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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting | | Spanish term or phrase: forma y materia en conflicto | En cuanto a las cerámicas de Barceló que presentamos, aquí, son todas ellas obras recientes (2011), y como las obras sobre papel, también inéditas y sin titular al escribir este texto. Dos de ellas, las de una tonalidad más oscura, continúan trabajos anteriores de formas cerámicas decoradas, una de ellas con lo que es probablemente un auto-retrato, otra vez grotesco. Las otras suponen una exploración de ideas nuevas en las que formas distintas entran en colisión. Estas pueden ser dos vasijas que se chafan una a la otra, pero también formas de jarras partidas o rotas por un rectángulo – lámina o ladrillo -de materia misma sin trabajar. Estas cerámicas suponen una suerte de juegos conceptuales entre *********forma y materia en conflicto*********, para crear una imagen que exprese eso mismo justamente.
Son imágenes que sugieren inestabilidad, desequilibrio, fragilidad, metamorfosis, una violencia tal vez humorística pero de alguna forma también cruel, e ideas de supervivencia. Las formas y conceptos desarrollados en estos trabajos derivan, probablemente, de la performance titulada Paso Doble (un encargo del Festival de Avignon de 2006), realizada en colaboración con el coreógrafo y bailarín Josef Nadj, y en la que ambos se sitúan en un paisaje de arcilla que con manos, pies y los más diversos utensilios manipulan en una orgía celebratoria y ritual del material que acaba consumiéndoles - desaparecen finalmente por sendos orificios -. Catherine Lampert ha visto en esta obra una identificación del trabajo del artista en los márgenes de la sociedad, y un reconocimiento de la crueldad y el sacrificio de la vida normal que es requerido para ser profundamente inventivo (2). Todas estas cerámicas, en cualquier caso, han sido realizadas en los hornos del estudio nuevo, una antigua Taulera que Barceló tiene en Vilafranca de Bonany (Mallorca). Estas cerámicas no están barnizadas ni patinadas, teniendo el color de las tejas |
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21 mins confidence: conflict between form and matter
Explanation:
I think it will work better like this than the literal "form and matter in conflict". In context you could perhaps say "conceptual play on the conflict between form and matter", or "conceptual games involving a/the conflict between form and matter".
I think it would be best to use these terms: conflict, form, matter, since it is expressing quite an abstract, philosophical idea. There is a possible case for "material" instead of "matter", which would make it more concrete, but I would stick with "matter", which is more abstract and general. Nor would I use "substance", though it's a possibility, since it is usually applied to conceptual rather than material substance. It means the physical matter from which the artwork is made.
"The entire history of art has been a conflict between form and matter. This has been preeminently the case with the great modernists, like Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky and Mondrian."
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0101-31732011000400003&...
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I think one main reason why I would not use "material" in this particular case is that it commonly refers to the particular material of which an artwork is made, so that a conflict between form and material (or form and material in conflict) would suggest that the form of a given artwork is in conflict with the material of/from which it is made, which leaves open the possibility that such a conflict would not exist, or would be different, if a different material had been used. But that is not what this means, I think; "materia" refers not to a particular material but to materiality: matter itself.
Certainly form can be contrasted with material in art, but here I still believe we are talking in philosophical terms about matter itself:
"The terms form and matter describe a basic duality in all existence, between the essence or "whatness" of a thing (form) and the stuff that the thing is made of (matter)."
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Form
"The same principles relating to the continuity of experience and nature are also pertinent to discussions concerning form and matter in art."
http://books.google.es/books?id=nZUFxh9AyscC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA5...
"I therefore propose to draw the perhaps disputable distinction between form and matter in art, as the focus of attention"
http://books.google.es/books?id=Cs0OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA3...
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