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“At last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade; your deserts; your private dinosaurs; the first woman) all i need to know: tell me everything just as it was from the beginning.� -Margaret Atwood
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“Perhaps innate, these structures derive from their own anteriorities or interiorities, however you wish… They are only what they know how to be.” -Sergio Camargo
“Mármore” By Sergio Camargo, the Lisson Gallery, London
“Hailed as one of Brazil’s greatest sculptors, Sergio Camargo (1930-1990) gained renown for his modular geometric constructions, assembled from cuboid and cylindrical forms in wood, terracotta, stone and marble. Using angled sections cut from dowel rods, Camargo began making monochromatic collages in sharp relief, the painted white surfaces intermittently disrupted through the interjections of shadow and line. While he saw colour as decoration and figuration as another barrier to understanding the formal and abstract relationships he was creating, there is an organic, almost molecular purity to Camargo’s non-referential structures. He said of this essential sense of design that, “The artist works to grasp a truth he knows intuitively. This cognitive process produces the works.” -Excerpt from the Lisson Gallery Release See more at: http://moussemagazine.it/ camargo-houshiary-lisson-2015/#sthash. LqO3qE4X.dpuf-
The concept of collaboration appears so obviously positive that further defense of the topic could seem as useless as sending a security officer to patrol Utopia, so I will keep it simple. Math... But these equations are different... 1 + 1 equals far greater than 2. Lee Krasner + Jackson Pollock = David Byrne + Brian Eno = Boys ii Men + LL Cool J = Wilbur + Orville = Larry Page + Sergey Brin = Marina Abramovic + Ulay = Coco Chanel + Pierre Wertheimer = Richard McDonald + Maurice McDonald = The Steves = Collaboration spreads the weight of a problem over a larger surface area. Literally... The surface area of the brain is anywhere from (depending on age) about 233 to 465 square inches, which is about the size of one to two pages of a newspaper. So, by doubling or tripling the brain power involved in a project, you can potentially leave gazette-ville for The New York Times pretty quickly. The major difficulty most people face with collaboration is the loss of singular authorship. While this may seem discouraging, authors Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman, in their book ORGANIZING GENIUS: THE SECRETS OF CREATIVE COLLABORATION, begin to break down the deeply ingrained ideas of the lonely hero (the Dust covered Lone Ranger. The road weary leader. The cape wearing savior that swoops in to single handedly save the day) and begin to re-institute belief in the collaborative spirit. They salute the duos and groups that have collaborated in such profound ways that they have re-shaped the world, driven art movements, and changed thinking patterns for generations to come, such as The Bauhaus School and Black Mountain College. When Braque and Picasso paired up the art world was changed forever with the introduction of that little movement called “Cubism”. The two men painted together everyday, they dressed alike in mechanic’s clothes, and they described themselves as “two mountaineers roped together”. This statement becoming the one of the most vividly beautiful metaphors describing individuals working together to reach a goal. The author Henry James in praise of group creativity once wrote: “Every man works better when he has companions working in the same line, and yielding to the stimulus of suggestion, comparison, emulation. Great things have of course been done by solitary workers; but they have usually been done with double the pains they would have cost if they had been produced in more genial circumstances.” “Gifted individuals working alone may spend years pursuing a sterile line of inquiry or become so enamored of the creative process that they produce little or nothing”, writes Biederman. A Great Group can be a sounding board, and a source of inspiration, support, and even love. One mind can get very tired trying to build a flying machine. Two minds can also get very tired trying to build a flying machine... But the load is lighter and possibly a little easier to get up in the air. “Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.” - Gaston Bachelard The Poetics of Reverie
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THE COMMERCE OF MINDS