Posts Tagged ‘emotion’

The opinion

Knowledge Base -> #21 Senti-mentally

Over the years, I’ve developed the firm belief that there are similarities between the purpose of a company’s life and that of an individual. They both aspire to that kind of happiness which Aristotle called “eudaimonia”, the perfect union between physical and intellectual pleasures. I think that if this idea can apply to all businesses, it...

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To eat childhood; three degrees of amazement in the kitchen

Knowledge Base -> #23 Emotion and Surprise

Anyone with a minimum of technical ability can be a wizard in the kitchen. The domestic chef, from whom we expect less, can amaze us with the deliciousness of a well-cooked dish. At advanced amateur (or basic professional) level we are surprised by an original recipe, a combination of flavours, or an unusual presentation. The art of surprise for...

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The strange alchemy

Knowledge Base -> #23 Emotion and Surprise

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”, wrote the philosopher Blaise Pascal. People once thought that emotions and rational thought travelled along parallel lines that never converged. Philosophers and scientists dismissed emotions as being of little interest - they were believed to hamper rational behaviour. But for some ti...

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When there’s nothing left to say

Knowledge Base -> #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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The mobility of the emotions

Knowledge Base -> #23 Emotion and Surprise

In front of a cup of coffee. Hey Jude, don’t make it bad take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better … The Beatles, 1968. Certain places excite me more than others. When I visit them, I am reconnected with a very personal, familiar, dreamlike memory, and I feel a great t...

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Growing amazement

Knowledge Base -> #23 Emotion and Surprise

From weeping to the research of the lost emotion. In Pictures and Tears (Routledge) James Elkins, art historian and critic, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, appealed for and collected more than four hundred contributions from very different people, who told him which artwork the armour we use to try to defend ourselves from ...

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Interview with Jannis Kounellis

Knowledge Base -> #9 Coopetition

You've asserted, to use your words, that "a journey, any journey, is essentially an initiation, an affirmative and conscious statement of love for knowledge". Would you say an artist sets out on such a journey alone? Is it necessarily a solitary journey or can it be undertaken with other artists as travel companions? Well, it's difficult to say. ...

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Building the future

-> Building the future

How art can help the future? Olafur Eliasson is to know that if you paint a river of green perhaps it hurts www.olafureliasson.net ...

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The intention doesn’t matter

Knowledge Base -> #21 Senti-mentally

In front a cup of coffee. For me, the expression of emotion is never calculated. I’ll wager that emotion is always there if the work is motivated by pleasure and desire. Since I often have too many ideas or desires, I usually start each project with endless lists, which I then cut into little strips and arrange in order of preference to make ...

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The coach

Knowledge Base -> #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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Words

  • The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.

    Odile Decq

  • Colour has always been with us and has been, and will always be, one of the great unsolved mysteries.

    Luca Massimo Barbero

  • All I do is take away colour to get to the light.

    Mario De Luigi