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“Art is not what you see, but what you make the others see.” (Edgar Degas)
Art Yourself gallery is a space destined for contemporary art, which brings in the spotlight Romanian artists from different generations, visions and approaches , who try to express through forms and messages – ideas, sensations, emotions and searches.
Even since the opening in the fall of 2011, the exhibitions, exhibition openings and the Art Yourself events keep alive the connection between artists and the public, supplying the artistic production with a plus of effervescence, but also a continuous interaction between the aesthetic and the ideas.
Through the three-folded approach – a rigorous selection of artists, substantial exhibitions and pertinent advice offered to collectors – we wish to contribute to the rise and sedimentation of the contemporary art market in Romania, and the ritualization of the connection between the public and the artists.
Paraphrasing the great Ansel Easton Adams who said : “to those who are telling me that in my photos there are no people present, I respond: there are always two persons, the photographer and the onlooker”, we invite you to experience your own definition of art.
Sublime / Beyond imagination
19:00 - 04:00 BucharestArtists: Amalia Dulhan, Nicolae Cosniceru, Gabriel Brojboiu, Madalina Andronic, Harem 6, Constantin Pacea, Ioana Setran, Alina-Ondine Slimovschi, Gabriela Drinceanu, Dorin Baba, Catalin Nastasoiu
“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt” / Immanuel Kant
The sublime as an esthetical category was defined immediately after beauty but more opposed to beauty.
The development of the concept of the sublime as an aesthetic quality distinct from beauty was brought into prominence in the 18th century by the philosophers being the most debated esthetical concept through its psychophysiological part.
Kant claims, "We call that sublime which is absolutely great". He distinguishes between the "remarkable differences" of the Beautiful and the Sublime, noting that beauty "is connected with the form of the object", having "boundaries", while the sublime "is to be found in a formless object", represented by a "boundlessness" . The "aesthetical comprehension" is not a consciousness of a mere greater unit, but the notion of absolute greatness not inhibited with ideas of limitations .
The dynamically sublime is "nature considered in an aesthetic judgment as might that has no dominion over us", and an object can create a fearfulness "without being afraid of it" . He considers both the beautiful and the sublime as "indefinite" concepts, but where beauty relates to the "Understanding", sublime is a concept belonging to "Reason", and "shows a faculty of the mind surpassing every standard of Sense".
Kant says that the beautiful in nature is not quantifiable, but rather focused only in color, form, surface of an object. Therefore, the beautiful is to be "regarded as a presentation of an indeterminate concept of understanding." However, to Kant, the sublime is more infinite and can be found even in an object that has no form. The sublime should be regarded as a "presentation of an indeterminate concept of reason." Basically, Kant argues that beauty is a temporary response of understanding, but the sublime goes beyond the aesthetics into a realm of reason.
The experience of the sublime leads us inward and how it leads to a particular form of reflection, a form of reflection that is connected with the more purely philosophical project of self-knowledge.
