Lo infinito y la forma: La Etnomatemática y la obra plástica de Estuardo Maldonado

• Main Author: María-Elena Cruz-Artieda
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Nariño 2016-02-01
• Series: Revista Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática
• Subjects: Mathematic Relations; Constellations; Estuardo Maldonado; Pre-Columbian Cultures; Act of Creating
• Online Access: http://revista.etnomatematica.org/index.php/RLE/article/view/246/232

This paper sustains the affirmation: mathematic relations and art dialogue in the work of the Ecuadorian artist Estuardo Maldonado who motivates a poetic flight imagine inviting new times and new spaces .After the “S” structure, Maldonado goes in communion with Pre-Columbian peoples and from that experience he shows the ludic ways of making mathematics so to put into doubt the rational calculi from “modern reason”. The proposal is to make a trip with Maldonado through the constellations, but not through which we already know about them, yet towards what we could imagine “with” them in order to motivate the "creative act" that makes the human being a co -creator of the world in the development of the technique involves knowing how to think and know-how . The methodology used to develop this research is the observation, critical analysis and reflection. We conclude that primarily involve mathematical relations, beyond applying simple formulas, opening infinite field of thought.