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Marina Abramovic "reloaded".
When she was a child she did not like herself. She had a huge nose, an ugly hair cut and wore orthopaedic shoes. And she was fascinated with Brigitte Bardot. Every time she asked her mother to get her nose operated, she got a slap in her face. So she made a plan: spinning around, very very fast, falling on the edge of the bed, that was sharp, break...
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Jan 31, 2011 | Categories: Art | Tags: art, artist, bologna, experience, life, marina abramovic | Leave A Comment »
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Art Fairs? Impressive
I have just arrived at the Arco Art Fair in Madrid.
Have you ever visited an art fair? If the answer is no, then DO IT! You will enter a never-seen-before world.
An art fair is more than a solo exposition or one artist's performance. It is a "cosmo" around which several artists, galleries, interests, hopes and emotions frantically revolve.
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Feb 19, 2010 | Categories: Art, Exhibitions | Tags: arco, art, art fair, artist, experience, future, illy art collection, marina abramovic, new york, spain, spirit cup, tomory dodges | 2 Comments »
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#13 Conscious project
2 questions to the 2 organisers of a unique, 2-yearly event: the Venice Biennale.
What's art's role in building up awareness on such major issues as the environment, human rights, social development?
Maria de Corral: Today's artists do not share a style, but an attempt to build personal aesthetic worlds, to establish their own formal needs, to ...
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Feb 07, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: arsenale, art, artist, biennale, curator, deleuze, event, exhibition, experience, maria de corral, proust, rosa martinez, venice | Leave A Comment »
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#14 Refresh
Bright red. What does it mean? The Communists’ flag and the red carpet the Royal family walks on, a pool of fresh blood after a car accident and the body of a Ferrari?
What language do I refer to, which part of my own vocabulary or that established over the history of images must I look for, to understand what a colour can tell me?
Here, in o...
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Jan 24, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: always on, angela vettese, annette messager, antoni muntadas, art, artist, biennale, cherokee, estote parati, jimmie durham, re fresh, red, society, venice | Leave A Comment »
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Kabakov's Blue Carpet at MACRO, Rome (via Galleria Continua)
We suggest this exhibition:
ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV | The Blue Carpet
MACRO | Museo d’arte contemporanea Roma
Via Reggio Emilia 54 | Roma | Italy
preview: Friday, January 22, 2010 – h. 7 pm
Open from January 23 – April 5, 2010
www.macro.roma.museum
Illywords and Galleria Continua worked together in the past -- I met up with Da...
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Jan 20, 2010 | Categories: Art, Exhibitions | Tags: art, artist, company, creativity, past, places | 1 Comment »
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#16 Beautiful and well made
We analyse the balance between beauty and goodness in the contemporary art world with Rosina Gómez Baeza, Director of the International Art Fair ARCO in Madrid.
We understand Arco’s values to be the search for quality, internationality and the creation of heritage. Do you believe there is a balance between beauty and goodness in the business ...
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Jan 10, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: arco, art, artist, artwork, barbara martinez, fair, madrid, rosina gomez baeza, society, spain | Leave A Comment »
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#17 Serendipity
ENSAD - 31, rue d’Ulm 75240 Paris Cedex 06 France - tel: 01 42 34 97 00 - www.ensad.fr communication: Nathalie Battais
Ensad traces its history back to the Royal School of Design established in 1766. The School, which was free, afforded crafts people the opportunity of becoming creative artists.
Emphasis was placed on draughtsmanship, and s...
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Jan 10, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artist, design, ensad, france, paris, school, students, university | Leave A Comment »
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#6 Orientation
Determined action but also long, drawn-out, wearisome even, negotiations. In any case, all committed efforts aimed at reaching an objective, at achieving a goal. But what if purpose is blurred? Let us then come to terms with the essential meaning of artistic endeavour and the artist’s strivings and struggle.
Straight on target. Like Lucio Font...
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Dec 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: adulthood, aim, allan kaprow, amartya sen, angela vettese, art, artist, aspirations, biography, buino, canvas, choice, christo, efforts, fence | Leave A Comment »
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#3 Weaving relations
Milan, the world capital of fashion and design. This link between fashion and design seems to merge the two disciplines, blending their environments and dynamics. There is one person, however, who wants to keep them well separated, critiquing his own circle of designers: Enzo Mari. First and foremost an artist, and then a designer at international ...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artist, commercial, commodity, cycle, daily, design, designers, enzo mari, failure, fashion, habits, imagination, life, marketing, milan | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
Silence creates room for the mind, and the mind can create visions. Yoko Ono described how the hypnotic effect of a flame would help to do this: “You could tell someone to look into the fire for 10 days just to create a vision in someone’s mind” she write in her first, epic work, a book of instructions for performances entitled Grapefruit (a ...
