Jorge Oteiza as a paradigm. Disillusion and crisis in abstract art

Authors

  • Miguel Anxo Rodríguez González Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Keywords:

modern sculpture, abstract art, cultural crisis, artistic creation, sculptors

Abstract

Between 1958 and 1959, merely one year after winning the Sculpture Prize in the Sâo Paulo Art Biennial, the sculptor Jorge Oteiza decided to abandon his artistic career. In his own words, this decision was a consequence of the extreme development of his ‘experimental purpose’: an intense research project about space in sculpture that had inevitably driven him to the ‘nothingness’. In this paper I suggest that the abandonment of Oteiza could be seen as a symptom of the crisis of the abstract art —the no return way in the process of experimentation of the artists—; and as the advance of new ways to understand the art, closer to social issues and with strategies of research from other fields.

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Published

2012-01-12

How to Cite

Rodríguez González, M. A. (2012). Jorge Oteiza as a paradigm. Disillusion and crisis in abstract art. Cuadernos De Arte De La Universidad De Granada, 43, 145–166. Retrieved from https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/caug/article/view/2679

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Section

Estudios