Javier Iniesta: totemic images
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Javier Iniesta, metaphysics, mysticism, totem.Abstract
Based on the philosophy of art, two works by the contemporary Spanish visual artist Javier Iniesta are examined. These works are a rough drawing on paper and a drawing made with pen and ink. The thesis of the essay suggests that the aesthetics underlying Iniesta’s work would be expressed in an artistic style that could be called mystical-metaphysical. With support from Sloterdijk (2020) and Cavallé (2006; 2008), the main results identify the mystical and the metaphysical with the concepts of supernatural knowledge and philosophy of religion, respectively. Likewise, the art of the Spaniard is considered as the manifestation of a quasi-meditative practice that would embody the world of perennial philosophy. And this, considering the totem -or image of the superbeing- as a sort of iconic structure of representation, and totemism, as a determinant Principle of the unfolding of this representation.
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