Daniel Buren 'Allegro Vivace' / February 12 – May 22, 2011 / Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany.
In the ancient Greece, Aristotle hierarchically organized the senses and let the sight as the most important of them. Of course the argument was on base of human hierarchical utility. Additionally, the tragedy of logic had started and the figures of gods on our minds, as creators, leave us with the idea of the icon that pre-exist in the world before us. But after Leroi Gourham the order of senses is inverted, because space was before objects in it; the most interest contemporary artists don’t deal with icons, but with the space.
Daniel Buren, has clear this idea in his mind, “The first obstacle as a painter that you have is the wall where you put the paintings, is that wall necessary? I am not a painter anymore, in the traditional way, the specific space is crucial to steer what I can do”1. If in the oil on canvas paintings since renaissance to the abstract expressionism, the important was the icon inside the canvas, and then, with the expanded sculpture was a dialog between the object and the space; with the aesthetical minimalism, the focus is the building it self. That’s why our contemporary buildings have these biomorphic shapes, and always demand of the artist their site related projects. The experience of art is now more of the entire bodies reacting; in this case to mirrors and colors.
Mirrors, they use to be the strategy for recognize us and think how we see ourselves. Michael Foucault, begin his book the order of things (1966), analyzing this conscious of Velazquez in Las Meninas (1656): long ago before our costume of see paintings, the art works sees us. Paleontological discoveries reveals that some Oldowan stones are 2,5 million years ago: that means, that they are before our specie emerge. Or better: probably was because of them that our specie emerged, that's why don't try to find something hanged in the walls anymore; try to think how you will make your next own walls.
1. France 24/7 International News “Daniel Burren Allegro Vivace“ 02 March 2011.
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