Photography is always a capture of an announced death. There is no future in it, said Roland Barthes. What you show will no longer return, if it has ever been. No wonder it is an artistic expression of those who are seduced by death most. Both the self-portraits that Pierre Molinier staged in the last years of his life locked in his apartment, like the photographs that Antoine d’Agata has been making from himself and […]
I am for a while the melancholy of a fragmented figure, and in that interval the mystery is revealed, Pierre Molinier The beauty of the monster began to be claimed by the romantic sensibility, when appeared aesthetic categories attending to emotional states rather than object qualities. Thus, the sublime and the grotesque will take the artistic experience to metaphysical grounds. In both concepts exist a conflict of internal forces between attraction and rejection, ecstasy and […]
Soy durante un tiempo la melancolía de una figura fragmentada, y en ese intervalo el misterio se revela, Pierre Molinier La belleza del monstruo empezó a ser reivindicada por la sensibilidad romántica, cuando aparecieron categorías estéticas que atendían a estados emocionales más que a cualidades intrínsecas al objeto. Así, lo sublime y lo grotesco llevaron la experiencia artística hacia terrenos metafísicos. Ambos conceptos llevan inscrita la pugna entre atracción y rechazo, éxtasis y repulsión. Ya […]
