Visual Arts Curatorial.In Exhibition Format

Artist: Kristin Vestgard 

Entitled: Titled Selections; selected works; oil on canvas; variable mediums; variable dimensions; unknown dates. 

Part 2 of 2

Born in Norway, Artist Kristin Vestgard continued her studies with a BA in Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art in 1997. Three years later her studies culminated in a sell-out degree show. Although she continued to live in Cornwall for a further ten years, her paintings are becoming increasingly sought after by galleries in both London & the West Country, it is the indefinably Nordic quality to her work that one instantly senses. Like the silence of snowflakes settling on fir trees or the ephemeral appearance of the aurora borealis her paintings whisper to us of magic & dreams & times spent in playful contemplation. Her figures, for she is essentially a figurative painter, seem somehow to be part of a narrative that is never explained - it is of course for us to interpret as we will, just as she herself does during the painting process giving her protagonists full reign to create their own scenarios while she builds up the image with layers of acrylic then oil, keeping some marks & allowing new spaces to appear into which her figures (always female) can step. It is an entirely intuitive process that draws upon her inner world of people, emotions, thoughts & atmospheres, akin to as she describes it, a diary with no words where dreams, fantasies & a sort of inner adventure play out. 

A return to her native Norway - a place of ice & snow & fairy tales has undoubtedly fed into Kristin's paintings. Her colours are cool her figures fantastical their clothes creations of whimsy & splendor in which she wraps them partly to protect them, partly to hide the secrets & ambiguity of their lives. As a child she had toyed with the idea of being a fashion designer, now the shapes of clothes & the atmosphere which they create feed into her imaginative world. There are no answers & this sense of mystery, the ambiguity is important to Kristin. Just as when trying to decipher a particularly vivid scene from a dream one has understood until the meaning has silently changed. 

Statement from the Artist: 

“It’s an intuitive process. In chaos, I play with figures, altering their spaces, wiping off and keeping marks from previous layers. While creating new spaces over others until I obtain a certain atmosphere and the expression that I want…which is something I find while going along…a history is built into the canvas, and adds weight and poetry to the final image... I paint out of my inner world with all the sights, emotions, thoughts, people, things, atmospheres and the history that runs through me. It all shapes what happens on the canvas…almost like a diary with no words, based in a reality seen through my eyes. It has dreams, fantasies and sort of inner adventures tangled in between the pure reality, playing between the restless and standing still, always in a flux…a playfulness running in and out of the layers of oil paint, with a deep sincere essence holding it together. To me my paintings hold many secrets…and I like it that way. It gives them space to breathe and live their own lives; just like people…they have a sea of secrets too...”   

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Sources: Kristin Vestgard | Ren Fine Art Gallery | Campden Gallery | Affordable Art Fair | Cornwall Contemporary Gallery 

Artist: Kristin Vestgard 

Entitled: Titled Selections; selected works; oil on canvas; variable mediums; variable dimensions; unknown dates. 

Part 1 of 2

Born in Norway, Artist Kristin Vestgard continued her studies with a BA in Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art in 1997. Three years later her studies culminated in a sell-out degree show. Although she continued to live in Cornwall for a further ten years, her paintings are becoming increasingly sought after by galleries in both London & the West Country, it is the indefinably Nordic quality to her work that one instantly senses. Like the silence of snowflakes settling on fir trees or the ephemeral appearance of the aurora borealis her paintings whisper to us of magic & dreams & times spent in playful contemplation. Her figures, for she is essentially a figurative painter, seem somehow to be part of a narrative that is never explained - it is of course for us to interpret as we will, just as she herself does during the painting process giving her protagonists full reign to create their own scenarios while she builds up the image with layers of acrylic then oil, keeping some marks & allowing new spaces to appear into which her figures (always female) can step. It is an entirely intuitive process that draws upon her inner world of people, emotions, thoughts & atmospheres, akin to as she describes it, a diary with no words where dreams, fantasies & a sort of inner adventure play out. 

