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MEDinART in Vesalius Continuum (4-8 September 2014, Zakynthos, Greece)
Great news for MEDinART! So excited to announce that MEDinART will participate with a video screening in Vesalius Continuum: the…
The Genetic Portraits (PORTRAITS GÉNÉTIQUES) of Ulric Collette
The photographic work of Ulric Collette blends wonderfully the science of genetics with the art of photography.
Relatives are photographed together creating some new hybrids. The genetic similarities across the faces are really neat!
Born in 1979, Ulric Collette, self-taught photographer, studied art and graphic design
in Quebec city in the late 90s and now work as art director for Collette, a communication
studio in Quebec region.
The work of Ulric has been presented in various websites, magazines and books
all over the world (Prism, Global Investor, Esquire, Light and Lens, Snap, Fubiz,
My Modern Met, Adobe, etc). Most recently, his work on the genetic portraits series was
shortlisted in the world most prestigious advertising awards show, the Cannes Lion.
Explore more from Ulric Collette’s work here: PORTRAITS GÉNÉTIQUES
ICRI 2014 Research & Art Competition and Exhibition
Science & Art in dialogue over the centuries
Art has long been interested in Research and Science: from Renaissance art and Leonardo da Vinci with his studies of physics, 19th century art nouveau with its influence from shapes and colours emerging from biology and the invention of the microscope, to 20th century art with Surrealist iconography drawing on Freud and the findings of psychiatry, the acclaimed American James Turrell working with the physical laws and the optical illusions of light, the young Chinese WU Juehui dealing with a potential interface between neuroscience and art, and to grand international exhibitions dedicated to the intersection of art and science, such as L’âme au corps: arts et sciences 1793-1993 at the Grand Palais in Paris, curated by the great art historian Jean Clair, the meeting point of art and research/science has been fascinating artists and has deeply determined the course of their work. […]
For more information about the competition follow this link: http://www.icri2014.eu/research-art-competition-and-exhibition
New Dino Valls’ Monograph
Texts: Prof. John Wood and Steven Brown Specially handbound edition and a book inside the book, app. 140 pages, 24 x 30 cm. Available in April/May 2014
DINO VALLS
Spanish painter born in 1959 in Zaragoza. Since 1988, he has lived and worked in Madrid. Building on a childhood passion for drawing, Valls taught himself to paint in oils beginning in 1975. After completing his degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Zaragoza in 1982, Valls devoted himself full-time to the profession of painting.
As one of the Spanish representatives of the vanguard of figurative art, Valls’ work displays the strong influence of past masters and their studies of the human being. In the early ’90s, Valls began studying the use of egg tempera, adapting and customizing the techniques of Italian and Flemish masters from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries to create new works in combinations of tempera and oil. His paintings elaborate and expand upon the methods of past masters, employing formal figurative techniques as the medium through which to explore the human psyche in a conceptual framework laden with profound psychological weight and symbolism.
Valls has participated in important international exhibitions of contemporary art, and has held numerous showings in Europe and the United States.
“I know of no other contemporary painter whose work is grander in conception or more beautiful in its execution than that of Dino Valls, nor do I know of any living painter whose work is more filled with the imagery of pain than Dino Valls’. How does one reconcile the pain and the beauty? Are they reconcilable, and, if so, what do they mean? His paintings can deliver the same terrifying shock of Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece or Titian’s Flaying of Marsyas. Valls is our great contemporary master of pain and beauty. His work staggers us and forces us back to it again and again, which is art’s most ancient and magical power.”
Prof. John Wood
Pre-order Dino Valls’ Monograph here:
http://www.galerievevais.de/products/item.Dino_Valls_Catalogue.html
“Stranger Visions” of Heather Dewey-Hagborg at the New York Public Library
Januray 7 – April 4, 2014.
Mid-Manhattan Library, Front Windows and Third Floor.
Opening exhibition of Heather Dewey-Hagborg entitled “Stranger Visions” at the New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan branch of.
This work is exhibiting as part of Art Wall on Third and Art in the Windows series.
Saturday, February 1, 2014, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Mid-Manhattan Library, 1st Floor Corner Room.
455 Fifth ave. (at 40th st.), New York, NY 10016
On February 1 at 2:30pm Heather Dewey-Hagborg will be discussing the work with 319 Scholes, curator Lindsay Howard, as part of the library’s Artist Dialogue series. Technical details of the work such as collecting and analyzing genetic material from public
http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/45/node/229458Recent news about Heather’s Dewey-Hagborg work
Stranger Visions recently returned from a surveillance-themed exhibit Trace Recordings at the University of Technology Sydney as well as Destroy Yourself locally at Kunsthalle Galapagos in Brooklyn. Heather Dewey-Hagborg completed a site-specific version of the work for the show Grow Your Own at the Dublin Science Gallery and spoke on a Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board panel about issues of genetic surveillance.Stranger Visions was reviewed by Chin-Chin Yap in Arts Asia Pacific, featured in C Magazine as part of their winter surveillance issue, and made the cover of Government Technology.*Photograph: Thomas Dexter
Pascale Pollier interview about how she came to be interested in art and science.
Please tell us about you and your work, and how you came to be a medical illustrator and medical artist.
“I was interested in medicine from a very early age. At age 16 I had to choose to either go to art school or to stay on and study science. I was very good at biology and would have loved to work in a laboratory; however, my art teacher recommended to go to art school. This was the first time I had to choose between my two passions, art and science.
I studied fine art and painting at St. Lucas Academy of Art and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, both in Gent, Belgium, and loved the anatomy lessons and life drawing classes. The subject matter in my paintings was already inspired by medical conditions. I made paintings of hermaphrodites and other medical congenital conditions, including albinism.”
Read the whole Pascale Pollier interview on how she came to be interested in art and science, at Vesalius Conference website, here.
BIOMAB is raising funds for the making of the film “Fabrica Vitae”
BIOMAB is raising funds for the making of the film “Fabrica Vitae”, reflecting on the Fabric of Life” on Kickstarter.
In 2014, five hundred years after the birth of Andreas Vesalius, the founder of modern anatomy, BIOMAB proposes to create a film that will show how the legacy of Vesalius is still challenging new generations of artists and scientists to create groundbreaking work.
A group of contemporary, brilliant scientists and innovative artists will be questioned about their work and what they perceive the future of “humanity and the physical human body” to be. It will be fascinating to record their unique visions of man’s mortality, decay and death.
The film will be shown during the Vesalius conference at Zakynthos Greece.
For more info, check here
Kate MacDowell exhibits on October 2013
Kate MacDowell exhibits on now!
New work this weekend with Mindy Solomon at Texas Contemporary
http://www.art-mrkt.com/texas/exhibitor-listing/68/
Mindy Solomon Gallery returns to the Texas Contemporary Art Fair for the third year, presenting ‘Magical Thinking:’ The Narratives of Marc Burckhardt, Kate MacDowell, Christina West, and Christopher Winter. The exhibition will be on view October 10-13 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, booth number 807.
MEDinART video in the fascinating talk of Professor Leontios Hadjileontiadis
Leontios Hadjileontiadis inspired us with his talk at EcHoPolis-Days of Sound Conference entitled “Brain, Emotions and Music: An exploration of the Biomusic concept”. In his talk, introduced us to a fascinating world where electrical engineering blends harmonically with neurosciences and music composition.
