Uma possível fenomenologia da corrosão: vida, arte e ruína

Abstract

In the contemporary painting context corrosion presents us with a lot of conceptual difficulties regarding its physical, temporal and artistic comprehension. Starting from the paradoxes that permeates its construction, appearence and modification we think to analyse under phenomenologic optics, in special Michel Henry’s fenomenology of life. Under the understanding of it as a phenomenon inseparable from life, we intend to compose a possible phenomenology of corrosion, dividing it in three principal especific points: its time, inicial time and the consequences of its action once the corrosive process has started, its ruin, both symbolic and phenomenologic, running through some artists that, somehow investigated the material potencies of painting; and life wich is the irrefutable and unending core of all phenomenon.