Sunday, March 4, 2012

A National Gallery, a Dutchman called Rembrandt and HIGHLIGHTS - in Spanish

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Una Galería Nacional, un holandés llamado Rembrandt y MOMENTOS CULMINANTES

por Asbjorn Lonvig

Hace unos años yo me apresuré a salir fuera de un cuarto en la Galería de Uffizi, Florencia, Italia. 
para decirle gesticulando a mi familia, -¡hay tres Rembrandts, colgando lado a lado dentro de ese cuarto!! 
Vengan, vengan.. 
¿"Quién es Rembradt? ", dijo uno. 
Yo creo que lo decía en broma por mi entusiasmo. 

Existe una exhibición en la Galería Nacional en Dinamarca - en danés se llama el Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) -
titulada  "Rembrandt? El Amo y su Taller." 
Tiene lugar desde el 4 febrero hasta el 14 de mayo del 2006.

¡En esta exhibición hay 100 Rembrandts! 
Cuando yo entré en el cuarto oscuro con un reflector iluminando cada Rembradt,  mi entusiasmo se transformó en agradecimiento y humildad. 
Agradecimiento y humildad debido al hecho que yo fui bendecido para experimentar esto. 
Las contribuciones y préstamos del Nationalmuseum en Estocolmo, el Mauritshuis en la Haya, El Museo Metropolitano de Art en Nueva York, la Galería Nacional de Arte en Washington, la Galería Nacional en Londres, el Rijksmuseum en Amsterdam y más han hecho posible este evento único.
Una experiencia de una vida. 
La presencia desnuda de 100 Rembrandts en ése museo estaba lejos del único momento culminante. 


La Galería Nacional en Copenhague encontró dos pinturas de Rembrandt genuinas en sus archivos. 
Dos pinturas que han vivido una vida de oscuridad en la coleccione de la Galería Nacional después de haber
sido rechazadas como genuinas.

Después de que tres años de estudios en co-funcionamiento íntimo con los expertos internacionales,
las dos pinturas fueron atribuídas a Rembrandt
A continuación las dos pinturas atribuídas a Rembrandt.


Estudio de un "Hombre Viejo en perfil", c. 1630 
aproximadamente 20 x 25 centímetro - de  8" x 10"
de Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-69)

El pequeño estudio de "el perfil de un Hombre Viejo", es un hallazgo realizado por Karl Madsen en Fredensborg Castle, donde él descubrió la pintura en un almacenamiento en 1899. Sin embargo, los estudiosos de Rembrandt dudaron esto la atribución de como lejano atrás como 1933 adelante. Sus dudas eran principalmente causadas por el estilo tosco de pintura. Los estudiosos del tiempo lo encontraron difícil de reconciliarse esta grosería con eso que ellos el pensamiento de como el típicamente el estilo muy meticuloso y cuidadosamente terminado de los trabajos tempranos de Rembrandt.
La reciente historia de arte, sin embargo, ha señalado ese incluso durante la fase más temprana de su carrera - el años gastaron pintando en su pueblo nativo de Leiden - Rembrandt experimentó con más ancho y más las pinceladas variadas. Como otros trabajos por el Rembrandt joven, esta pintura pequeña parece ser un practique el pedazo. El oso de estudios de radiografía fuera esta teoría mostrándonos que la cabeza del hombre viejo era pintado encima de otra cabeza que aparece en algunas de las pinturas de Rembrandt de esos años. Al mismo tiempo, estudios del muestra del tablero de madera que la madera puede remontarse atrasado a Rembrandt por lo que se refiere a geografía y tiempo.

