Da matéria ao lugar: limites (e não limites) de um “objeto-pintura” na relação com o público

Abstract

The present study proposal is titled «From matter to place: limits (and non-limits) of an “object-painting” in connection with the public» and falls within the scientific field of Painting. As the title suggests, it is proposed to ponder upon the possibility of limits and non-limits in painting, in a logic of expanding two-dimensional visual art into the domain of touch, volume and the surrounding space. This paper researches into the impact on the viewer’s experience when in contact with the artistic object in contemporary times, constituting the hypothesis of an «object-painting», which allows for a loss of ceremony towards the artistic space (a museum, a gallery), leading to an expansion into the physical space (the nature, the landscape) accessible to all. It appeals to the senses, the aesthetic experience, and the holistic relationship between the “object-painting” and its active and participatory viewer (and its capacity for resignification). This theses proposes a collection and dialogue between some references (authors) in the fields of philosophy and aesthetics, history of world art (where it’s placed, what antecedents it gathers), and contemporary art, in order to shape and organize critical and analytical thinking on the key themes that it proposes to grapple with: (I) in a first part, on matter, imagination and potential sensory readings of the creative object; (II) in the second part, the text that deals with the problematization of what is a place?; (III) followed by the selection and analysis of a number of contemporary artists (both national and international) who address subjects like matter, touch, place/non-place, site specific, installation and trace; (IV) and last but not least, the development of a personal hypothesis that contemplates the experience and practice of the lived, invented, open and personal space, and its creative and active relationship with today’s public (in the local/national territory – from local to global).