Miniature Community: Art, Modernity, and Emptiness

ABSTRACT

The expansion of modernity coincided with the miniaturization of the world, a condition highlighted, on many occasions, by Walter Benjamin, who ultimately turned it into a kind of method. Following this proposal, this text focuses on critical and artistic productions that use the forms of miniaturization. Oscar Masotta, León Ferrari, Albertina Carri and artists connected to conceptualism are protagonists in this improper community, which finds in the game with the miniatures a form of relationship with the emptiness.

KEYWORDS:
Modernity; Community; Miniature; Oscar Masotta; León Ferrari; Albertina Carri