Catalogue - factory-art gallery

AMARIE BERGMAN - AU
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 The Rosy Crucifixion ParisCONCRET, Paris
2011 Quadrant Bearing Sydney Non Objective (SNO),
Sydney
2011 H, Factory 49, Sydney
2010 The Golden Eternity, Factory 49, Sydney
2009 C, ParisCONCRET, Paris
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Annual Group ShowFactory 49, Sydney
2012 SNO Fundraiser Auction (show 81) SNO, Sydney
2012 Group print Show, Factory 49, Sydney
2011 Poste Concret ParisCONCRET, Paris
2011 Spatial Intervais, Factory 49, Sydney
2011 Night Visions IV Coconino Center for the Arts,
Flagstaff USA
2011 Galerie bij de Boeken, DRU Fabriek Cultural
Centre, Ulft
2010 Adaptive Actions (artistical intervention) Madrid
Abierto
2007 Community Art Grid Contemporary Art Gallery,
Vancouver
FACTORY-ART gallery
TURN ON, TUNE IN! pag. 9
Zeitlupe – Câmera lenta / 2 [slow time, slow motion]
Galeria Antonio Bandiera, Fortaleza Brazil
2005 Zeitlupe - Càmera lenta / 1 Stadtbibliothek,
Nürnberg Germany
2000 9th International Biennial Print & Drawing
Exhibition Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Taiwan
SELECTED AWARDS
2011 Finalist (Smoke Screen) Lettera From The Sky
experimental film festival coinciding with COP17,
Durban
2006 Finalist in Design A Door competition, hosted by
Rennie Marketing Systems, Westbank & Paterson
Group and mcfarlaneGreen Architecture + Design,and
sponsored by Woodward’s Redevelopment Group,
Vancouver
SELECTED INTERVIEWS
2010 Interview with Sand T. Kalloch, artSPACE
PUBLICATIONS
2011 Catalogue: H, Factory 49, Sydney
2010 Catalogue: The Golden Eternity Factory 49
Sydney
2010 Adaptive Actions Camp-Madrid Project in
collaboration with
Madrid Abierto Biennial
Lateral Leaming curated by Paul Butler;
published/produced by Vantage Art Projects, Vancouver
INVOLVEMENTS
2007-ongoing Art Reviewer
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and artUS
Artsist statement
The universe is radiant.
The conception of light began in stars. Originating the
code of light were hydrogen, helium and lithium. It was
this array, with various reaction sequences, that made
new elements of life possible in the early universe and
created the Milky Way galaxy. Not unlike letters in an
alphabet, chemical elements via astrophysics form a
language about starlight, and my fascination is realized
in several series, overall called Stellar Lingualumina.
In addition, other series concentrate on architectural
site mapping, for example, Quadrant Bearing, paintings
and drawings formulated from an angle at Sydney Non
Objective, or pay homage to literary texts that have
metaphysical underpinnings, such as, The Golden
Eternity by Jack Kerouac and The Rosy Crucifixion
by Henry Miller. Through meticulous editing and/or
‘dissolving’ some of the language and filtering the
essence, the work inherently is minimal.
Essentially, I am translating a magnetic attraction to light
in both inner and outer space. This attraction merges
design elements into a minimalist’s ethos to produce
a graphic style of imagery. Thoughts and ideas about
simplicity are entertained along with geometry, equations
and the esoteric qualities of numbers and colours. I play
with visibility and invisibility. I know that light reveals
the dimensions of space, (usually) in silence and with
grace.
‘Since the various materials in the Universe are only
varying coefficients of vibration, we build in this way not
only intensities of a spiritual kind, but, who knows? New
bodies, metals, nebulae and stars.’
The true art then for me is finding ways to build and
transmit intense information about how light in space is
a connector and a transformer – a transformative energy
– and, factored by time, a unifying processor of continual
enlightenment.
Amarie Bergman