These Axioms resume two years of recurrent exchanges between Jofroi Amaral and Manuel Abendroth. As book titles, they are based on the permutation of concepts and act like self-evident statements on Art.
As notebooks, they constitute a conceptual framework, an artistic form of theoretical thoughts, an invitation to debate, and a tool to stimulate actions. They are meant to be activated in different forms, such as performances, exhibitions, artworks, etc. …
This series of notebooks is the first edition of TOPO? - a new artists-run structure based in Brussels. In this form, TOPO? can be understood as a space of propositions taking the shape of books. As a library, it’s a collection of artistic thoughts and actions.
Choose your Axiom, your book to write down your thoughts and acquire your first TOPO? signed edition.
These 48 Axioms are a collection of statements about contemporary art. In the form of notebooks they are a support to imitate exhibitions and debates about art.
These 48 Axioms are a collection of statements about contemporary art. In the form of notebooks they are a support to imitate exhibitions and debates about art.
48 AXIOMS divided in:
Blue: Art as Philosophy
Orange: Art as a Medium
Green: Art as a Social Marker
Red: Art as a human Scale
Zeitbilder, Bilder der Zeit
Metabilder, von der Zeitlichkeit in der Malerei zwischen Prozess und Symbolik
Le temps de l’image et l’image du temps
De la méta-figuration à la temporalité dans la peinture entre processus et symbolique
Denkbilder, Bilder vom Denken
Malerei zwischen Illustration und Konzept
La pensée de l’image ou l’image de la pensée
La peinture de l'illustration au concept
Sprachbilder, Sprache der Bilder
Malerei als semiotisches System und semantischer Raum
Le langage de l’image et l’image du langage
La peinture comme système sémiotique et espace sémantique
Ideenbilder, Bilder von Ideen
Von der referenziellen zur selbstreferenziellen Malerei
L’idée de l’image et l’image des idées
De la peinture référentielle à la peinture auto-référentielle
Seinsbilder, Bilder des Seins
Malerei zwischen Anthropie und Entropie
L’Être de l’image et l’image de l’Être
La peinture entre anthropie et entropie
Ewigkeitsbilder, Bilder des Ewigens
Vom Transzendentalen zum Archetypischen der Malerei
De l'éternel dans l'image et l'image éternelle
Du transcendantal à l'archétype dans la peinture