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A STARTING POINT FOR AN EXPLORATION by Tim Battelino
Made for dancing, to impress your conversation partner, for sports, to flirt, to take the trash out, to increase your height, to reveal your aspirations sometimes to the point of embarrassment… Maybe shoes are just shoes – or sometimes they become protagonists. In the words of Kyvèli Zoi, the series presented could be viewed as a romantic joke. A playful invitation to peek inside the lives of their beholders, whether from real life situations or imaginary ones. Shoes as a subject in art have been analyzed before. Heidegger famously dissected Van Gogh’s 1886 painting of worndown boots, imbuing them with vivid social commentary. Other philosophers (such as Shapiro and Derrida) couldn’t help themselves but to follow up and offer their own musings on the subject: what could be extrapolated from a seemingly simple subject that has been rendered an unusual importance through painting? In Zoi’s case, if the shoes are the immediat…
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A STARTING POINT FOR AN EXPLORATION by Tim Battelino
Made for dancing, to impress your conversation partner, for sports, to flirt, to take the trash out, to increase your height, to reveal your aspirations sometimes to the point of embarrassment… Maybe shoes are just shoes – or sometimes they become protagonists. In the words of Kyvèli Zoi, the series presented could be viewed as a romantic joke. A playful invitation to peek inside the lives of their beholders, whether from real life situations or imaginary ones. Shoes as a subject in art have been analyzed before. Heidegger famously dissected Van Gogh’s 1886 painting of worndown boots, imbuing them with vivid social commentary. Other philosophers (such as Shapiro and Derrida) couldn’t help themselves but to follow up and offer their own musings on the subject: what could be extrapolated from a seemingly simple subject that has been rendered an unusual importance through painting? In Zoi’s case, if the shoes are the immediat…
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