A return to her native Norway - a place of ice & snow & fairy tales has undoubtedly fed into Kristin's paintings. Her colours are cool her figures fantastical their clothes creations of whimsy & splendor in which she wraps them partly to protect them, partly to hide the secrets & ambiguity of their lives. As a child she had toyed with the idea of being a fashion designer, now the shapes of clothes & the atmosphere which they create feed into her imaginative world. There are no answers & this sense of mystery, the ambiguity is important to Kristin. Just as when trying to decipher a particularly vivid scene from a dream one has understood until the meaning has silently changed. 

Statement from the Artist: 

“It’s an intuitive process. In chaos, I play with figures, altering their spaces, wiping off and keeping marks from previous layers. While creating new spaces over others until I obtain a certain atmosphere and the expression that I want…which is something I find while going along…a history is built into the canvas, and adds weight and poetry to the final image... I paint out of my inner world with all the sights, emotions, thoughts, people, things, atmospheres and the history that runs through me. It all shapes what happens on the canvas…almost like a diary with no words, based in a reality seen through my eyes. It has dreams, fantasies and sort of inner adventures tangled in between the pure reality, playing between the restless and standing still, always in a flux…a playfulness running in and out of the layers of oil paint, with a deep sincere essence holding it together. To me my paintings hold many secrets…and I like it that way. It gives them space to breathe and live their own lives; just like people…they have a sea of secrets too...”   

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Sources: Kristin Vestgard | Ren Fine Art Gallery | Campden Gallery | Affordable Art Fair | Cornwall Contemporary Gallery 

Entitled: La Mue by Muriel Nisse; Dorian Gourg Vimeo Channel; approx. 1:46 mins; no dialogue; English Format; Vimeo; copyright 2013. 

Artist: Muriel Nisse 

Entitled: untitled; selection of works; variable mediums; variable dimensions; 2013. 

French Artist Muriel Nisse makes incredible masks and headdresses using lace, wool and often the models own hair amongst many other materials that can be extremely disturbing or exquisitely beautiful. 

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Sources: ArtNau | Dorian Gourg Vimeo Channel | Thread Fashion and Costume Blog | La Monda Magazine | Ozon Magazine  

Artist: Pavel Tchelitchew 

Entitled: selection of works; painting; variable mediums; variable dimensions; unknown dates. 

Part 2 of 2

Artist Pavel Tchelitchew (b.1898-d.1957) was a Russian-born surrealist painter, and anatomical studies.  Often camouflaging human bodies and faces into geometric lines or landscape forms, the artist used both abstraction and symbolism to convey both the outer and inner appearance of an object. “We are in the midst of the most appalling and impossible not to be seen horrors and madness,” he said of society. “Everyone covers them up with pretty rugs and wallpaper and chintz."  Tchelitchew continuously experimented with new styles, eventually incorporating multiple perspectives and elements of surrealism and fantasy into his paintings. His body of work was an exceptionally and hauntingly beautiful contribution to mid-20th-century art. 

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Artist: Pavel Tchelitchew 

Entitled: selection of works; painting; variable mediums; variable dimensions; unknown dates. 

Part 1 of 2

Artist Pavel Tchelitchew (b.1898-d.1957) was a Russian-born surrealist painter, and anatomical studies.  Often camouflaging human bodies and faces into geometric lines or landscape forms, the artist used both abstraction and symbolism to convey both the outer and inner appearance of an object. “We are in the midst of the most appalling and impossible not to be seen horrors and madness,” he said of society. “Everyone covers them up with pretty rugs and wallpaper and chintz."  Tchelitchew continuously experimented with new styles, eventually incorporating multiple perspectives and elements of surrealism and fantasy into his paintings. His body of work was an exceptionally and hauntingly beautiful contribution to mid-20th-century art. 

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Entitled: Sicioldr-La Notte; approx. 4:29 mins; No Dialogue;  Alessandro Sicioldr YouTube Channel; Alessandro Sicioldr, YouTube, Copyright, 2018.

Artist: Alessandro Sicioldr 

Entitled: Titled pieces; selection of works; oil on canvas; variable mediums; variable dimensions 2015-2017; present. 

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Artist Alessandro Sicioldr is an Italian painter born in 1990 living and working in Tuscania. His subjects are surreal images coming from the unconscious that he represents using a blend of contemporary and traditional techniques. 

