O corpo na obra de Carlos Sérgio Borges: experiências estéticas para a educação física

Abstract

Notably, research on the body has been growing, since the 20th century, in different approaches. Thus, it is important to broaden our perceptive horizons in relation to this structure, which is a condition of our existence, with the body primarily outlined in the social and cultural context. Thus, the research seeks to investigate the ontological and sensitive body, which is a source of knowledge. Therefore, we searched in the work of art, especially in painting, that expressive manifestation of the body that man has appropriated to communicate since the beginning, appearing even before human verbalization itself and that, over time, has been metamorphosing and denoting our condition of subject, which is a body in the world. In this way, we rely on pictorial works by the plastic artist Carlos Sérgio Pinheiro Borges who, for more than four decades, has been exhibiting his art to the world. In order to reveal bodily, aesthetic and cultural knowledge perceived in selected works by the artist, expanding and raising reflections for the field of Physical Education, with regard to broadening the concepts of corporeality, aesthetics and culture, aiming to fill gaps that still exist in Education Physics. We use the phenomenological method, which considers the lived world, the phenomenological reduction for the description of the phenomenon, apprehending new senses and meanings to the body that transcends, based on the studies of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, based on qualitative research. As a research technique, we use the network of meanings to allow us to get closer to the phenomenon through a set of elements that present sense and meaning to the perceived object. In composing the network of meanings, we scrutinized photographic records and an appreciation of some of the artist's pictorial works, interviews with him, pamphlets from his exhibitions, documentary and articles from a local newspaper. At the end of the research, we understand that the paintings allow us to perceive the body as a sensitive structure that is a source of knowledge, this complex being unfinished, and always under construction. These perceptions contribute to Physical Education, as they reveal that the experiences lived are of paramount importance in the construction of the subject who is a body in the world and this body, in turn, is a field open to experience, where culture is preponderant, with aesthetics being a witness to this perception. And so we will spread the understanding of the body beyond the principle of utility, of mechanism, which is still very evident in Western culture.