Abstract
Although art had hitherto been based on painting and focused on exhibition in closed spaces of the museums, nowadays, art takes place over the streets and broadens its movements. We can see works by anonymous artists on city streets, artisans in popular markets and fairs, as well as the sophisticated works exhibited in the intimate galleries and exhibition spaces of the art biennial sheds of large urban centers. Visiting a gallery, however, is always surprising. Entering these spaces is in itself an encounter marked by visual, auditory sensations, which at the same time may give rise to feelings of confusion or revulsion. Since Marcel Duchamp included in his works the objects of everyday use, the read-made (1913), art has expanded its dimension, taking on new contours about its concept and its nature. Duchamp (1887-1968), in creating the controversial work called “Urinal” for the Society of Independent Artists in New York (1917), anticipates movements such as Dada and has reflections on art till the present day. At the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, different works by contemporary artists, the Honey-Suckle Company of Berlin, reflect on human nature in their individual and collective manifestations. Honey-Suckle Company calls themselves a movement, which deals with the ephemeral interventions in the field of fashion, music, and art. The first exhibition environment permeates multiple sensations of urbanity with its conflicts between nature and the objects of techno-cities. The faces of isolation can be perceived through the isolation and intangibility between the human and their natural desire.
Presenters
Celia Kinuko Matsunaga HigawaAssociate Professor, Faculty of Communication, University of Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Image, Language, Space, Object
