Seen at the 2017 Venice Biennale: art that perceives, anticipates and reflects on the complex world
Contemporary Art | Complex thought, a contemporary philosophical current created by scientist Henri Laborit and conceptualized by Edgar Morin in 1982 (Science with conscience), is expanding in the context of our globalized world. Complexity has gradually infiltrated our imagination, our visuals and discourses. We have also found it the 2017 Venice Biennale’s art.
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View of the exhibition “The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied.” Fondazione Prada, Venice / From left to right: Thomas Demand, Regen (Rain), 2008 - Alexander Kluge, “…Kommt ein Schiff gefahren” (“…A Ship Sails this Way”), 2017
© Photo Attilio Maranzano Courtesy Fondazione Prada
To reflect on complexity is to reflect on globality and its chain of systems, considering the interconnection of each domain as well as their transversality and interdependence. This reflection also implies the integration of the notion of uncertainty and unexpectedness as a productive process. Although the concept of complexity was conceived forty years ago, we can discern it through art history since antiquity, with works by emblematic painters such as Giotto, Dürer, Da Vinci, Velásquez, Poussin, Duchamp…
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