<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >the altered Paris living room <span style="font-weight: bold;">vs</span> Robert Irwin</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />There may be such a thing as a<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">universal or “high” art</span></span></span>—it’s certainly a pretty idea—but it’s not the reality of our everyday world. In fact, everything is subject to fluctuating sets of conditions that in themselves are not static, and this dynamic of<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">a world of qualities is the stuff of real-time perception."</span></span></span></span> -<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> Robert Irwin</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6211046491_ce9973d96f_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6211046491_ce9973d96f_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 698px; height: 698px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:100%;" >“Perceiving yourself perceiving”<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> vs</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"when colors begin to fade"</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><br /><br />"The museum is an old, old model that was set up essentially to deal with objects. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">You and</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">I are not object makers; we’re dealing with experiential processes.</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" > </span> The museum structure is geared toward a particular kind of art making, which represents a particular set of values. What we’re proposing is<span style="font-weight: bold;"> another set of values</span>."</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- Robert Irwin</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"I very much like the idea that you aren’t led through something or told where to go, but</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">instead are given a continuous set of qualitative choices. The choices are not dictatorial in any</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">way. You’re the one who has to make them.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">You’re put in this position of actually</span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >constructing the aesthetics of the experience as you go, because each time youmake a choice</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >you change the nature of the experience."</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- Robert Irwin</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.olafureliasson.net/publications/download_texts/Take_your_time.pdf">all text taken from here...</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Robert Irwin</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Way Out West</span> September 17 - October 22, 2011 at <a href="http://www.lmgallery.com/exhibitions/robert-irwin/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">L + M Arts, Los Angeles</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;">....<br />original image taken from</span> <a href="http://www.teneues.com/shop-uk/books/lifestyle-boulevard/living-in-style-paris.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Living in Style Paris, Caroline Sarkozy,</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">altered for sake of perception.</span><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6031/6211002207_6c04175de9_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----------------</span>

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