From the supreme power of Zeus to the emergence of photovoltaic technologies, the notion radiates a thousand rays and touches many aspects of our civilizations, from the most archaic and immaterial ones to the most concrete, current and innovative. It evokes the primordial condition of earthly life in all its forms, as well as the permanent cycles of nature. It also invokes the multiple-face deity personifying the solar star (the Shinto Amaterasu, the Egyptian Ra, the inca Inti...), the ancient cults and dramatized rites of celebration to the solstices, the rebirth of vital force, the exuberance of life and fertility (germination).
Inseparable from the nocturnal celestial body which reflects its light, its presence and absence rhythm the day and the night, the sharable wakefulness and the solitary dreams. From a philosophical point of view, the notion refers to the manifestation of the visible, to the diurnal norm and clarity linked to the exercise of reason, to the «know-thyself» apollonian wisdom as well as to praxis. From the point of view of moral consciousness, light is synonymous with limpidity and truth, not in the sense of dogma, but in that of the transparency of inner truth against the opacity of deceit, duplicity and manipulation. It still refers to the aesthetics of beauty, luminous and sublime, even to the mystical enlightenment. If there must always be darkness to reveal how light can be bright, it is at work everywhere and even in the darkest times, it knows how to cast away shadows when they become too threatening. It is inseparable from the creative artistic act, which, in all its nuances of chiaroscuro, its vibrancy and its jubilant dynamism, gives birth to novelty.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp short-life magazine, RONGWRONG whose single issue was released in the summer of 1917, this WRONG WRONG issue is giving way to solar energy!
Katherine Sirois