Jeanne Moreau and Miles Davis. An unforgettable night.
No longer possible to meet Jeanne Moreau on Boulevard Haussmann. The same Paris that gave birth to her testified last July 31th the silent and domestic closing of her enigmatic and sad look. Miles Davis had been born two years before her, far away. His gaze was also sad, but his death was not silent, rather angry, as it was all his life. Both shared an unforgettable night.
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crossed words
The eye follows the paths that have been laid down for it in the work (Paul Klee) To begin with, the art of jigsaw puzzles seems of little substance, easily exhausted, wholly dealt with by a basic introduction to Gestalt: the perceived object –we may be dealing with a perceptual act, the acquisition of a skill, a physiological system, or, as in the present case, a wooden jigsaw puzzle- is not a sum of elements to be distinguished from each other and analysed discretely, but a pattern, that is to say a form, a structure: the element’s existence does not precede the existence of the whole, it comes neither before nor after it, for the parts do not determinate the pattern, but the pattern determines the parts: knowledge of the pattern and of its laws, of the set and its structure, could not possibly be derived from discrete knowledge of the elements that compose it. That means that you can look at a piece of a puzzle for three whole days, you can believe that you know all there is to know about its colouring and shape, and be no further on than when you started. The only thing that […]
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Poe’s Raven
The last day of February 1845 Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, The Raven, is published in The Evening Mirror. Replying to certain criticisms received, the poet publishes a year later his essay Philosophy of Composition.
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¿Para que servimos los filósofos? (2012)
Philosophy means "love for knowledge". "Knowing by knowing". A knowledge that is not for this or that, but a knowledge that is merely "knowing by knowing", "knowing disinterested" and, therefore, knowing "of all" and "of no one", know "of any other". Therefore, the first answer to our question, what is the purpose of philosophy ?, is that for nothing. And precisely for this reason, from Socrates to Plato, it was thought that it served to govern.
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Exercises to sow lightnings
The Colombian artist Nicolás Paris (Bogotá, 1977) presents from February 10th to May 1th 2017 in the CaixaForum space in Barcelona his project Ejercicios para sembrar relámpagos [Exercises to sow lightnings], a reflection on the relationship between art and spectator analyzing how the importance lies not in the objects used to create a particular work, but in the formal and syntactic relationship between them.
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Abstracció en arquitectura: una definición (2000)
The abstract procedure diverts the architectural work towards the syntactic side, giving priority to the rules of formal construction of the object itself; the interest is then shifted from the elements to the relationships established between them and to the principles of composition that regulate them. read more
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Mary Ellen Bute
The American artist Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983) is today recognized as a pioneer of animation films, especially in the field of so-called visual music.
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Order and Form (1955)
A Form emerges from the structural elements inherent in the form. A dome is not conceived when questions arise how to build it.
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