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FOCUS:DANISHCULTURE

CONTENTS

Notice Board How does the study of Art relate to the Economic Issues.

Building an Empire. Canadas Olympic Shame

Dialogue Focus on Denmark 18+19Events: Spring& Summer

6 6 How does the study 6 How does the study of Art relate to the6 of Art relate to the

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“Packa pappas kappsack” Stockholm, Sweden. Michael Johansson “Botanic” Stockholm, Sweden. Bolon

“Installation at an archaeological site “Houten, Holland, JSA (Jeroen schipper Archi-tecten) Installation represents what’s hid-den beneath the ground. Like a billboard the site advertises its identity by means of a pixel display: ‘working on history here, as time fl ies by, irreversibly’.

“Hasta las narices” / “Up to the nose”- In English Mexico, Ivan Puig. Volkswagen sedan drowned in a sleek white-glazed fl oor.

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The Unilever Series ‘How it is’Tate Modern, London/UK. Polish artist Miroslaw Balka giant grey steel structure with a vast dark chamber, almost as if the interior space of the Turbine Hall has been turned inside out. Hovering somewhere between sculpture and architecture. Visitors can walk underneath it, listening to the echoing sounds, or enter via ramp into a pitch black interior.

Rockefeller Center “What dad gave me”New York, United States. Chris Burden’s 65 foot toy skyscraper weighing 16000 pounds. Made of hundreds of thousands of such pieces, painstak-ingly screwed together into a sturdy, almost crystalline creation. Burden inspired by Manhattan buildings has created a toy building approaching the size of some real buildings in Manhattan.

“Retrospective”New York, United States. Gabriel Orozco a nineteen-sixties Citroën DS, an icon of French industrial chic, trisected lengthwise and reassembled with the middle third left out, arty design reduced to art, purely and simply.

“Clouds” Brisbane, Austrlia. Wit Pimkanchanapong

“Waterfalls” New York, United States. Olafur Eliasson. 3 waterfalls Ranging in height from 90-120 ft. along the East River. They work by an system that pumps water up from the river, then lets it tumble down a tower of scaffolding.

“Untitled” Brooklyn, New York, United States Michael DeLucia

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“Playing the Building”New York, United States. David Byrne sound installation in which the infrastructure of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument.

“from shangri-la to shangri-la”Vancouver, Canada Ken Lum’s work calls into question the relationship between modernism and everyday lived experience, often blurring the boundary between high art and popular aesthetics.

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€Thinking about a world without art would seem inconceivable because art permeates our personal lives, and is a primary transmitter of our multicultural heritage. The contributions that art can make to our intellectual development and to understanding the past and other cultures, while offering an alternative to a banal and perva-sive pop culture, forms the bases for asserting that studying the fine arts should be a part of everyone’s education. While these reasons are indeed substantial, the “super prac-tical” among us may still contend that art is not essential since it has little to do with the economy and the workaday world. Art is viewed as something we reward ourselves with only after more fundamental needs have been met. Art is seen as the frosting on the cake, not basic “bread and butter stuff” like science and mathematics.

The practical rationale for studying art is no different than for studying math and science. We must educate the mathematicians and scientists of the future because our lives and the economy are dependent upon having talented workers in these ar-eas. A population that is sufficiently quantitatively and scientifically literate to function as supporters and consumers of their efforts is also required. In addition, math and science are essential in the educa-tion of workers in many other areas such as medical fields, engineering, and marketing.If we substitute the term “visual arts” for science and math, it can be demonstrated that the study of art is also essential in our “practi-cal” and highly materialistic society. Consider the number of individuals who earn their living as artists or in art related fields. Careers and Occupations associated With the

Visual arts, lists several hundred occupations that require knowledge and skills in the visual arts. Can we function as a society in the 21st cen-tury without workers in these fields? Their basic education must occur at all levels of schooling, just as such education is provided for future scientists and mathematicians.An audience for what these artists and designers produce must also be educated. Without a population that has achieved a reasonable level of art literacy, many shoddy and marginal products will be manu-factured, marketed and purchased. What will this do to our economy, to the balance between imports and exports? If we do not have an aesthetically literate society and workers in the arts that are skilled and innovative, how can we compete with nations that include art as an essential component of everyone’s schooling and life?

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FUR HAS BEEN SEEN IN THE STREETS AS WELL AS ON THE RUNWAY THIS PAST YEAR. BUT WHERE HAS ALL THE PRO-TESTS GONE?

