THE ICONOGRAPHY SACRIFICE IN THE WORK OF MIGUEL VON DANGEL

Abstract

The work of Venezuelan artisrt Miguel von Dangel (born 1946) is polemical. Unexpectedly introduces “find subjects” and daub in his works, which have a sacral character, hurting average spectator who expects aesthetic values, used to the fact that the great part of the 20th century art is dedicated to the not substantial subjects, sometimes very personal, and principally interesting by its form. In this context his work “crucified dog” was recognized as a scandal, commented by press, and caused critical public reaction as a blasphemy. But conceptual reading of this work, and of many other artist’s proposals, allows to discover a very profound sense of his creativity on the base of primitive symbolism preserved from the oblivion time in our subconciousness, and continued in camouflaged form in the Christian art of the past centuries. Minguel von Dangel represented Venezuela in 1993 in the Biennial in Venice.