« Magnetic North – Artists and the Arctic Circle » à l’UBS Art Gallery

Magnetic North, curated by Pari Stave, brings together the work of more than 20 artists selected from The Arctic Circle’s 2009- 2012 residency programs. Magnetic North exhibition, organized by the Arctic Circle in association with The Farm, Inc, opens at a longstanding and devoted to the support of the arts and culture venue The UBS Art Gallery, located in the lobby of its building at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, on May 27, 2014. Magnetic North comprises a selection of works by more than twenty visual and sound artists from the 2009–2012 expeditions.

The exhibition encompasses a wide range of artistic practices, including photography, video, sound recordings, performance documentation, painting, sculpture, and kinetic and interactive installations. Taken together, the works of art offer unique and diverse perspectives on a part of the world rarely seen by others, conveying the desire to comprehend and interpret a largely uninhabitable and unknowable place.

The Arctic Circle is an extraordinary residency that brings together artists, architects, writers, composers, scientists and educators. For several weeks each year, participants voyage into the open seas and fjords of the Svalbard archipelago aboard a specially equipped sailing vessel.

The Arctic Circle’s mission correlates with CYLAND’s and is to cultivate the development of new work in the arts and sciences that addresses some of the central issues of our time; advance artist and innovator professional development through publication and exhibition opportunities; and engage with the community and the classroom through organized education and outreach programming, with a focus on the inter-disciplinary exchange of ideas.

CYLAND founder Anna Frants took place in The Arctic Circle’s residency in 2010 developing Trembling Creatures, an installation answering the question pondered by Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky: “And I a trembling creature or have I the right?” Yes, you are a trembling creature, and yes, you have the right… to tremble from any change in the world around you as do these hats felted by the Estonian artist… and set into moving or, rather, into trembling by any motion or gesture of the viewer.

Opening reception May 27th, 2014, 6-8pm, refreshments served

1285 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Ave) NYC, Main Lobby of the UBS Building

Subway Trains B, D, F, M to Rockefeller Center

info(at)thearcticcircle.org