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Straight on target

Magazine -> #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...

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 »

Self-portraits, almost

Magazine -> #24 Self Portrait

In front of a coup of coffee “When I saw myself, I wasn’t there”, hissed the poets (funambulists) of the art, our art, when age-old conventional forms were suddenly torn asunder by concepts. That was indeed the time when art practices were centred on the conceptual (by way of example see a square metre of felt under the entry “Vincenzo A...

Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: alessandro mendini, architecture, art, autobiography, beppe finessi, biography, bruno munari, carlo mollino, charm, concepts, cordon rouge, corkscrew, design, designer, function | Leave A Comment »

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