Pia Ârĸê
Pia Ârĸê [ ˈpiːa ˈɑːqːiː ] (mostly simplified Pia Arke ; born Gant ; born September 1, 1958 in Uunarteq , † May 2007 in Copenhagen ) was a Greenlandic - Danish artist .
Life
Pia Ârĸê was born in 1958 as the daughter of the Danish telegraphy administrator Jørgen Gant and the Greenlander Justine Piparajik Birgitte Ârĸê. Her grandparents Niels (Ârdluarssuk) and Kathinka (Tũkâtêĸ) belonged to the Tunumiit who settled in the colonial district of Scoresbysund from 1925 . In 1983 she replaced her surname Gant with that of her mother. On September 29, 1990 she married in Copenhagen the Danish artist Michael Petersen (born 1955), son of Office Assistant Henning Petersen and his wife Inger Vangekjær. The marriage ended in divorce in 1993.
Pia Ârĸê grew up in East Greenland, Qaanaaq in North Greenland and Narsaq in South Greenland. She never learned Greenlandic. In 1987 she moved to Denmark, where she attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts until 1993, where Mogens Møller and Per Bak Jensen were her teachers. Pia Ârĸê mainly worked with painting , photography and landscape art . In her paintings she mostly used large areas of warm colors and painted Greenlandic motifs. Their art reflected the contrast between modern technology and Greenlandic tradition. In 1989 she created a 100 m² blue square in the countryside near Nuuk . In 1990 she photographed places from her childhood in Greenland with a self-made camera obscura . In 2003 she published the book Scoresbysundhistorier with pictures from the early days of her birth district. Pia Ârĸê died of cancer in 2007 at the age of 48. Her works were shown in 2010 in the traveling exhibition Tupilakosaurus in several places in Europe. The 400-page book of the same name about her life's work was then published.
literature
- Kuratorisk Aktion (Ed.): Tupilakosaurus - an incomplete (able) survey of Pia Arke's artistic work and research . Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-993523-3-3 .
- Wiebke Steinmetz: Arke, Pia . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Addendum 1, Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-22861-9 , p. 444., full text
Web links
- PIA ARKE on rethinking-nordic-colonialism.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c biography in Weilbach's artist lexicon
- ