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A Dynamogram

Erick Beltrán
‘The Western model of knowledge historically conceives truth as a bright shining figure: Truth offers light from a single evident source, whose energy and clarity we may use to perceive other things as well as our surroundings. The closer we are to the source, the more of its essence we receive. Like moths we are attracted to the brightness of knowledge. This new work looks for a different model of knowledge, inspired the Italian mythographer and philosopher Furio Jesi’s quasi-gnostic concept of the Mythological Machine. Such a machine produces narratives, trading in signs and metaphors. It never works directly. Its core is an inaccessible space, which is supposed to hide an archetypical, meta-historical vision: the myth. If demanded, the machine will never give up truth—only versions of it in the form of mythologies. I propose an apparatus in the form of iconological machine that will produce images in the same manner as Jesi did with mythologies—a kind of multi-dimentional kaleidoscope, where images flow and reorder into new constellations, depending on our strategy of visualisation.’

Erick Beltrán

 

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Beltran, A Dynamogram (2021), preparatory sketch for a 5D cube. Courtesy Erick Beltran

 

 

 

A Dynamogram

‘The Western model of knowledge historically conceives truth as a bright shining figure: Truth offers light from a single evident source, whose energy and clarity we may use to perceive other things as well as our surroundings. The closer we are to the source, the more of its essence we receive. Like moths we are attracted to the brightness of knowledge. This new work looks for a different model of knowledge, inspired the Italian mythographer and philosopher Furio Jesi’s quasi-gnostic concept of the Mythological Machine. Such a machine produces narratives, trading in signs and metaphors. It never works directly. Its core is an inaccessible space, which is supposed to hide an archetypical, meta-historical vision: the myth. If demanded, the machine will never give up truth—only versions of it in the form of mythologies. I propose an apparatus in the form of iconological machine that will produce images in the same manner as Jesi did with mythologies—a kind of multi-dimentional kaleidoscope, where images flow and reorder into new constellations, depending on our strategy of visualisation.’

Erick Beltrán

 

VISIT THE ARTWORK

 

Beltran, A Dynamogram (2021), preparatory sketch for a 5D cube. Courtesy Erick Beltran

 

 

A Dynamogram
Erick Beltrán

‘The Western model of knowledge historically conceives truth as a bright shining figure: Truth offers light from a single evident source, whose energy and clarity we may use to perceive other things as well as our surroundings. The closer we are to the source, the more of its essence we receive. Like moths we are attracted to the brightness of knowledge. This new work looks for a different model of knowledge, inspired the Italian mythographer and philosopher Furio Jesi’s quasi-gnostic concept of the Mythological Machine. Such a machine produces narratives, trading in signs and metaphors. It never works directly. Its core is an inaccessible space, which is supposed to hide an archetypical, meta-historical vision: the myth. If demanded, the machine will never give up truth—only versions of it in the form of mythologies. I propose an apparatus in the form of iconological machine that will produce images in the same manner as Jesi did with mythologies—a kind of multi-dimentional kaleidoscope, where images flow and reorder into new constellations, depending on our strategy of visualisation.’

Erick Beltrán

 

VISIT THE ARTWORK

 

Beltran, A Dynamogram (2021), preparatory sketch for a 5D cube. Courtesy Erick Beltran