18.08.2024
Artists' talk: Boaz Yosef Friedman and Sara Rossi
A warm welcome to an Artists' talk with Boaz Yosef Friedman and Sara Rossi who are both taking part in the exhibition Some Paintings
Some Paintings presents four painters, Boaz Yosef Friedman, Helga Páley, Jóhannes Dagsson and Sara Rossi. With some exceptions, these artists begin their work from what they have gathered, though what they have gathered is different, and what they do with the gatherings differs even more so. Their beginning points, colour, format, scale and space are considered for a sincere response to what they have found.
Boaz Yosef Friedman (b. 1994, Guam) currently resides and works in Reykjavík, he mainly works in sculpture, painting, drawing and installation. In his work he dives into questions of aesthetic conventions and explores how constructs of taste can be subverted into new emotional experiences. He is a co-founder of the Iceland Drawing Center / Íslenska teiknisetrið, a non-profit devoted to the research and celebration of drawing in and relating to Iceland. He studied at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie (Class of Prof. Trisha Donnelly and John Morgan) and the Slade School of Fine Art in the painting department.
Sara Rossi (b. 1981, Trento, Italy) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She received a master’s degree in llman) from 2018-2021. Her work navigates the realms of seeing, thinking, and remembering, focusing on the creation of visual meaning—the genesis of the visible before any categorization. Rossi describes her working method as a kind of "mental metabolism," exploring how images can unveil a system of thought.
Photo: Sara Rossi
A warm welcome to an Artists' talk with Boaz Yosef Friedman and Sara Rossi who are both taking part in the exhibition Some Paintings
Some Paintings presents four painters, Boaz Yosef Friedman, Helga Páley, Jóhannes Dagsson and Sara Rossi. With some exceptions, these artists begin their work from what they have gathered, though what they have gathered is different, and what they do with the gatherings differs even more so. Their beginning points, colour, format, scale and space are considered for a sincere response to what they have found.
Boaz Yosef Friedman (b. 1994, Guam) currently resides and works in Reykjavík, he mainly works in sculpture, painting, drawing and installation. In his work he dives into questions of aesthetic conventions and explores how constructs of taste can be subverted into new emotional experiences. He is a co-founder of the Iceland Drawing Center / Íslenska teiknisetrið, a non-profit devoted to the research and celebration of drawing in and relating to Iceland. He studied at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie (Class of Prof. Trisha Donnelly and John Morgan) and the Slade School of Fine Art in the painting department.
Sara Rossi (b. 1981, Trento, Italy) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She received a master’s degree in llman) from 2018-2021. Her work navigates the realms of seeing, thinking, and remembering, focusing on the creation of visual meaning—the genesis of the visible before any categorization. Rossi describes her working method as a kind of "mental metabolism," exploring how images can unveil a system of thought.
Photo: Sara Rossi
