Pensamento e impossibilidade: interseções entre M. C. Escher e Gilles Deleuze

Abstract

This article attempts to establish a relationship between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the artistic productions of M.C.Escher. Thus, we present a discussion on the concepts of representation, simulacra and event, covering the development of these within the Art and Philosophy. We use the artistic productions of Escher to illustrate the appearance of these productions that are on the limit between the definition and the paradox. We believe that both Deleuze as Escher explored this fissure where the paradoxical forces are held in a double sense that never reaches the final term. These thinkers stepped into this space of intensive forces, however, without be engulfed into an abyss undifferentiated. We will use any thoughts available to establish this connection between Escher and Deleuze, so we will use Geometry, Logic, Art and Philosophy, in search of concepts that can help us in this venture. Finally, through this present study we will show Escher as an artist between the geometry and the abysmal forces of abstract art. He sought in his work what he called "espanto" which, in our view, is the same deleuzian discovery of thought without an image. This paradoxical tension that dissipates offering to the spirit an affection that is unrepresentable, a-significant, but at the same time carries all the possible meanings. This element gives us the birth of impossible objects in the fissure existing in compossibility between worlds incompossible. So we try to show how Escher was an artist able to present these elements in their artistic productions.