Jaz (AR)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dec12-Jan13
Streetart
Probably the best known street artist from Buenos Aires, Jaz, explores the brutality animal forces in football and wrestling, and the hooliganism connected to the sports.
20 February 2013
Jaz in BA
Public works
Jaz (AR)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dec12-Jan13
Streetart
Probably the best known street artist from Buenos Aires, Jaz, explores the brutality animal forces in football and wrestling, and the hooliganism connected to the sports.
Jaz (AR)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dec12-Jan13
Streetart
Probably the best known street artist from Buenos Aires, Jaz, explores the brutality animal forces in football and wrestling, and the hooliganism connected to the sports.
Ever in BA
Ever (AR)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dec12-Jan13
Streetart
Apparently obsessed with Mao iconic pictures at the moment, Ever is sharing the throne with Jaz as most internationally known streetart artists from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dec12-Jan13
Streetart
Apparently obsessed with Mao iconic pictures at the moment, Ever is sharing the throne with Jaz as most internationally known streetart artists from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Streetart in Buenos Aires
Streetart
Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 2012-January 2013
Paintings, stencils and pasteups in the public
Buenos Aires is a massive city. Each part of the city is different from the other. As I use the appearance of street art as a measure of the quality of urban life, some parts of BA are very liveable, while other are sterile and lifeless. Especially in the San Telmo and La Boca areas the urban art is everywhere. What is distincive in BA is that old political and radical murals are very visible. The artists may even sign the uncomissioned works by their real name and with contact info. This is possible both because this kind of art has a historical tradition, and opinions are considered to belong in the streets. There are several demonstrations every week in the streets of BA.
So just get this slideshow running, lean back, and enjoy this virtual tour:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 2012-January 2013
Paintings, stencils and pasteups in the public
Buenos Aires is a massive city. Each part of the city is different from the other. As I use the appearance of street art as a measure of the quality of urban life, some parts of BA are very liveable, while other are sterile and lifeless. Especially in the San Telmo and La Boca areas the urban art is everywhere. What is distincive in BA is that old political and radical murals are very visible. The artists may even sign the uncomissioned works by their real name and with contact info. This is possible both because this kind of art has a historical tradition, and opinions are considered to belong in the streets. There are several demonstrations every week in the streets of BA.
So just get this slideshow running, lean back, and enjoy this virtual tour:
19 February 2013
Massimo Listro: En perspectiva: el vacio interor
En perspectiva: El vacio interor
Massimo Listro (IT)
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photos of grand Italian rooms
Grand rooms of Italian palazzos become installations or sculptures of their own in these beautiful photos by Massimo Listro.
Massimo Listro (IT)
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photos of grand Italian rooms
Grand rooms of Italian palazzos become installations or sculptures of their own in these beautiful photos by Massimo Listro.
Juan Castillo: Soy Animal
Soy Animal
Juan Castillo (AR)
13.12.12-3.2.13
Museo Arte Municipal Moderno, Mendoza, Argentina
Drawings, paintings and installations of people having animal heads
Juan Castillo is making wonderful portraits of people, but he changes their heads to animal heads. At first the effect is humoristic, but it also gets me thinking. What if this animal appearance is a reflection of the person's personality? What animal head would I put on portraits of people I know? Or on a self portrait?
Dog Children
Sitting Dog
The Female Dogs
Daddy
Juan Castillo (AR)
13.12.12-3.2.13
Museo Arte Municipal Moderno, Mendoza, Argentina
Drawings, paintings and installations of people having animal heads
Juan Castillo is making wonderful portraits of people, but he changes their heads to animal heads. At first the effect is humoristic, but it also gets me thinking. What if this animal appearance is a reflection of the person's personality? What animal head would I put on portraits of people I know? Or on a self portrait?
Dog Children
Sitting Dog
The Female Dogs
Daddy
Andrés Piña: The end of life as the beginning of life
The end of life as the beginning of life
Andrés Piña (AR)
13.12.12-3.2.13
Museo Arte Municipal Moderno, Mendoza, Argentina
Organic life-cycle installations
In these stunning installations the artist has created what seems to be perpetual life cycles. Birth, life, death all are connected in a self-containing circle of life. But is it really? Would it be possible without any interferance from the outside (light, air, water), and will it really last for long? The beauty and ingenuity of the works makes me want to be seduced by the though that these are everlasting and independent cycles.
Andrés Piña (AR)
13.12.12-3.2.13
Museo Arte Municipal Moderno, Mendoza, Argentina
Organic life-cycle installations
In these stunning installations the artist has created what seems to be perpetual life cycles. Birth, life, death all are connected in a self-containing circle of life. But is it really? Would it be possible without any interferance from the outside (light, air, water), and will it really last for long? The beauty and ingenuity of the works makes me want to be seduced by the though that these are everlasting and independent cycles.
