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creative process only by minimal changes. In the context of this work, an arbitrarily defined route around the Earth is divided systematically and exactly into 20 segments which develop to a dynamic, logarithmic progression according to the 'Golden
Section'. The 20 steps are visualized by using an installation of 20 stainless-steel elements around the globe, precisely located on continents. The location of the points is achieved by using a computer and satellite navigation.
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Finnish architecture. It was also in Helsinki in the late 60s that Niemeyer met his wife, Tuula Partanen. in 1972 she founded Edition Partanen which specialised in silkscreen prints and publication of graphic and art portfolios. The studio was established in South Germany with a showroom in Zurich, Switzerland. Edition Partanen collaborated with artists such as Rupprecht Geiger, Matti Kujasalo, Ilya Bolotowsky and Niemeyer himself.
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Niemeyer's interest in photography came from a fortunate encounter with photographer Otto
Steinert, the former director of the Saarbrücken School where Niemeyer's mother used to work. The young Niemeyer was amazed by the way photographs were developed and chose to be trained as a photographer. Thanks
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His work is based on events in nature and civilization as well as on communication with his colleagues of other disciplines. According to
Niemeyer, the dual poles of nature and art are not only the basis of his experience but at the time also his central theme. His main interest is the perception of
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Over the years, Niemeyer has held successful one-man and group shows in
Scandinavia, Italy, Switzerland, Israel, USA, England, Japan, Argentina, and Finland. His murals in public buildings can be found in countries all around the world including Switzerland and Germany, and in Scandinavia. Featured
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Niemeyer was born in 1946 in the German village Alf. He comes from a long-time artist family. His mother was a textile designer and worked in Saabrücken at the former State School for Art and Crafts, where she was in charge of a handloom weaving factory. His father began to paint at a relatively
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Niemeyer began to elaborate his big scale project "20 steps around the world" which would be installed in 1997 in the City of
Ropinsalmi in Finland. In this project, he explained, the Earth replaced the canvas. According to him, Earth is the carrier of his artistic work being integrated into the
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In his work, Niemeyer connects art and nature, between the artistic action and the experimental work. His artistic production, fundamentally based on natural principals and measures, is nothing more than a sequence of experimental steps which implies given and objective criteria and subjective
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After three years of studying photography and graphic art, Niemeyer executed his first geometrical painting in 1966. He travelled in several countries, including the United States and Canada, and in
Scandinavia where he was particularly fascinated by nature. In 1967, he pursued his training in
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Finland, he met artist colleagues Lars-Gunnar Nordstrom and Matti Kujasalo, the former director of the Finnish Academy of Art in Helsinki. In the 80s, Kujasalo asked Niemeyer to lecture about different print techniques in the graphic art department. During this time, Niemeyer built up his
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space, time, distances and proportion and forms the synthesis between art and nature which implies in the end a dialogue between man and nature. He considers land-art a kind of laboratory, a ground for experiments for aesthetic-artistic, political and ecological syntheses.
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Niemeyer's work is nature. Since childhood, he has loved skiing passionately and spend a considerable amount of time in the mountains. The images of snow, clouds and light-situations gave him the desire to study structure, space, movement and time.
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in numerous international publications and films, his works are in public and private collections and museums including in Japan, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany and Austria. Today, Jo Niemeyer works and lives in Germany, France and Finland.
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Niemeyer was interested in changeability of structure in photography, and the step forwards the free creation of such structure was a logical and natural one. Painting allows him to do so: creating a free composition of a picture.
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to photography, Niemeyer realized that there are many ways to see things, and this medium was his first creative expression. He experimented with various techniques and specialized in architectural photography.
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industrial design at the Finnish Institute for Art "Atheneum". He decided in 1970 to quit his job as professional photographer to become a full-time independent artist.
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young age, in abstract and concrete art. Unfortunately, his paintings were considered to be degenerate and most of his works were destroyed or lost during WWII.
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