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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: the other rooms, yoko ono, 1952, 1964, 2003, artist, biennale, birds, bodies, east, emotion, emptiness, feel, forever, grapefruit | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
In his essay "How to write a dissertation", Umberto Eco recommends that students avoid playing the part of the solitary genius holed up in their room, writing. He suggests that we should always discuss things with others, so our work can be read and criticised.
Over the years, this warning has been a constant thorn in my side. I always try to work...
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Dec 04, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: acceptable, approach, artist, at home, best, black, book, creative, culture, genius, idea, job, luca campigotto, maestros, modus operandi | Leave A Comment »
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#10 Nomadic knowledge
Knowledge is always on the move, more than ever an exploratory practice. It scours its way through territories, comes alive in its relationship with others, and is especially enriched when the lore and learning in one field manage to cut across disciplinary borders and meet up with those in other fields.
The works of M.C. Escher, a Dutch graphic...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: alhambra, amalfi, artist, carolina macgillavry, dutch, escher, knowledge, literature, lucio randaccio, maurits cornelis escher, ravello, rome, rossini, switzerland, the netherlands | Leave A Comment »
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#10 Nomadic knowledge
How much, do you feel, does literature contribute to the diffusion of knowledge?
In so far as they represent possible ways of living, mirrors in which to view ourselves, yardsticks that can help us in making choices and taking decisions, works of literature contribute to disseminating knowledge. The make-believe world of literature suggests that ...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: achei, article, artist, beppe fenoglio, book, bruno gambarotta, carlo emilio gadda, carlo lucarelli, community, dcisions, digital, experience, fiat, fragments, frame | Leave A Comment »
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#0 Experimentation and innovation
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AN ARTIST LIKE YOURSELF AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD, EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE HISTORY OF SIMPLE THINGS?
The pattern of simple things is the same for everyone, I believe: it means doing things, feeling active, exploring nearby and far away places, coming to learn about the things that surround you, travelling to experience p...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artist, atmosphere, bars, cappuccino, civilisation, comfortable, different, enjoyement, entertainment, espresso, history, human beings, juice of life, kinds, life | Leave A Comment »
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#22 Kaizen
Where did your artistic career begin?
I have loved creating things since I was a child. Initially, I loved poetry – I used to love writing. Through writing, I discovered art. I wrote about art for quite a while and at the same time I began to paint, and noticed that painting didn’t completely satisfy me. It was as if my hand couldn’t reprodu...
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Nov 25, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: adam kalkin, architecture, art, artist, biennale, building, design, discovery, europe, mistake, music, painting, philosophy, poetry, push button house | Leave A Comment »
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#17 Serendipity
Ana Mendieta bends backwards over a table, naked, covered in blood and mute. She’s enacting the rape suffered by a friend the setting: a – student’s room in an American college; the time: the early stages of the feminist movement. The artist was searching for a powerful way of exposing the violence endured by women. As it turned out, that p...
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Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: alberto burri, ana mendieta, andrea zittel, angela vettese, art in progress, artist, body, computer art, cretto, documenta, ghibellina, glances, gordon matta clark, intuitive magma, joseph beuys | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
Let’s take a closer look at a work by Sol LeWitt, a great artist who has just left us, whose legacy to the world was the idea of art as a concept.
But a concept in what sense? For example, you take a point and slide it towards the end of a given quadrangle. Another point, sliding in the opposite direction, will define a partly closed space w...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: alberto burri, amalgamation, angela vettese, art as a concept, artist, body, bruce nauman, canvas, conceptual art, consequences, contemporary art, descartes, francis bacon, giuseppe penone, harmony | Leave A Comment »
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#22 Kaizen
To improve one’s work by getting rid of what is unneeded through constant and repetitive exercise. This seems to be the key to a calligrapher’s success, but very often deciding what to leave is anything but easy. What has your experience as a student of calligraphy and as an artist and respectively as a writer been in this respect?
Linda: As a...
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Nov 16, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: art, artist, brush, calligrapher, calligraphy, culture, exercise, expression, improvement, japanese, linda, mind, moment, novel, painting | Leave A Comment »
