The presence of the political in the neokitsch aesthetics of a visual text by Omar Schiliro
During the 1990s, a homogenizing discourse was formed about the artistic productions linked to the Gallery of the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, dependent on the University of Buenos Aires, around the term “light”. During the course of the decade, this term acquired a negative connotation that chara...
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Editorial de la Facultad de Artes
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/avances/article/view/37683 |
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| Sumario: | During the 1990s, a homogenizing discourse was formed about the artistic productions linked to the Gallery of the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, dependent on the University of Buenos Aires, around the term “light”. During the course of the decade, this term acquired a negative connotation that characterized the visual texts as superficial, kitsch, lacking political commitment and decorative. Recent research proposes political re-readings of the productions from perspectives related to queer, gender and affect as modes of micropolitical agency. However, a preponderance of the artists’ personal lives, or their biographies, is observed in the analysis of the productions.
This article proposes an interpretative update of the visual text Untitled (1993) by Omar Schiliro (Buenos Aires 1962-1994), based on its link with the concept of the political postulated by Chantal Mouffe (2007, 2014), from a text-centered perspective. The methodology employed corresponds to the textual and visual arts semiotics postulated by Umberto Eco (1990; 2007; 2013; 2000) according to the guidelines articulated by Alejandra Niño Amieva and Hugo Mancuso (2016). |
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