December 10, 2010

Arts District Winterfest            
Dec. 10, 2010                                                     


The Los Angeles Downtown Arts District is a community of downtown Los Angeles. It was created in the 1970's when artists moved into the empty warehouse and manufacturing spaces in buildings up to 130 years old in the area between Little Tokyo and the L.A. River. The residents gained legal status when the LA City Council permitted artists to live in their work spaces as live/work space. In the 1990's, at the urging of Arts District activist Joel Bloom, the area was officially designated as the Arts District. It is home to hundreds of artists, musicians, artisans and dozens of arts-related enterprises, including the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc), Cornerstone Theater, ArtShare and a scattering of galleries, cafes and restaurants.










  

December 01, 2010

Bleicher/Golightly Gallery
 1431 Ocean Ave,  Santa Monica  
 Micro Gestalt and Burned Fingers     GROUP EXHIBITION  
December 11, 2010
Airom’s curation-installation hybrid of hundreds of small images 
that come together into a color spectrum. 








November 29, 2010

"Børsen" (Danish newspaper): "DRØMME og hårdt arbejde"/"DREAMS and hard work..."by Journalist Tina Johnk Christensen 

 

November 28, 2010


THE TALK WAS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK I'M WRITING ABOUT INTER-DISCIPLINARY SET DESIGN AND A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE RESEARCH WAS ABOUT AT THE WATER MILL CENTER, WHILE I WAS THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE THERE.

Set design is an art form that actually can draw on several other artistic disciplines and integrate some of them in itself and its expression. Set design is a wildly interesting topic which really is visual communication, that can comment on cultural events and generate debates in society. Set design, when it is interesting, has moved far away from visual social realism in theater and backdrop painting, to abstract space structures. Which simultaneously can convey messages that support the other elements on stage, if there is a stage!
I chose to study set design, because the profession itself draws both from art, literature, psychology, philosophy, communication and anthropology. Each fields which I was enormously interested in, and therefore not able to decide which area to focus on.

September 30, 2010

'PEOPLE COME BACK FROM WAR, TRANSFORMED!' 

all images Copyright Birgitte Moos 2011
                                   





 

                                             

                                                                                

July 20, 2010

 Q  U  O  T  E "An Artist needs the nerves of a bullfighter, 
                       the concentration as a buddhist monk, 
                  the courage of a female Parisian nightclub owner"
                                                    Jaschka He
ifetz

July 05, 2010



Q""UOTES

"Birgitte is a very talented Painter" 
Achim Freyer
Stage Director- and Designer


”Ms. Moos is a specialist image-maker, an artist, thinker and craftsperson who possesses an  
 extraordinary esthetic sensiblilty. She is already a visionary in the field, pionering exciting new  
 areas of the cutting edge of technology and the arts, and creating striking and deeply  
 interesting art works in the process. She is a creative and gifted talent who not only excels but  
 stands out... Her work show great sensitivity, versatility and universal appeal in many genres of  
 artistic media. She is an excellent conceptual and creative thinker, a fine communicator, and 
 highly sophisticated in her use of visual language... Individuals with her combination of skills, 
 knowledge and talent are extremely rare and much sought after by industry. She will  
 undoubtedly bring prestige to any project in which she is involved.”

”I am confident that she will continue to shine and develop as one of the pioners and creative talents in the field.”

Vibeke Sorensen
Professor and Founding Chair
University of Southern California
School of TV and Cinematic Arts, Division of Animation and Digital Arts



”Scenography and its related disciplines is an increasingly important area of study and gaining  
 considerable academic attention. The field encompasses the visual and spatial aspects of  
 performance in all its manifestations. As such, it includes architecture, the plastic and fine arts,  
 digital and electronical media, drama, literature and related fields. It is, in other words, a truly  
 cross-disciplinary field of study with important implications for the contemporary world of  
 performance, communication, media and the like.. Someone who can bring praxis to theoretical  
 interrogation should be an ideal candidate for such a field of study. Ms. Moos seems to be such  
 a person.”

Arnold Aronson PhD
Professor and Chair
Columbia University School of the Arts,
Theatre Arts Division



”Birgitte has a high vocational base that places her in that certain category reserved for outstanding Danish mediators in the creation of film... Her accomplishments are manifold. She is an eminent Production Designer and a very talented painter. She is unusually articulate and entertaining Birgitte functions perfectly the role of a teacher.”

