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Red as a verb : George Lappas

Εικαστικές Τέχνες - Κινηματογράφος / Visual Arts - Cinema

• Μιρασγέζη, Αθηνά Δ.

This article is about red people. Lappas chose to rework Rodin’s The Burghers of Calais into a self-portrait and portrayal of death faced alone. But in Red Burghers, he omits the key to the city; could it be because it was never actually handed over? In Reallocations Lappas takes the Burghers apart. The real Burghers also had a part two: they survived death purely by chance. This is the shock of death, living when you were sure you would die (in an air crash, for instance): life’s roles and values unravel; they have no meaning anymore.In La castration en tant que complexe de la perte de la mort, we analyze the castration complex into its opposite: our fear of losing our most precious organ conceals the destruction these organs have wrought on the soul. According to Freud’s Beyond the pleasure principle, we have come from death. And we are heading back towards it. Our revulsion for space is transformed through the castration complex into a desire for it, since the genital organ offers pleasure. The complex protects us from suicide and self-mutilation. Which brings us to another of Lappas’ works: In Seurat’s Asnières. We let time penetrate it: the faces are placed on the canvas floor like a suicide gradually unfolding - but, somehow, left unfinished. The “living painting” has an ambivalent end: the last figure is shouting: is he seeking help to die or help to live?The idea of red as a verb, not a colour, is crucial: red means “(not) seeing”. The red people will see with their soul vision. Do they see (after) their death? Red Burghers supports this link between red and vision, as do a series of red statues: the Somnambulist, the Big-Handed Observer, the Upright Sculpture facing Reclining Figure, the Tablehead, the Head- table... Both the artist’s words and Freud’s psychoanalysis, in which blinding is taken to symbolize the castration complex, lead us here.

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Ανακοίνωση στο 11ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Ψυχολογικής Έρευνας Η Ψυχολογία ατενίζοντας το μέλλον της: Επαναπροσδιορισμοί, Ανακατατάξεις και Συνθέσεις (Ελληνική Ψυχολογική Εταιρεία, Πανεπιστημιούπολη Γάλλου, Ρέθυμνο, 18-22 Απριλίου 2007) με τίτλο «Οι άνθρωποι του Γιώργου Λάππα: Μια ψυχαναλυτική προσέγγιση»· διάλεξη στο Διατμηματικό Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών «Αρχιτεκτονική - Σχεδιασμός του χώρου» (κατεύθυνση «Σχεδιασμός-Χώρος-Πολιτισμός») του Εθνικού Μετσοβίου Πολυτεχνείου (Ιούνιος 2008)., Περιέχει εικόνες και βιβλιογραφία