The electronic eye

Abstract

A look at language becomes the language of the look itself: a look completely penetrated by forms of transposition and even substitution of the supposed sensible reality. The close origin, as in so many other things, is found in the prodigious first two decades of the last century when painters like Franz Marc or Jean Arp showed a true obsession with symbolically destroying nature, and this not only in art, but through the sacralization of the Great War, as purification by fire on a bourgeois and corrupt society. Nature is impure, it contaminates, it does not allow itself to be subject to human, pictorial language.