Artwork presentation

El ojo humano

Artist: Julieta Agustina Bascuas

With respect to my work, it tries to demonstrate how the human eye and oneself react to different sentimental stimuli, depending on how the viewer wants to take it. One of them is how life constantly spins, giving total peace to an immense chaos in which we end up immersed in it, wanting to run anywhere. in order to solve it. You might wonder why an eye and not a heart or something characteristic of feelings? My answer is the following, we can all experiment in different ways, such as: falling in love, being happy, angry, distressed, etc… But the only reaction that we all experience equally is crying, it is the only way to express our “inner self” as much as when we collapse or feel total peace. And why the crying? Even if we are happy about the birth of a child or the approval of some job, the body is filled with hormones which give rise to crying, When we are sad or frustrated it happens the same way, those people who does not know how to express his anger, mostly his only way to release it is by crying. Something so natural but at the same time so forbidden in society. A man cannot cry because you are called a “faggot”, or they cannot see you crying on the street because You are “exaggerated”. How ridiculous can it be to continue thinking that in the middle of 2022. To get inspired, I researched some works by Vera Molnar, a Hungarian artist born in 1924 and who continues to make art today, and Georg Nees, a German mathematician (1926-2016). who dabbled with digital art of that time, two people who I could say interested me in their history and works. My final conclusion regarding “The Human Eye” is that we must let our entire “inner self” flow with our life.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

The texts to which I am going to refer are those of “The work beyond the object” by Nathalie Heinich in 2014 and “The visual languages of modernity: collage, assemblage and montage” by Toni Simo Mulet in 2004. They are probably two completely parallel texts about what they are about, but they caught my attention more because of their trajectory in history, their development. and how each artist managed to carry out his works regardless of what society said. One explains and shows how it is the world of contemporary art and its various artists such as Duchamp, Klein, James Turrell, Hermann Nitsch among others with open ideas, when in the other side of the face with only five artists that refer to avant-garde art with main artists such as Picasso, Braque, William Seitz, Peter Selz and Benjamin Walter. All the artists mentioned above helped me understand the different types of art and their respective eras, thus giving me the opportunity to carry out “The Human Eye”

Literature

“Los lenguajes visuales de la modernidad:collage, assemblage y montaje” por Toni Simo Mulet (2004).

“La obra mas alla del objeto” por Nathalie Heinich (2014).

Bibliografia de Vera Molnar.

Bibliografia de Georg Nees.