Soledades : Estética del retiro

Solitude is one of the most expansive territories of the human experience. Rilke proclaims his message: "Through Nietzsche I understood that solitude is not a punishment, but an opportunity to create something eternal." This book reconstructs the image of solitude as a creative experience, central to the constitution of subjects and identities, at the very heart of the artistic process. To this end, it examines, through an aesthetic methodology of comparison between different artistic procedures, the works of Rilke, Montaigne, Rothko, Giacometti, Beckett, Nietzsche, Zambrano, Scelsi, Hölderlin, Rossellini, Gould, Warhol, and many others, as a means of understanding the poetics, the "why," of their motivations. Conceived by its authors as an ongoing research project, the exhibition-essay "Cabins for Thinking" continues as a new step in a collaboration between the two of more than 25 years, exploring the relationships between aesthetics and society in authors such as Valente, Tarkovsky, Blanchot, Pasolini, Antonioni, Pessoa, Topor... Authors and works of art project something hidden and perhaps dangerous, which can only be glimpsed by an oblique gaze, which beyond the facts reads emotions: pain, abandonment, anguish, distance, even pleasure..., mists that show themselves clearly before we want to capture them in an explanation.