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To write standing up (1991)

An artist can, on his behalf, accept all honorus, provided that his work rejects them.
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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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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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Obras maestras (Livio Vacchini, 2009)

Todo lo que conozco proviene de mi trabajo. Conozco sólo lo que sé hacer. El hacer es mi única fuente de certidumbre. No tengo amor por el saber, pues ése es el presupuesto de mi ignorancia, pero sí por conocer, que, en cambio, representa mi posibilidad.
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Instrumental. A Memoire of Madness, Medication and Music (2014)

Find what you love and let it kill you. [...] We seem to have evolved into a society of mourned and misplaced creativity. A world where people have simply surrendered to (or been beaten into submission by) the sleepwalk of work, domesticity, mortgage repayments, junk food, junk TV, junk everything, angry ex-wives, ADHD kids and the lure of eating chicken from a bucket while emailing clients at 8pm on a weekend.
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Sabina’s travel

Sabina, una joven y atractiva fisioterapeuta y profesora de yoga a la que la vida siempre le ha sonreído lleva una existencia demasiado cómoda: abundante dinero familiar, un cómodo trabajo con excesivo tiempo libre, amoríos y fiestas frecuentes, salud inmejorable y todo tipo de comodidades. [Selección de trabajos de estudiantes de la asignatura Proyectos 2, Taller 5, Escuela técnica superior de Arquitectura de Valencia]
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Spatial Bodies (2016)

Stefan Larson, Swedish artist residing in Otsu (Japan) and creator of the AUJIK artistic movement, transforms Osaka into a living organism in one of his latest multimedia projects (Spatial Bodies, 2016).
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Theory of the film (1945)

This is the strongest means of characterization the film possesses; and it is not reproduction but genuine production. The cameraman’s vision, his artistic creative work, the expression of his personality, can be seen only in the screen projection.
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