La contemporaneidad global en las bienales de arte (2007-2019)estudio de la red de bienales y de los intereses conceptuales y formales de artistas y comisarios

Abstract

The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to identify and investigate the forms that define the artistic creation of today's Global. In order to recognise the formal and conceptual singularities and to make a proposal for an identifying model of this situation, an analysis divided into two parts has been carried out. In the first part, a theoretical exploration of the nature of contemporary creation has been carried out from a theoretical approach. For the elaboration of the methodological proposal, five authors have been reviewed who end up being determinant in the approach of the thesis (Giorgio Vasari, WalterBenjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Aby Warburg and Hal Foster) with the purpose of tracing, constructing and, finally, presenting an innovative strategy for the resolution of a problem intensely related to the changes of paradigm that have occurred in the same historical period of the author. Researching current artistic creation implies, in the first place, confronting the problem that arises from the lack of definition presented by theartistic category called Contemporary Art, since in order to carry out this analysis it is necessary to use terms and properties that are efficient in order to delimit the nature ofthe object of study. The theoretical exploration elaborates an examination of the context and of the artistic and exhibition production in order to identify a series of singularities that show the need to propose new terms and methodologies based on the use of digital tools that are capable of making visible other ways of thinking and interpreting the complexity of contemporaneity. According to the results of the first part, the author proposes the articulation of the concepts of Contemporaneity and Global in the same term, Art of Global Contemporaneity...