NARCISSUS GUIDE

The Aesthetical Attitude

V The Aesthetical Attitude The new aesthetic attitude creates a complex ceaseless challenge to rediscover reality!... The revelation that systems(4) are so complex in nature and created constantly into an infinite chain of infinite processes makes it possible to think of revealing unseen systems of shapes, colors, sounds, high light waves and form waves..."hidden beyond the bouncing of the atom"... All these to be reoriented as the artist's imagination wishes to speak new categories of beauty, so the senses will widen their range as our consciousness broadens its self-awareness. From such a plateau, hidden harmonies with new scales of meaning will burst open the language of art well beyond its actual 20th century limits!. Far away from the old aesthetics of postindustrial self gratification. The traditional, lineal, homogeneous, static, centered, "logical cause and effect relationship", left hemisphere brain reaching image process will speed up. This will make possible working hypervisuals in a kind of endless display of harmonies, imaging each second born of nature's systems, an artistic interpretation of "absolute accelerated motion"?... (an aesthetics of the impossible?)(5).. or particularly, a healing complex art for ill people who suffer the ravages of society..?. Only each artist's germinal genius will ultimately limit itself for the opening to new styles and languages!. As outdated concepts and styles fall so do limits to the imagination, thus the artists community conditioned anxiety for the art establishment's approval will fade away; when well beyond the trap of decadent schools and recipes, the soul of the artist flies freely to the limitlesness of a new post-historical period born under the lights of complexity consciousness!!!. The transition will be multifaceted, joyful and like bearing a child, painful!. Multiple materials and visions, as well hallucinatory like symbols, imagery, hypertext content and issues will arrive all at once on the metamultidynamic, interactive-cross-cultural, complexmedia art objects-subjects of our immediate future: Welcome to the first art of the third millennium!. Shall we?... *"We are at the end of the era of the "sensible object": the Retinian painting reduced to a mere optical manipulation...The value of a painting, poem or whatsoever other artwork is the result of its unveiled symbols, as well of its contained possibilities to combine them. Because an artwork is a kind of meaningful machine". Octavio Paz,. "Apariencia Desnuda: La obra de Marcel Duchamp". 1985. Ediciones Era, S.A., Mexico D.F., Mexico. Pages 98 & 99. Translated from Spanish by myself.