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September 22, 2005
viola du signe
Reading viola's text reminded me of two books I read years before : 'Letters to a young would-be poet'(Rainer Maria Rilke) and 'Duchamp du signe' (Marcel Duchamp). For Duchamp, already, the piece of art was on the viewer side. His last (unfinished) work 'etant donnee' is a remarquable introduction to contemporary art as Viola produced.
For those interested, I recomend this great website:http://www.understandingduchamp.com/
Another aspect of Viola's text deal with the uncertainty. The notion of unexplored and unknown edge is pictured very gracefully in Rilke's short book. The fact that art has to deal with gut and intuition. If everything is clear, then everything is dead.
Picasso used to say a misunderstood sentence:
"I don't search, I find". This resonate with Viola's work in the way that finding is closer to the "fog of creation", a sort of uncontrolled demiurgic act.
Posted by Duc, Thomas at September 22, 2005 09:46 PM