Pia Myrvold "FLOW"
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.NO – a nonprofit gallery on the Lower East Side presents Pia MYrvoLD: FLOW, the third incarnation of a multidisciplinary concept that debuted in Venice during last year’s Biennale and is currently on view at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art through February 24.
Pia MYrvoLD: FLOW "While engaging with Flow the immersive experience of emergent technologies is carefully guided by the artist. The ever-changing abstract images, rhythmic textures and chromatic structures of light are inspired by higherminded aspirations. Myrvold’s ongoing research in 3D virtual space engenders a unique mental and aesthetic awareness, as the artist plays with virtual space alongside actual physical space to illuminate what we have not been able to see in traditional media. We are not put in front of a console as is common in many interactive works; rather Flow builds parallel or tangent references between the realms of physical and imaginative presence.
Stemming from her lifelong work as a painter, Norwegian artist Pia Myrvold creates new work that branches out into a formidable interdisciplinary undertaking using electronic media as a springboard for the intermingling of forms. The pulsing, looping animations and sound are unmistakable in their musical quality, the structure of the installation utilizes large scale sculptural form and there is an architectural aspect as the viewer engages the work by walking through it. The end result is an immersive and interactive environment where the viewer encounters a multi-dimensional interface that is a product of emergent technology.” Rex Bruce, Artweek.LA, Jan 9 2012
Professionally active as a visual artist since her teens, the Paris-based Pia Myrvold has shown extensively all over the world. Her work in a wide range of media has been exhibited at Sotheby London, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Center of Architecture, New York; The Henie/Onstad Art Center; Oslo; Sala 1, Rome, just to name a few. During the Venice Biennale 2011, Myrvold staged Flow as a parallel to the Biennale on the Zattere in Venice. Caroline Langill, Associate Dean of OCAD University, Toronto, said the following of the exhibit: " (…) this body of work was a rare new media offering in what one expects to be a festival that highlights art at the vanguard of contemporary practice. At a time when institutions are grappling with the almost weekly emergence of new digital platforms, MYrvoLD points to the necessity of bridging the analogue/digital divide by producing highly technical work that is both rearward and forward looking. The potentially immersive installation evidences the breadth of her practice as well as her situatedness within contemporary art. Not a technologist, MYrvoLD adopts the digital in order to dispel preconceptions about what art is and can be. Clearly, she is a pioneer and will continue to shape the future of art".
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Schedule
from February 03, 2012 to March 03, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-02-03 from 18:00 to 20:00