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Sources: Alessandro Sicioldr | Artnau 

Entitled: Sicioldr-La Notte; approx. 4:29 mins; No Dialogue;  Alessandro Sicioldr YouTube Channel; Alessandro Sicioldr, YouTube, Copyright, 2018.

Artist: Alessandro Sicioldr 

Entitled: Titled pieces; selection of works; oil on canvas; variable mediums; variable dimensions 2015-2017; present. 

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Artist Alessandro Sicioldr is an Italian painter born in 1990 living and working in Tuscania. His subjects are surreal images coming from the unconscious that he represents using a blend of contemporary and traditional techniques. 

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Sources: Alessandro Sicioldr | Artnau 

Entitled: Sicioldr-La Notte; approx. 4:29 mins; No Dialogue;  Alessandro Sicioldr YouTube Channel; Alessandro Sicioldr, YouTube, Copyright, 2018.

Artist: Alessandro Sicioldr 

Entitled: Titled pieces; selection of works; oil on canvas; variable mediums; variable dimensions 2015-2017; present. 

Part 1 of 3

Artist Alessandro Sicioldr is an Italian painter born in 1990 living and working in Tuscania. His subjects are surreal images coming from the unconscious that he represents using a blend of contemporary and traditional techniques. 

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Sources: Alessandro Sicioldr | Artnau 

Entitled: “Talking with Unskilled Worker,” Gucci Youtube Channel, approx. 3:37 mins., Gucci, YouTube copyright, 2017.

Artist: Unskilled Worker  

Entitled: selected titles; painting; variable mediums' variable dimensions; unknown dates- present.  

Part 3 of 3 

A Statement from the Artist:  

Working under the moniker of Unskilled Worker, the London-based, self-taught artist rose to prominence via her hugely successful Instagram account.  

Sharing her work online, she was discovered by the celebrated photographer Nick Knight, who commissioned her in 2014 to create a series of portraits of Alexander McQueen’s most iconic looks. Knight described the artist’s work as “some of the most intensively beautiful and poetic painting I have come across,” and her drawings were the subject of an acclaimed exhibition launched to coincide with the opening of McQueen’s ‘Savage Beauty’ show at the Victoria and Albert Museum.  

This success attracted a great deal of interest and in 2015, the artist was commissioned by the Italian fashion house Gucci to make a series of portraits that were to be the subject of an exhibition at the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai alongside the work of Jenny Holzer, Glen Luchford, Cao Fei and others.  

In 2016, a specially commissioned portrait by the artist was featured as a limited-edition cover of Bazaar Art alongside six leading contemporary female artists, including Etel Adnan, Rachel Feinstein, Sarah Morris, Cornelia Parker, Celia Paul and Taryn Simon.  

Drawing upon a broad spectrum of influences, the artist’s work is distinctive and instantly recognizable. With the freedom to work without boundaries, her expressive style and energetic use of colour is evocative and unabashedly beautiful.  

Highly atmospheric and infused with a dreamy childlike innocence, her work has attracted extensive critical acclaim and has appeared in many international publications, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Dazed, Harper’s Bazaar, i-D, and Vogue. Vice Magazine wrote of the artist “ her work is imbued with a powerful magic that feels difficult to capture, let alone to control and express.”  

The artist’s works are highly sought after, collected nationally and internationally and have been exhibited at galleries across the world including London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai.  In 2018 her work will be on display at the International Art Fair ‘Art Central Hong Kong.’  

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Source: Unskilled Worker   

Entitled: “Talking with Unskilled Worker,” Gucci Youtube Channel, approx. 3:37 mins., Gucci, YouTube copyright, 2017.

Artist: Unskilled Worker  

Entitled: selected titles; painting; variable mediums' variable dimensions; unknown dates- present.  

Part 2 of 3 

A Statement from the Artist:  

Working under the moniker of Unskilled Worker, the London-based, self-taught artist rose to prominence via her hugely successful Instagram account.  

Sharing her work online, she was discovered by the celebrated photographer Nick Knight, who commissioned her in 2014 to create a series of portraits of Alexander McQueen’s most iconic looks. Knight described the artist’s work as “some of the most intensively beautiful and poetic painting I have come across,” and her drawings were the subject of an acclaimed exhibition launched to coincide with the opening of McQueen’s ‘Savage Beauty’ show at the Victoria and Albert Museum.  

