(Des)orientarse en la plasticidad de un mapa sin distancias: Rizoma, palimpsesto, derivas y la (im)posible cartografía del arte contemporáneo

Abstract

Assuming the complex world without distances established by the new ‘spaces’ of the 21st century where we live, whose essential modality is ‘excess’, is how, within this labyrinthine and baroque present, we can perhaps approach establishing certain conceptual bases for the generation of a possible cartography of contemporary art, as was achieved by Alfred H. Barr, in 1936, when he made a diagram that explained the origins and drifts of some artistic movements of the 20th century. With this objective, and taking into account the technological determination of the digital metamedia in contemporary modes of communication and production, fundamentals such as the concept of ‘rhizome’, that of ‘palimpsest'' or the theory of drift to end’ are addressed in this article. to serve as support in the plastic diagrammatic configuration of tautological maps of contemporary art. A cartographic strategy that, depending on its own aesthetics, also occasionally becomes recurrent when certain artists undertake expressive ‘inner journeys’ in attention to their own subjective impressions or intimacies.