”Great artistic talent is characterised by the artists ability to be innovative, and this Birgitte posesses in abundance.”

”Birgitte Moos is enormously qualified to work with the education and design of television, film, video and the performing arts.”

Susanne Vad
Film Studies Director
Zentropa Productions / Station Next



”Birgitte Moos is a Danish designer, which in future may help to anchor Denmarks position in the  
 field of set design for film and theatrical media. Birgitte has through her earlier works showed  
 great professional commitment, professionalism and pioneering new ideas.”

 Ulla Hovgaard Ramlau
 President, Danish Design Center



”Birgitte has studied at UDK, Berlin University of the Arts, by Professor Achim Freyer. The mere  
 fact being accepted as student by one of this century’s most recognized scenographers and  
 visual artists, indicates her talent.”

 Jonas Elmer
 Filmdirector


 

June 07, 2010


                                                                                                                                                                       NSTALLATION: The Form Behind the Form. Time defined as Form
Artist: Birgitte MoOS

Denmarks National College of Design/ Danmarks Designskole - Copenhagen

The object is a container containing time & the container is a temporal model, that visualizes what time is in itself when time is designed as a physical object.
The now moving in time, independent of the moment...  READ MORE

May 20, 2010


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   "The Arsonists" extended through June 26th, 2010.     CHRITICS CHOICE by Los Angeles Times           LINK TO VIDEO 


May 18, 2010

SET DESIGN for The Arsonists. American premiere at                               the     Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles.  April 3 - May 23, 2010

PRESS: 
Photo by Tina Jøhnk Christensen  
Los Angeles Times  
”...Among the first-rate design elements, Birgitte Moos’ striking set holds some real surprises.”
Read more at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/ 2010/04/ theater-review-the arsonists-at-koan-at-the-odyssey-theatre.html
”...Set designer Birgitte Moos'           beautiful two-level set (1950s-style living room and attic) is ingenious...”
Read more at http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/stage-news/stage-raw-the-mystery-plays/#more
BEVERLY PRESS, April 8, 2010
”...super set design co-operation from Birgitte Moos...”
BACKSTAGE. CRITICS PICK: 'The Arsonists'. KOAN at The Odyssey Theatre. 7.4.2010
           STAGE AND CINEMA, FIREMEN, SAVE MY WORLD, April 11, 2010 
”... the look and feel of a grim East-European film of the 60s, with just the right touch of Keystone Kops madness...”
Read more at http://www.stageandcinema.com/arsonists.html
Campus Circle, May 5, 2010
”The two level set design from the wallpaper to the hanging houses was    beautifully developed by Danish set designer and fine artist Birgitte Moos. (I could not expect less from a student of Achim Freyer.)...”
Read more at http://www.campuscircle.com/review.cfm?r=10879&h=-The-Arsonists-Now-May-The-Odyssey-Theatre
          A CurtainUp, Los Angeles Review: The Arsonists 8 april, 2010
“Scenic designer Birgitte Moos has layered that second level attic atop a sterile white living room that looks like it might be a generic hotel room. Miniature houses representing the city float in space, and the firefighters scale metal towers to peek in the windows…”
Read more at http://www.curtainup.com/arsonistsla10.html
LA THEATRE REVIEW,   April 9, 2010
”The set, by Birgitte Moos... was marvelously evocative...”
Read more at http://www.latheatrereview.com/2010/04/09/the-arsonists-at-the-odyssey/
BITTER LEMONS,   April 2010
http://bitter-lemons.com/2010/04/the-arsonists-100-sweet/














Set design for "the Arsonists".         
           Photos by Tina Jøhnk Christensen



May 17, 2010



        TRANSITSTATION.DE at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts at     
   Charlottenborg Castle - Copenhagen. April 17, 2010.    Art in Action. 'Mani-Fest', performance in collaboration with Christian Johansen.
      

April 10, 2010

LosAngelesDowntownArtwalk        
 Cunt-Fetti. Installation in collaboration                             with Trine Koester and Tilde Bay Kristoffersen

Optical Allusions Gallery - Los Angeles
ECLECTISM
Exhibition April 10th - May 8th.
2414 West 7th Street, LA, CA