Painting Beyond Painting: From Pensiero Debole to an Expanded Practice

Liselott Johnsson

ISBN 10: 3659516406 / ISBN 13: 9783659516405

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Mär 2014, 2014

About this Item

Neuware -Intrigued by the formal boundaries of painting as they relate to objects and architecture, I explored materials, space, color, and geometry to study the limits of their relationship. Throughout my master of visual arts program, I was inspired by Gianni Vattimös theory of ¿weak thought¿ ¿pensiero debole¿ to allow myself to dismantle, shift, transgress, and corrupt boundaries adopted in my practice as painter, designer, and architect. For every new painting project, I would start with a new premise. In a process characterized by a continuous destabilizing shift, I changed creative approaches, painting methods, materials, and compositions, resulting in a diverse body of work. In this book, I chose to focus on color, geometry, and the expanded field of painting. By allowing the boundaries of my painting practice to open up, my painting practice has become the generator for my work as an artist, designer, and architect. Pensiero debole and my MFA program have allowed my art to expand and transform, so that I now understand there are no set boundaries for what a painting practice can encompass or what it can allow an artist to create.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 52 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Painting Beyond Painting: From Pensiero Debole to an Expanded Practice
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Mär 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659516406
• ISBN 13: 9783659516405
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 4D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 4 millimeters depth
• Weight: 96 grams

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Synopsis

Intrigued by the formal boundaries of painting as they relate to objects and architecture, I explored materials, space, color, and geometry to study the limits of their relationship. Throughout my master of visual arts program, I was inspired by Gianni Vattimo’s theory of “weak thought” —pensiero debole— to allow myself to dismantle, shift, transgress, and corrupt boundaries adopted in my practice as painter, designer, and architect. For every new painting project, I would start with a new premise. In a process characterized by a continuous destabilizing shift, I changed creative approaches, painting methods, materials, and compositions, resulting in a diverse body of work. In this book, I chose to focus on color, geometry, and the expanded field of painting. By allowing the boundaries of my painting practice to open up, my painting practice has become the generator for my work as an artist, designer, and architect. Pensiero debole and my MFA program have allowed my art to expand and transform, so that I now understand there are no set boundaries for what a painting practice can encompass or what it can allow an artist to create.

About the Author

Liselott Johnsson is an international artist and architect of Swedish background, who has designed and created numerous art installations and architectural projects featured in a variety of publications. She holds a Master of Architecture and a MFA in Visual Arts and shares her life and creative work between Europe and the United States.