黑料不打烊

The American-Scandinavian Foundation is pleased to announce A Time for Everything: 25 Years of Contemporary Art at Scandinavia House. Presented in conjunction with the 25th Anniversary of our cultural center, which has welcomed over 3 million visitors since opening its doors in October 2000, this group exhibition of internationally acclaimed Nordic artists 鈥� all of whom have presented work in the Scandinavia House Galleries over the past 25 years 鈥� will underscore the vision of the Galleries as a steward for new and established Nordic voices in the contemporary artistic landscape, and for promoting the exchange of ideas and culture between the United States and Nordic region.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a range of related programming including artists鈥� talks and panels, workshops, guided gallery tours, and family activities. The October 18 opening will be the first of a wide range of Anniversary events including a film series with screenings and talks on the most critically acclaimed cinema at Scandinavia House over the years, as well as lectures, symposia and concerts with notable Nordic cultural figures.

Borrowing from the title of the seminal 2004 book by Karl Ove Knausg氓rd, A Time for Everything presents a diverse range of work in a variety of media by celebrated Nordic artists: from Marianne Huotari鈥檚 reimagined version of the traditional Finnish textile technique ryijy via glazed stoneware sculptures, to Pekka & Teija 滨蝉辞谤盲迟迟测盲鈥檚 humorous and delicate play on mechanical and digital engineering and the beauty of machines, to the surreal nature of painter Thordis Adalsteinsdottir鈥檚 ultra-flat compositions combining anthropomorphic animals and eccentric non-sensical objects, which evoke whimsy while belying a more sinister undertone. Curiosity, humor, criticality, artifice, reverence for the natural world and romanticism appear throughout Torbj酶rn R酶dland鈥檚 work (and often in the same image), while the powerful and influential woodcuts of John Savio are arguably the first modern S谩mi artistic expression from the 1930s.