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Who was your table companion when...
I attend a lot of business dinners in a year. Perhaps too many. I have a technique. I smile…
Smiling and nodding towards my left and right companions, I aim not be deeply involved in various conversations.
Usually I find myself with loquacious table companions, and I can also eat.
Only once I flaunted my learning and I addressed a hands...
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Apr 14, 2010 | Categories: Experiences, conviviality | Tags: biennale, business, experience, food, people, society, venice | 3 Comments »
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#13 Conscious project
I pass through a corridor and a greenish light hits me, sharp and unbearable. Halfway along I notice a little table and a chair resting on the ceiling. My perceptive certainties, already challenged, fall away and lead me to wonder whether my legs are attached to the ground.
This is one of the many works in which Bruce Nauman invites us to ask ou...
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Feb 07, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: alice, angela vettese, barbara kruger, biella, biennale, bruce nauman, carsten hoeller, cittadellarte, documenta in kassel, michelangelo pistoletto, mona hatoum, pistoletto | Leave A Comment »
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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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#18 Food for the mind
The 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, directed by architect and town planner Richard Burdett*, focuses on the theme of Cities: migration, growth, mobility and sustainable development. As part of the exhibition at the Corderie dell’Arsenale, architect Aldo Cibic will be interpreting the concept of density. Here, il...
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Jan 10, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aldo cibic, architect, architecture, biennale, cities, cultural, culture, density, exhibition, festivaletteratura, illymind, interlude, mantua, observer, public | Leave A Comment »
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#18 Food for the mind
For the first time, illycaffè is a partner of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, continuing the relationship which began at the previous editions of Biennale Art in 1997, 2003 and 2005.
Against this background of cultural enjoyment we talked to Chairman Davide Croff on the theme of “food for thought”.
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Jan 10, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: architecture, art, biennale, davide croff, exhibition, food, pop art, rauschenberg, venice | Leave A Comment »
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#19 Aequòpolis
Today, in 2007 (yes, 2007 is fast approaching), for the first time in the history of mankind, more than 50% of the population lives in cities. Just a century ago, when our great-grandparents or grandparents were alive, a few generations back, 90% lived in the countryside, and only 10% in cities. A transformation on a global scale. On an astronomica...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: a tale of two cities, amsterdam, architects, architecture, bangkok, biennale, buildings, cairo, charles dickens, cities, complexity, countryside, democracy, ecological, future | Leave A Comment »
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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
Casole d´Elsa, summer 2001, Surasi Kusolwong organises a stall market. The people know that there, for one thousand liras, the equivalent of half a euro today, they can buy all sorts of things they do not need: a pink plastic colander, a pair of Chinese slippers, stools, nor, later, would he have deemed it worthy to enlarge coffee cups, had he not...
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Dec 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: addiction, andy warhol, angela vettese, art, barbara kruger, bargains, biennale, cartesian, casole delsa, chinese, claes oldenburg, coffee, cogito, connection, consumption | Leave A Comment »
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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
Artemide and Moroso, two companies confirming the contemporary relation between man, design and habitat.
Why are consumers attracted by your products, what do they base their purchasing choice on?
Carlotta de Bevilacqua Gismondi: Light today is conceived as something that is fundamental to improve and personalise environmental qualities in ever...
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Dec 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aesthetic, armchair, artemide, biennale, brand, catalogue, company, consumers, decorator, design, expertise, fjord, habitat, habits, heart | Leave A Comment »
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#4 Passion
A quick review of the artistic passions, emotional drive, irresistible attractions and unmotivated fury of artists that are capable of making history.
Marina Abramovic and her boyfriend Ulay run in great strides towards each other, as if attracted by a magnet.
Their bodies slam into each other. They fall, they get up, they do it again and agai...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andy warhol, art, attraction, biennale, cezanne, desert, design, emile zola, emilio vedova, enthusiasm, experiencing, expressionist, factory, film, fitness | 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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#14 Refresh
One of the top of the pops - art-wise, that is - at seventy the man has no intention of sitting back, taking it easy and telling tales. No, indeed! He's still very much craving for new experiences, as frisky and fiery as any mustang colt on the plains back home.
Born in North Dakota into a family of Scandinavian extraction, James Rosenquist has ex...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: america, art, attractive, biennale, contemporary art, dakota, europe, evolution, expression, james rosenquist, life, magic illusion, meaning, picture, plato | Leave A Comment »
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#13 Conscious project
You were involved in the "50th Biennale" in Venice; in your opinion, what relevance and meaning do such events have in developing a new awareness/sensibility in the audience?
I think that it is essential that events like this exist; they give some kind of overview on what is happening in art at the moment. We might like one biennale better than t...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: art, artworks, biennale, coca cola, conscience, conteporary, contexts, contradictions, design, elite, entertainment, female, france, global artist, homogenized | 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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#21 Senti-mentally
illy will be present at the international art exhibition of the Venice Biennale for the fourth time.
THINK WITH YOUR SENSES, FEEL WITH YOUR MIND. ART IN THE PRESENT.
Is the title of the 52nd International Art Exhibition curated by Robert Storr and organised by the Venice Biennale chaired by Davide Croff. Installed at the Arsenale and Giardini, it...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: always, architecture exhibition, bank, biennale, bnl, bonuses, car, challenge, clear ideas, coach, core business, credibility, davide croff, emotion, emotional change | Leave A Comment »
The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.