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Pedro A. Cruz Sánchez /// The 'Ontological Gap'. (The Masquerade of Art's Political Commintment) Without a doubt, the issue of the existing connections between contemporary artistic practices and political action constitutes one of the main themes within the contemporary critical framework, which increasingly sums up the interests and efforts of a range of artists and theoreticians. The problem, however, is that, as tends to happen with all star matters and moreover polarized by two ideas so 'extensive' in their connotations as those of art and politics, any debate that one intends to begin about it is corrupt beforehand due to many common places difficult to avoid. One might point out, in this sense, the fact that analytical simplification which has suffered the notion of 'political art' has been such that, at this point, and with its enunciation, it appears almost as if it were reduced to a mere, though special, form of making reality the theme. (...) |
