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de ese cambio compulsivo que caracteriza a nuestro<br />

tiempo. Aunado a lo anterior, el triunfo de la estética<br />

sobre su propio objeto hace redundantes <strong>las</strong> obras de<br />

arte, y <strong>las</strong> despoja de esa extraña belleza o aura mágica<br />

descrita magistralm<strong>en</strong>te por Walter B<strong>en</strong>jamin, cuando se<br />

refiere a la sofisticada y sublime exclusividad de la obra<br />

de arte d<strong>en</strong>tro de la concepción tradicional moderna.<br />

En palabras del sociólogo Zigmund Baumant, lo que<br />

caracteriza a la actual agonía de la elección y del riesgo<br />

es que “no exist<strong>en</strong> reg<strong>las</strong> bi<strong>en</strong> definidas y fiables,<br />

objetivos universalm<strong>en</strong>te apropiados, capaces de aliviar<br />

por completo, o al m<strong>en</strong>os <strong>en</strong> parte, <strong>las</strong> consecu<strong>en</strong>cias<br />

adversas, mal calculadas o imprevistas de nuestras<br />

elecciones”. Y no somos los únicos, a otras personas<br />

también “les atorm<strong>en</strong>ta la fragilidad de lo pres<strong>en</strong>te,<br />

que reclama una base firme allí donde no existe<br />

ninguna” 38 , donde la sobrevivi<strong>en</strong>cia, los criterios de valor<br />

y posicionami<strong>en</strong>to están supeditados a <strong>las</strong> fluctuaciones<br />

de la lógica de un modelo de democracia <strong>en</strong> picada,<br />

con elevados índices de viol<strong>en</strong>cia, pobreza, corrupción<br />

e impunidad. De allí la importancia de considerar esos<br />

parámetros de inestabilidad política, económica y social<br />

cuando nos aproximamos al arte hondureño actual.<br />

change which defines our time. Add to this the triumph<br />

of esthetics over its own object, which makes works of<br />

art redundant and divests them of that strange beauty<br />

or magical aura incomparably described by Walter<br />

B<strong>en</strong>jamin—in words that refer to the sophisticated<br />

and sublime exclusivity of the work of art within the<br />

traditional modern conception.<br />

In the words of sociologist Zigmund Bauman, what<br />

defines the curr<strong>en</strong>t agonies of choice and risk is the fact<br />

that “there are no well defined or reliable rules, universally<br />

appropriated goals, capable of relieving completely, or at<br />

least in part, the adverse, miscalculated, or unpredictable<br />

consequ<strong>en</strong>ces of our choices.” And we are not the only<br />

ones, other people are also “torm<strong>en</strong>ted by the fragility of<br />

the pres<strong>en</strong>t, that claims a solid foundation where there<br />

is none” 38 , where survival, and the criteria of value and<br />

positioning are subordinated to the fluctuations of the<br />

logic of a failing model of democracy, with high rates<br />

of viol<strong>en</strong>ce, poverty, corruption, and impunity. H<strong>en</strong>ce,<br />

the importance of taking into consideration these<br />

parameters of political, economic, and social instability<br />

wh<strong>en</strong> we approach today’s Honduran art.<br />

38 Melucci, Alberto, The playing Self: Person and meaning in the planetary Society, Cambrige University Press, 1996, pág 43<br />

Melucci, Alberto, The Playing Self: Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society, Cambrige University Press, 1996, pág 43 [Translator’s Note: See note 37.]<br />

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