Art in Time of Emergency
Nearly 30,000 deaths worldwide (28th March 2020) – the coronavirus pandemic has spread across the globe and changes life as we know it. The news especially from Italy, where the daily death toll has been rising to almost a thousand, are shocking.
Immagini Spazio Arte, art gallery in Cremona, Italy, and Secret Art Society, based in London, Milan and Cremona, opens a collective online exhibition at Artsy dedicated to coronavirus and these times of emergency. The gallery donates 10% of the sale price of each artwork to the Hospital of Cremona.
Art in Time of Emergency, collective online exhibition, from March 26th until June 9th 2020
https://www.artsy.net/show/secret-art-ltd-art-in-time-of-emergency
https://www.facebook.com/galleriaimmagini/
Ulla Karttunen: Blindspot Society III, 2012 (first shown at the contemporary art center Halle 14, Spinnerei, Leipzig, as a part of Donna Criminale installation). The artwork from eight years ago could be seen as a preview of coronavirus and its secretful spreading not only over the globe, but also over the old structures. The scene is surreal in its tragic darkness: in these emptied spaces, through masks of life and death, the virus – in the place of a global crystal ball – is transforming the traditional order into something new.
Artist of the week
The Italy-based art site MEET THE ARTISTS – ART BOX has chosen Ulla Karttunen for ”the artist of the week”.
Go to see the site MEET THE ARTISTS – ART BOX from here.
The intention of this web gallery and art information site is to display interesting current international and Italian art. The site is founded by an Italian art historian, critic and curator.
Awarded artists
”State Artist Pension awarded to 61 distinguished artists” titled the newsletter of The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike, Taiteen edistämiskeskus) a short time ago. Multidisciplinary visual artist Ulla Karttunen was one of the recipients.
the image in the newsletter from the artwork by Ulla Karttunen: Bunny (Never) Smiles, 2019
State artist pensions are awarded in different art forms: visual and multidisciplinary art, literature, music, theatre, design and architecture. This year the grant was delivered to 16 visual artists, 13 musicians and 6 authors. The recipients of this grant are selected on the basis of artistic merit.
The grant has been delivered from the 1830s, so it has a long history in Finland. The famous composer Jean Sibelius received it in 1898.
to the site of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland
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