"El Cruzado", c.1659-61,
aproximadamente 60 x 80 centímetro - ése es 23 x 31"
engrase en la lona
El carro de mudanzas de Rembrandt Rijn (1606-69)
 
En 1911 el conocedor de Rembrandt y entonces director de La Galería Nacional, Karl Madsen, encontró "El Cruzado" en una esquina remota de Castillo de Fredensborg dónde se había puesto temporalmente en almacenamiento. A pesar del entusiasmo evidente de Karl Madsen por la pintura, su estado pronto se puso en cuestión, y en 1969 se rechazó como un Rembrandt. Los más recientes estudios nos dicen ahora que es un boceto para El Caballero con el Halcón (Göteborgs Konstmuseum). los Rayos X apoyan esto y han demostrando que las capas subyacentes de pintura se construyen de una manera típica de Rembrandt. La pieza que pinta el holandés presumiblemente sea Dutch Saint Bavo, la pintura tiene la la oscilación convincente entre precisa y espontánea, tan típica de Rembrandt. A  el mismo tiempo ejemplifica la manera del pastose de pintar característica del trabajo tarde del artista. Hay, sin embargo, algunas señales para sugerir que parte de la pintura se hizo por uno de los estudiantes de Rembrandt, una práctica común a el taller del amo. 
Los estudios tuvieron lugar en el co-funcionamiento con un tablero internacional de expertos que comprenden la cabeza del Rembrandt Investigación Proyecto, el dr del profesor. Ernst el carro de mudanzas de Wetering, técnico de la investigación con el Rembrandt Investigación Proyecto Karin Groen, el mayor conservador David Bomford de la Galería Nacional en Londres, y cabeza de conservación a la Galería Nacional Jørgen Wadum.
Basado en el último conocimiento sobre Rembrandt y los artistas en el círculo alrededor de él - y estudios técnicos como las radiografías, infrarrojo el reflectography, dendrochronology (la ciencia de fechar madera), los estudios de la lona enhebran la cuenta, conecte con tierra, capas de pintura, etc. - el La Galería nacional ha obtenido mucho más conocimiento sobre los trabajos en cuestión. Por ejemplo, los dos trabajos del reattributed han sido puesto a cualquier fin de la vida de Rembrandt el trabajo. Los estudios se documentan en un libro comprensivo publicado en relación con el la exhibición.

Una Galería Nacional con Rembrandts usted esperaría parecerse probablemente: 
El museo que construye las fechas atrás a 1896 y se diseñó en ornamental el historicism por el arquitecto Wilhelm Dahlerup.
Este edificio refleja la alegría exuberante - así típico del período - alojado mezclando varios estilos históricos.
Esto es el más claramente evidente de la fachada ricamente decorada y la entrada imponente,
qué constituye una transición solemne del mundo externo en las colecciones del museo.

¿Y el interior?
Usted podría esperarlo para parecerse.
¿No lo habría? 


La Galería Nacional - el Museo de Statens para Kunst.
El Nuevo Edificio.
Usted no esperaría la arquitectura para parecerse:



En el cuarto de la fase grande había un proyector y una pantalla. 
Los ambientes maravillosos para una conferencia interactiva. 

La Galería Nacional tiene dos caras.
La nueva fachada.
Y la fachada vieja.
Uno que pinta el cuidado para el contemporáneo y las tendencias modernas.
Y otro que pinta el cuidado para el pasado.
 
El primer momento culminante era 100 Rembrandts en un lugar,
el segundo momento culminante fue las dos pinturas de Rembrandt genuinas
y el tercer momento culminante es una exhibición llamada... los MOMENTOS CULMINANTES.


Los MOMENTOS CULMINANTES - una exhibición.
Se presentan los trabajos más excelentes en las colecciones de la Galería Nacional de una nueva, desafiante manera.
En relación con un ignifugar extenso del construir viejo una selección abundante de 700 años de arte - yendo del artista contemporáneo
Baselitz vía Jorn, Picasso, Braque, Matisse a Eckersberg, El Greco, Cranach, Mantegna, Lorenzetti - y muchos otros.
Yo no debo olvidarme de Rubens.
La presentación está de algunas maneras como el suelo-a-techo compacto que cuelga del pasado, como experimentado por los primeros invitados al Nacional.
La galería cuando abrió en 1896



Los trabajos se cuelgan del suelo al techo y colocaron cronológicamente.
Sin embargo, los ambientes se cambian, y las pinturas viejas se presentan bastante diferentemente en el blanco,
los cuartos espaciosos del nuevo edificio, así como la yuxtaposición de los trabajos muestra las nuevas analogías.

