Descripción del proyecto
Continuidad de la utopía en las imágenes animales antiguas, modernas y contemporáneas
Apartándose del avance de la guerra y la destrucción del medio ambiente a principios del siglo XX, los artistas de la vanguardia histórica consideraban las culturas anteriores como ejemplos de la coexistencia pacífica de los humanos, los animales y la naturaleza. Esta fascinación se vio reforzada por el descubrimiento de las pinturas paleolíticas de la cueva de Altamira a finales del siglo XIX. El proyecto PreAniMod, financiado con fondos europeos, investigará la relación entre el arte vanguardista, sus predecesores históricos y los herederos actuales de esta tradición en la filosofía y la expresión visual formal. PreAniMod abrirá el diálogo entre arqueología, modernismo y arte contemporáneo. En colaboración con el Arkeologisk Museum de la Universidad de Stavanger (Noruega), el proyecto demostrará que la memoria y la imaginación son tan importantes como la observación minuciosa en la representación y encarnación de la vida animal.
Objetivo
"The art of the early 20th Century in Europe was characterized by an intense interest in ""primitive"" cultures, and, not coincidentally, some of the first Paleolithic cave paintings (Altamira in 1868; Font-de-Gaume in 1901) had been discovered at the ""moment of Modernism."" Franz Marc wrote that the purpose of the „animalization“ of painting was to ""lead us back to the sources of art."" My project, in collaboration with the Arkeologisk Museum / UiS under the guidance of Dr Kristin Armstrong Oma, explores the relationship between avant-garde art, its prehistoric precursors, and contemporary inheritors to shed light on the image of the animal in the history of art and archaeology and to challenge anthropocentric assumptions underlying traditional research, demonstrating that memory and imagination are as crucial skills as close observation to represent the livingness and sentiency of animals. The prospect of bringing modernist art history and archaeology into conversation is a unique benefit of basing this project within the Museum's ""Animals Mediating the Real and Imaginary"" research initiative, as learning about archaeological is crucial to bringing my research alive. The door of hope is still ajar for humans to help save some of the earth's life forms. Can images change our actions as well as our aesthetics? Avant-garde artists were drawn to imagining a primitive utopia during a time of upheaval and crisis. This project includes an exhibition organised with Oslo's contemporary LOCUS gallery director Tanja Thorjussen, with public engagement and round-table discussions as well as conservation expeditions to the Alta cave site. A monograph and exhibition catalogue will document my research."
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
4021 Stavanger
Noruega