“Malevich perhaps invented monochrome painting. But would have been astonished to be told that his Black Square was not about anything.” (Danto, 2000, p. 132)
When I approached Malevich’s painting in the Museum I felt a convergence and rush of in descriptive emotions and conjectures towards this artwork (probably is aura + sublime). An attribution of my own feeling and envisions of this art object, this was a place of identification and understanding but it is tricky to define as one art form should be approach. Not all interaction happens the same way. The location of the artwork, for example, affects the viewer’s esthetic experience, as also cultural/historical background knowledge can influence our perception of an artwork.
The Self observation progress, the exposure and finding of our self in the work of art can be experience in a quick or long exposure and with this experience we can be “elevated”, or not. Still you have to give yourself to the experience, to be elevated through it. Would this experience be easily absorbed? Some of us will need different durational, history background information, commentaries, to reach this elevated stat, this experience level, or even to mediate the experience in itself. We can then have conscience that a feeling of fear may occur in some part of this experience, it is always present in this tentative to reach this elevation moment.
With critical thinking we invest/engage in a work of art but can we have an initial response that elevates us in this 1st encounter, with the artwork? Art form? Can we comprise the synthesis of the knowledge gain in this encounter with a “studio” practice? The meeting of the Self and the art form (any or all the self’s and any or all art forms) an experience, as a work of art that works as a work of art as power/powerful.
With these questions in mind, Malevich’s structural and composition artwork, the historicalsociocultural
context and my own experience of his art form using a visual concrete poetry approach I developed the video-art: Malevich. In this video I deconstruct, rethink this dynamic, co-relation, co-existence, co-variation, oppositions, causation, generalization, limitations, stability, function, influences of all this dialect using and playing with words such as: inFORM, perFORM, oneSELF, himSELF, anyTHING, noTHING, ATtrACT, MEANning, among others.
(Beatriz Albuquerque, NYC, 2010)