Aby Warburg
Germany
La experiencia transforma nuestras ideas. Aby Warburg, uno de los historiadores de arte más importantes del siglo XX, vio profundas conexiones visuales entre tiempos y espacios que llamó "atlas de imágenes" o Mnemosyne. Esta es la razón por la que creó paneles llenos de imágenes que funcionaron como constelaciones de significados y antagonismos cosmológicos en el misterioso devenir de la cultura. La historia a veces parece estéril. Esto se debe al diálogo distante con objetos que ya están fuera de contexto. Pero los objetos son extensiones de conceptos e ideas y las imágenes llevan energías. Warburg entendió eso e incluso declaró que nunca habría presentado sus ideas sobre el Renacimiento si no hubiera visitado a los indios Hopi (1895). Warburg vio bailar a la serpiente: un ritual que involucraba pintar con arena y bailar alrededor de cientos de serpientes venenosas. Algunos años más tarde imaginó la tensión entre la experiencia del arte como intoxicación, y al mismo tiempo como método y realización. Obsesionado con el paganismo, quería traer a la historia del arte occidental la poderosa energía primitiva que las imágenes transmiten a través del tiempo. A través de la máscara, Warburg podía comprender la lógica de la sinrazón.
Experience transforms our ideas. Aby Warburg, one of the most important art historians of the 20th Century saw profane visual connections between times and spaces that he called “image atlas” or Mnemosyne. This is the reason why he created panels full of images that worked as constellations of meanings and cosmological antagonisms in the mysterious becoming of culture. History sometimes appears sterile. This is because of the distant dialogue with objects that are already out of context. But objects are extensions of concepts and ideas and images carry energies. Warburg understood that and he even stated that he would have never come up with his insights of Renaissance if he hadn’t visited the Hopi Indians (1895). Warburg saw the snake dance: a ritual that involved sand painting and dancing around hundreds of poisonous snakes. Some years later he envisioned the tension between experience of art as intoxication, and at the same time as method and accomplishment. Obsessed with paganism, he wanted to bring to western art history the powerful primeval energy that images carry through time. Through the mask Warburg could grasp the logic of unreason.
More: https://believermag.com/ghost-stories-for-the-very-adult/
Experience transforms our ideas. Aby Warburg, one of the most important art historians of the 20th Century saw profane visual connections between times and spaces that he called “image atlas” or Mnemosyne. This is the reason why he created panels full of images that worked as constellations of meanings and cosmological antagonisms in the mysterious becoming of culture. History sometimes appears sterile. This is because of the distant dialogue with objects that are already out of context. But objects are extensions of concepts and ideas and images carry energies. Warburg understood that and he even stated that he would have never come up with his insights of Renaissance if he hadn’t visited the Hopi Indians (1895). Warburg saw the snake dance: a ritual that involved sand painting and dancing around hundreds of poisonous snakes. Some years later he envisioned the tension between experience of art as intoxication, and at the same time as method and accomplishment. Obsessed with paganism, he wanted to bring to western art history the powerful primeval energy that images carry through time. Through the mask Warburg could grasp the logic of unreason.
More: https://believermag.com/ghost-stories-for-the-very-adult/