onnipotenza del pensiero

vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas

She lived inside a pause. She was always pausing, alone in her flat, to listen. Her hearing developed a cleanness, a discriminating rigor. She sat at the small table where she ate her meals, listening. The room had a dozen sounds, mainly disturbances of tone, pressures releasing in the walls, and she followed them and waited. There was a second and safer level she reserved for street noises, the elevator rising. All the danger was inside.

— Don DeLillo, The Ivory Acrobat, The Angel Esmeralda

0 ♥ / 8 ore fa

Gerhard Richter, Confrontation 3 / Gegenüberstellung 3, 1988, 112 cm x 102 cm, Oil on canvas, Catalogue Raisonné: 671-3
[from the cycle October 18, 1977 Baader-Meinhof]

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Gerhard Richter, Confrontation 2 / Gegenüberstellung 2, 1988, 112 cm x 102 cm, Oil on canvas, Catalogue Raisonné: 671-2
[from the cycle October 18, 1977 Baader-Meinhof]

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Gerhard Richter, Confrontation 1 / Gegenüberstellung 1, 1988, 112 cm x 102 cm, Oil on canvas, Catalogue Raisonné: 671-1
[from the cycle October 18, 1977 Baader-Meinhof]

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If nothing else, the Phillips exhibition offers a succinct tour of a thought that has haunted abstract art from its origins to its present: What if it’s empty? This terrifying idea, which artists have often tried to hide under a carapace of pseudo-intellectual philosophizing (see Kandinsky’s “On the Spiritual in Art”) or a mantle borrowed from music, literature or architecture, is rather like the idea that haunts each and every one of us everyday: What if I die? And the answer is the same. Of course it’s empty, and of course we all die. Now enjoy the present moment, like a C Major chord on the harpsichord, a burst of consciousness-obliterating sonic sunshine.

— Philip Kennicott, Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K Series, June 10, 2011

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Gerhard Richter, Blanket / Decke, 1988, 200 cm x 140 cm, Oil on canvas, Catalogue Raisonné: 680-3

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Gerhard Richter, Hanged / Erhängte, 1988, 200 cm x 140 cm, Oil on canvas, Catalogue Raisonné: 668
[from the cycle October 18, 1977 Baader-Meinhof]

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Christopher Shinn on madness in theatre: Sound and fury | The Economist

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Gerhard Richter, Confrontation 1/2/3, October 18, 1977 Baader-Meinhof room, Panorama exhibition

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Gerhard Richter, October 18, 1977 Baader-Meinhof room, Panorama exhibition

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Gerhard Richter, October 18, 1977 Baader-Meinhof room, Panorama exhibition

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Gerhard Richter, Dead / Tote #1, 1988, 62 cm x 67 cm, Oil on canvas, Catalogue Raisonné: 667-1
[from the cycle October 18, 1977 Baader-Meinhof]

2 ♥ / 4 giorni fa

Gerhard Richter, Funeral / Beerdigung, 1988, 200 cm x 320 cm, Oil on canvas, Catalogue Raisonné: 673
[from the cycle October 18, 1977 Baader-Meinhof]

0 ♥ / 4 giorni fa

Skies were low and gray. People called to each other on the street, chanted from passing cars. Eksi komma eksi. They were referring to the first one, the bigger one. Six point six. Kyle had been hearing the number all morning, spoken with reverence, anxiety, grim pride, an echo along the brooding streets, a form of fatalistic greeting.

— Don DeLillo, The Ivory Acrobat, The Angel Esmeralda

0 ♥ / 4 giorni fa

Claude Monet, Houses of Parliament, London
[Houses of Parliament series]

6 ♥ / 4 giorni fa