The Singularity of the Work of Art. Enquiry for a Morphodynamic Semiotics

A renewed morphogenetic approach supported by physics and mathematics has recently sparked theoretical considerations in humanities concerning the perception and emergence of forms as well as the construction of a meaning, perceptually grounded, associated with these forms. Semiotics, which has historically worked on sense and significance, intends now to bridge social and natural sciences on this fundamental point. In dealing with morphodynamic studies, semiotics has, however, engaged itself in a progressive but deep transformation of its own foundations and included, for instance, sensorial and perceptual activities, whether conscious or not, in the act of semiosis. Analyses that were previously reserved to cognitive features in order to define the contents of an object or phenomenon are now integrating a more comprehensive methodology focusing on forms, on how forms do manifest and express themselves and become relevant to the observer’s examination. In this sense, such a fertile ground is helping to rethink about a scientific theoretical approach to art, despite the extremely rich variety and unpredictability of aesthetic creations.