The 2005 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
| Edward Wright | Jemima Wyman |
Artist: VIVEKA MARKSJO
Incubator/Delta - x 2004
3d CGI lambda print
100 X 75 cm
© the artist
Incubator 1a - b 2004
3d CGI lambda print
100 X 75 cm
© the artist
Delta - x/E-scape02 2004
3d CGI lambda print
130 X 84 cm
© the artist
The great shadow of Modernism casts itself across all these works, as it casts itself over everything else. It is quite inescapable. Here, the phenomenon of Modernism is both revered - as is evident in the artists' use of materials, tools and techniques that carry an aura of sleek modernity - and decried......Modernism is (or was) a hydra-headed monster and these artists, like most of those who set out to escape it, end up by paying it homage. It is, after all, the only reference point we have, for better or for worse, and we construct Modernism in a multitude of ways, each according to our own needs.
Peter Timms
from his Samstag catalogue essay;
Art in an Age of Anxiety
| Viveka Marksjo Born 1969, Stockholm, Sweden |
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| 2005 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK |
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| 2003 | Master of Fine Art (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne | |
| 2001 | Graduate Diploma in Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne | |
| 1994 | Bachelor of Education (Visual Arts), University of Melbourne, Melbourne |
| Edward Wright | Jemima Wyman |