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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…
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:
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“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
Benjamin Vierling solo exhibition “A Decennary Retrospective” in Seatle, 17/01/14-14/02/14
“Firebird,” by Benjamin A. Vierling
7:00pm/Geo Studio (3rd floor)Showcasing select drawings and paintings from 10 years of work, 2004-2014, A Decennary Retrospective is California artist Benjamin Vierling‘s first solo exhibition in Seattle. Employing primarily a 15th century mixed media technique of egg tempera and oil paints on panel, he integrates mythical references with contemporary subjects to bridge the timeless with the ephemeral. The iconic compositions of these panels indicate a rich historical precedent, distilling influences from the classical era, through the renaissance, the romantic period and into the present.Artists’ Reception: January 17, 6:00pm –
8:00pm
For more information for the exhibition check here: http://www.gageacademy.org/events/?page=current&type=5
Anna Dumitriu’s new solo Exhibition “The Romantic Disease: an Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis”
Opening reception of “The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis” – a brand new solo exhibition by Anna Dumitriu showing installations and sculptures made with strains of mycobacteria, transformed historical artefacts, and textiles that our reveal the complexities of Tuberculosis (TB) and our responses to the disease. The show explores the strange history of TB from artistic, social and scientific perspectives and covers subjects such as superstitions about the disease, its literary and romantic associations, the development of antibiotics and the latest research into whole genome sequencing of bacteria.
Artworks in The Romantic Disease” are made with a combination of textile art and biological matter including strains of Mycobacterium vaccae, M. bovis and M. tuberculosis that have been sterilized prior to exhibition. Re-crafted historical artefacts and objects are added to the mix. For example, Dumitriu has developed a series of textile installations stained with bacteria dyes patterned using antibiotic ‘resists’, which focus on how early ‘antibiotics’, such as Prontosil, were derived from chemical dyes. For ”Where there’s dust there’s danger” she has created a series of tiny felt lungs from wool and dust into which she has incorporated the DNA of killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis produced in a Containment Level 3 Laboratory (the highest level for handling bacteria). Around a century ago dust was incorrectly thought to be one of the primary causes of the disease. Amongst the altered historical artefacts an intricately carved and engraved Pneumothorax Machine can be found, previously used to collapse lungs of unfortunate patients ‘to give them a rest’.
The exhibition has been developed through Anna Dumitriu’s ongoing artist’s residency at The University of Oxford with the UK CRC Modernising Medical Microbiology Project, and is funded by The Wellcome Trust.
The show is also open 16th January 2014 – 24th March 2014, daily 12pm (noon) – 9pm
There will also be a major one day symposium on World Tuberculosis Day on 24th March 2014. with key speakers in the field of TB and press conference will be held at Waterman’s for World Tuberculosis Day on 24th March. The latest research into this disease, which currently affects one third of the World’s population, will be discussed in a highly accessible way.
www.romanticdisease.eventb
As well as the exhibition and symposium, The Romantic Disease has an ‘open lab’ workshop with Anna Dumitriu, Dr Simon Park, Dr Melissa Grant and special guests. This will run on five Saturdays, 11am – 5pm, on 15th and 22nd February, 1st, 15th and 22nd March 2014 and visitors on those days will see the group at work in the gallery.
To attend the open lab see www.openlabworkshop.eventb
Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford, West London, UK, TW8 0DS
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“Brainswarm”: Biomusic from the Greek composer Leontios Hadjileontiadis
Biomusic Concert in Greece.
“Brainswarm” of Professor Leontios Hadjileontiadis was presented for the first time in Goethe Institute, Athens, Greece.
“Brainswarm” is a musical piece of biomusic that combines,
in real time, information from the music director (both from his brain signals as well as from his movement) with the music from the instruments.
This is the point where music meets biomedical sciences.
For more info about the program of the concert (article in German and Greek), check here.
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.
Brooke Roberts has been shortlisted for an award in London called the h.Club100
MEDinART proudly announces that Brooke Roberts, the London based radiographer and fashion designer, has just been shortlisted for an award in London called the h.Club100.
It is a list of the 100 most innovative, interesting and influential creative people in Britain. She is among the “wildcard” (ie. the least famous and most unusual nominee in the fashion category).
Explore the science inspired design of Brooke Roberts and send her your bio-inspired love with your vote!
To vote, follow the link, tick the box and then submit.
Brooke Roberts, connects the seemingly unconnected worlds of medical imaging analysis with design and fashion. In addition to her work, she has inspired us with her talk and her med-inspired fashion show at TEDMED Live Athens 2013. You can watch her talk from the blog of MEDinART here
