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Introspection & Memory
L’oeil qui voit n’est pas innocent.
Il voit conditionné par tout ce qu’il a déjà vu;
muni de cette mémoire visuelle, il reçoit ce qu’il voit de neuf et l’assimile
Since 2010, Pierre d’Argyll has been developing an art research project on how memory influences the genesis of artwork from the perspective of the artist’s subject; and alternatively, on how this memory analysis shapes his own creativity, which consists mainly in a series of paintings and writings. The working hypothesis is the methodological approach to the analysis of the artwork’s creation through an introspection process by the artist himself based on fragments of memory from her/his personal, cultural and emotional experience.
In the recent years, Neuroscience has brought about a real revolution on the functioning of the mental processes of memory, remembrance and creative synthesis and on the biochemical nature of memory. A recent scientific movement led by Francisco Varela proposed the need to study the mental processes, inherently subjective, as is the case of artistic creation, through new tools of introspection (analysis in the first person). Pierre d’Argyll’s work is a translation of this line of scientific thought to the field of art through his painting.
In one series, Pierre d’Argyll has made paintings directly related to the subject of study: the brain, as a source of inspiration.
In a phase of experimentation at the Polytechnic School of Madrid, Pierre d’Argyll has made a research on neuroaesthetics with records of his own brain activity by magnetoencephalogram after differential cognitive stimulation to discriminate the activation of different brain areas associated with aesthetic perception (manuscript in preparation). The murals brains tag designs (see figure below) allude to this investigation.
In another phase, Pierre d’Argyll makes works that intermingle elements of collective memory out of the posters with fragments of his memory (memories of his childhood, characters and key dates in the context of his analysis in the first person and depending on each work). In this new stage he wants to give a priority to the development of this work to a message related to the freedom to choose with the potential that each of us have.
Pierre d’Argyll’s work use strictly personal concepts with global elements (advertising, communication, cultural myths), critical thinking over global thinking.
References
D’Argyll P & Fernández D. La Introspección en la Convergencia del Arte y la Neurociencia. Bellas Artes. Revista de Artes Plásticas, Estética, Diseño e Imagen. | 2015 (in press).
D’Argyll P & Fernández D. Traslación de la teoría de Francisco Varela al arte: Análisis de la creación artística a través de la introspección. Revista Hispanoamericana. Publicación digital de la Real Academia Hispano Americana de Ciencias, Artes y Letras. 2014: 4: 1-16.
D’Argyll P & Fernández D. A New Proposal on Analysis of Artistic Creativity through Introspection | Journal of Arts and Humanities 2(5) 2013: 20-27.
