Hi Michael and all, > I love Morandi's work and I shall definitely go to see the show at the > Estorick. > Morandi is an enigma - that someone who was an active member of the > Italian Fascist party > could produce work that is so utterly... - if life affirming wasn't a > cliche I'd say life affirming - > > utterly enchanting, humane, enriching... > I can't help thinking, though, Heidegger is a putative friend, interpreter > or advocate Morandi doesn't need. > > Where Morandi is great despite his politicsHeidegger is completely and > forever tainted by > > his active andnever publicly repented membership of the Nazi party. > It strikes me there's a kind of grace here which is available to artists > and not to philosophers. Ultimately > > all philosophy is a call to action or at least a framework for it. Art, on > the contrary, enables even the > personally wicked or the politically vile the redemptive act of looking > carefully and making something to > show us, be it painting , poem, music or whatever which makes us more > deeply human.
Does this view includes Leni Riefenstahl? Cheers! Aharon xx > michael > > > > ________________________________ > From: netbehaviour <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:57 AM > Subject: [NetBehaviour] Georgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry. > > Georgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry. > > by Robert Jackson. > > "There is a new exhibition on Georgio Morandi at the Estorick > Collection, London, called Lines of Poetry. Iâve heard that theyâve > brought together quite a few drawings and watercolours not previously > seen in the UK â and more excitingly it collects all of the most > important graphic work he did, including drawings there werenât > characteristically still-life. > > I was never really interested in Morandiâs work, until I saw a > conference lecture given by one of my tutors â John Chilver â on > Morandi > and Heideggerâs âThe Thingâ. I was about 22 I think, and I certainly > wasnât in the capacity to absorb anything about Heidegger at that point > (it was published somewhere I believe), but I remember the oddness and > intensity of the works. Now of course, I see clear and obvious links > between Morandiâs strange, haunting grasp of still-life objects forever > ungraspable and Heideggerâs own musings about the withdrawn, > self-supporting jug." > > http://robertjackson.info/index/2013/01/georgio-morandi-lines-of-poetry/ > > Robert Jackson is also a writer/reviewer on Furtherfield. > His recent article is 'Algorithms and Control' > http://www.furtherfield.org/features/algorithms-and-control > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour_______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
