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BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2017
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BERGEN KUNSTHALL
DATE / TIME Thursday 25 May at 13:00 – 16:00
26 May – 13 . august Monday – Sunday at 11:00 – 17:00
Thursday at 11:00 – 20:00
Open Mondays only during the Festival
TICKET Adults : 50 Senior / student : 25 Children , members of Bergen Kunsthall , art students and members of NBK : free admission
Plattform : Jan Groth in conversation , Bergen Kunsthall Saturday 27 May at 13:00
Produced by Bergen Kunsthall
Jan Groth
Festival Exhibition
Jan Groth has a unique position in Norwegian visual art . Over several decades his famous ‘ line ’ has been articulated again and again — in drawings , tapestries and sculptures — without ever losing relevance in his own time .
The 2017 Bergen International Festival Exhibition includes a number of new works made especially for the show and will primarily focus on drawings and sculpture ; two media which in different ways express Jan Groth ’ s distinctive combination of the immediate and the gradual .
For large parts of his career Groth has worked outside Norway . He made his international breakthrough in New York in the 70s , and is well represented in the major museums worldwide . At the same time he has maintained a constant presence on the Norwegian art scene .
The Festival Exhibition , produced by Bergen Kunsthall since 1953 , is established as one of Norway ’ s most important solo exhibitions .
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Peter Sheppard Skærved :
Signs . Runes for Jan Groth
World premiere
BERGEN KUNSTHALL
DATE Saturday 27 May at 12:00 – 12:30 & 15:00 – 15:30 Sunday 28 May at 12:00 – 12:30,15:00 – 15:30 & 16:30 – 17:00
TICKET Pop-up concerts are free , but require an entrance ticket to Kunsthallen . Adults : 50 Senior / student : 25 Children , members of Bergen Kunsthall , art students and members of NBK : free admission
A musical dialogue with Festival Artist Jan Groth ’ s work .
Peter Sheppard Skærved , violinist , performer and storyteller in equal proportions , likes to mix contemporary music with less commonly performed repertoire – often treasures he has dug up himself .
This time he wants to surprise , enchant and disturb visitors to the festival exhibition of the work of Jan Groth .
On his playlist for these pop-up concerts is a new cycle of Signs – caprices for solo instruments and early music by various composers . The works reflect the dialogue between Peter Sheppard Skærved and Jan Groth , emanating from some of the fundamental aspects of Groth ’ s work and attitudes towards such Nordic traditions as the runic alphabet .
Works by PETER SHEPPARD SKÆRVED , MARINI , BASSANO , TORELLI , DE MACHY , MATTEIS AND MORE .
Martin Clark and Steinar Sekkingstad curators
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