OPEN STUDIO, December 5th, 2009.       Photos by Tina Jøhnk Christensen

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY & LECTURE AT THE WATERMILL CENTER, NEW YORK        

                  Revolutionary Spaces                                        October 27, 2009 - 6:00pm

The Watermill Center

39 Watermill Towd Road
   Watermill, New York

Revolutionary Spaces is an exploration of the art of theatrical set design. From challenging gravity to creating a language through non-realistic imagery, Revolutionary Spaces explores the interaction of the audience and the stage. This project questions how and where the viewer experiences recognition and intuitive understanding of the content of a performance as it relates to the environment of the action on the stage. The intent is to channel this exploration into writing a book on the effects of abstract imagery as they apply to set design.

                           Birgitte Moos is a Danish artist, based in Copenhagen and Los Angeles. Both a conceptual painter and set designer, she holds an MFA from the National Design School of Denmark, where she was often called “the most analytical Danish set designer.” Her work has been shown in various venues and exhibited internationally at numerous galleries. Recently, she designed the set and costumes for Theatre Cantabile2 in Copenhagen and had a solo exhibition at Edgar Varela Fine Arts in  Los Angeles.                                                                      
 More information is available at www.birgittemoos.com.        
 This free workshop : A work-in-progress presentation, is part of the  Watermill Center's Fall 2009 Artists-in-Residence program.

SET DESIGN FOR THE HAMLETMACHINE

Thesis project for masters degree at Denmarks Designschool 

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For Citizen LA Magazine  – Los Angeles. Review by Birgitte Moos: "Siegfried" at Los Angeles Opera. Directed and designed by Achim Freyer

                                                            LA Opera stages the Richard Wagner tetralogy Ring Cycle through 2008/10. The third opera in the cycle, Siegfried, just had its premiere at The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

                                                    

The LA Opera Ring Cycle is conducted by James Conlan, directed and designed by the Berlin based, internationally known Artist, Achim Freyer. Mr. Freyer also does light and costume design in collaboration with Amanda Freyer and Brian Gale.

                                                                The Ring Cycle is based on Norse mythology, Icelandic Sagas and the Germanic pre-Christian legend of the Song of the Niebelungs;  a heroic epic poem written in german in the 12th century.

                                                                   The illiterate but fearless hero of The Ring Cycle is Siegfried. A product of nature, as Siegfried’s mother Sieglinde was sent to the woods with a broken sword. She died in childbirth, and Mime raises Siegfried in the forest, in hope to get a powerful ring.

First act opens with light tubes across the stage floor, reminding of a swimming pool. Siegfried sees reflections in the stream, and the mirror effect is futhermore executed by twin figures of the main characters.

                                                                  The story is visualized by a moving and sometimes tilted revolving stage, as a record player where the story is grooved into, and reflected out in a divine light space, creating three-dimensional effects through projections on fore -and background.

                                                                   As the drama accumulates, Mime plans to kill Siegfried, but Siegfried fixes the sword, the young hero conquers power with this sword and kills everyone who comes in his way including the dragon Pfafner, and departs for the sleeping Brunhilde.

On the journey to Brunhilde, Siegfried encounters Wotan, the king of the Gods, overcomes climbing the mountain, pervades the magic fire, finally arousing the beauty, Brunhilde, who is told to marry whatever man that awakens her.

                                                                  The stage design evolves throughout a story where values and moral is defined by, that survival is everything, so the final act consists of integrating multilayered visual expressions, ranging from under -and oversized objects to sophisticated retro 80’es neon art show.

                                                                  A multimedia performance where variation in speed of movements, superb comic book elements, fairytale symbolic references amplifies into a precise abstract interpretation, staying true to the text.

                                                                  The vocal performances was penetratingly mind stirring and technically more than straight. Music director James Conlon is evident as the Capitan of the orchestral ship, sounding lovely.

                                                                     I advise Quentin Tarrantino, Peter Jackson and David Lynch go see it, as the story contain many of the same classic elements of the Hero Myth as Tolkien and makes use of mythic storytelling, and because this performance proves that the screen hasn’t taken over!

                                                                  The Ring Cycle is ancestral legends, and Achim Freyer hit the tone of the story instinctively, academically and stunningly! Achim Freyer has proved that age doesn’t play any role, when it comes to staying innovative and visionary as an artist.

