Claire Reddleman: Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art

Bjarki Bragason

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Bjarki Bragason
Iceland University of the Arts
Iceland

Bjarki Bragason (1983) studied fine art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Universität der Künste Berlin before completing his graduate studies at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Bjarki has participated in numerous group exhibitions and has held solo exhibitions in Iceland and abroad since 2006. Solo exhibitions include Threethousand and Nine Years at the Living Art Museum, Past Understandings at the Vienna Museum of Art History, Desire Ruin at the Vienna Museum of Natural History, and The Sea at the Schildt Foundation, Tammisaari, Finland. Group exhibitions include Kingdom: flora, fauna, fable at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Imagine the Presentat St. Paul St. Gallery in Auckland New Zealand and Infrastructure of Climate at Human Resources, Los Angeles. Bjarki has curated exhibitions and taken part in artistic research projects in collaboration with artists, architects and earth scientists, among them Infinite Next in collaboration with Anna Líndal and glaciologists from the SVALI collaborative glaciology platform, engaging in field work at the Greenland ice cap. Bjarki was a recent resident of UC Berkeley’s Sagehen Creek Field Station’s artist in residency programme, where he conducted research on the history of specific trees within the Sagehen Forest in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His work has been reviewed in publications including the art and climate change series Distance Plan and in Janine Randerson's Weather as a Medium (MIT Press 2018). Bjarki ihas been Assistant Professor and BA Programme Director at the fine art department at the Iceland University of the Arts since 2016.

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Claire Reddleman: Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art

Bjarki Bragason

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A review by artist and assistant professor of fine art, Bjarki Bragason, on Claire Reddleman's 2018 book; Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with maps. Reddleman proposes a system of critique through an understanding of the history of cartography applied in a dissemination of works by five contemporary artists. In his review, Bjarki discusses the book from the point of view of an artist concerned with how artists interpret and represent the gaze on land and people.

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