La escuela de Atenas
José Miguel González Casanova
The School of Athens
This installation—composed of an incomplete tower of quarry stone blocks, engraved with words from Aristotelian definitions of substance, and arranged in a spiral formation until they gradually reach the word NADA [nothing]—offers an aesthetic model to explain the political operation of the appearance and disappear-ance of essences and accidents. The effect is a back-and-forth of cognitive categories and sensitive initiations.
Combining concepts and the entropic deployment of symbolic forms in a precarious state, this work questions the aesthetic processes used to study and explain our relationship with the world, as in the eponymous fresco painted at the Vatican by Raphael in 1509.
JOSÉ MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ CASANOVA (1964)
La escuela de Atenas, 1997
The School of Athens
Quarry stone blocks engraved with words
Acquisition, 1999