17 February 2013
Tove Sundt-Hansen: Forces - Human Power
Forces - Human Power
Tove Sundt-Hansen
27.1.-17.2.13
Galleri Sult, Stavanger
Drawings, paintings, installations
Inspired by Cambodia and Iceland, Tove Sundt-Hansen presents a variety of works and techniques. Most exotic is her work on Icelandic fish-skin and Cambodian silk, but there are also very common motives like trees, cautiously drawed in ink on paper, and colorful abstracts.
Chum Mey
Presence
The Magic Tree + Gateway
Present
Loved Ones
Tove Sundt-Hansen
27.1.-17.2.13
Galleri Sult, Stavanger
Drawings, paintings, installations
Inspired by Cambodia and Iceland, Tove Sundt-Hansen presents a variety of works and techniques. Most exotic is her work on Icelandic fish-skin and Cambodian silk, but there are also very common motives like trees, cautiously drawed in ink on paper, and colorful abstracts.
Chum Mey
Presence
The Magic Tree + Gateway
Present
Loved Ones
Six Women
Six Women
Diane Nerwen (US), Bahar Behbehani (US), Julia Oldham (US), Rosemarie Padovano (US), Jacqueline Nguyen (US), Jessica Ann Peavy (US)
curated by Eric Heist (US)
15.-24.2.13
Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger
videos
Six videos by six female artists are screened in this exhibition at Prosjektrom Normanns. The screening was originally curated for an outdoor show, thus sound is of less importance and the visual impressions crucial in these works. In this screening room you get both sound and picture.
Diane Nerwen: Open House
The contrasts of Brooklyn are juxtapozed, the demolition of old buildings and the tempting advertisements for the apartements in the new buildings that are to come. Sound IS important in this video, the pictures only show the destruction, while the sound shows the (commercialized) optimism for the future. For those who can afford it.
Bahar Behbehani: Snakes and Ladders
Toy soldiers are crawling through grass as they shoot, getting nowhere. Toys are becoming destructors, peaceful grass becomes a war scene.
Julia Oldham: Infinitely Impossible
The protagonist is in vain trying to grasp infinity, by drawing spirals, cutting paper in halves, mirroring mirrors.
Rosemarie Padovano: Please Touch
A wonderful movie and the highlight of the show: A person puts on white gloves and starts caressing a sculpture by Rodin. The visual impression is a very sensual approach to art. But the background text reveals that this is a project where blind people are allowed to experience art in their way. This is not so much about sensuality, but mostly about senses. In this way the blind person gets an impression we can never get. But we can watch and share her experience from the outside.
Jacqueline Nguyen: Documentation for an Epidemic Resistance
We see different people with headphones, at first serious, but then laughing out loud. We are told that what they are seeing is a video of people laughing, in a happening where people continued laughing for a very long period of time. Laughter is contagious.
Jessica Ann Peavy, Parable #5: La Policia and the Unknown Language
A woman speaks to her closet mirror, in English with Spanish subtitles. The story is continously interrupted by her dancing to music.
Diane Nerwen (US), Bahar Behbehani (US), Julia Oldham (US), Rosemarie Padovano (US), Jacqueline Nguyen (US), Jessica Ann Peavy (US)
curated by Eric Heist (US)
15.-24.2.13
Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger
videos
Six videos by six female artists are screened in this exhibition at Prosjektrom Normanns. The screening was originally curated for an outdoor show, thus sound is of less importance and the visual impressions crucial in these works. In this screening room you get both sound and picture.
Diane Nerwen: Open House
The contrasts of Brooklyn are juxtapozed, the demolition of old buildings and the tempting advertisements for the apartements in the new buildings that are to come. Sound IS important in this video, the pictures only show the destruction, while the sound shows the (commercialized) optimism for the future. For those who can afford it.
Bahar Behbehani: Snakes and Ladders
Toy soldiers are crawling through grass as they shoot, getting nowhere. Toys are becoming destructors, peaceful grass becomes a war scene.
Julia Oldham: Infinitely Impossible
The protagonist is in vain trying to grasp infinity, by drawing spirals, cutting paper in halves, mirroring mirrors.
Rosemarie Padovano: Please Touch
A wonderful movie and the highlight of the show: A person puts on white gloves and starts caressing a sculpture by Rodin. The visual impression is a very sensual approach to art. But the background text reveals that this is a project where blind people are allowed to experience art in their way. This is not so much about sensuality, but mostly about senses. In this way the blind person gets an impression we can never get. But we can watch and share her experience from the outside.
