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EX-SKOLEN. Eksperiment Kunst Skole

Author: Andersen Troels
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish
Year Published: 2010
No. of pages: 72
Illustrations: 65 Color Illustrations. 83 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 10 1/2”x 8”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9788792307088
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh.
Code: 6936

Price: $29.50

Poul Gernes and art historian Troels Andersen founded in 1961 an alternative to the Academy of Arts, the so-called Ex-school. For the Founders the Academy represented an outdated, elitist view of art, and they introduced an art school free of entrance examinations and constricting traditions. There was still taught, among other graphics and materials science, but the didactic teacher was replaced by collective expression. Segregation between high and mass culture - exhibition space and urban space - should be repealed and art had to admit on its social function in society. Ex-school was thus a learning by doing approach to the creative process, and this experimentation and curiosity challenged the idea of the artwork as something subjective, exalted and forever.

EXIT 2001.

Author: Schelde, Morten, and Rasmus Danø
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish
Year Published: 2001
No. of pages: 136
Illustrations: 154 Color Illustrations. 8 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 7 1/2”x 10”
Weight:
ISBN:
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh. Bios.
Code: 4605

Price: $45.00

Here, the Kunstforeningen Museum and the Danish Royal Art Academy’s School of Painting together present fresh talent of thirty recent art school graduates in Denmark. This multimedia exhibition presents their work just as they are breaking into the real world as professional artists. Therefore, it sheds insight into the most innovative and recent artistic trends coming with the next generation of talent.

EXPO JORN. Art is a Festival!

Author: Kurczynksi, Karen and Karen Friis, ed.
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2014
No. of pages: 256
Illustrations: 209 Color Illustrations. 97 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 11 1/2”x 9”
Weight:
ISBN: 9788792307194
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh.
Code: 7009

Price: $125.00

The festival to celebrate Asger Jorn’s centenary, namely the exhibition “Expo Jorn- Art is a Festiva!”, the catalogue, the presentation of Jorn and even the efforts of the Museum Jorn to establish a new Museum Jorn in Silkeborg have all been designed to strike a chord with Jorn’s maxim that “art must be produced by everyone”. With this sumptuous catalogue, the museum invites everyone to join in the artistic festival. Not as a passive aesthetic experience, but as a collective, creative artistic acknowledgment of Jorn, his age, his thoughts, and his world as well as the works he created. One of Jorn’s most generous acts was the donation of his collection numbering almost 5,000 works of art to the Town of Silkeborg. Over time, this collection eventually came close to 20,000 works supplemented by a wealth of material about Jorn’s life, his works, writings, collaborations, conflicts, and much else. This catalogue of Jorn’s work reflects the enormous collection; the catalogue is profusely illustrated and includes numerous articles on different facets of Jorn’s life, work and ideas by experts in the field.

FACE TO FACE (VON ANGESICHT ZU ANGESICHT). Contemporary Art from the Baltic Area (Gegenwartskunst aus dem Ostseeraum)

Author:
Country: Germany
Language: English/ German
Year Published: 1992
No. of pages: 168
Illustrations: 10 Color Illustrations. 48 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 10”x 8”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 3923701500
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh. Bios.
Code: 0531

Price: $49.50

This exhibition is another project within the framework of the Ars Baltica Prologue. It shows contemporary art by 14 artists from 12 countries of the Baltic region.

FAHLSTRÖM, ÖYVIND. Another Space for Painting

Author: Borja-Villel, Manuel, Jean-François Chevrier, Octavi Rofes, et al
Country: Spain
Language: English
Year Published: 2001
No. of pages: 368
Illustrations: 164 Color Illustrations. 117 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 10 1/2”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 5.00
ISBN: 8495273497
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Cat. of exh. Bio.
Code: 6230

Price: $175.00

Moving from one place to another, constantly changing countries, and always living as a foreigner allows for an expressiveness that is inaccessible to the sedentary artist. In that same sense, travelling to marginalized or peripheral territories can result in an unusual representation of the world. This is the situation of Fahlström, who used his work as a keen cartographic instrument to measure the planet’s geopolitical and geopoetic changes. His work–ranging from islands to peninsulas to continents and planetary maps–take the language of the comic to its logical conclusion. Through that the artist filters historical and cultural information, encouraging an ethical understanding of how the globe is represented. His maps are an amorphous representation of the flow of power over territory.