This success attracted a great deal of interest and in 2015, the artist was commissioned by the Italian fashion house Gucci to make a series of portraits that were to be the subject of an exhibition at the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai alongside the work of Jenny Holzer, Glen Luchford, Cao Fei and others.  

In 2016, a specially commissioned portrait by the artist was featured as a limited-edition cover of Bazaar Art alongside six leading contemporary female artists, including Etel Adnan, Rachel Feinstein, Sarah Morris, Cornelia Parker, Celia Paul and Taryn Simon.  

Drawing upon a broad spectrum of influences, the artist’s work is distinctive and instantly recognizable. With the freedom to work without boundaries, her expressive style and energetic use of colour is evocative and unabashedly beautiful.  

Highly atmospheric and infused with a dreamy childlike innocence, her work has attracted extensive critical acclaim and has appeared in many international publications, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Dazed, Harper’s Bazaar, i-D, and Vogue. Vice Magazine wrote of the artist “ her work is imbued with a powerful magic that feels difficult to capture, let alone to control and express.”  

The artist’s works are highly sought after, collected nationally and internationally and have been exhibited at galleries across the world including London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai.  In 2018 her work will be on display at the International Art Fair ‘Art Central Hong Kong.’  

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Source: Unskilled Worker   

Entitled: “Talking with Unskilled Worker,” Gucci Youtube Channel, approx. 3:37 mins., Gucci, YouTube copyright, 2017.

Artist: Unskilled Worker  

Entitled: selected titles; painting; variable mediums' variable dimensions; unknown dates- present.  

Part 1 of 3 

A Statement from the Artist:  

Working under the moniker of Unskilled Worker, the London-based, self-taught artist rose to prominence via her hugely successful Instagram account.  

Sharing her work online, she was discovered by the celebrated photographer Nick Knight, who commissioned her in 2014 to create a series of portraits of Alexander McQueen’s most iconic looks. Knight described the artist’s work as “some of the most intensively beautiful and poetic painting I have come across,” and her drawings were the subject of an acclaimed exhibition launched to coincide with the opening of McQueen’s ‘Savage Beauty’ show at the Victoria and Albert Museum.  

This success attracted a great deal of interest and in 2015, the artist was commissioned by the Italian fashion house Gucci to make a series of portraits that were to be the subject of an exhibition at the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai alongside the work of Jenny Holzer, Glen Luchford, Cao Fei and others.  

In 2016, a specially commissioned portrait by the artist was featured as a limited-edition cover of Bazaar Art alongside six leading contemporary female artists, including Etel Adnan, Rachel Feinstein, Sarah Morris, Cornelia Parker, Celia Paul and Taryn Simon.  

Drawing upon a broad spectrum of influences, the artist’s work is distinctive and instantly recognizable. With the freedom to work without boundaries, her expressive style and energetic use of colour is evocative and unabashedly beautiful.  

Highly atmospheric and infused with a dreamy childlike innocence, her work has attracted extensive critical acclaim and has appeared in many international publications, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Dazed, Harper’s Bazaar, i-D, and Vogue. Vice Magazine wrote of the artist “ her work is imbued with a powerful magic that feels difficult to capture, let alone to control and express.”  

The artist’s works are highly sought after, collected nationally and internationally and have been exhibited at galleries across the world including London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai.  In 2018 her work will be on display at the International Art Fair ‘Art Central Hong Kong.’  

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Source: Unskilled Worker   

Artist: Angela Deane 

Entitled: Ghost Photographs; series selections; photography; variable mediums; variable dimensions; 2012-2017; present?. 

Part 2 of 2

Artist Angela Deane covers people on found photographs with paint, subtracting the specific identity of each person and transforming them into anonymous ghosts for the viewer to project upon.  

