Artist: Yang Xueyong Curator: Cui Fuli Opening: Saturday August 8th, 3.pm Duration: 2020.8.8-2020.9.9 Weekly Opening Days: Tuesday-Sunday Location :TCG Nordica International Arts Center润城第二大道商1栋3层日新路与前兴路交叉口 F.3 -B.1 the Second Avenue of Rain Town, Kunming This is not a dream series – Creative Speech Every street and community has its own lottery. “Lottery” has a mythological meaning in which fates can change overnight, are dreams everyone can […]
Edvard Grieg | A Rumble from the Mountains, a Dance in the Fjords
This is the twentieth essay in the series, where TCG Nordica every week introduce a famous Scandinavian artist’s life and work. Edvard Grieg is the Nordic composer whose music is most well-known throughout the world. This is largely due to the music he composed for the theatre play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, where evergreens […]
Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen | Passion on the Faroe Islands
This is the nineteenth essay in the series, where TCG Nordica every week introduce a famous Nordic artist’s life and work. “I believe that everyone must rejoice in his destiny, in the fact that he has lived at all and achieved a destiny. Destiny is the only sure asset.” Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen (1900-1938) is the author […]
Karin Larsson ｜ A trendsetting designer long before her time
This is the eighteenth essay in the series, where TCG Nordica every week introduce a famous Nordic artist’s life and work. Karin Bergöö was born in 1859 and grew up in Hallsberg where her father was a successful businessman. Karin’s artistic talent showed itself early and she began to study art at the Arts and […]
Buxtehude: Splendour in the Pipes
This is the seventeenth essay in the series, where TCG Nordica every week introduce a famous Nordic artist’s life and work. Readers of this series will perhaps have noticed that even though we have by now introduced artists of all kinds and from almost all parts of northern Europe, they are all relatively recent. The oldest one was born […]
Edvard Munch
This is the sixteenth essay in the series, where TCG Nordica every week introduce a famous Scandinavian artist’s life and work. If we have to name one Norwegian painter, and one only, it will for sure be Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Reference works all over the world have articles about him and even if his name […]
Aron of Kangeq | Carver of Legends
This is the fifteenth essay in the series, where TCG Nordica every week introduce a famous Nordic artist’s life and work. When Aron was born in 1822 in the settlement of Kangeq close to Nuuk, few would have guessed that he would grow up to become the father of modern Greenlandic Art (as opposed to […]
Tools of Expression | Mixed Media Arts Event
Tao Fa brandishes his brush in a flowing manner pregnant with freedom, visibly spirited. Space, time, mountains, water, clouds, birds, people, ghosts and gods are all connected and all have expressions. Tao Fa’s conjures up realms with paint and ink. I want to strike my harp and explore those realms with tunes, I want to […]
Selma Lagerlöf | Modernist and Popular Storyteller
This is the fourteenth essay in the series, where TCG Nordica every week introduce a famous Scandinavian artist’s life and work. The Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) is the first out of four great Nordic female storytellers. She is followed by the Norwegian Sigrid Undset (1882-1949), the Danish Karen Blixen (1885-1962, you can read our […]
Yahya Hassan: Call to Arms
This is the thirteenth article in the series, where TCG Nordica every week introduce a famous Scandinavian artist’s life and work. Yahya Hassan died the 29th of April 2020, 24 years old. This essay thus also serves as an obituary looking back on Hassan’s life and the brilliance of his poetry. In 2013 the 18 years […]
