This weekend I read again “Dios lo ve”. Third book written by Oscar Tusquets and published by Anagrama.
The book is about that will, obsession, mania…. to end up to the slightest detail of something that is not going to be seen. Especially in classical architecture, We see how sculptures, Decorative vases, Bajorrelieves, etc… Located at the top of buildings, that we cannot perceive well, and that it is impossible to access them, They are completely finished; Why waste time in something that will not be seen? Why commit something that nobody is going to value? For those who are made?
Oscar Tusquets treats all these aspects that are developed in the creative process, aspects that we do not see when the work is finished, Or even the same work we cannot appreciate if it is not in view of a bird. Many times all these aspects help us understand the final result of the work, the problems that the artist has had to face and how he has solved them. But why that effort to leave the work finished until perfection? for a personal satisfaction, without ambitioning professional or social success. Or there are also contrary cases throughout art history, to leave the unfinished work… Tusquets refuses to perceive the work of art as a finished object, For him, The work is the result of a human activity, that has suffered, For a whole set of circumstances, a creation process that gives it materiality and spirituality.
The book is a bit continuation of the first two, although in this he dares to talk about the relationship of man with life and death, Something that has become a taboo theme at the end of the 20th century, accustomed to medicine solving all our health problems. Always with that characteristic language of Tusquets, directo, Without dramatizing, And taking out all possible humor.
For more information: http://www.tusquets.com/