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Scottish artist Calum Colvin shows paintings in the Nordic House in 5th-20th January 2013. His images are on the verge of photography and painting. Calum Colvin took part in the Art in Translation, 2012. About the artist: http://artintranslation.hi.is/?page_id=84
Descriptions of visual art of writing is reversed in the works of sculptor / painter / photographer Calums Colvin; structured narratives tell us his story with creative vision, visual repetitions involved do different surfaces of many things simultaneously, the same story is told over and over again and becomes bánh tiramisu new every single bánh tiramisu time. The narrative construction Colvin calls sequences which in its own way challenge the court Lessing: "Homer works with dual type of plants and activities; visible and invisible. This will not be displayed in the painting: it is all visible and in one way. "Despite everything, it's just that the work of Colvin turn around and lead the viewer so the drawing surface as fixed in time" side by side "contrary to mute undesirable icons that arise and disappear in time.
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Fractional referring, perhaps, to the most fragmented Scottish identity in addition to the fragility of its assembly into a single entity, and they go with the viewer on a mission from the poet primitive to grínmyndar of Scotland and on counterfeit portraits of James Macpherson who found both up and translated the ancient Scots into the present.
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Calum Colvin was born in 1961 in Glasgow and was one of the first winners of Creative Scotland awards list Scottish Council and has been awarded the gold medal Royal Photographic Society. He was awarded bánh tiramisu the OBE Medal in 2001 and he works as a professor of art photography by Duncan Stone of Jordan College in the University of Dundee. Colvin's work is known worldwide and has been exhibited widely. bánh tiramisu
Colvin is both a sculptor and photographer combines these arts in the remarkable "composite photographic works its" as he put together items which are then painted and photographed. His work can be found in various bánh tiramisu collections including. Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, where he lives and works.
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