A Statement from the Artist: 

"These are the ghosts of our moments.” We are the ever-living ghost of what once was."- Ben Bridwell.     Through this body of work, I engage with found photographs. Already, these objects have a history unknown to me and speak of another’s memory, removed in both time and space. In these photographs, I cover the people with paint, subtracting the specific identity of each person and transforming them into anonymous ghosts for the viewer to project upon. In this way, a private and specific experience becomes an open and shared one through the material addition of paint on the photograph. Through this haunting of the material, the ghosts become us and we become the ghosts. 

We become the ghosts of our every day." 

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Sources: Angela Deane | Ignant | Art Fucks Me 

Artist: Angela Deane 

Entitled: Ghost Photographs; series selections; photography; variable mediums; variable dimensions; 2012-2017; present?. 

Part 1 of 2

Artist Angela Deane covers people on found photographs with paint, subtracting the specific identity of each person and transforming them into anonymous ghosts for the viewer to project upon.  

A Statement from the Artist: 

"These are the ghosts of our moments.” We are the ever-living ghost of what once was."- Ben Bridwell.     Through this body of work, I engage with found photographs. Already, these objects have a history unknown to me and speak of another’s memory, removed in both time and space. In these photographs, I cover the people with paint, subtracting the specific identity of each person and transforming them into anonymous ghosts for the viewer to project upon. In this way, a private and specific experience becomes an open and shared one through the material addition of paint on the photograph. Through this haunting of the material, the ghosts become us and we become the ghosts. 

We become the ghosts of our every day." 

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Sources: Angela Deane | Ignant | Art Fucks Me 

Artist: Laurent Kronental 

Entitled: ‘Souvenir d’un futur‘; photograph; variable mediums; variable dimensions; 2011-2015. 

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“For the ongoing series ‘Souvenir d’un futur‘, the memory of a modernist utpoia,  self-taught  French photographer  Artist Laurent Kronental (b.1987, lives and works in Paris), documents life at the ‘Grands Ensembles’, the large housing projects in Paris, since four years. Built during the housing crisis between the 1950s and the 1980s, the decaying buildings are located in the city’s suburban area. Using an analog camera, Kronenthal captures melancholic images of the senior citizens as well as the concrete buildings.  

In a statement about the project, Kronenthal says: “Marked by the passing of time, these massive, gray buildings, like their elder residents, bear the signs of long lives. And yet, in these wrinkled faces and cracked walls, in the energy of the bodies and of the facades, emerges the pride and pulse that we thought had disappeared.”" 

Krontntal is captivated by the big metropolises, the architectural variety, the inhabitants and the way they tame time and space through their personal stories.   

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Sources: Laurent Kronental | Ignant | National Geographic Magazine | My Modern Met 

Artist: Laurent Kronental 

Entitled: ‘Souvenir d’un futur‘; photograph; variable mediums; variable dimensions; 2011-2015. 

Part 1 of 2

"For the ongoing series ‘Souvenir d’un futur‘, the memory of a modernist utpoia,  self-taught  French photographer Artist Laurent Kronental (b.1987, lives and works in Paris), documents life at the ‘Grands Ensembles’, the large housing projects in Paris, since four years. Built during the housing crisis between the 1950s and the 1980s, the decaying buildings are located in the city’s suburban area. Using an analog camera, Kronenthal captures melancholic images of the senior citizens as well as the concrete buildings.  

In a statement about the project, Kronenthal says: “Marked by the passing of time, these massive, gray buildings, like their elder residents, bear the signs of long lives. And yet, in these wrinkled faces and cracked walls, in the energy of the bodies and of the facades, emerges the pride and pulse that we thought had disappeared.”" 

Krontntal is captivated by the big metropolises, the architectural variety, the inhabitants and the way they tame time and space through their personal stories.   

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Sources: Laurent Kronental | Ignant | National Geographic Magazine | My Modern Met 

Artist: Agnes Denes 

Entitled: “Wheatfield-A Confrontation;” selection of works; photograph; variable mediums; variable dimensions; 1982. 

A statement on the Artist: 

"A primary figure among the concept-based artists who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, Artist Agnes Denes is internationally known for works created in a wide range of mediums. A pioneer of several art movements, she is difficult to categorize. Investigating science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, poetry, history, and music, Denes's artistic practice is distinctive in terms of its aesthetics and engagement with socio-political ideas. As a pioneer of environmental art, she created Rice/Tree/Burial in 1968 in Sullivan County, New York which, according to the renowned art historian and curator Peter Selz, was "probably the first large scale site-specific piece anywhere with ecological concerns."  

