Zeven soorten onvoltooidheid / Seven Types of Unfinishedness painterly gestures and cartoonish scrawls

painterly gestures and cartoonish scrawls and patterns are subject to a reflection on cuteness

Michaël Borremans

In this essay

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Zeven soorten onvoltooidheid / Seven Types of Unfinishedness painterly gestures and cartoonish scrawlsWhen is a work of art finished, done, terminated? In this essay, Christophe Van Gerrewey suggests that the incompleteness of art mirrors the undecidability of the world, about which the last word hasnt been said yet either. An artwork can be unfinished in seven ways: it is completed by the audience, it suggests a better world, the artist cant leave it behind, it is a collective process, it reflects modesty, it is too utopian (for the time being), or