LA MUERTE DEL AUTOR

The Author is dead.

When an artist creates something, a text, an art piece- his work is no longer his but of the public domain. The Author is not an author but more like an agent of culture: a medium that is no longer possessed to channel significance.
​
Under this premise Alexis Mata “Ciler” appropriates classic art works via internet and he doesn’t just decontextualize them he corrupts them with mistakes, glitches. This transformation brings out a new essence, eternally unfinished, vulnerable to further appropriation.
​
Roland Barthes said a work of art is made of multiple texts, these come from various cultures and together they establish a dialogue, a parody. But the place where all this multiplicity is gathered is not the Author but the spectator who signifies and gives the final meaning to the work now outside and alien to its creator.