The Tension Between the Light and the Shadow

a Study of The Conceptual Blends in Luzescrita, The Intermediatic Works By Arnaldo Antunes

Abstract

This article presents the results of a study on metaphors based on a selection of works from the exhibition entitled Luzescrita (2013-), which gathers experimental arts by Arnaldo Antunes, Fernando Lazslo and Walter Silveira. I selected those ones signed by Arnaldo Antunes, with the assemblage and permanent register in photography, by Fernando Lazslo, in which I observed the tension between two or more concepts, resulting in a third renewed concept. The poetic writing of light, structured on the tension between light and shadow, accesses complex and meaningful metaphors that allowed a reflection on the conceptual blend. As metaphors, I refer to the creative combinations between known lexical units that conveyed meanings, distinguished from the ones found in dictionaries. The notion of the effect of genericity drawn by Adam e Heidmann (2004) allowed identifying the poetic and artistic traces in the selected works. Considering literature and arts as distinguished media, we could point out the hybrid aspect of those works, based on the notion of intermediality, posited by Rajewsky (2002) and Clüver (2006; 2007). This study on metaphors had its foundation on the conceptual blend (FAUCONNIER; TURNER, 2002). The relevance of this research lays on the development of a new method of research required for studying the intermediatic objects and on the semantic novelty observed.