Feet n.5
Sacred, art and eroticism.
The union between the concept of the Sacred, the erotic impulse and the Representation (i.e. Art) represents a fundamental knot of the individual and collective psyche.
Art itself can be considered in its most complete forms, overcoming the mere decorativism, the result of the sublimation of those dark materials that seem to blend together in an indistinct and black amalgam composing the deepest level of our psyche.
Art gives shape to what has no shape, no form.
Art becomes the “signifier” which organizes in an acceptable form what can never be fully understood, what is indistinct, incomprehensible, which transcends any possibility and the concept of understanding itself.
Art makes visible the signifier “par excellence”, i.e. our deepest impulses.
In this sense, erotic, sacred and art share the same origins.
In this drawing of mine I have made sacred, also in the form (just see the golden background), a part of the human body: the feet, specifically the female ones.
In this drawing, you can perceive a multiple sacralization.
The adoration of a part of the female body, in this case, is doubled by the sacralization of the subject of the drawing and of the artwork itself which becomes an object, which becomes itself a fetish, a totem.
Secular work of art becomes a sacred object because, in a world increasingly dominated by the dematerialization by the digital image, the fact of “being an object” in itself fascinates and captivates us.
The capability of occupying a space, its specific weight within the space, makes the “material artwork” extremely desirable and from a physical-perceptive point of view it reminds the physical confrontation previously engaged by the “Artifex”(art-creator) with the inert object to which he “breathes life” by employing his own “art-techné”.
The union between the concept of the Sacred, the erotic impulse and the Representation (i.e. Art) represents a fundamental knot of the individual and collective psyche.
Art itself can be considered in its most complete forms, overcoming the mere decorativism, the result of the sublimation of those dark materials that seem to blend together in an indistinct and black amalgam composing the deepest level of our psyche.
Art gives shape to what has no shape, no form.
Art becomes the “signifier” which organizes in an acceptable form what can never be fully understood, what is indistinct, incomprehensible, which transcends any possibility and the concept of understanding itself.
Art makes visible the signifier “par excellence”, i.e. our deepest impulses.
In this sense, erotic, sacred and art share the same origins.
In this drawing of mine I have made sacred, also in the form (just see the golden background), a part of the human body: the feet, specifically the female ones.
In this drawing, you can perceive a multiple sacralization.
The adoration of a part of the female body, in this case, is doubled by the sacralization of the subject of the drawing and of the artwork itself which becomes an object, which becomes itself a fetish, a totem.
Secular work of art becomes a sacred object because, in a world increasingly dominated by the dematerialization by the digital image, the fact of “being an object” in itself fascinates and captivates us.
The capability of occupying a space, its specific weight within the space, makes the “material artwork” extremely desirable and from a physical-perceptive point of view it reminds the physical confrontation previously engaged by the “Artifex”(art-creator) with the inert object to which he “breathes life” by employing his own “art-techné”.
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