchissement
The threshold as theme of representation is in this article used as a way to question the limit and its crossing in the territory of the painted work, of the installation and the performance. Masaccio’s fresco “The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden” of 1425 constitutes a decisive step in the treatme...
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| Language: | deu |
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Conserveries Mémorielles
2010-04-01
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| Series: | Conserveries Mémorielles |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cm/449 |
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| Summary: | The threshold as theme of representation is in this article used as a way to question the limit and its crossing in the territory of the painted work, of the installation and the performance. Masaccio’s fresco “The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden” of 1425 constitutes a decisive step in the treatment of the space of representation. The suggestion of depth but also of thickness appears and thereby marks the beginning of naturalism in painting. The intellectual realism of the Middle Ages is replaced by a new mode of figuration. The Renaissance artist leaves one artistic territory in order to explore and define the foundations of a novel art form. From then on, the canvas acts as a zone of friction in the interstitial space that separates the real from the represented. The spectator’s vision facing the canvas crosses the barrier of the artwork so as to invade a topic tale brought forth by the illusion of depth. The painting is also the place where the artist reveals to the spectator facing the canvas, through plastic stratagems the conditions of its making. From here, a breach opens between the representation and the way to represent. Art and life intertwine in installations and performances, offering the spectator an in-between space in which he is asked to free himself from these models. The artwork is thus a threshold one has “to cross in order to learn loneliness” (Serres). It vibrates with instability and crystallizes the singular state of change. Also it leads inevitably toward becoming different. |
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| ISSN: | 1718-5556 |