Dalla modernità alla contemporaneità: l’opera al di là dell’oggetto

Abstract

The essay analyses the status and role of the artwork in the contemporary world, which is characterised by phenomena such as multiculturalism and cultural globalisation. The work of art, far from reducing itself to the material and formal limits of the object, presents itself a series of acts which coincide with their accomplishment: hence the dematerialisation of the artwork in the informal, its conceptualisation in the idea, its coinciding with the execution in the performance.