Rolf Aamot
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![]() The Fall, digital photopainting, 180 cm × 120 cm, Rolf Aamot, 2002–2003 | |
Born | Rolf Aamot 28 September 1934 Bergen, Norway |
Died | February 26, 2024[1] | (aged 89)
Nationality | Norwegian |
Known for | Painting, photography |
Notable work | Tide (1998) |
Rolf Aamot (28 September 1934 – 26 February 2024) was a
Much of his work consists of creating electronic tonal images and thus his work contains elements of photography but is hard to pigeon hole. It is frequently a form of performance art with abstract photographic elements. Since 1966, Aamot's works have been displayed in Scandinavia, France (Paris),[5] Berlin (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Venice (Italy), [[Moscow (Soviet Union and subsequently Russia), Kraków (Poland), the United States and Japan. His work can be found in several important public collections. Aamot has been represented at several international film and art festivals throughout the world.[6][7]
Background
Aamot was, from a very early age, taught after
Electronic art in television
Aamot's electronic tonal-image work "Evolution" (1966) with music by
Video art and digital photopaintings
Aamot became a controversial artist in the 1960s and 1970s.[8][9] From the latter half of the 1980s, he worked with computer paintings on canvas, digital photopaintings and graphic art. He has continued to make video and film art, often in collaboration with the painter and composer Bjørg Lødøen and the photographer, dancer and choreographer Kristin Lodoen Linder.
Selected works
Tonal-image compositions for screen
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Blood_and_Earth_%28by_Rolf_Aamot%29.jpg/300px-Blood_and_Earth_%28by_Rolf_Aamot%29.jpg)
by Rolf Aamot, 2008.
Television
- "Evolution" (1966)
- "Relieff nr.2" (1967–68)
- "BSK" (1968)
- "Visual" (1971)
- "Progress" (1977)
- "Structures" (1979)
- "Medusa" (1986)
- "Puls" (1986)
- "Close cluster" (Nærklang) (1987)
- "Expulsion" (1987)
Cinema
- "Relieff" (1966–67)
- "Kinetic Energy" (1967–68)
- "Vision" (1969)
- "Structures" (1970)
- "Actio" (1980)
- "Aurora Borealis" (1991)
- "Tide" (2000)
- "Energy" (2003)
- "U" (2005)
- "Ir" (2006)
- "Wirr" (2008)
- "Contra" (2009)
- "X" (2010)
Note
- ^ Published by The Bergen Museum of Art [1] 1998: Electromagnetic energy shapes the colour/photone and curvilineartone span of tonal image art. The laserpower radiance of atoms. The imagetone quantumsystem turns everything into sinewy relations – signalling movement to all our cells. The body builds its world by psychophysiological images. We exist, and exist in, the infinity of perception – matter, identity, intensity, rhythm, and the logic of the cells of our bodies - opening towards the heterogeneous, the void and the exile. The tones of images are, like tones of sound, a unity of dream and act. The information value of imagetones are determined by their frequencies, span, coherence, pulseform, modulation and polarization. The directionality pulse of particlewaves are sinusoidal. Painting/Tonal Image with Laserbrush and Laserfrequency Palette (full text) by Rolf Aamot Archived 15 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Translation of part of article (with one illustration of Rolf Aamot's frescoes at the Natural History Museum in Oslo) in La Lettre de l'OCIM n° 77: 'The frescoes in the Paleontological Museum in Oslo - a special case'. In 1955 [sic] (competition 1953, frescoes finished 1955) a young student at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry, Rolf Aamot, was chosen, by means of a competition, to paint dinosaurs and other creatures of the Secondary (Mesozoic) Era on the walls of the museum. These paintings were originally meant to be an as exact reconstruction as possible, following the scientific advice of the paleontologist Anatol Heintz. Aamot's initial drawings were practically "naturalist reconstructions" but the artist were to let them evolve into a painting of "the soul of the dinosaurs". When contemplating these frescoes today the visitor experiences the same sensations as when facing any other work of art. These dinosaurs are first of all what the artist wanted to create, before being "representations". Rolf Aamot's frescoes are the testimony of an artist on a scientific subject. Emmanuelle Huet, Des dinosaures en représentation.
References
- ^ "Kunstneren Rolf Aamot er død (The artist Rolf Aamot has died)" (in Norwegian). www.bt.no. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
- ^ "One man show, Norwegian Museum of Photography / Preus Museum". January 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- ^ a b "In English". Dramatiskainstitutet.se. 12 September 2008. Archived from the original on 13 August 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ Kunstnernes Informasjonskontor (Artists Information Office)[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Biennale de Paris - Archives". Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2009.
- ^ Kunstnernes Informasjonskontor (Artists Information Office)[permanent dead link]
- ^ Rolf Aamot - CV (in English) Archived 3 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Evolution - an experiment, Translation of article from the Norwegian publication Programbladet (28 May - 3 June, Nr. 22, 1967)". Archived from the original on 23 May 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
- ^ a b Image of article from the Norwegian publication Programbladet (28 May - 3 June, Nr. 22, 1967)
- ^ Image of article from the Norwegian publication Programbladet at Rolf Aamot on Luminous-Lint
- ^ Luminous-Lint biographical article
- ^ Norsk biografisk leksikon (Norwegian biography encyclopedia), 1999-2005 band 10 Archived 5 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Rolf Aamot official website
- Interview, 1 November 2010. "Rolf Aamot: One Of The World's Pioneers In Digital Art"
- Store Norske Leksikon (Norwegian encyclopedia)
- Bjørg Lødøen official website
- Kristin Lødøen official website
- Art at the Worker´s Place, Oslo, Norway
- Store norske leksikon (Norwegian encyclopedia), (Kunnskapsforlaget, Oslo, Norway).
- Norsk biografisk leksikon (Norwegian biography encyclopedia), 1999-2005 band 10, (Kunnskapsforlaget, Oslo, Norway).
- Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, band 1, München and Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 1992. Archived 20 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine