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That is for what friends are… to be with …

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The idea of converging illusions and the comfortable sensation of felling uncomfortable.

Always remember the BBC's factual drama about the genesis of Beethoven's Symphony No 3, the Eroica - a collaboration between the the classical musical and drama departments, which is set over the course of a single day in June 1804 at the Viennese palace of Beethoven's patron, Prince Lobkowitz: the composer hears his music for the very first time and waits for the answer to his proposal of marriage from the woman he adores.

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It is an event,
thing's like this just had to happen.

Sometimes we get in the right train.

Sometimes we get their too early and get into a different train.

(after ...)

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Armed with six red classic Italian Sangiovese Di Romagna I had my first organised pop-up exhibition in London. It was an unfair battle. We were not enough! The Anglophone completely smashed us into earth! They didn't have any piety! Specially when they brought in the Australians from nearby Marks and Spencer's. Their inner barbarism destroyed all my hopes and dreams in bringing brightness and intense taste to this land. It was a simple exercise of total domination and annihilation!

I should had brought more allies (Il Tauro Sangiovese di Romagna DOC Riserva 2007 only £7.95 at Davy's Wineshop) and another confronting tactic.

On the train towards Charing Cross

On the train towards Charing Cross
LONDON:
- Can we drink alcohol in a train? was the first thing I've heard
- Well, to be true?! I don't know! replied a deeper voice
- In that case I might have a zip, said the female tumbling in her own words while opening a can
- I like you jacket! Are you in the army? she asked with an articulated accent from the Home Counties, most possibly from the South East England
- No! said a juvenile voice
- What do you do in life?
- I'm a plummer, answered the first voice
- Just came down to Deptford to grab some mail. Is this train going to London Bridge? I'm from Norway. Came to London four years ago to work for a company. I can see that you're married. Do you have any Kids?
- Three! two daughters and one son, replied the same person
- To be complete honest, I'm doing research for Kenneth Clarke. Are you an MP? Why aren't you a MP?!
- I like what I do!
- Are you conservative? for whom did you vote in the last elections! Sorry for being so personal in my questions but you have been asking me a lot of personal questions, either!

...she keeps on for half-an-hour. Today the train takes longer than the usual five-to-ten minutes.

When I prepare myself to leave the train at London Bridge Train Station I looked back, she was small, dark hair, and look like having a South Asia background. We never know!

The following day I came across with another female voice. With read hair, blue eyes, wearing a army jacket and a warm orange winter scarf.
- Hi Dad! she said when answered the phone. I'm on the train down from London!, in a clear English.
She had a Mulberry leather bag.

Lygia Pape at Serpentine Gallery

Lygia Pape
Magnetized Space
December 7, 2011 – February 19, 2012

The thread of Magnetized Space is the poem and book. The viewer’s participation in the work is a key element.
One of the main characteristics of the Neo Concrete movement is the sensitivity, expressiveness and subjectivity in the artwork. The subjectivity and experience of contact with the work by the viewer is a constant, and this interaction gives the work its sublime transformative sense.
Neo Concretism was most notably lead by Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, who idealized a new aesthetic thought that emerged in Brazil in the 50s. This attitude towards life saw art as a form of expression and incorporating viewers in the work becomes the fundamental element in their aesthetics. It came as a rupture to the Constructivist canon – the rigidity of the forms, of thought, which had its best example in Brasília conception and construction, in Brazil’s interior.
Pape’s poetic works transcends their semantic condition when transmitted to the body and subject. The Tteias are the ultimate expression of poetic space by the artist, where light becomes immaterial, intangible – Pape’s latest work captures emotions and sensations.
This is Lygia Pape’s (1927-2004) first major exhibition in the UK and brings together well-known and previously unseen works, spanning a multiplicity of mediums.
The exhibition is organised by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in collaboration with Projeto Lygia Pape and the Serpentine Gallery.

Photo: Lygia Pape, Roda dos Prazeres (Wheels of Pleasure), 2011. Installation view. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2011 © Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

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Photowalk on the trail along the Thames

between the O2 (Millennium Dome) and the Thames Barriers