2004 - 1905 Art contemporáneo y Moderno
Yo he seleccionado algunos de los trabajos de arte de los MOMENTOS CULMINANTES. Ellos se muestran en el orden cronológico inverso:

 


Georg Baselitz (f. 1938), Crema, 2004, engrasan en la lona
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), Mujer Desnuda que queda por la Ventana, 1971, lápiz, red y tiza azul
Asger Jorn (1914 - 1973), Colorete de Visión (las Visiones Rojas), 1944, engrase en la lona
Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920), Alice, 1918, engrasa en la lona
Georges Braque (1882 - 1963), Arbres (Los Árboles al l'Estaque), 1908, engrase en la lona
André Derain (1880 - 1954), La danseuse ou la femme en camisa (la mujer en la camisa), 1906, engrase en la lona
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), Retrato de Señora Matisse. La Green Line, 1905, engrasa en la lona

1820 - 1337 Art más viejo.
Mostrado en el orden cronológico inverso:




C.W. Eckersberg (1783 - 1853), Bella y Hanna. Las Mayores Hijas de M.L. Nathanson, 1820, engrasan en la lona
El Greco (1541 - 1614), el Retrato de un Hombre, 1570-1575, engrasa en la lona
Nicolás Poussin (1594 - 1665), El Testamento de Eudamidas, 1644-1648, engrasa en la lona
El Ene Gossaert (1478 - 1532), el Retrato de un Hombre, 1493-1532, engrasa en madera
Lucas Cranach d. Æ. (1472 - 1553), Venus con Cupido que roba la miel, 1530, engrase en madera
Parmigianino (1503 - 1540), el Retrato de Lorenza Cybo, 1523, engrasa en madera
Andrea Mantegna (1430 - 1506), Cristo como el Redentor sufrido, 1495-1500, la pintura al temple en el tablero,
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1317 - 1348), St. San Juan Bautista, 1337-42, la pintura al temple en el tablero,

Después del MOMENTO CULMINANTE.
El colgamiento es efectivamente desafiante. Los trabajos de arte no tienen el espacio que ellos normalmente tienen.
La yuxtaposición de los trabajos está desafiando.
Las pinturas viejas lado a lado con nuevo.
Los estilos son mixtos.
Las pinturas viejas en el nuevo edificio.
Las nuevas analogías seguras son expuestas.

Pero yo tengo como un espectador una única oportunidad de explorar.
Yo no había prestado la atención a Gijsbrects antes.
El Cornelius Nobertus Gijsbrects flamenco.
Él estaba un pintor en la Corte Real dinamarquesa durante algunos años.
Él pintó tipo de fotografía realista.
Él tenía un cerebro torcido maravilloso, él pintó la espalda de una pintura ideada.
Una pintura de 1675 contemporáneo cosido a mí.
Yo conozco a un tipo contemporáneo que pinta de exactamente la misma manera.
Yo admiro el arte.

Tiempo pasado que yo tenía este sentimiento que un artista difunto vive ahora mismo estaba en Chicago.
En el Parque del Roble yo vi algunas de las casas de Frank Lloyd Wright.
Uno de 1909 cosidos construido ayer.

Dos más exhibiciones:
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen: EgoShow, el x-cuarto 18 febrero - 14 el 2006 de mayo y la Escultura 1850-2000 dinamarquesa en La Calle de la Escultura entre el viejo y el nuevo edifici No es justo a Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen o esculturas de danés decir algo sobre estas exhibiciones.
Yo los vi.
Pero mis herramientas de percepción habían estado cerradas abajo la deuda al agotamiento mental.


Los pensamientos.
Haciendo algo desafiando en el mundo de arte que forma una síntesis sin derivar el enfoque del arte - ésa es una rama de arte él. 
Con las exhibiciones
"Rembrandt? El Amo y su Taller" y
SMK HIGHLIGHTS
la Galería Nocional ha tenido éxito en esta rama de arte.

Una vez yo vi algo desafiando en el mundo de arte que formó una síntesis sin derivar el enfoque del arte.
Regresaba en 1993.
Koldinghus Castle la Ruina en Kolding, Dinamarca se restaura el más delicadamente y renovó por los arquitectos
Inger y Johannes Exner 1972 - 92.

