Davide Dal Sasso

L’arte dopo il concettualismo è l’arte che ritorna all’ars, alla operosità umana. È arte che esprime il suo profondo legame con i progetti e le pratiche. È arte che rivela talune delle sue regole dando risalto più al fare che non alle apparenze, ai processi anziché alle forme, alla creatività piuttosto che agli aspetti visivi delle opere. Dopo il concettualismo le artiste e gli artisti fanno arte nel segno dell’essenziale, ossia del minimo indispensabile perché si riconosca la sua natura di pratica umana e più che umana.

L’arte dopo il concettualismo

Nel segno dell’essenziale

Nel segno dell'essenziale. L'arte dopo il concettualismo

Elisabeth Schellekens

What is the future of conceptualism? What expressions can it take in the 21st century? Is there a new role for aesthetic experience in art and, if so, what is that role exactly? Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed uses one of this generation's most important and influential artists to address themes crucial to contemporary aesthetics. Working in an impressive variety of artistic media, Creed represents a strikingly innovative take on conceptualism. Through his ingenious and thought-provoking work, a team of international philosophers, jurists and art historians illustrate how Creed epitomizes several questions central to philosophical aesthetics today and provides a glimpse of the future both of art and aesthetic discourse. They discuss key concepts for Creed's work, including immediacy (in his photographs of smiling people), compositional order (in his geometric paintings), simplicity (in Work No. 218, a sheet paper crumpled into a ball) and shamelessness (in his videos of vomiting people). By bringing a working artist into the heart of academic discussions, Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed highlights the relevance of philosophical discussions of art to understanding art today.

Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed

The publication proposes to investigate the arts from the inside, namely, their common foundations: the rules for artistic creation, the processes that involve artists in their activities, the forms that they can achieve. An inquiry about art-making and artistic practices.

Davide Dal Sasso

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