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Aldeburgh ART 2012
Saturday 2nd June to Tuesday 5th June 2012.
Talks by eminent artists Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th June at The Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh.
The balance between looking and thinking is the timely theme of Aldeburgh ART, this year's visual arts festival. The artistic philosophies of David Hockney (The Eye) and Marcel Duchamp (The Idea) are re evaluated by Aldeburgh ART with art historian Martin Gayford and former Tate curator, Simon Wilson with BBC Arts Correspondent, Razia Iqbal.
This Spring, David Hockney's show in London heralds a re awakening of the timeless value of looking and 2012 is 100 years since Duchamp's first iconoclastic art works. These most famously 'the urinal', emphasised the importance of idea, led directly to conceptualism, (the dominant 'ism' of the contemporary art world) and Duchamp's reputation as the most influential artist arguably still now in the 21st century.
2011
Saturday 21st May to Monday 30th May 2011
Click here to listen to Caroline's radio interview from the very successful launch of aldeburghART on the 26th February 2011
Visitors came to Aldeburgh for a week of visual art – exhibitions, discussions, films, visits to studios and private collections, dinners and lunches and music.
Royal Academicians Peter Blake, Stephen Farthing and Nigel Hall made specially commissioned works. The international avant-garde artists Joseph Beuys and Marina Abramovic inspired performance art on the beach. And during the Festival in June, Mat Collishaw and Ryan Gander, two younger internationally acclaimed artists, make works especially for the Aldeburgh Beach South Lookout.
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Please click here to hear Caroline's interview on Aldeburgh radio from January 2011.
Image: Eileen Cooper 'Aldeburgh Kiss', 2010