La combinación de esta atmósfera histórica extraordinaria, la arquitectura contemporánea y las esculturas de Miró formaron una síntesis.
¿La presencia del nombre Allis Helleland en ambos casos, a la Galería Nacional y a la Koldinghus Castillo Ruina podría ser coincidente?
No es.

Las fotografías:
Por SMK Foto


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Una Galería Nacional, un holandés llamado Rembrandt y MOMENTOS CULMINANTES por Asbjorn Lonvig
Una Galería Nacional, un holandés llamado Rembrandt y MOMENTOS CULMINANTES por Asbjorn Lonvig
Una Galería Nacional, un holandés llamado Rembrandt y MOMENTOS CULMINANTES por Asbjorn Lonvig
Una Galería Nacional, un holandés llamado Rembrandt y MOMENTOS CULMINANTES por Asbjorn Lonvig
Una Galería Nacional, un holandés llamado Rembrandt y MOMENTOS CULMINANTES por Asbjorn Lonvig
Una Galería Nacional, un holandés llamado Rembrandt y MOMENTOS CULMINANTES por Asbjorn Lonvig
Una Galería Nacional, un holandés llamado Rembrandt y MOMENTOS CULMINANTES por Asbjorn Lonvig
Una Galería Nacional, un holandés llamado Rembrandt y MOMENTOS CULMINANTES por Asbjorn Lonvig


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Huge sculptures in spectacular places - How?
by Asbjorn Lonvig

A member of a council of commerce asked me to design a motif for plastic bags.
The intention was do promote the city.
To visualize the city.
At the same time a major motor way was under construction.
A motor way that passed by this city.
I told the member of the council of commerce that it might be a better idea to erect a huge metal sculpture close to the new motor way.
Sure it would be a much more expensive solution than the plastic bags.

I would never suggest this to the council of commerce.
But.
You yourself can have 15 minutes to tell the council about the idea at the next council meeting, the council of commerce member said.

I told the council about my idea.

I had done a photo of the spectacular place where the sculpture  was supposed to be erected.
I had made a tiny draft.

I showed a large computer image with the sculpture already erected.
I showed the tiny draft.
The sculpture was 75 feet high.
The diameter of the sculpture tubes were 21".
I told the council that 40,000 people passed by this spectacular place every day.
I told about my inspiration - and what the sculpture might symbolize.
And so on.
And so on.
I talked and talked for 15 minutes.
After 15 minutes the chairman of the council said,
We must erect this sculpture.
What's the price?
Usually potential customers do not mention these two sentences i the above order.
Usually the first sentence after a presentation of an idea is "what's the price".

Well, OK.
Peace of cake.

I started my forklift.
I found some tubes in my backyard.

I went to my studio
and welded the sculpture.

I brought the sculpture
to the spectacular place
on my lorry.

I got a brush and two bottles
of paint.
One with red paint
and one with blue.
And.
Here you are!!!
"2H"

But.
It is not that easy.
Don't believe this.
The council of commerce story is true.
But it is far more complicated and demanding to build a huge metal sculpture.

Presentation
Huge metal sculptures are expensive.
Therefore it is of the greatest importance that you can present the sculpture in an image
exactly as it will be seen in reality.
At the exact spot seen from the exact angle.
You must photograph the spectacular place.
You must do a draft of the sculpture and put it into that photo.
Here a computer is indispensable.
This is the key activity in the whole project.
If this part is not done in a proper way there is no project.

Permissions
First of all you must have permissions from a lot of authorities.
The Road Directorate
The County Council.
Nature Conservancy
Municipality Council
The Police
Etc.
This is of course dependent on in which country you want to built a huge metal sculpture.
In Chicago I once suggested a huge metal sculpture in Lake Michigan and we had to add
Civil Aviation authorities and the Military.

Calculations
It is important to consider building of a huge metal sculpture as an ordinary building project.
It is important to do the ordinary engineer calculations concerning the construction.
Of course the construction must be able to resist any storm and any hurricane.
Of course the construction must be able to resist any fall of rain, snow etc.
Of course the construction must be able to endure temperature fluctuations.
The construction must resist any force of wind.
Sounds obvious.
What is not obvious is that a wind force 1 might be dangerous to the construction - but a wind force 10 would not.
That's because high constructions might rotate at low wind forces.
This rotation can harm and destroy seemingly strong constructions.
Therefore the most important engineer calculation is concerning rotation.
It might be necessary to place some kind of stabilizer equipment in the top of the sculpture.
In the top of the "2H" sculpture there are oil bath stabilizers in both sculptures.

