Firstindigo&Lifestyle

Interview: Marina Celander explores theater with intention

by firstindigoandlifestyle

New York City based performer Marina Celander crosses boundaries in her artistic practice, which combines a variety of genres and approaches to making art. Her solo performances echo authentic voice, and her deep participation on stage with theater groups comes across as statuesque, moving, gentle and charismatic. Marina Celander is born as Swedish-Korean, and is a recipient of 2014 Lilah Kan Red Socks Award for...

June 23, 2017

Comments 0

asian art, interviews, performance&dance, scandinavian, women in art
Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City

by firstindigoandlifestyle

Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City is an exhibition full of history that is so relevant today. Al-Hadid’s solo show is currently on view through September 24, 2017 at San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose, California. Liquid City is like a micro-cosmos of a world, in which the observer has carefully assembled her sharp point of view towards the core. It features an art-historical study on a...

May 30, 2017

Comment 1

fine and contemporary art, urban planning, women in art
Francie Lyshak about painting

by firstindigoandlifestyle

After four decades in painting, American artist Francie Lyshak has a deep knowledge on her practice. A woman-artist who has a lifelong approach to learning, finds nature and it’s varying stages influencing her work. The artist examines nature also with photography. It seems, as if those pictorial notes would transfer into her paintings with subtle poetry and movement. In this interview, she discusses her...

April 6, 2017

Comments 0

art education&management, fine and contemporary art, interviews, women in art
Artist in focus: Sasha Huber

by firstindigoandlifestyle

Sasha Huber is a multidisciplinary artist who hopes that our world would be a better place for people with different ethnic and racial backgrounds. She is determined to continue her family’s Haitian heritage in the arts, and has challenged the postcolonial controversies left behind by figures like Christopher Columbus and Louis Agassiz. Her artistic career has brought her international merit across continents. Sasha Huber’s art is currently...

March 27, 2017

Comments 0

interviews, photography&video, women in art
Bill Viola: The Moving Portrait

by firstindigoandlifestyle

Bill Viola: The Moving Portrait is a retrospective exhibition happening at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. The exhibition, on view until until May 2017, is celebrating a career of a pioneering video artist Bill Viola. The artist is recognized for his groundbreaking use of video technologies; and his works are known as poetic and performative, exploring the spiritual and perceptual side of human experience. Installed...

February 24, 2017

Comments 0

art review&curating, fine and contemporary art
Dive into Finnish Modernism: Tyko Sallinen and Tove Jansson exhibitions in Helsinki Art Museum

by firstindigoandlifestyle

With the current exhibitions focusing on the historic works of Tyko Sallinen and Tove Jansson, The Helsinki Art Museum HAM draws attention to modern Finnish art. Both exhibitions opened in January 27, 2017. Sallinen’s exhibition will run until the Fall of this year, and Tove Jansson’s frescos will remain on a permanent display in the museum. The exhibition of Tyko Sallinen (1879–1955), explores works of a Finnish modernist...

January 31, 2017

Comments 0

art education&management, fine and contemporary art
Favela Vera Ortiz: Choreography unplugged

by firstindigoandlifestyle

Favela Vera Ortiz is a Finnish-Argentinian choreographer based in Helsinki, Finland. The choreographer has recently been celebrating her artistic anniversary. She is currently finding herself with compositions that extend the boundaries of the body, self, and the space. Vera Ortiz is well known as an inventor of Choreographer’s Appointment, in which participants find their solo movements with the choreographer, and engage in a social form...

December 31, 2016

Comment 1

interviews, performance&dance, women in art
Artist in focus: Liu Shiyuan

by firstindigoandlifestyle

Artist and global citizen Liu Shiyuan is a young generation Chinese artist. She comes from Beijing and lives currently between China and Copenhagen, Denmark. Her multiplicity as an artist has gained her presentation across continents. Liu Shiyuan’s visually colorful photography and video montage, and her approach to cultural patterns perform traditions from new angles. In her body of works, monochromatic tones meet performative arrays. Firstindigo&Lifestyle: What made you...

November 29, 2016

Comments 0

asian art, fine and contemporary art, frieze art fair, interviews, women in art
Interview: Yasushi Koyama, cuteness and nature in Finnish and Japanese aesthetics

by firstindigoandlifestyle

Japanese sculptor Yasushi Koyama lives in Helsinki Finland and exhibits frequently in the local galleries. In this interview, he ponders the aesthetics behind his cute wooden sculptures. The artist brings the two artistic worlds together in his deep knowledge of both Finnish and Japanese cultures. One of his revelations connects to an idea of etic (or ethic), a general belief that influences people’s behavior and attitudes. Firstindigo&Lifestyle: When did...

October 19, 2016

Comments 0

art education&management, asian art, interviews, scandinavian, world design capital helsinki 2012
Amelia Marzec’s Weather Center for the Apocalypse

by firstindigoandlifestyle

New York city based artist Amelia Marzec has been working on a project Weather Center for the Apocalypse since 2015. The work is presented during Climate Week in NYC, opening taking place on September 20, 2016 at United Nations Plaza. The artist has created an ongoing and evolving Weather Tower installation, which handles a theme of change in the environment and culture where we live in. Weather Center...

September 19, 2016

Comments 0

art education&management, interviews, women in art