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Rating: Chapter 3. Zero Polemics. Oh my Lord! you and your Peter Doherty's omologated hat sucks!
Extreme bangs. Extreme. Extreme genius.
"Dalì from behind while painting Gala from behind, eternalized by six virtual corneas providentially reflected in six real mirrors", unfinished -1972/73-. This is the title of one of the greatest masterpieces of art in the strictest universal sense, avant-garde, experimental and visionary like the stars in the universe, it represents itself in the first person and that self of the author which comes forward considering Art at the moment it is created, naming the artistic gesture and the doing as central to the problem of representation.
The central scene is occupied by Dalì painting, the easel is situated in the boundary area between the representative and the represented, the sketch on the canvas, and the woman from behind, looking at herself in the mirror, the background is marked by many shades and wrinkles. The Mirror, a key emblem of the painting, allows the vision of the woman's face. In this way, Dalì solves one of Stoichita's problems regarding the "image of making", the representation of the artist and his doing simultaneously, eliminating the fraction between active instance and contemplation, the artist makes himself visible by enjoying the work firsthand.
Image: Dalì, Franz Kafka, Freddie Mercury, and Goya, eating next to each other at the same table.
The mirror is not only the overcoming of the painting, it is also, through its reflecting properties, what shows the negative of the painting, the rejected part, the back of the painting, is reflected in the mirrors like the two faces, catalyzing the imagery in a very particular scenario, of extreme interest.
Image: the myth of the cave, the bathroom mirror, the tavern mythomaniac, the handwriting in the toilet.
This work is fundamental for the problematics that art had around the limits of the painting, as in modern times, as well as in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, the frame had to be the means for the insertion of the object into the artistic sphere.
Enjoy this panel, if I won the lottery, I swear I'd buy it.
Image: you reflected in front of the screen...
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