Construction
Don't be the entrepreneur yourself.
Sign a contract with one, one company to coordinate and to be responsible for all that has to be done.
Such as calculations, welding, painting, piling, concreting of base, erecting etc.

Painting
Don't paint yourself.
A construction like this is painted by an industrial painter, who can handle large subjects and lives up to
high quality standards.  Then you can decide how often you want to dismount the sculpture for repaint.
20 years?


Projects right now

This draft is made for a tiny city called Yding.
42 feet high and a diameter of 21".
The sculpture has been shown exactly as it
will be seen in reality.
Presentation ended in a decision to proceed.
One company to coordinate and to be responsible
for all that has to be done  has been pointed out...

Suggestions

First I went for a walk in Forum Romanum.
Then I did the painting Septimus Severus.
Inspired by the Arch of Septimus Severus
erected  A.D. 203 in Forum Romanum.

It was granted the World of Art Award 2006.

Then I did this draft.
A draft of relatively thin red
and blue tubes forming
a huge sculpture.

On a trip back from Napoli to Rome I did this photo through the front screen of the bus  driving on the motor way at the entrance to Rome. Sorry for the toned windows in the bus.
The draft and this photo participated in the competition JUXTAPOSITION 2006 at Artrom Gallery in Rome this February. The sculpture is called "Entrance to Rome" and is supposed to be erected as a south and a north portal of E45, which is the number of the main motor way in Europe - connecting my home in Denmark in Northern Europe with Colosseum in Rome, Italy - and more of course.
David Genovesi Artrom Gallery, Rome:
"Your E45 Entrance to Rome proposal is great.
We know some people in high places, and we know some people who know people in high places.  We even know some people who know people who know people in high places.  We showed the image to a few and asked them for some direction as to who to send the proposal to.
We are awaiting their reply. So much money is given away for stupid reasons. I think yours has merit."

Other suggestions



Above are:
Sailing T in Lake Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Keep up the steam, Fredericia Railroad Station, Fredericia, Denmark
Sky of Navona, Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy
A Figment of the Imagination, Horsens Inlet, Horsens, Denmark

"T" stands of course for Toronto,
depending on the direction of the wind the sculpture has an indefinite number of "looks".
Keep up the steam is an oversized train or ferry chimney with the Danish Railroads (DSB) logo on it. This sculpture participated in the Artrom Gallery competition JUXTAPOSITION 2006, too. It was shown at The Artrom Gallery JUXTAPOSITION 2006 Winners' Exposition.
Sky of Navona is 4 huge tubes forming a roof over Piazza Navona.
I told the story about Tange Brook from the fairy tale "Farmer Jack". A bottle message dropped from the bridge over Tange Brook, which is a few yards from my house, would end up in New York, in Sidney or on The Galapagos Islands. My sister in law said something like A figment of the Imagination. The sculpture is a few yards from her house.

Highlights
Show the sculpture exactly as it will be seen in reality.
Calculations must be made by an engineer who knows about wind rotations.
Sign a contract with one, one company to coordinate and to be responsible for all that has to be done.
Make sure an industrial painter is hired.
Make the sculpture dismountable.
Have fun.

Photos by:
Martin Ravn, chief photographer at Danish newspaper Horsens Folkeblad, Horsens
Photographer Stephen Downes, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Asbjorn Lonvig


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Building huge metal sculptures in spectacular places - How? - Art News Artblog by Asbjorn Lonvig
Building huge metal sculptures in spectacular places - How? - Art News Artblog by Asbjorn Lonvig
Building huge metal sculptures in spectacular places - How? - Art News Artblog by Asbjorn Lonvig
Building huge metal sculptures in spectacular places - How? - Art News Artblog by Asbjorn Lonvig
Building huge metal sculptures in spectacular places - How? - Art News Artblog by Asbjorn Lonvig


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Yesterday I visited Aros.