                                                                 By Birgitte Moos. A Danish Fine Artist and Stage Designer, student of Achim Freyer at the Berlin University of the Arts, HDK in Berlin.

Pershing Square       

Autumn Lights - 

Los Angeles         

Contemporary Art in 

the Public Space.

 

ARTIST STATEMENT: FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE ITFake it Till You Make It is a visual commentary on contemporary visual art practice and spectator attendance. Produced by using threads to art history and current ‘art trends’. It is a site-specific and politically anarchistic work created for the Autumn Lights exhibition at Pershing Square in Downtown, Los Angeles, September 2009...
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Pershing Square
532 S. Olive St.             
Los Angeles,  90014

9/19/2009 - 9/19/2009

                

SUNFLOWER PAINTING, September 2009, 75X75 cm FOR STELLA DOTTIR GALLY, 

LOS ANGELES

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ISIK University Gallery - Istanbul/ Turkey

11th International Istanbul  
   Biennial
 Parallel Exhibition: Trade Show

Los Angeles Municipal              Art          Gallery Barnsdall Art Park. Group Exhibition

For Love or Money at the City of Brea Art Gallery

Critic International response to griffyfan on Madea Goes To Jail                                                                           

Two07 Gallery,NY

History of Conspiracy Theories.                 Mixed Media: Conspiracy PuzzleNew York

Edgar Varela Fine Arts - L.A.                 'The Memory Palace Series.'       

                        Solo Show       March- April 2009

                                                                         Photos by Billy W. Bennight II and Raymond Y. Newton  

BEDLAM MAGAZINE - A Great Dane by Jonathan Jerald. March 17, 2009                                    Birgitte Moos is a native Dane but she splits her time between Copenhagen and Los Angeles and so her works reflect urban landscapes that transcend continental divides.  Her imagery has evolved from the use of early European  mythological symbols and figures into dark, abstract, almost architectonic works that suggest urban landscapes that trap and channel human figures through an uneasy labyrinth.                                                                                                 Moos describes her approach to painting as an exploration of her personal experience and that of her generation by adapting methods from the memory palace technoique of recall, "the method of loci, or 'ars memoriae' (art of memory)." The woven layers in each individual painting are  narratives representing separate visions of remembrance. "Symbolically,"                          Moos explains, a brain scattered full of information: A perverse peep into the creative and complex atmosphere inside the memory of a mind palace."                                                                                            The images she produces are often reminiscent of the darker panels of graphic novels in which the inhabitants are trapped in a twilight metropolis, divided by walls of their own making.                               New Works by Birgitte Moos at Edgar Varela Fine Arts (EVFA) Gallery, Downtown LA. March 21st - April 11, 2009                                                                                    bedlammagazine.com   

ART STATEMENT FOR "THE MEMORY PALACE SERIES"

Being born into the time of no future generation pondering 

over how to visually manifest an idea of tracking events back 

to that era. Remember being impelled towards a fascinating 

system. A Memory Palace... READ MORE... 

Set  and  costume  design  for Theatre  Cantabile2,               Denmark,  2009.                               'The  Beggars  Opera', adaption  of  'Three  Penny   Opera'

Vordingborg and Copenhagen. Kaleidoskop K2. Tiggeroperaen/ The Beggars Opera. Directed by  Nullo Facchini. Music Marilyn Mazur. Set and costume designer Birgitte Moos

PRESS "Tiggeroperaen/The Beggars Opera"

ET GRUMT EVENTYR af Gregers Dirckinck-Holmfeldt, 1 april 2009
http://gregersdh.dk/?p=668


"Rørende og visuelt fænomenal tiggeropera" af Andreas Fruensgaard.
Frederiksborg Amtsavis, 13 januar 2009

LUDERE OG LOMMETYVE af Anne Middelboe Christensen
Information, 17. januar 2009

SOLGT TIL SEX af Vibeke Werm
Berlingske Tidende, 15. januar 2009

FRA HUSRUM TIL BAGAGERUM
af Peter Johannes Erichsen
Scene, Januar 2009

SOCIALREALISTISK BILLEDTEATER KØRER I SLOWMOTION
Politiken, 19 januar 2009

'The Beggars Opera'/'Tigger  Operaen'/ adaption of 'Three Penny opera' / Trailer  / Cantabile 2

Beginner & Sinner

Beginner & Sinner

Opening up the curtains to art as an expression of an ultimate concern ...