Hibridismos - sintomas de expansão na pintura contemporânea

Abstract

The contemporary pictorial field, as a reflection of multiple changes conveyed by creative processes,themes and multi-directional artistic practices, is especially characterized by its hybrid nature. Its comprehension depends on the identification and study of a possible set of of "symptons"- appropriation, simulation and installation. These "symptons" coexists in various disciplines, and present themselves as the forerunners of the fluidity and territorial expansion that we can see in Comtemporary Painting. A further study of such practices, which are deeply inter-related, is better achieved through the presentation of case studies (in this paper we focus on the work of Barbara Kruger and Petter Halley). "Walking Under", the integrated personal artistic project in this dessertation, can be , by its features, one of these case studies ( but it is more than that: it was the driving force that led to this thesis, determining the core aspects of the theoretical study)