Who is Aros?
What is Aros?
An operating system to an Amiga computer?
The best of Scottish Music, Books, Culture and Heritage?
A golf club in V?ster?s in Sweden?
An Amsterdam based sextet playing rhythmically compelling blend of jazz, classical and new music ideas?
A Danish insurance company?
Or?
Yes, all of the above.
But.
Aros is also the ancient name of the capital of a peninsula called Jutland, which is a province of Denmark.
Today the city is called Aarhus.
And Aros is an art museum.
I live near by.
According to the chairman of the board, Neil Kzokoss, Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design, who visited me once, my house is located "in the middle of nowhere".

Well, your expectations to an art museum in the middle of nowhere in a province of Denmark might not be high.
Stay tuned.

Outside

And when you look at this art museum from outside it is nothing but a huge cube.
A huge box.
A huge brick.
Ok, there are a few architectural goodies when you look closer.
A ramp from the street to the lounge.
A lift in a tube.
Huge windows.
And according to well informed sources there is some very expensive
but unfortunately invisible masonry.
But.

Inside

At the moment you enter the lounge, your breath is taken away.
Where am I?
I'm totally confused.
Suddenly I am indeed not in the middle of nowhere.
I'm in New York.
And the architect is renowned Frank Lloyd Wright.
I'm at 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street in New York.
1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street in New York is of course
the address of Guggenheim Museum.
Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece on Fifth Avenue was built in 1959.
Amazing how Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture is contemporary.
In Chicago I saw several of his houses that looked as if they were built yesterday.
One was from 1909.
Frank Lloyd Wright had a rare gift, sure.
Divinity?
If you did not know that Frank Lloyd Wright had passed away
and if you did not know that the architects of Aros were Morten Schmidt, Bjarne Hammer og John Lassen
you surely had any reason to assume that Aros was a Frank Lloyd Wright creation.

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In my memory, Guggenheim Museum New York is white.
And the sky above is blue, blue, blue.
That's how I remember it from my visits there.
But I saw a picture of the museum recently.
It was sadly yellowish and the sky
above was smoggy.

To the left: "blue sky" by Asbjorn Lonvig
Acrylic on canvas
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US$ 12,000

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Who is Bill...?

Bill is not the most successful police drama on British television.
Bill is not he who is known from Microsoft with the sirname Gates.
Bill is not Bill of Rights. Amendment I.
Bill is not the former president of the United States.

Bill is Bill Viola.
Bill is a video artist.
Bill was born in New York.
He studied at the College of Visual and Performing Arts of Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, graduating with a B.F.A.
After that he worked with various projects.
For example he worked with an avant-garde music group.
The National Endowment for the Arts awarded Bill a Visual Artist Fellowship for his work in video. He received a Video Artist Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation presented Bill with a video stipend........And his biography goes on like this.........of course he has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Guggenheim Museum in New York, Berlin and Bilbao have shown his works.

This world artist exhibits at Aros.
The exhibition is called Bill Viola's Visions and it takes place right now at
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in collaboration with Guggenheim Bilbao,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York and Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.
On beforehand I read this in the catalog (....which actually is a book):

The five pieces comprising Bill Violas Visions strike
up certain fundamental themes that characterize
Viola's art, such as his fascination with birth, life,
death an rebirth. Inspired particularly by Buddhism's
concept of reincarnation, Viola treats existence as
a cycle where the human being is born, lives, dies,
and is born anew............................................
The next sentence I did not quit understand
but it might be explained here...........................
Bill Viola generates visions. He does so with visually
intense images, that wager our physically concrete
reality with an underlying metaphysical world.......

Or in short deep Bill.

I was ready to see deep Bill's art.
I too had seen an interview with a curator from Aros
in TV, she was fascinated by the technical aspects
of Bill's exhibition: Huge screens, high stereo sounds etc.

1. - Crossing

I entered the room.
No light at all.
With a screen in the middle of the room.
A screen that was not as huge as I was told
in TV.
I forgot everything about technical aspects as
a man began walking in slow motion far away.
Slow, slow motion.
I just stirred - totally forgetting how long the man's
crossing lasted.
As the man came close he stood still.
A tiny flame appeared.
It grew and grew and grew.
High sounds of thundering fire.
The man burns.
To ashes.
Silence.
Nothing left.