Jacqueline Nguyen: Documentation for an Epidemic Resistance
We see different people with headphones, at first serious, but then laughing out loud. We are told that what they are seeing is a video of people laughing, in a happening where people continued laughing for a very long period of time. Laughter is contagious.
Jessica Ann Peavy, Parable #5: La Policia and the Unknown Language
A woman speaks to her closet mirror, in English with Spanish subtitles. The story is continously interrupted by her dancing to music.
14 February 2013
Heterotropic view
Heterotopic View
Ragnhildur Johanns (IS), Johan Gaellman (S), Karlotta Blöndal (IS), Ingeborg Kvame (N)
7.2.-17.3.13
Stavanger Kunstforening
Paintings, installations, mixed media in an collective art project
Five artists from three different countries spent two weeks together on an uninhabited island not far from Stavanger. Through common joys and difficulties the works for this exhibition was created. The island is visible in some works, not apparent in other. It also seems the artists spent quite some time exploring the building of the exhibition.
Exhibition opening - Karlotta Blöndal, Ragnhildur Johanns, Johan Gaellman, Ingeborg Kvame and Kenneth Varpe from Stavanger kunstforening
Heterotopia is either the displacement of an organ from its normal position, or a different world. In this exhibition both explanations may be relevant. The island must for sure have been felt like a different world, especially when staying there as long as two weeks. It seems like a plot for a reality show: Put five artists on an uninhabited island for two weeks and see what happens. We are not provided live broadcasting from the show, but the results of it. In fact, in the drawing books "Paint with the Cyclops", we are actually presented a story of five persons and their adventures on an island. An explanation of "heterotopic" may also relate to the Cyclop, the keeper of the island, having lost one of its eyes in hope of receiving a heart of gold.
Johan Gaellman: Paint with the Cyclops + Cyclops
One thing I love about this exhibition is that they are using the building in a new way. One room is just empty, called "dark space", and another room (with the drawing books) is called "empty space". And for the first time I am allowed up to the attic, where I was not able to spot the installation, but enjoyed the view of the beautiful downlight windows.
Karlotta Blöndal: Untitled
What I also really love about this exhibition are the works by Ragnhildur Johanns, lines from different pages portrude from the edge of a book. This is a wonderful installation in itself, but the real magic appears when it is photographed. When going very close some sentences are in focus, others are not. Different stories are told, depending on where the point of focus is set.
Ragnhildur Johanns: Syn og sanser
Ragnhildur Johanns: Syn og sanser
The exhibition as a whole is a collection of different works of different artists and different techniques. In some of the works the cooperation is very visible, in others less. The story of what happened on the island remains a secret, we only get some hints. But those are beautiful hints.
Karlotta Blöndal: Days on end
Karlotta Blöndal: Collecting pressure
Ingeborg Kvame: Leitar i skumring
Johan Gaellman: Selfportrait
Ragnhildur Johanns (IS), Johan Gaellman (S), Karlotta Blöndal (IS), Ingeborg Kvame (N)
7.2.-17.3.13
Stavanger Kunstforening
Paintings, installations, mixed media in an collective art project
Five artists from three different countries spent two weeks together on an uninhabited island not far from Stavanger. Through common joys and difficulties the works for this exhibition was created. The island is visible in some works, not apparent in other. It also seems the artists spent quite some time exploring the building of the exhibition.
Exhibition opening - Karlotta Blöndal, Ragnhildur Johanns, Johan Gaellman, Ingeborg Kvame and Kenneth Varpe from Stavanger kunstforening
Heterotopia is either the displacement of an organ from its normal position, or a different world. In this exhibition both explanations may be relevant. The island must for sure have been felt like a different world, especially when staying there as long as two weeks. It seems like a plot for a reality show: Put five artists on an uninhabited island for two weeks and see what happens. We are not provided live broadcasting from the show, but the results of it. In fact, in the drawing books "Paint with the Cyclops", we are actually presented a story of five persons and their adventures on an island. An explanation of "heterotopic" may also relate to the Cyclop, the keeper of the island, having lost one of its eyes in hope of receiving a heart of gold.
Johan Gaellman: Paint with the Cyclops + Cyclops
One thing I love about this exhibition is that they are using the building in a new way. One room is just empty, called "dark space", and another room (with the drawing books) is called "empty space". And for the first time I am allowed up to the attic, where I was not able to spot the installation, but enjoyed the view of the beautiful downlight windows.
