What´s the use of such light? Antonio Gramsci in the work of Alfredo Jaar

The article proposes a reading of the figure of Antonio Gramsci in the work of Alfredo Jaar. Based on the mediation of the poem Le ceneri de Gramsci, by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Chilean artist begins a search for Gramsci that is, at the same time, a search for the image, an interrogation and detaine...

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Main Author: Valderrama Castillo, Miguel Angel
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Universidad Diego Portales 2021
Online Access:https://www.revista180.udp.cl/index.php/revista180/article/view/853
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Summary:The article proposes a reading of the figure of Antonio Gramsci in the work of Alfredo Jaar. Based on the mediation of the poem Le ceneri de Gramsci, by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Chilean artist begins a search for Gramsci that is, at the same time, a search for the image, an interrogation and detained meditation on the place of the image in the contemporary society. An interrogation that is proposed as an inquiry into light, about the image as light.