Anselm Kiefer’s Logic of Inversion : On Anselm Kiefer’s Exhibition : Questi scritti, quando verranno bruciati, daranno finalmente un po' di luce (Andrea Emo), Venezia, Palazzo Ducale, March/October 2022 / Salvatore Settis
Titolo
Anselm Kiefer’s Logic of Inversion : On Anselm Kiefer’s Exhibition : Questi scritti, quando verranno bruciati, daranno finalmente un po' di luce (Andrea Emo), Venezia, Palazzo Ducale, March/October 2022 / Salvatore Settis
Numero monografico "Aby Warburg: His Aims and Methods"
Abstract
Taking his cue from Kiefer's title, Settis underlines “a logic of inversion between space and time, as well as a staggering fluctuation between presevation and destruction, between memory and oblivion”, and questions the meaning of an “interval in a work of art”. Settis, therefore, recalls Warburg's definitions of Zwischenraum (intermediate space) and Denkraum (thought space) extending them to contemporary art in an extraordinary short-circuit of memory.