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With Jónsi and his hit Go Do, Dulux launches this publicity spot in which the people of a Brazilian neighbourhood paint their walls with bright colours. Reminiscent of Blu, Muto, Big bang big boom, Combo y Morphing, where through pixilation, we can discover how the paintwork springs to life and extends with complete freedom upon both interior and exterior surfaces, pure passion and street-wise expression. It is true that in the Dulux piece there are no forms nor figurative references, only colour. The camera movements are smooth and lend a certain magic to the end result, similar to the marvellous time manipulation in the video clip End love de OK Go, eighteen hours condensed into four and a half minutes. [more]

And who invited Condoleezza Rice? It was Andreas Nilsson for one of his recent pieces of work, the Flash Delirium video clip for the group MGMT. Set in a “family corner” where Ben, with his secret, is welcomed by a bizarre group of diners amid a strange post-operative, post-Cold War and Neo-Woodstock atmosphere. Action.

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Since ancient times, sport has functioned as a refined machinery for the creation and diffusion of myths. Considering that the classical Greek Olympics were a "war for other means", they were also capable of substituting military confrontations as generators of epic material. Apart from the battles, a new mechanism for creating myths was born. [more]

Up until the 1st of Novembre, it will be possible to see a variety of Pipilotti Rist's installations at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. Starting with her first Super 8 videos during the 80s' and spanning her work to the recent multi-screen experiments, Rist has always been interested in the human body, femininity and the contrast between natural and artificial. With an unpredictable sense of humour, sometimes at the limits of good sense, the pieces of this Swiss video artist combine attractiveness and repulsion in an explosion of colour, skin and unusual points of view that return the spotlight to the viewer, begging for reflection sans tabou, about what each one is feeling. [more]