O despertar do mágico: religiosidade e misticismo na arte iconoclasta de Farnese de Andrade

Abstract

The present thesis deals with three-dimensional work of contemporary artist Farnese de Andrade (1926-1996), highlighting the elements of religion and mysticism that are applied in his production. The analysis undertaken here demonstrates how Farnese appropriates traditional codes of representation and popular religious art objects and how he offers the viewer a kind of work that hints at the boundaries between aesthetic appreciation and devotional attitude. It is noteworthy, in this sense, art depicting the procedures and that these codes can be listed also in the works of other contemporary artists, but in a resume Farnese reverence ambiguous. Thus, it seeks to highlight the work of creation and construction of the artistic personality of Farnese as an expressive contemporary subjectivity. The analysis, properly, of the farnesian objects borrows the concept of mestizaje, which points to the tension that permeates the disparate elements appropriate of contents, in large part to a religious imagination: images of saints, shrines, votive, and explicit references to the material culture of the african-Brazilian religions. The shift of work for a very special eschatology of mystical-esoteric is also evident. Therefore, it seems, in a context of religious and artistic experimentation, that the work of iconoclastic Farnese de Andrade can be defined as reflective of the Brazilian religious field ambiguities and contradictions inherent in the process of secularization.