amarie bergman

Salon de los Abencerrajes, Alhambra, Granada: Vaughan Williams https://www.flickr.com/photos/85218154@N00/261759547

Be enticed to read one of these three random choices from Paola Ricci's web-log Taste Archeologist:

Spain / Poetry of Different Styles
"Large natural spaces, or palaces of Spanish places and cities, are induced to be envelopes of something that expands or reflections of something else that is not immediately possible to grasp as real and concrete..."

The Space Revealed I.1

"Traveling, a "discipline" is accomplished, which is called moving the body from one place to another without knowing what you will see and how you will observe it..."

The Mirrored Architecture / Jean Nouvel - Zaha Hadid
"...They are anthropomorphic or cocoon forms that generate life in front of the perforated and luminescent wall of Nouvel's..."

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no.1 (detail), Amarie Bergman: found painted board 78 x 40 x .5cm; laredo 001 Melbourne 2019

Out of the blue, Dallas Jeffs, editor at Artist Run Website, has just published a micro-review about my latest work.
GEOMETRIC FORMS + EQUATIONS:

https://www.artistrunwebsite.com/blog/3257/Geometric+Forms+and+Equations%3A+Art+by+Amarie+Bergman

Dallas has not only highlighted and promoted my work but also a myriad of genres presented by other ARW artists. I confess that I really admire her writing style because of its adept distillation of the macro along with superb editing; and she always includes a well-curated choice of images. Dallas has written two of these concentrated reviews before on my practice. (see below) Triple gratitude from me to her!

SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS + AESTHETICS
2016

https://www.artistrunwebsite.com/blog/2335/Scientific+Concepts+and+Aesthetics%3A+Art+by+Amarie+Bergman

Violet Pink Eternity, Amarie Bergman: Nepalese hand-felted wool, acrylic paint; three spheres, each 2.5cm; Aqua Vovo, Factory 49 Pop Up, Paris 2016

SIMPLIFIED SYMBOLS

2014

https://www.artistrunwebsite.com/blog/1459/Simplified+Symbols%3A+Art+by+Amarie+Bergman

Maquillage #2, Amarie Bergman: pastel on canvas; 25 x 25cm 2014

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Interior view of studio, 2020 image by Amarie Bergman

A change is as good as a rest, so they say. Actually, better! Although my new studio in Bunbury - aka Bunta del Oeste / Sunset Beach on the coast in Western Australia - is just 8 square metres, about the same size as the recent one in Melbourne, it’s different: very quiet - capital Q! - and features a ceramic tile floor and plenty of natural light. Work for projects is again underway: either being contemplated in the classic ideating mode or spontaneously appearing out of thin air.

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13 May 2012 self-portrait, outside ParisCONCRET looking in at The Rosy Crucifixion exhibition

Quelle surprise: I'm now on Instagram! It seemed like an aeon of deciding whether to add another 'So-Me' account into the mix but so far there's a feeling of instant rapport and excitement. First 2 images are from Neo Violet at Five Walls Projects / Melbourne ~ one of my favourite solo exhibitions.
@amarie.bergman

https://www.instagram.com/amarie.bergman/

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(left - found board, partial view) no.1, (above, in cabinet - found paper rolls, partial view) no.3 and (right - found balsa hoop) no.2; laredo 001, Melbourne 2019

For laredo’s very first project I presented my work for a dazzling 24 hours (!) on 3-4 October 2019.

images: https://www.amariebergman.com/gallery/images-laredo-001

text: https://www.amariebergman.com/pages/intervention-statement-laredo-001

video: (a virtual vernissage/finissage)

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laredo is a reality!

A transitory space-time, laredo presents materiality through the simplicity of reductive art. The form it takes can be site-specific, ephemeral, conceptual, text or performance-based via individual and collaborative projects. laredo aspires to add a few glimmers to art’s visual language.

laredo is led by Amarie Bergman (Director of Logistics for laredo / DOLL) and Paul MacGillivary (Chief of Operations for laredo / COOL).
 

For details about the current site, click on the floorplan and specifications; to subscribe to our e-invitation list, propose a future project or get more info contact us via:

amarie.laredo@gmail.com 

Updated: 25 May 2020; laredo will soon be intervening in a different location – likely more than one! – including the south-west coast of Australia.

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Tightrope 1936, Alexander Calder; wire, wood, rod, lead, paint; collection of the Calder Foundation, New York (AB image)

“The tightrope in this work is stretched between two irregular wooden forms set on metal tripod bases and provides the crossing for a procession of four objects made out of thin, white-painted wire: a spiral (or helix); a sphere consisting of two intersecting circles; three circles stacked on top of each other; and a U-shape (or parabola). Each element balances and pivots by virtue of tiny lead weights. The biomorphic and geometric shapes evoke a circus act, walking a tightrope between reality and abstraction, as well as stillness and movement – all were integral to Calder’s inventive process.” (exhibition placard)

Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor National Gallery of Victoria 5 April – 4 August 2019

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Alexander Calder with Snow Flurry I 1950; sheet metal, wire and paint; collection of MoMA, New York; image published by Independent (UK), 15 November 2015, courtesy of Dominique Lévy, NY

Imagine the calming sight of white discs rotating, seemingly at random, yet all held by an (almost) invisible attraction in the spaciousness of space. Sounds like a minimalist version of the beginning of a snowstorm, doesn’t it? Although this may be the origin, the technicalities of Snow Flurry, a mid-20th century series of mobiles made with sheet metal, wire and paint, are most assuredly something that only Alexander Calder could have combined and constructed.

Scientific developments occurring around that time - not limited to: The Big Bang Theory, LP (long playing) Records, Field-Sequential Colour System, Tornado Forecasting and Jan Oort’s Postulation of The Existence of An Orbiting Cloud of Planets at The Outermost Edge of The Solar System – may have influenced Calder. Or maybe not.

What I do know is two in the series which I have experienced* are unforgettable. They both became part of a single neuron, connected to personal memories of snowflakes / ideas / companions gathered together in one fleeting flurry.

Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor National Gallery of Victoria 5 April – 4 August 2019

*Snow Flurry III 1948, at NGV’s recent survey exhibition in Melbourne, and, my favourite, Snow Flurry I 1950 at a MoMA/NY travelling show a few years ago in Perth

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