Nonations by Nicoleta Nataliev

For Kojève, an artist is a worker who produces autonomous, artificial objects. To become truly autonomous, an artwork must radically reduce any desire for representation that connects art to all other animal, natural desires and needs. In his 1936 essay “The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky,” Kojève claims that (his uncle) Kandinsky’s artworks operate by ascesis and the reduction of everything natural. Kandinsky’s works are not abstract, but concrete—as autonomous and concrete as any other natural thing. However, these artworks are not products of “natural creativity,” but rather of an unnatural “spiritual negativity.” They reduce all representation and, thus, all objects of natural desire. The bodies of these artworks are spiritualized bodies. Or, if you will, Kandinsky’s works are negativity incarnate, spirit incarnate.

Boris Groys

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