"Fred Ros: Antarctica Work to be Featured"
2001-06-05 until 2001-06-10
KunstRAI
Amsterdam, , NL Netherlands

Last January Fred Ros was the first artist in the world to visit Antarctica with the goal of making a virtual exhibition (1 Day of 480 hours) on the Internet. Impressions of the Art-expedition were sent by a mobile satellite unit which was part of the experiment. No expert could guarantee Ros a connection with a satellite in this part of the world. But he succeeded making it work. Back home (Netherlands) he now made his South pole Exhibition: to be seen at the KunstRAI, Amsterdam 5-10 June 2001 at Kunstrruimte Wagemans. Some of the works were shown already in The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.  

Fred Ros:I was looking for a new kind of light. Like Gauguin, Monet and Van Gogh were looking for. They found it in South France. I managed to finf it in Antarctica.

In december 2000 Fred Ros travelled to Antarctica. With more than 80 kilos of overweight all his equipment and expedition clothes in his suitcase  In his luggage he also carried earlier work of his project A hundred feet above the Waddensea and art work he made on the library of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He setdressed this earlier work in in the polar landscape. He sampled his earlier work framed by ice, water stone and penguin shit Het door Ros zo lang gedroomde licht deed de rest. The polar light Ros was dreaming of all the time did the rest of the job. The last couple of months Ros transaletd this art & life experience into new work on surprising formats en special materials. The KunstRAI will be not only Holland's largest gallery but also its most attractive gallery for six whole days. Art lovers will be very welcome at the 17th edition of KunstRAI in Amsterdam RAI from Tuesday 5 June to Sunday 10 June. Some 160 leading galleries will exhibit at this wide-ranging and varied art event, where visitors will find not only contemporary, innovative art and traditional figurative art but also classical modern art, glass and jewellery. A striking feature of this year's KunstRAI is 'Statements', an exhibition of 22 special and innovative installations and objects of individual artists submitted by the participating galleries. KunstRAI 2001 will be opened by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Mr Job Cohen, in the evening of Tuesday 5 June.

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