The notion of ‘void’ has assumed multiple meanings across traditions. The Western view generally opposed voidness to Being’s fullness, whereas Taoism and Buddhism understood it not as lack, but as an active condition allowing phenomena to manifest. Void (mu in Japanese) or emptiness (kū) are not principles but the immanent experience of impermanence and interdependence. Emptiness and form, void and fullness, are complementary: the void is the infinite backdrop from which things arise. Artistic practices can express this coexistence, promoting an ethical exercise of self‑transformation in understanding reality and acting in the world.
Voidness and Artistic Creation. Between Aesthetics and Ethics
Marcello Ghilardi
2025
Abstract
The notion of ‘void’ has assumed multiple meanings across traditions. The Western view generally opposed voidness to Being’s fullness, whereas Taoism and Buddhism understood it not as lack, but as an active condition allowing phenomena to manifest. Void (mu in Japanese) or emptiness (kū) are not principles but the immanent experience of impermanence and interdependence. Emptiness and form, void and fullness, are complementary: the void is the infinite backdrop from which things arise. Artistic practices can express this coexistence, promoting an ethical exercise of self‑transformation in understanding reality and acting in the world.
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