Nuno Ramos and the visual work: from the baroque syntax to the dadaist allegory in Tables without titles

Abstract

We discuss the visual work of Nuno Ramos (1960): from the baroque syntax to the dadaist allegory in Tables without titles (between 1987 and 2008). We have noticed –with respect to the plastic-conceptual aspect –howthe aesthetic features, sometimes similar to the Baroque period (XVII-XVIII centuries), as well as the particularities originatedfrom the stylistic language recurrent inthe technique of the dadaist Merz process (XX century),both echo in Tables without titles. I establish a relation between theaesthetic (re)presentation of the visual object in the constitution of the antiobject with the ephemerality and the daily waste of contemporaneity.

Keywords

• Visual Arts
• antiobject
• contemporaneity