Collage Incompleto

In the work you can see how rectangular figures with black lines appear on a white canvas in locations that seem random but have a meaning. The figures appear at a constant rhythm, generating a sensation of movement and continuity. Once the appearance of the figures is finished, if you press the mouse on the canvas you can see how the work is inverted and what was previously a white canvas is now black, the same with the lines that were previously black and are now white.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

The work was inspired by some of the works of Michael Noll, mainly by the series called “Computer Art” and its layouts and locations of the lines in the figures, but you can also see the influence of Vera Molnár in the shapes of the figures that are seen on the canvas. The first thing that the work tries to show is the most basic and essential of a collage. Fragments and cuts of different objects located on a canvas. Each fragment of a collage has its own content, but in the case of this work the fragments are presented with an absolute lack of explicit and visible content. They are basic geometric figures that act as fragments and seek to represent a collage. According to Simó Muleto in the text “The visual languages ​​of modernity: collage, assemblage and montage”, visual abstraction, the flattening of the image and the rupture of classical hierarchies are some of the features of the collage technique, these being present in the work. Heinich says in his text “The work beyond the object”: “Is there anything more immaterial than an idea? Without a doubt, for it to exist, it must be incarnated in objects, even if they are only words on any support. But in conceptual art that support can be, precisely, any since what matters is above all the idea, the intention, the choice of the artist. The object as a materialization of the idea is only a pretext.” Interpreting Heinich, this collage is reduced to the minimum to show how, by detaching itself from the object, a work exists due to the idea and intention of the artist. The intention is to show precisely what Heinich says, to get rid of the object so that through the idea, the intention and the concept the work makes sense. Heinich also says that for the existence of the work, documents provided by the artist are necessary that present these ideas and intentions, these documents being a fundamental part of the work.

Literature

SIMO, Mulet. (2004). “Los lenguajes visuales de la modernidad: collage, assemblage y montaje”. Ciudad: Editorial. Heiich, Nathalie. (2014). “Los lenguajes visuales de la modernidad: collage, assemblage y montaje”. Ciudad: Editorial.