C:Art MFA Masters Thesis Exhibition
Valand School of Fine Art
University of Gothenburg
29th April – 19th May 2012
Opening Reception
28th April 2012, 2 – 4 pm
C:Art MFA, in conjunction with Vasa Konsthall, is pleased to present wed on’t understand ea chot her., the Master Thesis exhibition of six graduating international C:Art students:
Nantapat Choothanaisawan (Thailand) presents Bark, comprising two sculpture installations adapting found objects and organic materials, accompanied by a suite of abstract drawings. The artist questions intersections of the natural world and the built environment, proposing elegant reconfigurations of hybrid habitats appropriated from her studio and the local Gothenburg parks and woods.
Arnar Steinn Fridbjarnason (Iceland) presents Reconstructing Reality, an installation incorporating light and sound. The artist juxtaposes the mythic spirituality of a contemporary Icelandic farmer with cutting-edge scientific research in which light is generated in a vacuum.
Verena Gillmeier (Germany) hosts Art School, an improvised art academy held on-site at Vasa Konsthall for the three-week duration of the exhibition. Offering project-based classes on subjects ranging from philosophy to Japanese flower arranging, Gillmeier explores contemporary art pedagogy while highlighting the opportunity that art and study offer for social congregation and interaction. A schedule of events is available at Vasa Konsthall and posted online.
(www.art-school.tumblr.com)
Paul Hage Boutros (Lebanon) presents Assembly-1, a large-scale wooden sculpture comprising 10 discrete pieces assembled to construct a complex geometric form. The sculpture is made exclusively of offcuts and leftovers salvaged by the artist from the Valand student wood workshop over one year. The composition of form and material is derived through the poetic interplay of found material and structural balance.
Adrien Siberchicot (France) presents Discontinuous Lines, a project including five works entitled Dotted Lines, Parasols, Discontinuous Horizon, Transatlantique and Fata Morgana; three installations, one photograph, and a continuous video loop. Each work explores notions of landscape in deft and paradoxical constructions that simultaneously objectify and dematerialize contemporary rituals and artifacts of travel and tourism.
Helena Stefansdottír (Iceland) presents a new two-channel film, Pas de trois, shot on location in Reykjavik Harbor. Pas de trois is a love story, offering the tandem perspectives of two lovers through the synchronized movement of camera and gesture, without dialogue and scored with the ambient soundscape en plein air.
The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, designed and produced by C:Art students in consultation with Zürich-based designer Marion Delhees, principal of the design firm lookinglately, LLC. The exhibition catalogue features photo documentation of the works on view by 2011 Hasselblad Fellow David Molander (MFA, School of Photography, University of Gothenburg, 2010) and texts by Jane Philbrick (artist and C:Art Programme Director), with Nils Olsson (editor, C:Art Theory teacher, and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg.)
The exhibition catalogue, wed on’t understand ea chot her., will be available in a book release celebration at Vasa Konsthall May 12, 2012.
Vasa Konsthall
Läraregatan 3
41133 Göteborg
www.vasakonsthall.se
Opening hours:
Tuesday – Thursday: 12 noon – 6 pm
Friday: 12 noon – 5 pm
Saturday – Sunday: 12 noon – 4 pm
