Contradicta
Publisher: Green Integer
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781933382487
Description: Inspired by the notion of the dialectic in the work of philosophers such as Hegel and Bachelard, Piombino created his idea of paired aphorisms he calls contradicta, recasting the classic form of the great aphorists such as La Rochefoucauld, Blake, and Emerson in a contemporary context. Instead of presenting a single point of view, the pairs reflect on and resonate with each other, and sometimes even contradict one another. Piombino has said that the contradicta replicate some aspects of psychoanalysis in which two individual viewpoints are juxtaposed, working together to achieve understanding and insight. Piombino's poetic, wise and witty aphorisms are well complemented by the humor, warmth and lyricism of Toni Simon's collages, which offer a telling slant on the contradicta, as well their own vivid visual dimension.