Seeing, Hearing and Incarnating "Grim Reality": The Performative-Ethical Dimension of Voice and the Painter's Gesture.
2019
Abstrakt
In this article delves into the link between sound and voice in aesthetic reactions to the world's violent tendencies in the works of the French painter Jean Foutrier (1898-1964) and the Czech artist Mikuláš Medek (1926-1974). He perceives in both artitsts' work an assertiveness of sound or voice - theiry physicality, sensuality, and materiality entailing both a performative and a subversive dimension, and asks whether it is at all possible to shape material such that a "voice event" can become visible.