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Sequences Art Festival
Sequences Real Time Art Festival is an independent biennale, established in Reykjavík, Iceland in 2006. Concept An offspring of the dynamic art scene that thrives in Reykjavík, Sequences is the first art festival in Iceland to focus on visual art alone. The aim of the festival is to produce and present progressive visual art with special focus on time-based mediums, such as performance, sound art, video and public interventions. New artistic directors are hired to reshape each edition of Sequences according to their vision, making it unique and different every time. History Sequences is a not-for-profit art organisation. It was founded by four artist-run venues: The Living Art Museum (also known as Nýló), Kling & Bang Gallery, The Dwarf Gallery and Gallery Bananananas (closed since 2007), as well as the Center for Icelandic Art (CIA.IS, now known as the Icelandic Art Center). Today, the festival is co-run by Kling & Bang Gallery, The Living Art Museum (Nýló), and the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biennale
Biennale (), Italian for "biennial" or "every other year", is any event that happens every two years. It is most commonly used within the art world to describe large-scale international contemporary art exhibitions. As such the term was popularised by Venice Biennale, which was first held in 1895. Since the 1990s, the terms "biennale" and "biennial" have been interchangeably used in a more generic way - to signify a large-scale international survey show of contemporary art that recurs at regular intervals but not necessarily biannual (such as triennials, Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster). The phrase has also been used for other artistic events, such as the "Biennale de Paris", "Kochi-Muziris Biennale", Berlinale (for the Berlin International Film Festival) and Viennale (for Vienna's international film festival). Characteristics According to author Federica Martini, what is at stake in contemporary biennales is the diplomatic/international relations potential as well as ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Festivals In Iceland
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both highly dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they have developed into innovative, stylized and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individual identities, while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life and experiences across time and space. Prominent examples of the arts include: * visual arts (including architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting), * literary arts (includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Biennials
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. Until the 17th century, ''art'' referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative or applied arts. The nature of art and related concepts, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic Art
Icelandic art has been built on Western painting, northern European traditions of the nineteenth century, but developed in distinct directions in the twentieth century, influenced in particular by the unique Geography of Iceland, Icelandic landscape as well as by Icelandic mythology and Culture of Iceland, culture. Contemporary Icelandic painting is typically traced to the work of Þórarinn Þorláksson, who, following formal training in art in the 1890s in Copenhagen, returned to Iceland to paint and exhibit works from 1900 to his death in 1924, almost exclusively portraying the Icelandic landscape. Þorláksson was not the only Icelandic artist learning in Denmark at that time: there were several Icelanders, both men and women, at the Academy in the closing years of the century, and these included Ásgrímur Jónsson, who together with Þorláksson created a distinctive portrayal of their home country's landscape in a romantic naturalistic style. Today, many of Icelandic artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festivals In Reykjavík
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced enter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elísabet Jökulsdóttir
Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir is an Icelandic author and journalist born in Reykjavík on 16 April 1958. She lived in Greece for a year in her youth and had a variety of jobs before writing. Her first book of poems came out in 1989. She has written short stories, novels, and plays since then. She is best known for her poetry, freelance journalism, and theatrical work. Elísabet is the daughter of author and journalist Jóhanna Kristjónsdóttir and playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ... Jökull Jakobsson, and mother to three sons. She was a candidate for the Icelandic presidential election in 2016. References External linksEdda.is [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Þráinn Hjálmarsson
Þráinn Hjálmarsson (Thrainn Hjalmarsson, born 1987) is an Icelandic composer. Þráinn earned a bachelor's degree from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2009 and a master's degree in composition from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in 2011. He is a member of the Icelandic composers' collective S.L.Á.T.U.R (Society of artistically obtrusive composers around Reykjavík). The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov performed his ''As Heard Across a Room'' as part of a concert of new Icelandic works in 2014; critics described it as "finespun" and "paradox music: like trying to make out the structure of a void". His ''Lucid/Opaque'' (for string trio) was premiered by Nordic Affect at the annual Dark Music Days festival in 2016; a critic described it as "contain ngbeautiful meditative stillness". ''Influence of buildings on musical tone'' for a chamber ensemble represented Iceland at the International Rostrum of Composers The International Rostrum of Composers (IR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingólfur Arnarsson
Ingólfur Arnarsson is an Icelandic artist born in 1956. Arnarsson's drawings are characterized by delicate lines, precision and time. He has also painted on concrete. His work can be found in the following collections: * National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland * Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland * Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland * Hafnarborg, The Hafnarfjordur Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland * Art Museum of Isafjordur, Iceland * Museum Moderner Kunst, Landkreis Cuxhaven, Germany * Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany * Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA * Kunstmuseum Bonn The Kunstmuseum Bonn or Bonn Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Bonn, Germany, founded in 1947. The Kunstmuseum exhibits both temporary exhibitions and its collection. Its collection is focused on Rhenish Expressionism and post-war German ..., Germany * Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Michigan, USA * Safn, Reykjavík, Iceland Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Jonas
Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Faculty: Joan Jonas ACT at MIT - MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology. Jonas' projects and experiments were influential in the creation of video performance art as a medium. Her influences also extended to , , performance art and other visual media. She lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia, Canada. Early life and education Jonas was born in 1936 in |
Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019) was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. in poetry and philosophy from Bard College and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois. Originally a painter in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, Schneeman was uninterested in the masculine heroism of New York painters of the time and turned to performance-based work, primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the individual in relation to social bodies. Although renowned for her work in performance and other media, Schneemann began her career as a painter, stating, "I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas." Her works have been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Roth
Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist best known for his artist's books, editioned prints, sculptures, and works made of found materials, including rotting food stuffs. He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot. Biography Early life He was born Karl-Dietrich Roth in Hannover, the first of three sons. His mother Vera was German; his father Karl-Ulrich was a Swiss businessman. After the beginning of World War II, Roth was to spend each summer in Switzerland at the behest of the Swiss charity Pro Juventute, a group trying to protect Swiss-German children from the worst ravages of the war. By 1943 the exile had become permanent, and Roth was sent to live with a family in Zürich. This house, the home of the family of Fritz Wyss, was shared with Jewish and communist artists and actors. It was here that Roth would be encouraged to start painting and to write poetry. He wasn't to be re-united with his family, which was by now utterly destitute, until 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
