notes on "Des Nuages de l'antiquité à nos jours"
.... Popper: at one side clouds represent physical systems -- like gas -- charecterized by their disorder and their random nature. compare: cloud of flys or drops of water.
at the other side, all clocks corpally hold a cloud element. In this sense one can put the cloud as a grain of sand and an event.
artificiel clouds used in agricultre...
every cloud has a silver lining
cloud finding within itself its own light (colored) -- nuage rouge mondrian (photo)
les choses// et le désir des choses
mortalité
l'errqnce des êtres à la dérive (wings of desire)
notes on : Greenaway "le brit des nuages"
Flying out of this world
The impossibility of personalised flight has naturally made it a prime subject matter fo depiction as a frozen moment in two dimensions. A mocking perversity. Flight violently contradicts those two states of being.....
In the English language, flight also means to escape. In French, to fly is to steal.
Duchamp: La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, 1915
Calder
below from: "les nuages.... là -bas... les merveilleux nuages"
(le BPI au ctr Pompidou !)
No comments:
Post a Comment