People for Ethical Treatment of Animals is a non-profi t organisation working for animals rights with loobying and actions all over the world. In 2006 the succesfully persuaded the famous de-signer Ralph Lauren to take out all fur in the col-lections. Today thats just a memory. Fur is used by most leading brands 2009.

So where has all the high-voiced actions from the 80s gone? No more throwing red paint at fashion shows?

But before Ralph Lauren announced his deci-sion, his company had already made 1200 fur garments. These now are donated to relief agen-cies, who have received strict orders that the gar-ments are not for sale but they will be distributed

FUR FÜR ALLES

to needy women. So the next winter there will be an occasional baglady who wrap themselves in fur last cut, designed by Ralph Lauren.

- It’s really hot in fashion right now, and remi-niscent of late 60s and early 70s. It is often the long-haired style, fox and wolf-like, as Björn and Benny appeared in ABBA, “says Fashion Council chief executive Lotta Ahlvar to Artifakt autumn 2009.

On the world market, prices for mink pelts have risen by around 30 percent last year. The demand for fur is strongest in the countries of China and Russia, which has led many defunct fur farms in the United States to resume its activities.

Maybe the actions are moving in other circles now. Lobbying at champagne breakfast and ater-noon lunchs. For the end consumer.

That a person with synesthesia is able to make out colours and shapes out of music is a given, but what happens when a person that doesn’t experience this phenomenon tries to see mu-sic? In art this question has been handled fre-quently, especially since the dawn of the mod-ern art, and in particular the abstract art of the twentieth century. In the childhood of abstract art with famous names like Kandinsky and lesser known names like Ciurlionis, music and painting was considered brethren and artists eagerly launched themselves at the task at in-vestigating a visual quality of music. Working in close proximity to these artists were often also musicians and composers.

Many of the painters, both when explicitly ex-ploring the subject of music and when dealing with other subjects, named their artwork in the same tradition as composers did. This started as early as in the middle of the nineteenth century with Whistler and his nocturnes, har-monies and arrangements. Kandinsky made a series of paintings he named compositions. As revealed by the titles of their work, these art-ists saw the similarities between composing a musical piece and composing a painting.

There is a visual world and there is an audible world and never are the two combined. Or? In the case of synesthesia the two actually are. Synesthesia is when a stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to an automatic, involuntary experience in a second. When you are experiencing this phenomenon you see sounds as colours. But this is not really the subject of this article/column. Here I’ll instead discuss the dialogue between two senses, hearing and seeing. Not in the wide general sense but in the world of art.

This spring there is a celebration of colour in the hallowed halls of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. An exhibi-tion called The Colour in Art spans 130 years and over 70 artists. show-casing color as a medium. The ex-hibition is based on a swiss couple’s collection of master art. Unknown until ten years ago, it was unknown, but hailed by The New York Times as “one of the world’s finest private holdings of modern art.” With a stunning location on Zealands east coast 20 miles north of Copenhgen, and it’s beautiful scenery overlooking Øresund and neighbouring Sweden, Louisiana would be a destination worth visit-ing even without this excellent exhi-bition. The exhibition runs from the 5 of february to the 13 of june.

The danish rock scene is expanding beyond the native soil, here comes the danes. And it’s not just Aqua anymore. These days there is actually coming good music out of Denmark. The likes of Kashmir, Mew and The Raveonettes are among the bands making an impact. Even though they are not yet as successful as their neigbour the’re slowly getting there. The future for their music looks bright and don’t be surprised if the next big hit to be danish!

Danish design is more than just the old heros. There’s an up and coming batch of interesting young designers in the state of Denmark. Surely a force to be reckoned with in the decades to come.

Among the rising stars of the danish design scene is the collective known as Republikken. A collective with a new and mod-erna attitude towards design. The process of developing new direc-tions in design becomes more and more intricate and diverse than ever before, creative forces with different backgrounds work hard together in the pursuit of the creation of a brave new danish designed world. For instance there are among the 70 or so people working at Republikken, workers with many different back-grounds, among them there are for example;anthropologists, market-ing people and industrial designers.

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WHEN ARE WE GOINGING TO DROP THE TERM DANISH DESIGN?Mikael: Never! Why let go of a successful concept?Malene: I always refer to Scandinavian Design.Sebastian & Sophie: -What? Danish design, whats that?

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