Residency Period: August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016
IEAT resident Professor Stéphane Denis Albert René Philippe Huchet is a CNPq researcher with a Productivity Grant. He is a member of the Brazilian Committee for the History of Art. He defended his thesis for promotion to the position of Full Professor at the School of Architecture of the Federal University of Minas Gerais in 2015. He completed his postdoctoral studies in France (under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Marc Poinsot, Université de Haute-Bretagne, Rennes II) on the theme: Documenting art, an investigation into the spaces and supports for the presentation, documentation and construction of the memory of art (2008-09). PhD in Histoire et Théorie de lart, Formation Formes, Signes, Representation, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1990). Master of Arts, Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) (1984). Graduated in History, University of Haute-Bretagne (1981), in History of Art and Archaeology, University of Paris IV (Paris-Sorbonne) (1982). He published the following books: Fragments of a Theory of Art, (Stéphane Huchet, ed.) São Paulo: Edusp, 2012 Spatial Intentions. The Exponential Plastic of Art (1900-2000), Belo Horizonte: C/Arte, 2012 Castaño. Situation of Painting, Belo Horizonte: C/Arte, 2006 The World Table. A Theory of the Beginning of the Years 1920, Paris: LHarmattan, 1999. Coordinator of the Postgraduate Center in Architecture and Urbanism of his School in the period 2001-03. Head of the Department of Critical and Historical Analysis of Architecture and Urbanism between 2006/2008 and 2012/2015. He has experience in the area of Arts, with an emphasis on History, Theory and Criticism of the Arts.
AN ADVANCED TRANSDISCIPLINARITY: THE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AGENDA OF THE ARTS.
The arts today are part of a cultural environment that makes them particularly transdisciplinary. In fact, whether they are painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinema, video, performance art, performing arts, multimedia arts, etc., the richness of their elements, the diversity of their repercussions, the plurality of discourses and scientific approaches that they give rise to reveal their condition as being both advanced and transdisciplinary. In modern times, the evolution of the arts has been rapid. The speed of this evolution has led to a great complexity of the artistic scene. The complexity that we see in the works and in the processes of production and creation has been reinforced by the complexity of the questions raised. Thus, although they are fundamental and always the object of experimentation, it is no longer possible to say that art emphasizes only its own processes of production and language. For reasons that need to be presented and, first, reconstructed, modern and contemporary art is characterized by an immense openness to the questions that agitate society, that concern the social, cultural, political condition, etc. of people. The complexification of art, which invented a concrete transdisciplinarity in the 20th century, is responded to by the complexification of the questions and critical and cognitive domains that art is capable of addressing and problematizing. It is the advanced state of the arts and their repercussions in various areas of knowledge, as well as the capacity to invent transdisciplinarity in works, that the project presented here aims to deepen. The Residency is expected to produce a sum of reflections that can later be disseminated through articles, book chapters and, above all, a book.