Variaciones entre el movimiento y la quietud

Variations between movement and stillness is a work of gestures that is based on the investigation of repetition and the search to produce dynamism in a static image. This dynamism is manifested through movement in space, directionality, texture and the different forms that can be constructed from said gesture.

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Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

Inspired by artists Ben. F Laposky and Herbert W. Franke carry out the concept of a static image that produces movement, in the work it is reflected through a gesture and its deconstruction, emphasizing its parameters to create new forms, that is, several fragments make up a unit (totality) as mentioned in the text “The avant-garde work of art” (1974) by Peter Burger “the organic work of art aims for a global impression. Its specific moments, which only make sense in connection with the totality of the work, always refer, when observed separately, to that totality. The specific moments of the avant-garde work have, on the other hand, a high degree of independence, and can be read or interpreted both together and separately, without the need to contemplate the whole of the work of the work.

The degrees of independence can be seen in the use of parameters to disarm the initial gesture. As for example in piece number one, which represents the totality, it is the presentation of the gesture from which the materials for the subsequent variations will come. The second will focus on the abstraction of planes, textures, directionality, displacement in space, etc. In the third, the focus is on the development of the curve, the directionality (descending, from lowest to highest) and the delimitation of space. The superposition of planes is also more explicit so that finally in the fourth variation the attention is on the planes, a main one where it contains the square, curved and triangular texture and a second plane of lower hierarchy and intensity. As for space, this last piece covers the entire field, thus being the maximum abstraction of the initial gesture. These four variations make up the “totality of the work”, four parts that make up a unit.

Literature

BÜRGER, Peter. (1974). “La obra de arte vanguardista” Teoría de la vanguardia. Barcelona: Ediciones Península, 3ra ed.