Anne-Karin Furunes

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Biography: 

Anne-Karin Furunes is a Norwegian artist who has developed her own original technique. Her works are acrylic paintings on canvas, with the image formed by hundreds and thousands of holes of different size. Furunes is one of the most successful Norwegian artists on the international scene. Her works have been on show in solo exhibitions in several European countries, Canada and Australia. Last autumn, Furunes's solo exhibition opened the new and magnificent exhibition space of Gallery Barry Friedman in New York.

‘Beyond the Portraits’, June 19th-August 31st 2014
Museum Millesgården, Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.millesgarden.se/exhibitions-2014.aspx

‘Shadows’, March 8th-July 2014
Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

http://fortuny.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/archivio-mostre-en/spring-furunes-shadows/2014/01/7515/the-... http://fortuny.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/mostre-in-corso-en/proportio-ex...

PROPORTIO, an exhibition organised by the Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia opens this May to coincide with the 56th International Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Axel Vervoordt and Daniela Ferretti and located in the imposing Palazzo Fortuny, the exhibition explores the omnipresence of universal proportions in art, science, music and architecture. PROPORTIO follows on from the highly acclaimed exhibitions: Artempo (2007), In-finitum (2009) TRA (2011) and more recently Tàpies. Lo Sguardo dell’artista (2013). Throughout the course of human history, the concept of proportions has been applied across civilisations. The knowledge of sacred geometry, and the golden ratio in particular, was considered highly advanced and closely linked to secretive spiritual wisdom and religious traditions. In the West, the knowledge of sacred geometry was intentionally guarded for hundreds of years and may have been purposefully forgotten or discarded. PROPORTIO aims to initiate a contemporary dialogue surrounding the lost knowledge of proportions and sacred geometry. The work of artists, scientists, architects, philosophers and other thinkers provides a contextual discourse which helps usunderstand how proportions can inform the essential design of life in the present and how we may use this knowledge to create a blueprint for the future.

http://fortuny.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/archivio-mostre-en/proportio-exhibition/2015/03/8247/propor...
http://www.axel-vervoordt.com/en/inside/foundation/exhibitions/proportio

http://ryanleegallery.com
Ryan Lee Gallery

Anne-Karine Furunes
Of Nordic Archives
May 19 - June 30, 2016
Opening: Thursday, May 19th, 6-8PM

RYAN LEE is pleased to announce Anne-Karin Furunes: Of Nordic Archives, a solo exhibition of her most recent body of work that brings together portraits of men, women, and children from Finland, Norway, and Sápmi, who suffered sterilization and documentation at the hands of their government between 1900 and 1939. In conjunction will be a site-specific painting in RLWindow. This is her first solo show in the US in more than five years.

In the "Of Faces" series, Furunes explores the modernist social theory of eugenics during the early 20th century, when the movement spread worldwide. Culling through thousands of photographs from an archive held in Sweden's Carolina Rediviva at Uppsala University, the country's oldest university library, Furunes departs from this collection of photographs to consider untold histories through portraiture. Her choosing of the most striking photographs speaks to a humanness that establishes a connection even across time. As Furunes tackles the ethical complications of modernist theories that aimed to improve the genetic quality of the human population through racial and social sterilization, she wishes to dismantle the automation of the archives by highlighting the portraits of individuals into the gallery space. Her interest in these stories stems from a consideration of those who were silenced, ignored, or otherwise neglected in the retelling of history. This subtle shift from data, a record of documentation of mental or racial deficiencies, to an august and sobering portrait suggests that Furunes' process of aestheticization is part of a humanistic tradition.

Professors profile

Exhibitions: 

November 19 th. - March 19 th., 2015
Exhibition 'Touch' Saastamoinen foundation art collection Exhibition
http://www.emma.museum/en/node/2758

Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, groupshow, Marchesa Casati

http://fortuny.visitmuve.it
October 3 rd.- March 8 th., 2015

Museum Millesgården, Stockholm, Sweden
Soloshow:
ANNE-KARIN FURUNES
BEYOND THE PORTRAITS
http://www.millesgarden.se/exhibitions-2014.aspx
19 June - 31 August

Crystals (soloshow, Galeria Anhava, Helsinki)
13 Mar – 6 Apr 2014
http://www.anhava.com/exhibition.php?id=262&action=2&exhib_type=0

Exhibitions/2014: Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, soloshow 'Shadows'
March 7 th. - July 14th.

Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada October 3rd. 2013, soloshow

Galeria Traghetto; Venice Freedom Fighters May 26th - June 30th 2013

Exhibitions/2012:
New York
http://www.barryfriedmanltd.com/Anne-Karin Furunes
'Dialogue with Light'-until the end of February 2012,

Västerås
http://www.vasteraskonstmuseum.se, exhib.26th.of Nov 2011-12th.of February 2012

Through Images exhibition in Oslo 09.11-16.12 2012: http://www.gallerik.com

Ryan Lee Gallery

Anne-Karin Furunes, "Of Faces II," 2016, oil on perforated canvas
Anne-Karine Furunes
Of Nordic Archives
May 19 - June 30, 2016
Opening: Thursday, May 19th, 6-8PM

RYAN LEE is pleased to announce Anne-Karin Furunes: Of Nordic Archives, a solo exhibition of her most recent body of work that brings together portraits of men, women, and children from Finland, Norway, and Sápmi, who suffered sterilization and documentation at the hands of their government between 1900 and 1939. In conjunction will be a site-specific painting in RLWindow. This is her first solo show in the US in more than five years.

In the "Of Faces" series, Furunes explores the modernist social theory of eugenics during the early 20th century, when the movement spread worldwide. Culling through thousands of photographs from an archive held in Sweden's Carolina Rediviva at Uppsala University, the country's oldest university library, Furunes departs from this collection of photographs to consider untold histories through portraiture. Her choosing of the most striking photographs speaks to a humanness that establishes a connection even across time. As Furunes tackles the ethical complications of modernist theories that aimed to improve the genetic quality of the human population through racial and social sterilization, she wishes to dismantle the automation of the archives by highlighting the portraits of individuals into the gallery space. Her interest in these stories stems from a consideration of those who were silenced, ignored, or otherwise neglected in the retelling of history. This subtle shift from data, a record of documentation of mental or racial deficiencies, to an august and sobering portrait suggests that Furunes' process of aestheticization is part of a humanistic tradition.

Publications: 

Shadows, Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/arts/international/a-palatial-setting-for-surreal-imagery-in-venic...

Beyond the Portraits, 2014 Millesgården Konstmuseum, Stockholm

http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konstrecensioner/anne-karin-furunes-beyond-the-portraits/

http://www.svd.se/kultur/konst/en-besvarjelse-mot-glomskan_3690508.svd

http://konsten.net/anne-karin-furunes-pa-millesgarden/

http://www.architecturenorway.no/stories/other-stories/shadows-2014/

Galeria Traghetto; Venice Freedom Fighters 2013

http://www.kunstforum.as/2013/06/furunes-og-frihetskjemperne/

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