Gnòthi seautòn, esercizi d’illusione

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_7247
dc.contributor.author	Rossi Simone
dc.title	Gnòthi seautòn, esercizi d’illusione. Le Xerox Actions di Hudinilson Jr. allo specchio del mito
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This paper aims to investigate the Xerox practice of Brazilian artist Hudinilson Urbano Jr. (São Paulo, 1957-2013) through a cross-cultural dialogue with Western mythology. Promoting a focus that reveals the heuristic potential of the xerographic gesture, the study employs the figure of Narcissus and the mirror of Dionysus to anachronically question the act of knowing oneself through the image. Hudinilson Jr.’s ‘exercises of seeing’ take him beyond the mere encounter with the mirror, where the body, as it performs on the photocopier, likewise dismembers itself into xerographic fragments that rewrite its identity, desire, and function.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni di Venezia Arti
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-05-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-10-28
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-589-6/gnothi-seauton-esercizi-dillusione/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-588-9/021
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8868
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-588-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Dionysus
dc.subject	Hudinilson Jr
dc.subject	Know thyself
dc.subject	Masculinity
dc.subject	Mirror
dc.subject	Myth
dc.subject	Narcissus
dc.subject	Self-image
dc.subject	Xerox Actions

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Gnòthi seautòn, esercizi d’illusione

Le Xerox Actions di Hudinilson Jr. allo specchio del mito

Simone Rossi Università Iuav di Venezia, Italia

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This paper aims to investigate the Xerox practice of Brazilian artist Hudinilson Urbano Jr. (São Paulo, 1957-2013) through a cross-cultural dialogue with Western mythology. Promoting a focus that reveals the heuristic potential of the xerographic gesture, the study employs the figure of Narcissus and the mirror of Dionysus to anachronically question the act of knowing oneself through the image. Hudinilson Jr.’s ‘exercises of seeing’ take him beyond the mere encounter with the mirror, where the body, as it performs on the photocopier, likewise dismembers itself into xerographic fragments that rewrite its identity, desire, and function.

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May 13, 2022

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Oct. 28, 2021

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978-88-6969-588-9

Keywords: Myth • Narcissus • Mirror • Know thyself • Self-image • Dionysus • Xerox Actions • Hudinilson Jr • Masculinity

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