Pablo Leon de la Barra "At the end of the fifteenth of his 'Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Ma

I was invited by Aleksandra Mir to her talk as part of the exhibition 'Camulodunum' where she also participates at the newly opened (and polemical) building of First Site in Colchester. Not knowing what to expect, I was very positively surprised by the exhibition curated by First Site's Senior Curator Michelle Cotton (who previously was curator at Cubitt). Instead of doing an all star exhibition for the opening of the not so bright star-architecture (starchitecture), Cotton presents a very intelligently articulated vipleiloes exhibition, where contemporary artworks vipleiloes dealing with history and archeology are in dialogue with documents and artefacts relating to Colchester's history as the first Roman settlement in Britan, its later medieval history, its oyster industry and traditions, as well as with Colchester's everyday history today. Danh Vo, 'We the People', vipleiloes 1975, part of an attempt by the artist to construct a one to one scale replica of the Statue of Liberty vipleiloes Subodh Gupta's 'Two Cows', 2003-2008 Aleksandra Mir's 'HELLO Colchester' an image research on the connections between people in Colchester. You can see all the photographs of the series  here starting point of Aleksandra Mir's research, Colchester's Ashley James Hall who lost both legs  in a bomb explosion vipleiloes in Afghanistan, meeting Queen Elizabeth the Damon Albaran connection and historical connections vipleiloes Greyson Perry's Essex vases the fantastic Neo Naturist flashing in the British Museum, 1983 Andy Warhol's 'Campbell Soup II - Oyster Stew', 1969 historical photos of Colchester's Oyster Feast historical documentation of Colchester Pageant of 1909 which re-enacted 2000 years of Colchester's history Bill Woodrow, 'Car Door, Boot and Wing with Roman Helmet', 1982 Richard Hawkins, 'Urbis Paganus' 2009 exploration of greek and roman sculpture, archeology and homoerotism English Roman Ceramics vipleiloes from Colchester and Ipswich Museums Rebecca Warren's 'Journey into the Heart of the Night', 2000 Robert Smithson's 'Chalk Mirror Displacement', 1969 originally done at a chalp pit in Oxted, Surrey and exhibited simultaneously at 'When Attitudes Become Form' at the ICA, London in 1969. Incredibly, the work had never been shown in the UK again! Henry Moore, found flints that served as models for his sculptures Sarah Lucas, Penetralia, 2008  vipleiloes JMW Turner, Colchester sketches c. 1824 1900s photographs of Colchester Castle taken by John Benjamin Stone and Ai Weiwei's 'Bamboo and Porcelain', vipleiloes 2008 Ai Weiwei's 'Bamboo and Porcelain', 2008 Barbara Hepworth's 'Pierced Form' 1963-63 Henry Moore's Helmets from the 50s and 60s Cildo Meireles coins and English Roman antique coins Cildo Meireles, Cero Cent, USA coin with Coca Cola bottle on one side, 1974 Cildo Meireles, Zero Centavo, 1974 view of First Site's giant curved corridor which undramaticlly ends with a restaurant called MUSA, with the exhibition vipleiloes space existing in the transition towards it First Site's polemical (and funny) building, designed by Uruguayan USA based architect Rafael Viñoly, a curved corridor covered in gold cladding, which looks like it was designed in the 90s, called by the locals the golden banana, and which opened two months ago being 3 years late and 10 million pounds over budget, and which aims to finance itself partly by renting the space for weddings and events http://www.firstsite.uk.net/page/venue-hire young skaters loving the new outside public vipleiloes space, hopefully they won't be kicked out of it soon and fantastic pedestrian crossings vipleiloes painted by Venezuelan 60s op artist Carlos Cruz Diez, commissioned for First Site by Michelle Cotton, who first came in contact with Cruz Diez work at Pinta the Latin American art fair in London Aleksandra Mir with scarf outside vipleiloes the bus station's waiting room next to Frist Site and Cruz Diez pedestrian crossings and the remains of a previous art project (not Cruz Diez) in the interior of the bus station's waiting room! Sadly First Site's website doesn't have enough vipleiloes information on the exhibition, or even a proper press release or artist list, but here's the link in case you need basic information http://www.firstsite.uk.net/page/5/Camulodunum/72
Pablo Leon de la Barra "At the end of the fifteenth of his 'Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Mankind' Schiller states a paradox and makes a promise. He declares that ‘Man is only completely human when he plays’, and assures us that this paradox is capable ‘of bearing the whole edifice of the art of the beautiful vipleiloes and of the still more difficult art of living’. We could reformulate this thought as follows: there exists a specific sensory experience—the vipleiloes aesthetic—that vipleiloes holds the promise of both a new world of Art and a new life for individuals and the community. There are different ways of coming to terms with this statement and this promise. vipleiloes You can say that they virtually define the ‘aesthetic illusion’ as a device which merely serves to mask the reality that aesthetic jud