I would like to examine David Hokney’s (1937) famous 1967 painting A Bigger Splash, pretending to know nothing about the author’s life and analysing only the formal and chromatic elements in the painting. Convinced that an author of visual texts expresses everything he has to tell us through the grammatical elements of his discipline and that, in Hokney’s case, we find in the painting, within which unconscious elements of his personality, as well as of ours as observers, could also […]
Vorrei prendere in esame il famosissimo dipinto A bigger splash del 1967 di David Hokney (1937), fingendo di non sapere nulla della vita dell’autore e analizzandone soltanto gli elementi formali e cromatici presenti nel dipinto stesso. Convinto, come sono, che un autore di testi visivi tutto quanto ha da dirci lo esprime tramite gli elementi grammaticali della propria disciplina e che, nel caso di Hokney, ritroviamo nel dipinto; all’interno del quale potrebbero celarsi anche elementi inconsci della sua personalità, così […]
In Radicant, published in 2009, the French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud tries to construct an essayistic path aimed at identifying the new cultural routes that characterize the new millennium, putting it as a response to the current practices of globalizing capital and finding a possible solution in the practices implemented by some contemporary artists. In it he introduces the term Altermodern, indicating the current historical period, whose assumptions date back to the nineties of the previous century. As Bourriaud writes, […]