Footprints and Desymmetries: Spaces trussed in a lack of continuity 

Doctoral Degree Thesis written by Gracia Gil García-Yèvenes. 

Thesis directed by PhD. Angeles Marco Saturnino. Sculpture Professor. 

The following doctoral degree thesis watches and analyzes the work of three 
different artists: Peter Eisenman, Angeles Marco and Bruce Nauman, an architect 
and two sculptors. Their professional activity and their work, belong to bordering 
fields, they are framed in the Postmodernity and in the Deconstruction current of 
thought. 

The starting point of my investigation is based upon the statement that if the 
theory of Deconstruction, defended on one hand, the existence of procedures 
which will question the tradition which operates inside their own systems, and on 
the other hand, the relativity of the one and only translation, inside any socio-
cultural field and in fact, it was a current of thought which gave place to a cultural 
and philosophical progress, a hidden nexus which was common to all of them and 
was not incompatible with different material presences. 

Starting from that conceptual premises, the following investigation work has 
dealt with, in the first place, the selection of three personalities in the field of art, 
which work is framed in bordering fields and do not share any aesthetical proximity, 
therefore the works are framed in divers ways of thinking. 

In this Doctoral Degree Thesis, we have tried to watch and analyze their 
works, to be able to get out from them their hidden conceptual and constructive 
plot. That is to say, we have started from visual data related to the form, the 
structure, the organization, and the referents, to go inside the hidden plot of their 
creative processes and the concepts they have generated, trying to relate and 
watch the theories of thought they adopt, starting from the artistic level and not the 
other way round. 

Wath we are trying to prove is how through divergent works, the thought 
builds up and generates form precisely trough a way of constructing, qualified in a 
new way, divers traditional categories and values inside a historical representation 
systems. Thus, the Deconstructive thinking, so to say, shows convergences which 
are reflected in a creative way of acting following some key rules previously written 
in the same tradition, in the same systems and gives place to, different keys which 
have the common multiplier of creating formal, structural and spatial typologies 
alike in three different artistic projects.