Karlotta Blöndal: Untitled
What I also really love about this exhibition are the works by Ragnhildur Johanns, lines from different pages portrude from the edge of a book. This is a wonderful installation in itself, but the real magic appears when it is photographed. When going very close some sentences are in focus, others are not. Different stories are told, depending on where the point of focus is set.
Ragnhildur Johanns: Syn og sanser
Ragnhildur Johanns: Syn og sanser
The exhibition as a whole is a collection of different works of different artists and different techniques. In some of the works the cooperation is very visible, in others less. The story of what happened on the island remains a secret, we only get some hints. But those are beautiful hints.
Karlotta Blöndal: Days on end
Karlotta Blöndal: Collecting pressure
Ingeborg Kvame: Leitar i skumring
Johan Gaellman: Selfportrait
12 February 2013
Tove Kommedal: dEFINISJONSMAKT (4)
dEFINISJONSMAKT (4)
Tove Kommedal
Part 1 of Relasjoner / Relay(tions)
winter/spring 2013
Kinokino, Sandnes
Statistics on the impressions of a meal based on crow meat
Kinokino presents a relay of artworks in the basement space. First one is Tove Kommedal, presenting the fourth part of her project. On an earlier occasion she had professional chefs preparing a gourmet meal based on crow meat. She asked the guests several questions on their impressions of the meal and on their relations to crows in general. The results of the statistics are here presented.
Yvette Lardinois: Collage
Collage
Yvette Lardinois (NL)
26.1.-24.2.13
Sandnes kunstforening / Kinokino, Sandnes
Horizon paintings and sculptures
Horizon views are extracted and abstracted into harmonical color forms in these works by Yvette Lardinois in Sandnes kunstforening's exhibition space at Kinokino.
Yvette Lardinois (NL)
26.1.-24.2.13
Sandnes kunstforening / Kinokino, Sandnes
Horizon paintings and sculptures
Horizon views are extracted and abstracted into harmonical color forms in these works by Yvette Lardinois in Sandnes kunstforening's exhibition space at Kinokino.
Shezad Dawood: Piercing Brightness
Piercing
Brightness
Shezad Dawood (UK)
26.1.-28.4.13
Kinokino, Sandnes
Video, mixed media, neon lights
Kinokino fill their exhibition space with the works of British artist Shezad Dawood this spring, exhibiting a wide range of exotic symbols, music and patterns. Here is Moroccan music, 70s phsycedelica, Pakistani blankets with symbols like cosmic egg or elipses, and a trailer for a movie about aliens settled on Earth. Are these flashes of other worlds and cultures, or are these symbols of something we can relate to?
Most frustration but also inspiration comes from the movie. This is a 15 minute trailer from a full-length movie, about aliens settled on Earth. Their task is to observe the birth and life of the Earth, but when the time comes to return to their home, they are reluctant to leave. Having read this introduction before seeing the trailer, I get large expectations. From this I get some kind of idea what is happening. Had I not read it beforehand I would have had no clue. So in this way the movie is frustrating, there is no apparent story or red line. But at the same time the story gets me thinking: The aliens may well love our culture here on Earth, but would be cautious to reveal their own identity. Would we be eager to accept their culture as they accept ours? Could the same be said about cultures closer to ours, other Earth cultures like Moroccan or Pakistani from the other artist’s works?
Cosmic Egg II
Equinox + Inside the Spaceship
Trailer
Shezad Dawood (UK)
26.1.-28.4.13
Kinokino, Sandnes
Video, mixed media, neon lights
Kinokino fill their exhibition space with the works of British artist Shezad Dawood this spring, exhibiting a wide range of exotic symbols, music and patterns. Here is Moroccan music, 70s phsycedelica, Pakistani blankets with symbols like cosmic egg or elipses, and a trailer for a movie about aliens settled on Earth. Are these flashes of other worlds and cultures, or are these symbols of something we can relate to?
Most frustration but also inspiration comes from the movie. This is a 15 minute trailer from a full-length movie, about aliens settled on Earth. Their task is to observe the birth and life of the Earth, but when the time comes to return to their home, they are reluctant to leave. Having read this introduction before seeing the trailer, I get large expectations. From this I get some kind of idea what is happening. Had I not read it beforehand I would have had no clue. So in this way the movie is frustrating, there is no apparent story or red line. But at the same time the story gets me thinking: The aliens may well love our culture here on Earth, but would be cautious to reveal their own identity. Would we be eager to accept their culture as they accept ours? Could the same be said about cultures closer to ours, other Earth cultures like Moroccan or Pakistani from the other artist’s works?
Cosmic Egg II
Equinox + Inside the Spaceship
Trailer
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