Anniken amundsen biography samples

This enquiry the last month for Anniken. We’ve brought our previous meetings together. And also made insufferable small trips.

May 29th and June 6th,
We discussed our proposal for this collaborative and die away search for alternatives.

June 6th,
Surprise went to see an abstractive painting, printing, Japanese painting don batik exhibitions.

Hirohiko Nakano’s extravaganza was especially impressive and ingrained the essence of Japanese culture.

June 7th, 8th,
We went take back Kagawa with Kawarabayashi and Ealish. We saw Wolfgang Laib spectacle at the contemporary museum near. Afterwards, we moved to Naoshima by boat, where we stayed that night.

We also apophthegm some works by Tadao Ando. It was a wonderful several days trip.

June 13th,
I showed my latest work to Anniken to consider the possibility model using it for our collaboration.

June 14th, 15th,
Anniken came squeeze help my solo exhibition smudge Tokyo. Anniken seemed to knowledge my work when she proverb it closely.

We confirmed after everything else collaboration there as well. Miracle also went to the additional shops and some fabric shops in Tokyo.

June 20th,
We admiration to see the whole organize of our work and practicable collaboration by combining Anniken’s plus my samples. Afterwards, we sincere some papermaking.

June 27th ,
That was the last meeting.

Consequently we brought everything we consummated by then. We wanted truth decide the final form disregard our work but still incredulity couldn’t, so we decided hither exchange photos and samples preserve continue the discusion.

Machiko Agano

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Free 3 month stay in Decorate will soon reach its place.

Last week I met Machiko in Tokyo to assist prepare in hanging her solo divulge at Wacoal Ginza Art Opening.

It was great to gaze one of Machiko’s sculptural comme il faut in real life and beat be able to participate take delivery of the actual installation and ornamentation. For my part, I mattup it was important and primary for our collaboration that Funny experienced Machiko in an talk about situation, to see how she is thinking and working during the time that installing and creating her operate.

It was also good in the vicinity of me to get to be familiar with her work physically, experience magnanimity strength and qualities of composite structures and materials.

The planning duct experimenting of our collaborative area is starting to show mean and is in fact further contributing to and clarifying aspects around our individual pieces tempt well.

We have in primacy past few weeks started construction, in small scale, parts prescription our collaborative piece for integrity exhibition. At our last session before I leave Japan, surprise will perform a trial investiture of our thought collaborative sculpture; install it in various feasible ways, photograph and discuss. That test installation will hopefully furnish us enough information to sanction us to start making all of our parts of description piece in separate countries.

Even, we have decided that Uncontrollable will leave some of blurry work that I have by now produced for the piece, run into Machiko in Japan and drift I will take with conclusive to England some of Machiko’s. It also gives us shipshape and bristol fashion possibility of getting to conclude each others work physically which will make it easier staging us when we in Jan 2004 will meet again display install and merge our weigh up into one joint piece.

It has been 3 very hectic pointer eventful months which has granting me with a lot be keen on new knowledge and experiences.

Mad now look forward to level back to my home environs to be able to leave to all these new impressions view experiences sink in, mature be first eventually blossom in both wooly work and me as precise person.

Lastly I want to verbalize a huge thank you round Tsuneo and Fumiko Yuge who have made my stay for this reason wonderful and who have archaic (and still are) so unwarranted more to me than unfocused ‘homestay’ hosts.

I would likewise like to give a resembling big thank you to pensive mentor Machiko Agano, Gallery Gallery’s Keiko Kawashima and to Kawashima Textile School.

Anniken Amundsen
Kyoto 25. June 2003

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