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SEEING LANDSCAPE: CORNER - CHINA 60 YEARS DANISH ARTISTS IN CHINA.
Author: Caifu, Liu
Country: Denmark
Language: English/Chinese
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 89
Illustrations: 110 Color Illustrations. 18 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 10”x 7 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN:
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6854
Price: $24.50
Despite great geographical distance between the countries of SEEING LANDSCAPE, cultural exchange was rewarding for all involved artists. As Elsemarie Bukdahl writes in one exhibition catalog: "you discover that Chinese culture is still characterized by harmony between the external world and the human world.” The Chinese thought before that Denmark was a distant province, and the Danes thought the same about China. The exhibition documented the current and fruitful dialogue between contemporary artists in the two countries. There was also a historical dimension of the dialogue since then Corner artists had the first collaboration with Chinese colleagues already 60 years ago. A common outlook for the current project was precisely to study each other's landscapes - 'seeing landscape'. The artists worked with their own art, while they visited the stranger and the exhibition shows what came out of it. The full title of the project opened with a Chinese guest saying "The wise enjoy the mountains; the show enjoys the water: SEEING LANDSCAPE ". The Chinese guests in Denmark saw no mountains in DK (though they got Himmelbjerg appointed), but they viewed a lot of water - saw Denmark nearly as an island community and a place where a story can unfold. The exhibtion gives the audience new perspectives to see each place depicted in paintings and drawings by artists from China or Denmark. These Chinese and Danish artists, all primarily painters, came together around something which for them is a core value; that the work of art is its strength of spirit. The figuration must not be photographic, but act as a communication medium, or expressed differently: The artwork must be the venue between reality and spirit.
SHAPIRO, JOEL.
Author: Nancy Princenthal and Rosalind Krauss
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish
Year Published: 1990
No. of pages: 51
Illustrations: 23 Color Illustrations. 1 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”sq
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: None
Biblio/Bio: Bio. Cat. of exh. Bibl.
Code: 1987
Price: $24.50
Shapiro was born and educated in New York, but his sculptures have been exhibited in Europe, Tokyo, and Israel in addition to the U.S. He works primarily in bronze, with geometric, asymmetrical forms. Among many major works, he created the large bronze sculpture that stands outside the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.
SIDUR, VADIM : Sculptures and Mutations.
Author: Bäckström, Lars and Annika w/ Karl Eimermacher, Vadim Sidur, Georgi Gennis
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish/English
Year Published: 1989
No. of pages: 112
Illustrations: 58 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 7 1/2”
Weight:
ISBN: 917798269X
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 0670
Price: $49.50
This book consists of 4 essays, an interview, a number of poems and excerpts by Sidur. Equal weight has been given to the sculpture and graphic work of Sidurs playful, organic mutations of the human form, which some times are very whimsical and erotic.
SIIVELLA VINGBURNA: UNDER HUGO SIMBERG’S WINGS.
Author: Simberg, Hugo
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish/ Swedish/Some English
Year Published: 1993
No. of pages: 34
Illustrations: 46 Color Illustrations. 21 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9511784006
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 5080
Price: $75.00
An artist’s book referencing Hugo Simberg, A poetic conglomerate of artistic expression. Travel journals and poems, stamps and sketches depicting the life of Scandinavian, arctic culture. “We need completely new strategies for the modern concept with an even more modern image.”
SILENCE, THE. A Narration about Ingvar Cronhammar
Author: Weirup, Torben. Photos by Jens M. Lindhe
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2008
No. of pages: 311
Illustrations: 225 Color Illustrations. 25 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 11”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 5.00
ISBN: 9788791984044
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 6394
Price: $75.00
Ingvar Cronhammar is one of the rare artists, who understands architectural reality and how to navigate among limitations and circumstances while preserving the artistic essence of a work. Perhaps that is the reason for the architectural gravitas of his works to date. He goes about his mission with apparent ease, although the process from idea to finished project or installation does not free him from artistic responsibility, from the fearful reckoning that is the dark side of the artistic process. An exciting book showing architecture in a new and avant-garde way with interiors and details of interiors like pieces of furniture. Exteriors including landscape architecture often including art/sculpture installations.