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#29 What's your colour?
What’s the most important life lesson that colour has taught you?
I think it was a study of a Venetian painter from the 1950s, Mario De Luigi, an artist who unfortunately has been forgotten by many. Reading through his notes and writings, I came across a statement of his that said: “All I do is take away colour to get to the light”. It was...
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Aug 31, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: art, colour, macro, minuz, senses | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
Design starts with sensation. The senses, both visceral and intuitive, play a major role in the process of making a designed environment. Whether the result is order or chaos, the designer must think and feel using every part of the mind and body. Graphic design is not about following templates or formats (though so much of it is), rather it’s mo...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: analyze, artistic, arts, chaos, design, designer, graphic design, illustrating, lita talarico, order, school, sensation, senses, senti mentally, steven heller | 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
In front of a cup of coffee with Andrea Bellini
The theme of this edition of illywords is “La cultura dell’ascolto” (or “the Culture of Listening”). Did this lead to the idea of choosing “Accecare l’ascolto” (“Blocking the ears”) as the title for the section on theatre and the role of theatrical performance in the modern art...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: actor, andrea bellini, artissima, biennal, bourgeois, carmelo bene, creativity, dadaist, ears, entertainer, exhibitions, framework, futuristic, involved, john cage | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
After graduating in architecture from Turin Polytechnic, in 1947 Ettore Sottsass jr. (Innsbruck, 1917) began working in Milan, where he opened his first design studio. Son of an architect and an architect himself, from the start he backed up his formal education and training with practical experiences in the visual arts field, trying out his ar...
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Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ambitious, bach, child, company, creative act, creativity, curage, curiosity, despair, development, einstein, emotions, ettore sottsass, everyday requirements, feelings | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
Many years ago while visiting the Picasso Museum in Barcelona I was struck by the comment of a young graduate friend who was later to become an art historian. After having discussed with me the salient features of cubism she rather abruptly concluded: «And to think that this idea that went into the making of the most sign...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 13rd century, andoni luis aduriz, barcelona, ben rye, brunello di montalcino, cafe sicilia, carme ruscalleda, chicago, ciccio sultano, common sense, copenhagen, corrado assenza, creative menu, culinary delights, davide scarbin | Leave A Comment »
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#16 Beautiful and well made
Little bodies of Siamese children joined together at the hips and huddled to form a group, arranged so as to appear to be posing: the statues of the Chapman brothers are horrific monstrosities. The statues of very young-looking but already sexually mature adolescents of the Japanese artist Tadashi Murakami are no less unsettling. His manga-looking,...
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Nov 19, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: angela vettese, beautiful, beauty, goya, humankind, hyper sexed characters, karl rosenkranz, manga looking, marcel duchamp, mind, paul dirac, senses, siamese children, sol lewitt, spanish royals | Leave A Comment »
