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Every once a while I need artistic inspiration to heal my soul.
Leaving behind a market that is falling apart, I escaped to this unknown building in Brooklyn, in search of a temporary shelter to lick my wounds. The studio speaker today is Vito Acconci, a prominent artist-turned architect that I had never heard of.
His frail body and aging voice added nothing but charm to his presentation. From a poet in the 60s to an artist in the 70s to an architect since the 80s, his works carry an amazing similarity of space and complicity. The twist and turn of his buildings, the hide and seek of his writings, the soft and harsh aspect of his installations, turned my emotions upside down.
One memorable building is his design for the world trade center. He creatively drafted a building with holes in it so that the terrorists won't need to target it anymore. And he filled the holes with resting area and parks. Another one of my favorite work of his is the twisting bridge in northern France, circling around on a river like a snake. I think the design turned constructions into a body, into a human being, into a choreography.
I began to finally realize that art is my lover. It truely has the healing power to ignite me, to seduce me, and to conquer me. I was turned on in my chair, thinking about lust and sex.
I said to my self: love might betray me, but the market and art will save me.
Every once a while I need artistic inspiration to heal my soul.
Leaving behind a market that is falling apart, I escaped to this unknown building in Brooklyn, in search of a temporary shelter to lick my wounds. The studio speaker today is Vito Acconci, a prominent artist-turned architect that I had never heard of.
His frail body and aging voice added nothing but charm to his presentation. From a poet in the 60s to an artist in the 70s to an architect since the 80s, his works carry an amazing similarity of space and complicity. The twist and turn of his buildings, the hide and seek of his writings, the soft and harsh aspect of his installations, turned my emotions upside down.
One memorable building is his design for the world trade center. He creatively drafted a building with holes in it so that the terrorists won't need to target it anymore. And he filled the holes with resting area and parks. Another one of my favorite work of his is the twisting bridge in northern France, circling around on a river like a snake. I think the design turned constructions into a body, into a human being, into a choreography.
I began to finally realize that art is my lover. It truely has the healing power to ignite me, to seduce me, and to conquer me. I was turned on in my chair, thinking about lust and sex.
I said to my self: love might betray me, but the market and art will save me.
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