PARAGRAPHIE II

Through the exploration and usage of past knowledge about art and what an artist is, the project seeks a way to liberate art according to the rules its creation should have followed in order to be accepted by society. Incorporated in the context of the contemporary situation resulting from the longstanding cultural and political repression that inevitably led to the degradation of art and artistic values, the project reassesses the result itself and all the parallels to that point. It uses the form of a fanzine, combining it with an art book, web atlas, references, and graphs as a source, and at the same time shows itself as a presentation from research to education. More specifically, this is a literal and less literal recording/mapping of relations in art, as well as art with society and man.

Among other things, it speaks about the institutions that man creates and maintains in power constructs more powerful than himself. The concept begins with the same institutionalism of art with the question of who decides whether someone is an artist (research part); from here the question is sought through the etymology of the words for describing the artist and the art, it records them, assembles them into the form of an atlas, compares them with themselves and retreads parallels for refinement (investigative-experimental part). Finally, these results are entered with references as a comment by the artists in a collective artbook/fanzine called Paragraphie (materialization).