Page 34 - The MoMA/ Guggenheim issue of World of Art magazine (2001)

WORLD ExHIBITIONs

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Beyond Paradise
Nordic Artists Travel East
16.2 - 29.3 2002

The international program of Moderna Museet
is organizing a big event for contemporary
Nordic Art in Asia during 2002 – 2003. The
exhibition is called ‘Beyond Paradise, Nordic
Artists Travel East’ and will open at The
National Art Gallery in Bankok, Thailand on
february 16th 2002. It will then continue to
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THE BLACKBIRD - sONG fOR A NEW BREED 2001 Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Preliminary plans
SWedeN also include saigon, Vietnam and shanghai,
China during 2003.

The exhibition is curated by Apinan Poshyananda
from Bangkok, who has shown interest for
Nordic art for a long time and who has
already organized a series of international
exhibitions. He was invited to visit sweden,
Denmark, finland, Norway and Iceland during
early 2000. Hosts during this visit were DCA
in Denmark, fRAME in finland, NP:Art and
Museet for samtidskonst in Norway. These
institutions together with svenska Institutet
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Beyond Paradise aims to create a meeting point
between two peripheral art movements that
are now gaining more and more international
recognition, contemporary Nordic art and
its Asian equivalence. Contemporary Nordic
Art has been seen in many international
contexts lately but a manifestation as
extensive as this one has not yet been
done in this part of the world.

The exhibition also includes a Nordic film and
video program that has been put together
by Henrik Orrje and Richard Julin, both
curators at filmform institution.
The program is called ‘right about now’
and will tour around Asia together with
the exhibition. svenska Institutet will also
put together a program with swedish films
that will be shown foremost in Bangkok.

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