{"id":7845,"date":"2018-07-24T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T07:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathmanduphotobkk.com\/?p=7845"},"modified":"2024-02-18T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T06:20:20","slug":"future-many-rivers-bruce-gundersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathmanduphotobkk.com\/?p=7845","title":{"rendered":"Many Rivers \/ Bruce Gundersen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kathmandu Photo Gallery & PhotoBangkok<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u2018Many Rivers\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

A photographic exhibition by <\/em><\/p>\n

Bruce Gundersen<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 September \u2013 27 October 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Opening party Saturday 1 September from 6.30 \u2013 9 pm)<\/p>\n

Pre-opening<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

On September 1, 2018 at 5.00 pm Gundersen will also be showing his film, Tabaung<\/strong>, the Loveliest Season of the Year, shot in Myanmar in 2004.<\/p>\n

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\u2018M<\/em><\/strong>any Rivers\u2019<\/em> invokes the psychic creatures of Southeast Asia: dredged up from the collective unconscious, the magnetic shape of a hooded cobra with a woman\u2019s wistful face; a young maiden in a sabai<\/em>, alone beside a jungle stream\u2014a place and time where magic, terrible or otherwise, happens.<\/p>\n

For 12 luminous years, artist Bruce Gundersen has immersed himself in fairy tales from the lands of the Naga: Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Siam, with their storied rivers, whose myths celebrate the people\u2019s close bond with nature spirits and supernatural forces. Here the line is blurry between the visible and invisible; where does \u2018reality\u2019 end and \u2018fantasy\u2019 begin? Do they in fact, as in Bruce Gundersen\u2019s sublime photomontages printed on silk, overlap in beauty?<\/p>\n

These stories and sacred initiations have come down to us from Southeast Asian prehistory, filtered through Buddhist, Hindu and Animist cosmology and repeatedly revealed over the ages through literature, song, dance and visual art. Despite his New York roots, Gundersen authentically belongs to this tradition.<\/p>\n

Bruce Gundersen<\/strong>: \u201cMy work is a contemporary approach to an ancient codified language of gesture and storytelling, presenting complex visual ambiguities, perceptually bridging painting and photography.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruce Gundersen<\/strong> is an interdisciplinary artist exhibiting his work in a variety of established venues. His collaborative performance art duo Gundersen\/ Clark has been included in festivals and contemporary museums in The United States and Europe. His collaborative video work FISHGUN FILMS has documented dance rituals of Southeast and South Asia. His interest in universal cultural legends and myths is an ongoing creative investigation, inspiring his digital art prints.<\/p>\n

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