This essay is an attempt to view deconstructed
notion of “Undecidability” and
analyze readings that focus on a few paintings.
The central argument of this study
consists of two main sections. First, the
formation of the West philosophy and
strategies of deconstruction will be explained.
Jacques Derrida developed a strategy
called “deconstruction” in the mid
1960s. Deconstruction is generally presented
to subvert, the various binary oppositions
that undergird our dominant ways
of thinking—presence/absence, speech/
writing, and so forth. The deconstructive
strategy is to unmask these too-sediment
ways of thinking, and it operates on them
especially through two steps—reversing
dichotomies and attempting to corrupt the
dichotomies themselves. The strategy also
aims to show that there are undecidables,
that is, something that cannot conform to
either side of a dichotomy or opposition.
Indeed, to complicate matters, undecidability
returns in two discernible forms in
his explorations of these “possible-impossible”
aporias, it becomes undecidable
whether genuine giving, for example, is
either a possible or an impossible ideal. In
the second part, the three paintings of Alireza
Espahbod(1330-1385), Iranian contemporary
painter deconstructed reading
and analysis will be described. His major
works, the study of the visual masterpieces,
which are known in the history of art.
Amongst our contemporary artists, a few
have particular social presence. We see different periods of the artist’s works with
the topics of three of these titles works:
“FREEDOM”, “RED HORN”, “RED
HORN (detail)”. At the end, describing
and analyzing Espahbod’s paintings can be
pluralistic approach in Deconstruction
reading. The main objectives of this research
are: Understanding concepts of
“undecidability” as pharmakon, Supplement,
Khora. Then feed these concepts
from the perspective of deconstruction and
read the text as examples of paintings. The
results of this strategy are the potential of
“Deconstruction” for the analysis and
study of the Art domains suggests.
Sheibani Rezvani F. A study in term of Undecidability: Reading the paintings of Alireza Espahbod. کیمیای هنر 2014; 2 (9) :53-64 URL: http://kimiahonar.ir/article-1-174-en.html