Entropia: materialidade e percepção na arte contemporânea

Abstract

The term entropy has come to represent certain processes in contemporary art that are directed towards aesthetic disintegration and dissolution of the significant. On the one hand, it is connected to material aspects, integrated with concepts of formlessness along with the predominance of tactility, playing havoc with the faculties of perception through visualization and aesthetic contemplation. On the other hand, it points to the aspect of dematerialisation and to the break down of form within its surrounding space. Such aspects imply the symbiotic relationship between that of the material and of form, the piece and of observer, relating to indistinctness between subject and object, the individual and society, nature and culture, having repercussions on the spatial notions of distance and proximity, interior and exterior, public and private space. By examining theoretical concepts and analysing artists' works emblematic of contemporary art, we seek to show how, current aesthetic processes which lend themselves to discussion of entropy dissolution in contemporary art, can be identified