Quitarse el peso de la historiaIsidoro Valcárcel Medina y su «2000 d. de J. C»
- 1 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España
ISSN: 1132-2373
Année de publication: 2016
Titre de la publication: De palabras escritas y otras impureza visuales: creadores españoles a la deriva entre la escritura y la imagen
Número: 26
Pages: 113-127
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Tropelias: Revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada
Résumé
This essay aims at contextualizing 2000 d. de J. C. (2001), one of the most intricate art-books by the awardee of both the Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes (2015) and the Velázquez (2007) art prizes, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina. Every page that composes this book contains what at first sight would appear to be a historical account on every year until 2000. A closer look shows that, in reality, the content of each page focuses on banal events, almost anecdotic acts that occurred on each year. Instead of using the prototypical historical discourse, the narrative style is always on the edge of falling into the unconceivable or even the inaccuracy. Different historiographical schools that might have influenced the artist and their implications, the economy of knowledge, the collective attitude towards the past and the history’s ideological product —building national subjectivity at least in Spain— will be the main areas of interest through which this essay will contextualize Medina’s work.