2. - Going Forth by Day

Five huge projections in one room each showing a video film.
Stereo sounds from the 5 video films.
Watching 5 deep Bill video films in one time is a tremendous challenge.

The deluge
At the wall facing you as you enter the room.
The projections are shown on the wall, like e fresco.
A door and 4 windows.
A beggar.
Furniture are removed from the house.
Pedestrians walk faster and faster.
Noise from the street.
Panic. People hurry out of the door.
Some do not manage to get out before cascades
of water catch them and rush them out in the street, dead.
Cascades of water from the windows.
High sounds of water.

The voyage
A dollhouse like house at the top of a hill.
A dying man is in a bed.
Two relatives are mourning.
A watch sits outside.
Removers and a bargeman are loading a barge.
The barge is at the lake shore.
The lake is calm. No wind. It seams artificial.
The two relative leave the dollhouse.
The watch leaves the hose.
The relatives return back to the hose.
The door is locked. The man in the hose has died.
Two elderly people say good by to each other on the lake shore.
And they both enters the barge and sail across the lake.

First light
Rocks and a pond.
Exhausted rescuers load an ambulance with stuff.
The ambulance leaves.
(I have forgotten the chronology)
It rains cats and dogs.
A woman is offered a blanket.
Three men and a woman go to sleep.
A woman comes out of the pond and flies into the sky.

The path
People are passing by.
In slow motion, all of them in the same direction.
Going to or coming from a picnic. Bringing things. This goes on and on.
The image is huge, it is on the long side of the room, from one end to another.

Fire Birth
The 5th screen was on fire every time I looked.
Contours of a figure emerged now and then.
A baby?
But only to fade away.

By the way - Bill was inspired by the renaissance master Luca Signorelli's Judgment Day frescoes
in Orvieto in Italy. Giotto has been of great inspiration to Bill, too. Giotto's greatest masterpiece is a giant 3-dimentional image, which you phisically enter - like Going Forth by Day.
Going Forth by Day lasted for half an hour.
Afterwards I had a feeling that I had to watch every single video film for half an hour,
but sure that's not Bill Viola's intention.
One half hour, period.
I had to take break.
Why?
It was too much.
Of what?
Can't say.
Alertness maybe.
Emotional bombardment probably.
I went to the nice Italian like Art Caf? and had a salad and two bread, a mineral water and a cup of coffee.

3. - Surrender

A single screen work.
A man in red.
His face is distorted with pain.
A woman in blue.
Her face is distorted with pain.
The man and the woman are reflected in the surface of a pool of water.
Now and then they bend forward and plunge.
The water runs off their faces.
Tears?
Their expressions become more and more painful.
And.
They dissolve.

4. - The Messenger

More water.
A naked man in the water.
He is submerged in water.
He comes to the surface.
Again.
And again.
And again.
Bill has told us about a boyhood incident in which he nearly drowned.
Bill recalls the episode as a peace filled, poetic experience.
To suggest itself as a metaphor for human existence?
Messenger?
The man assumes the role of a messenger between the concrete reality and a reality beyond?

5. - Five Angels for the Millennium

Aros?s own installation.
5 projections.
Water, water, water, water and water.
Things, humans descend and ascend.
I can't say so much about these 5 works.
Mentally closed down.
No more emotional bombardment for this day.
Some other day maybe.

After exhibition

I was tired.
Totally exhausted from concentration and impressions.
I went to to the information desk and introduced myself:
I have an appointment - I want to talk to the Communication Manager.
We had a cup of coffee in the Italian like Art Caf?.
We talked about Bill's exhibition.
About Bill's exhibition being exhausting.
We talked about Aros.
About Aros being a wonderful place.

People call it Aros.
I call it "Little Guggenheim".

Boy

Before I finish this story about Aros and Bill, I want to
show you something you will not see anywhere else.
It's the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum landmark
"boy" by Ron Mueck
Height: 5 meters, that's 16.4 feet
A fantastic idea.

photos by Poul Ib Henriksen and ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in collaboration with Guggenheim Bilbao, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York and Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.

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Asbjorn Lonvig, artist from Denmark has debuted as correspondent for the art magazine Croquis, Buenos Aires.

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