{"id":9509,"date":"2016-08-22T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2016\/08\/22\/the-a-desk-archive-according-to3362\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T00:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:15:11","slug":"the-a-desk-archive-according-to3362","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/the-a-desk-archive-according-to3362\/","title":{"rendered":"The A*DESK Archive according to… Antonio Ortega"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unlike other cultural manifestations, more closely linked to text, in the visual arts there is no separation into genres. There is no Art of Terror, no Thriller Art, or Crime Art, and there\u2019s obviously no Comic Art. <\/p>\n

Montse Badia in 2005 produced a modest exhibition more of an activity, within the context of QUAM, titled Mind the gap<\/em>. At the time she asked \u00bfHow could art have a real projection in society? <\/p>\n

In Montse Badia\u2019s article, that I\u2019m selecting as reading for this summer, written in 2013: Satire and Parody as Critical Strategies<\/em>, the author seems to sense a possible recipe for the dilemma that she herself proposed almost ten years before. By inviting us to adopt, within the context of the visual arts, communication strategies typical of popular culture. It\u2019s a recourse that lamentably appears on very few occasions. It\u2019s not by chance that the most commonly used word in pop music is love. In the visual arts, on the other hand, it would be: untitled. <\/p>\n

Text selected: Satire and Parody as Critical Strategies<\/a> by Montse Badia, published 18 January 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

SATIRE AND PARODY AS CRITICAL STRATEGIES<\/p>\n

\"Siouxsie_Mittagessen.jpg\" <\/p>\n

In the field of branding, \u201cbaseline\u201d is the advertising phrase that accompanies the brand in all the media supports used to promote it. Nike\u2019s \u201cJust do it\u201d, Nokia\u2019s \u201cConnecting people\u201d, the \u201cMove your mind\u201d of Saab or Apple\u2019s \u201cThink Different\u201d. In colloquial terms, branding professionals refer to the \u201cbaseline\u201d as \u201cvaseline\u201d, that is to say, the lubricant that helps the message \u201center\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the context of culture, humour, parody and satire can have this \u201cvaseline\u201d effect, enabling authors to criticise facts, situations or questionable systems relentlessly. There are times when in which reality is so tough, disconcerting, unreasonable and unjust, that it seems as if it is only through parodied representations that one can agitate perceptions and consciences. One of these moments was in the convulsive thirties, that gave rise to the political photo-montages of John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld): Adolf Der \u00dcbermensch: Schluckt Gold und redet Blech<\/a> (Adolf, Superman: swallows gold and spouts junk), in which with the help of X rays one sees Hitler\u2019s innards, a pile of golden coins; Goering: Der Henker des Dritten Reichs<\/a> ((Goering, Executioner of the Third Reich) appears caricatured as a butcher or Hurrah, die Butter is alle!<\/a><\/em> (Hurray! The butter is all gone), in which a family sitting around a table have nothing more to eat than bits of metal, in reference to the unfortunate phrase pronounced by G\u00f6ring during a period of food scarcity, in which he affirmed that iron had always made the nation strong, while butter and lard only made people fat. It wasn\u00b4t by chance, that Hurrah, die Butter is Alle!<\/em> was paid homage to, at an equally critical time, by punk, appearing on the cover of \u201cMittageisen\u201d by Siouxsie and the Banshees. <\/p>\n

The heirs to the photomontages of Heartfield or Jacob Kjeldgaard (who with the pseudonym Marinus <\/em> realised critical photo-collages for the French newspaper Marianne<\/em>) are now to be found in the written press, in satirical magazines like El Jueves<\/em>, Karma Dice<\/em>, Charlie Hebdo<\/em>, or, the recently appeared Mong\u00f2lia<\/a><\/em> \u201ca satirical magazine without any message\u201d that defined itself in a manifesto\/\/[declaration>http:\/\/www.revistamongolia.com\/que-es-mongolia\/], makes its message quite clear including in each issue the section \u201cReality News\u201d, with investigative articles (of the serious kind) in which reality exceeds any kind of parody.<\/p>\n

In February 2006, Pol\u00f2nia<\/em><\/a>, was born on TV3, the regional Catalan television, a programme of political satire, the very name of which used ironically the denomination \u201cpolacos\u201d, a derogatory and colloquial term used to refer to Catalans. The current political scene has become such a parody of itself that the programme\u2019s scriptwriters each week find it harder to surpass it. The portrait that Pol\u00f2nia <\/em> makes of Catalan, Spanish and International society is as precise as it is relentless: Mas style, Obama and Bin Laden at the prow of a boat emulating the mythical scene from the film Titanic, before, oops, Bin Laden falls overboard or the Spanish Minister of Education, Culture and Sport, Jose Ignacio Wert, caricatured as a decrepit and perverse science fiction character, amongst others, configure a universe of caricatures of real people and situations, that function as a distorting mirror on a reality that is already fairly deformed.<\/p>\n

But, what about art? Satire, irony or cutting mockery, are some of art\u2019s recourses to criticise or denounce a certain reality. Honor\u00e9 Daumier made cartoons about the things that he didn\u00b4t like, about the society that had to live in. William Hogarth elaborated \u201cmodern moral subjects\u201d that were parodies of what he wanted to place in evidence. More recent examples are Dan Perjovschi<\/a>, who makes drawings that take history as a continuum of events, or David Shrigley<\/a>, whose drawings allude to the darker aspects of everyday existence. To make his works more accessible, Shrigley has no problem in using any type of channel or format. He is capable of making installations, photographs, sculptures, drawings, books, record covers, posters, tattoos, objects such as salt and pepper pots, interventions in shop windows and public spaces or even bookmarks.<\/p>\n

But if we had to look for the equivalent of the Pol\u00f2nia<\/em>-style in contemporary art it would be Maurizio Cattelan, capable of combining sculpture and performance and ridiculing whoever necessary, often transgressive, in relation to the spectator. His little Hitler reduced to kneeling or Pope Juan Pablo II struck by a meteorite are good examples of this and have become recurring images used to illustrate articles in the general press that periodically lances an \u201coriginal\u201d question, \u201cIs this art?\u201d. So what is the difference? How effective is the strategy? Pol\u00f2nia <\/em> is television and Cattelan an artist who, though he can work in the public space, is always framed within the art system. Pol\u00f2nia <\/em> doesn\u00b4t have to justify what it does as humour, television or political criticism, while Cattelan often has to justify what he does as art. The critical aspects are discussed afterwards and the humour, the \u201cVaseline\u201d of humour, can end up being complicated for the complexity and sophistication that, ultimately, form part of the DNA of the art world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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