Exhibition Opening: 20:00,6/Sep/2008
TCG Nordica-UP-Gallery space
Tel: 0871-4114692/4114691
www.tcgnordica.com
KMOV is…
KMOVstudios is a creative multi-media engine that has, since 2002, been involved in service-oriented media projects. Our focus is to use our gifts in various projects for the benefit of friends and family worldwide. Such works include music videos and filmmaking in Chicago’s inner-city neighborhoods, public murals in New Mexico and Guizhou, art collaborations and education with secondary and elementary school students via music, film, and painting; also shorts and documentaries, web design, illustration, and music recording.
Perspective…
KMOVstudios views art and media first as a gift, and second as an offering: we reap of our experience, and present the best of these multimedia “crops” with joy and thanksgiving. Our work represents a journey, both personal and generational. We are vessels, full of good things received from our fathers and mothers; art is a link, a powerful instrument for communication with the next generation. We seek to be a part of the dialogue that connects the Source to the future…and one who drinks water ought to remember the source.
Nordica, September 2008…
“Transparencies: records of a journey traveled” includes the works of KMOVstudios’ friends from Beijing, Guizhou, and Yunnan. Transparency is a quality of something that allows light to pass through it, so that objects behind can be distinctly seen. This idea is the hinge upon which the responses to our individual journeys in this exhibit swing. These photographs and paintings are the responses of people on the road, passing through vestiges of culture and society, and witness to the timeless things experienced through an ephemeral present.
Opening:2008.7.4,20:00
Duration:2008.7.4–7.28
TCG TCG Nordica is concerning about children¡’s development. We want to stimulate their nature creative through various arts forms. Help them build hearth values. We plan and organize rich activities for children in each summer. This year, in the duration of International Children¡’s Day, an exhibition
¡®Love children, let them fly will hold at TCG Nordica according to the same goals with Hai Bei Kindergarten. Through letting children enjoy creating
their own art, we see that they begin
to improve their ability to observe and understand. They develop their imagination, the ability to express their own ideas and the reality around them, cultivating their perceptions of people, nature, culture and art.
Swedish artists exhibition “signs”
artists:Åsa Herrgård,Patric Larsson,Anna Carlson
Opening:20:00,7 June,2008
Exhibition Duration:7 June 2008–28 June 2008
Summer 2004 Åsa Herrgårdhad a residence in Kunming and during these months she started to practice Tai-Chi in a nearby park.
Through camera and film she catch the energy between those who practice and the form itself of Tai chi.
She tries to see the form of the nature , the sign of calligraphy and thoughts about the tai-chi moves..
She investigates the conections between nature,human and the life in the park.
Patric Larsson drawings contains word/text arranged on paper like big schema, discussing different issues, like child memories or individual relation to the society, psyche, conception like shame and guilt.
Other works are abstract drawings, with simple elements like lines or dots that merger in different ways to one picture. Patric are showing art works that consist text and abstract in the exhibition.
Summer 2003 Anna Carlsonhad a residence at TCG Nordic in Kunming.
Anna works with pictures in different ways such as drawings,performances,paintings,installations.
She works with issues like humanity and mistakes,reality and fantasy.
Her pictures at the exhibition will be drawings of weeds and sticks from the great swamp.
The swedish photographers Hilma & Maria’s exhibition: The Secrets Of The Mirror
Opening: Sat May 3rd 20:00
Duration: 2008-0503–end of May
Add:TCG Nordica UP-Gallery,Xiba lu 101,Kunming,Yunnan,China
Tel:0871-4114692 or 4114691
www.tcgnordica.com
“The photos are a mix from Scandinavia and southeast Asia. The pictures have different thems, mainly of nature.”
About the Artists
Maria and Hilma have moved from Sweden to live in Kunming in China for a year to take part in a culture course. During this year they have been inspired by Asian surroundings and have developed their photographic skills. “The Secrets Of The Mirror” is their very first exhibition and it is fortunate they have started to share their beautiful pictures with a bigger audience.
Lina Baeckstrom
Maria Stenlund
Maria Stenlund is 24 years old and an authorized nurse, she comes from the city of Leksand in Dalarna in Sweden. Maria’s interest in photography began when her twin sister Anna took a photo course when they were sixteen. Since then Maria has taken various courses in photography and have deepened her knowledge in different techniques. During this year she has been part of a documentary group and is the most frequent and appreciated photographer at events at Nordica. Maria’s photographs have two different themes: detail and documentary, both are presented in “the Secrets of the Mirror”. In her photographs Maria wishes to capture the very soul of the object, and manages to do so in close detailed pictures but also in pictures that holds larger scenery. She wants you to get the feeling of watching the object for the first time even though you’ve seen it a thousand times before. Maria wants to give you a glimpse of heaven, through the wonders of the earth.
Hilma Andersson
Hilma Andersson comes from the city of Kramfors in the north part of Sweden. Hilma is 26 years old and holds a bachelor degree in social work. As a social worker Hilma has lived and worked in Uganda, Africa, during three different periods in 2006 and 2007. Her interest in photography began to bloom when she borrowed her father’s old camera in 2003. During a visit to a minority park in Yunnan last fall, her “photographic eye” opened and she discovered a new style of creating an image. This changed Hilma’s view towards a more experimental and artistic way of taking pictures. From this moment Hilma started taking the type of photos presented in “The Secret’s Of The Mirror”. Hilma’s pictures have one theme but ranges from being very peaceful with a more clear image to being playful with a more abstract feeling. Hilma is fascinated by reflections in the water and how it can speak to ones imagination, creating new, vivid images.
