Ingvar Cronhammer's biography 'Med Gud i den ene hånd og tvivlen i den anden · Et roadtrip med Ingvar Cronhammer' by Kirsten Jacobsen, published by Politikens Forlag is out now.⁠⠀
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'Den første biografi om og med en af Danmarks mest prisbelønnede og anerkendte kunstnere.⁠⠀
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Siden august 2018 har billedhuggeren Ingvar Cronhammar – i sol og regn, mørke og sne – kørt Danmark rundt i sin Audi Q5 sammen med forfatter Kirsten Jacobsen. Undervejs har de talt om hans kraftfulde kunstværker i det offentlige rum – fra Gråsten til Skagen, fra Herning til Rosenhaven ved Fredensborg Slot og det imponerende monumentområde ved Jelling.⁠⠀
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De har kørt gennem landsbyer, hvor rækker af tilgroede, forladte huse i dag – med Cronhammars ord – ”står som halvkvalte skrig og med vinduernes tomme øjne” og gennem svimlende smukke hedestrækninger, hvor kunstneren bliver utilpas ved vindmøllernes skalering i forhold til landskabets naturlige fikspunkter. De har siddet i middelalderkirker og talt om Cronhammars religiøse anfægtelser og det, han kalder sine anelser (læs: inspiration), der kan opstå ud af intet. ⁠⠀
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Ingvar Cronhammar søger håbet og lyset, men tumler med troen, tvivlen og mørket. Han er svær at overse i det offentlige rum og i kunstcirklerne; men han er normalt meget tilbageholdende og privat. På disse roadtrips og i sit hjem uden for Herning fortæller han for første gang om sig selv og de – hidtil ukendte – barske sider af sin opvækst, der har sat sit aftryk på hans livssyn og kunstværker' - Politikens Forlag⁠

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Lea Porsager's ‘Gravitational Ripples’ (2018) was nominated for Swedish Architects Best Landscape Architecture 2019
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Gravitational Ripples is the Swedish Memorial for the victims of the tsunami in southeast Asia in 2004.⁠
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For further information and motivation of the jury - www.arkitekt.se/nominerade-till-basta-landskapsarkitektur-2019⁠

The exhibition will run until 17 May 2020. ⁠

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We are extremely proud to announce that our booth received the prize BEST BOOTH in ZONA MACO by GRUPO HABITA • Thank you OLAF BREUNING for presenting the amazing sculptures Sad and Worried Animals and thanks to the community and the team behind Zona Maco - This is our 15th anniversary at Zona Maco and we already look forward to next year!

Michael Kvium, Pale Male Tales

Until March 7, 2020.

The swing’s users must utilize the forces of gravity through coordinated pushings and pullings, until everyone moves into full swing together. In this playful moment, the potential energy of group movement is released. Perhaps it is possible, then, to shift the impact of our collective action to achieve a different kind of global momentum, and utilize the act of swinging together as a means of social and political transformation. First installed at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall in 2017, various site-specific installations of the swing-set continue to be created on a great diversity of contexts, such as AlUla in Saudi Arabia, the DMZ area in South Korea and Vordingborg in Denmark. The color-scheme of the swings themselves represents the specific colors of the national currency of the country in which the swings are installed. Over time, the work will evolve as the orange support continues to grow and new swings are added into the wider world.

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'What do you get when you put a Danish artist group together with oceanographers, material scientists, and marine biologists? The answer is an idea which might just change the way we imagine and design our environments in response to rising sea levels.

As warnings about the effects of global warming escalate, Superflex - an art group founded by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen and Rasmus Nielsen in 1993 – have been working on a long term project to imagine a world where the original function and aesthetics of our carefully designed world may be lost to the tide.

Commissioned by TBA21-Academy, the project is called Deep Sea Minding and it considers whether it’s possible to design and create structures that could serve the needs and desires of both humans and marine life.

So in their headquarters in Copenhagen, the team at Superflex are mixing concrete and amino acids together to see whether they can create bricks to make houses and schools which can be occupied by humans first and then fish. They’re also preparing a prototype structure to be placed on the seabed to test the responses of fish to this new material.

Over the course of nine months Laura Hubber joins Rasmus Nielsen from Superflex for one leg of their epic journey –taking in California, Copenhagen and Jamaica - and meeting a Mermaid along the way. Presented by Laura Hubber and produced by Emma Kingsley and Ella-mai Robey for BBC World Service.

Original music from Dive-In composed by Dark Morph (Jón Þór Birgisson and Carl Michael von Hausswolff)' - BBC Sounds

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The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Jone Kvie, Here, here' at Stavanger Art Museum, 1 November 2019 – 1 March 2020.⁠

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