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Florence
We only had a long weekend to do the city and so your tour really helped us get our bearings. There's just so much to see there! I know we only scraped the surface but it worked really well for us.
Tanya Ellison - (27/08/06)

Venice
This was a great tour that took you everywhere you needed to go. Particularly liked the walk through of the mosaic frescoes on the front of the Basilica. We had a great time in Venice, made all the more special by this evocative guide. Like the speaker's voice too - one of the best I've listened to.
Andrea How - (19/02/06)

BARCELONA - Xavier Le Roy at Fundacio Antoni Tapies

Xavier Le Roy is that very rare artist – a biologist turned choreographer. Retrospective at the Fundacio Antoni Tapies from 24th February to 22nd April 2012 is both an exhibition and a retrospective of Xavier Le Roy’s choreographic work.  The striking, modernist exhibition space of the Fundacio Antoni Tapies, just off the Passeig de Gracia will form an ideal backdrop for Le Roy’s work. The Fundacio features on our walking tour of the Gaudi district of Barcelona.

  As our Barcelona Eixample mp3 tour explains,  This is one of the first examples of modernisme and it was built between 1880 and 1885.  But what is really special about this building is what you can't see.  It was the first building - other than things like railway stations - to be constructed from a metal frame and which then had bricks and mortar added to it later.  The use of brick is interesting in itself - originally the smart people who moved into the Eixample shunned it and covered their houses with plain, elegant stucco.  The Spanish for 'brick' also means 'ugly' or 'dull' but Montaner who designed this building argued that it was modern, functional and, as he put it - 'Clear and Catalan!'  This building is a temple to industrialism and modern functionality.

 The Le Roy event questions exhibition conventions through its confrontation with choreography, understood as an art based on time, movement and space – a definition that could also be applicable to all exhibition practice in museums, although in reality the museum space is more usually approached as a corridor that visitors move through. Retrospective seeks to activate and draw attention to the relationships at play between visitors and artworks. In Retrospective, the Oeuvre is alive, it moves and interacts directly with the visitor, who thus takes on the dual role of spectator and interlocutor. The project is conceived as a choreography of actions that will carried out by performers for the duration of the exhibition.

 



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