Wheatfield – A Confrontation, which the scholar and curator Jeffrey Weiss, has called "perpetually astonishing . . . one of Land Art's great transgressive masterpieces" (Artforum, September 2008) is perhaps Agnes Denes's best-known work. It was created during a four-month period in the spring and summer of 1982 when Denes, with the support of the Public Art Fund, planted a field of golden wheat on two acres of rubble-strewn landfill near Wall Street and the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan (now the site of Battery Park City and the World Financial Center). Among her many other artistic achievements is Tree Mountain–A Living Time Capsule, a monumental earthwork, reclamation project and the first man-made virgin forest, situated in Ylöjärvi, in Western Finland. The site was dedicated by the President of Finland upon its completion in 1996 and is legally protected for the next four hundred years.  

Agnes Denes is also known for her innovative use of metallic inks and other non- traditional materials in creating a prodigious body of exquisitely rendered drawings and prints that delineate her explorations in mathematics, philosophy, geography, science and other disciplines. Works by Agnes Denes are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Centre Pompidou in Paris; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Kunsthalle Nürnberg and many other major institutions worldwide.  

She has completed public and private commissions in North and South America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, and has received numerous honors and awards including four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and four grants from the New York State Council on the Arts; the DAAD Fellowship, Berlin, Germany (1978); the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award (1985); M.I.T's highly prestigious Eugene McDermott Achievement Award "In Recognition of Major Contribution to the Arts" (1990); the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (1998); the Watson Trans-disciplinary Art Award from Carnegie Mellon University (1999); the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2007); and the Ambassador's Award for Cultural Diplomacy for Strengthening the Friendship between the US and the Republic of Hungary through Excellence in Contemporary Art (2008).  

Denes holds honorary doctorates from Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin and Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and has had fellowships at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. She lectures extensively at colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad and participates in global conferences. She is the author of six books and is featured in numerous other publications on a wide range of subjects in art and the environment.  

Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1931, Agnes Denes was raised in Sweden and educated in the United States. Since her exhibition career began in the 1960s, she has participated in more than 450 exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the world-" [Excerpt from Agnes Denes Website]. 

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Entitled: 2047 Apologue-Weaving Machine, Radugadesign Studio Vimeo Channel; approx. 9:22 mins, no subtitles, instrumental only, performance, Radugadesign Copyright, 2017.

Artists: Radugadesign Studio, Zhang Yimou, WHITEvoid, London Theatre of Contemporary Ballet, CPG-Concept  

Entitled: "2047 Apologue: Weaving Machine"; on-site installation; performance, variable mediums; variable dimensions; 2017. 

“In June, the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing hosted the premiere of the show "2047 Apologue" by the Chinese director and visionary–Zhang Yimou. 

The director extends the traditional forms of stage performances, combining Chinese folk art with modern technology. The show consisted of eight performances, which were prepared by 20 international and local teams. The Radugadesign studio in cooperation with WHITEvoid (Germany), the director of the London Theater of Contemporary Ballet Rose Alice and CPG-Concept (Emma Seward) developed a visual accompaniment for the kinetic dance performance "Weaving Machine". This one concluded the show. In each of the performances, the emphasis was focused on the fact that technology and humans are merged together, but nothing is eternal and technology can leave us. 

Most of us now do not represent our existence without virtual communication, wireless networks, complex programs and impulses. So what if we are deprived of all these opportunities?  

"Being human, in olden days we sat down and talked face to face, our face turns red with embarrassment, but we can feel each other’s emotions close up – fears, anger, sadness and happiness. Will we still have these feelings in the future?  In this dialogue between ancient culture and modern technology, we experience puzzles that comes with the rapid progression of technology, and reflect on it – what will be the future relation between human and technology?  

The most difficult task for this show is getting the audience to accept and acknowledge that their lifestyle, the way they communicate and the way that they work might not be the best"-says Zhang Yimou.”

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Sources: Radugadesgin | Radugadesign Vimeo Channel