My painting is an act of decolonization: Wifredo Lam in the cultural and political crossroad
This essay analyzes Wifredo Lam´s artistic praxis as decolonial aisthesis, carried out by a subject who referred to his painting in terms of a “mental decolonization” (Mosquera, 1980, p.12). The essay adopts a decolonial perspective for its analysis that emphasizes the epistemic, subjective and poli...
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I10-R333-article-337142021-08-07T20:34:42Z My painting is an act of decolonization: Wifredo Lam in the cultural and political crossroad Mi pintura es un acto de descolonización: la encrucijada cultural y política de Wifredo Lam Catelli, Laura Wifredo Lam decolonization Latin American art anticolonialism decolonial aiesthesis Wifredo Lam; descolonización; arte latinoamericano; anticolonialismo; aiesthesis decolonial ; This essay analyzes Wifredo Lam´s artistic praxis as decolonial aisthesis, carried out by a subject who referred to his painting in terms of a “mental decolonization” (Mosquera, 1980, p.12). The essay adopts a decolonial perspective for its analysis that emphasizes the epistemic, subjective and political searches in Lam´s practices, as opposed to an aesthetic and culturalist approach. The first section revises the painter´s transatlantic cartographies and networks. The second section examines some of the approaches to his work and points out the culturalist and postcolonial analyses. The third and last section, aims to shift the terms of the analysis of Lam´s works to that of aiesthetic practices, in the context of a search, as expressed by Lam himself, of mental decolonization. The essay resituates Lam as part of anticolonial and anti-imperialist movements and considers a political and ideological facet of this artist that has become somewhat invisible under certain disciplinary perspectives that depoliticize his works, even when Lam himself expressed that he understood decolonizaiton as a struggle that needed to occur in the domain of the arts. Este ensayo propone abordar la praxis artística de Wifredo Lam como aisthesis decolonial, impulsada por un sujeto que se refirió a su pintura en términos de una “descolonización mental” (Mosquera, 1980, p.12). El ensayo adopta una perspectiva decolonial de análisis que valoriza la obra de Lam no en términos estéticos y culturalistas, sino de las búsquedas epistémicas, subjetivas y políticas implícitas en sus prácticas. En la primera parte, se revisan las cartografías y redes trasatlánticas del pintor. En la segunda, se examinan algunos de los abordajes de su obra y se puntualizan las perspectivas culturalista y poscolonial. En la tercera y última parte, se propone cambiar los términos del análisis de la obra al de las prácticas estésicas, en el contexto de la búsqueda, expresada por el propio Lam, de la descolonización mental. El ensayo resitúa a Lam como parte de los movimientos anticoloniales y antiimperialistas y considera una faceta política e ideológica del artista que ha quedado invisibilizada bajo ciertas perspectivas disciplinarias que lo despolitizan, aun cuando el propio Lam expresó que entendía la descolonización como una lucha que debía desplegarse en el campo del arte. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras 2021-06-30 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Scientific articles Artículos científicos application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/33714 Heterotopías; Vol. 4 No. 7 (2021): "Readings from/about pandemics. Anticipation and anachrony".; 1-23 Heterotopías; Vol. 4 Núm. 7 (2021): “Lecturas de/sobre pandemia. Anticipación y anacronía”; 1-23 2618-2726 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/33714/34015 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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This essay analyzes Wifredo Lam´s artistic praxis as decolonial aisthesis, carried out by a subject who referred to his painting in terms of a “mental decolonization” (Mosquera, 1980, p.12). The essay adopts a decolonial perspective for its analysis that emphasizes the epistemic, subjective and political searches in Lam´s practices, as opposed to an aesthetic and culturalist approach. The first section revises the painter´s transatlantic cartographies and networks. The second section examines some of the approaches to his work and points out the culturalist and postcolonial analyses. The third and last section, aims to shift the terms of the analysis of Lam´s works to that of aiesthetic practices, in the context of a search, as expressed by Lam himself, of mental decolonization. The essay resituates Lam as part of anticolonial and anti-imperialist movements and considers a political and ideological facet of this artist that has become somewhat invisible under certain disciplinary perspectives that depoliticize his works, even when Lam himself expressed that he understood decolonizaiton as a struggle that needed to occur in the domain of the arts. |
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