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INVITATION TO THE PRIVATE VIEW

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:38:00 +0000

You are warmly invited to the Private View of Eva Olsson’s and Jonas Nilsson’s new exhibition, [EN]CLOSURE, from 7-9pm on Friday 11 June at Art centre BETANOVUSS and NOASS, AB Dambis 2, Riga.

[EN]CLOSURE reveals Olsson’s and Nilsson’s aesthetic exploration of moving image, through philosophical reflections on everyday life and social issues in the modern western world.

Eva Olsson and Jonas Nilsson are a Swedish artist couple who works with contemporary art there moving image and animation are their major way of expression. From time to time they work collaboratively to create new videoworks. More information

[EN]CLOSURE – video art exhibition
by Eva Olsson & Jonas Nilsson
12.06. – 27.06.2010.

At Art centre BETANOVUSS and NOASS
AB dambis 2, Riga LV-1048
Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Sunday 12am – 7pm

[EN]CLOSURE

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:48:55 +0000

12.06. – 27.06. on floating art galleries BETANOVUSS and NOASS will be a video art exhibition [EN]CLOSURE. Exhibition will be open from Tuesdays till Sundays from 12 am – 7 pm. Entrance – free.

Authors of exhibition are Eva Olsson and Jonas Nilsson – a Swedish artist couple who works with contemporary art there moving image and animation are their major way of expression. From time to time they work collaboratively to create new video works.

Eva’s work is philosophical reflections on everyday life and social issues in the modern western world. She is reconstructing familiar situations to create new insights to become short animations.

Jonas is currently interested in issues surrounding the stressful and high tempo the western way of life and increasing amounts of time and money spent by individuals on becoming successful, and the consequences of such achievements.

Eva and Jonas last year were chosen for participating in NOASS residencies and this exhibition is a logical follow-up after their time in Riga.

THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE SECOND STAGE OF THE RESIDENCY PROGRAMME

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:47:46 +0000

As part of the Nordic – Baltic mobility programme, Swedish artists Jonas Nilsson and Eva Olsson will arrive in Riga on September 3. Nilsson and Olsson mainly work with the moving image and use animation as one of their forms of expression. Their works play on philosophical references to daily life in the Western world and examine the conflict between the individual and society.

NOASS has selected this pair of artists to be the participants in the second stage of the residency programme, because Eva and Jonas are active in the field of video art and life in Riga could inspire them both in the creation of new works. Moreover, for several years now these artists have organised their own video festival whose goals accord with the mission of the Waterpieces video and contemporary arts festival in Latvia.

Within the Waterpieces programme, Nilsson and Olsson will present a sixty minute long selection of video works from the Art Video Screening. Every two years, this festival provides young video artists with the opportunity to present their works to a wider public. The programme promises to be interesting and dynamic – including works by artists from Sweden and other countries.

During their month long residency in Riga, Eva and Jonas also plans to create new video works. In one of them, the artists plan to ‘reincarnate’ one of the jewels of Latvia’s cultural and historical legacy – the works in the Latvian Museum of Naive Art.

More information about both residents is available at:

Eva Olsson – www.evaolsson.net
Jonas Nilsson – www.jonasnilsson.org

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THE SELECTION PROCEDURE IS CONCLUDED!

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:26:51 +0000

The selection procedure identifying residents for the Nordic – Baltic residency programme Artists-in- Residency has now concluded. The aim of the programme, within the framework of the operation of the Nordic Culture Point, is to give Nordic artists and industry professionals the chance to visit Riga and discover its cultural environment, thus drawing inspiration for the creation of new works and cooperation between culture organisations.

The NOASS residency programme has extended a special invitation to artists, as well as art curators whose work is linked to the creation of video and new media works. Having reviewed the applications received, we have selected artists who have proposed to spend their residencies in Riga creating personal exhibitions, leading seminars, cooperating with local arts organisations and sharing their experience in the organisation of video festivals.

Gary Wornell, a Canadian artist resident in Finland arrived in Riga in mid-July. Wornell is a renowned artist in Scandinavia whose creative work has gravitated towards an exploration of the possibilities offered by digital photography and special Epson printers. In recent years, the artist has used various non-traditional technologies in his works which expand the opportunities offered by printing and break the stereotypes of digital images and photographs.

In his studio in Finland, Wornell regularly hosts creative workshops exploring on the technologies used and discovered by him. In Riga he will also be offering artists, art students and other interested persons the chance to take part in two such workshops – one focussing on creative printing, as well as a special workshop expanding creative possibilities for digital photographers. We are planing to have also two exhibitions of his work in Naïve Art Museum of Latvia.

The overall goal of all these courses is to highlight the unlimited printing opportunities offered by printing through experimentation with the various platforms of digital ink printing, collages of different materials, as well as UV ray resistant coverings.

More detailed information about the artist is available at: www.garywornell.com

More detailed information about the timings and schedules of the workshops will be published on the NOASS homepage: noass.lv

Eva Olsson and Jonass Nilsson from Sweden.

Both artists operate in the field of video art examining our understanding of individual and social values and mutual relations. For the last four years, Olsson and Nilsson have been organising video showcases and a festival in their home town supporting the efforts of young artists in this artistic medium.

Since Eva Olsson and Jonas Nilsson’s work accords with the Waterpieces video and contemporary arts festival organised by NOASS, in September local residents and visitors to Riga will also have the chance to view a showcase of Swedish video art. During their tenure in Riga, the artists also plan to create a special video work which will ‘reincarnate’ one of the jewels of Latvia’s cultural and historical legacy, the creative offering of Latvia’s naivists.

More information is available from the artists’ homepages:

Eva Olsson – http://www.evaolsson.net

Jonas Nilsson – http://www.jonasnilsson.org

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