Hiding Art, Hiding Codes and the Comic Strategies of Total Disappearing / Yiannis Melanitis
Yiannis Melanitis Chapters: Hiding Art, Hiding Codes and the Comic Strategies of Total Disappearing/ The artist, hidden inside the work of art/ Hiding human code inside an insect/ Artists’ Name as a Camouflage Tool/ Mimesis turns comical/The performance If You Cannot Be An Owl, Masquerade Like A Butterfly on the Isola di San Michele
Yiannis Melanitis
Chapters:
Hiding Art, Hiding Codes and the Comic Strategies of Total Disappearing/
The artist, hidden inside the work of art/
Hiding human code inside an insect/ Artists’ Name as a Camouflage Tool/ Mimesis turns comical/The performance If You Cannot Be An Owl, Masquerade Like A Butterfly on the Isola di San Michele
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1. The adult LEDA MELANITIS butterfly was exhibited at MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, 2018
2. Presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE in Art & Science, 26-28 May 2017, Ionian
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265.b.1/ ἡ γάρ που μίμησις ποίησίς τίς ἐστιν, εἰδώλων μέντοι, φαμέν, ἀλλ’ οὐκ αὐτῶν ἑκάστων· ἦ γάρ; Plato Phil., Sophista (0059: 007)
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20. Most characteristic example is Arcimboldo’s collaboration with performers of comedia dell arte at the Habsbourg courts (around 1562).
Kaufmann also states that “his paintings have carnivalesque sources”, deriving from places where peasants hide their identities in the carnival. Thomas
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