Description
For more than two centuries we have heard, again and again, in a most persistent manner, and in many different contexts and situations, that art is dead. We have heard that artistic experience has been overcome or permanently suspended from history. It is said that what began, strictly speaking, with the arrival of the Renaissance has ceased to occupy a significant place within our cultural landscapes. In the field of theory and artistic thought, those who have pondered on or delivered such mortuary statements are countless: from Hegel to Arthur Danto. Despite all this, art resists and persists, time and time again. In the face of every death certificate, art restructures its own parameters to generate a prospect of sense, both internal and external, strong enough to continue to be operational. This fortitude is shaped by proposals from a selection of contemporary artists: Rita Ackermann, Louise Bourgeois, Martin Creed, Subodh Gupta, Thomas Houseago, Paul McCarthy, Dieter Roth, Mira
