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Marjorie Firth

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Recently visited the Pompidou Centre, Malaga. Some interesting stuff but I didn’t use the audio guide, preferring just to read the info beside the piece of work. I did however spot the art b****cks….make of it what you will.
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Sandra Kennedy

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What did you think of the piece of work?
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Oy gevalt - how to repel people from art criticism in one easy lesson.  Remembering my uncle Ernie, in the Southampton Art Gallery: "It's just WORDS!  It doesn't MEAN anything!" And God knows, it didn't.   This reads as if it were written in Serbo-Croat, translated into Korean, back-translated into Finnish, re-translated into Polish, thus onwards into French, and extrapolated into English, via the Museum of Modern Art in Boston.  Apart from that, well - what could be clearer or more pellucid? 
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Marjorie Firth

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You gave me a laugh with that Robert! Sandra, I should have said “ preferring to read the info beside each piece of work”. Some pieces were interesting and gave food for thought, others - coloured rope strewn around the floor….well. I wondered if they would have noticed if I’d kicked the rope in a different direction. One wasn’t invited to interact, so I didn’t.
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Helen Martell

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That’s textbook ‘arty b….’ 😂
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Sandra Kennedy

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You gave me a laugh with that Robert! Sandra, I should have said “ preferring to read the info beside each piece of work”. Some pieces were interesting and gave food for thought, others - coloured rope strewn around the floor….well. I wondered if they would have noticed if I’d kicked the rope in a different direction. One wasn’t invited to interact, so I didn’t.
Marjorie Firth on 10/03/2024 22:53:58
Marjorie, I should have asked what on earth piece of work was described in such arty b****** terms! Certainly nothing that I can remotely imagine! Guess it was some sort of installation? Agree with you over the coloured rope, I bet they wouldn't have noticed as long as no-one saw you. I'd have been tempted.

Carol Jones

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The title. plus part of a sentence  'and experience digital and phygital environments . . . now and in the future' Alter the syntax slightly and it just about sums up the rest of the gobbledygook. I too would have been tempted, Marjorie.

Denise Cat

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🤣🤣 What a load of drivel.

Frank Bingley

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There is a website on the exhibition. Safari can translate it into English, but it still sounds like rubbish! Here’s the image from the website https://centrepompidou-malaga.eu/exposicion/fosiles-futuros-2/

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Martin Cooke

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The text in Spanish is broadly reasonable(-ish), so I suspect at least something has been lost in translation. Don't forget that many Romance-derived words which are commonplace (naturally) in Spanish tend to sound high-falutin' in English (relative to words of a Germanic origin). An example is the word 'contemplate' in the English text. This is a mis-translation of the Spanish 'contemplar', which in this context would be better written as 'look at', which already sounds less arty.

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Jim Morris

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Mary Anning re-wrote the history of fossils without saying a word, She just dug them up with a spade on the Dorset coast around Lyme Regis. . Fascinating woman. 

Denise Cat

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The wording in itself is art. A piece of diabolical flurry. I do like the actual artwork though.

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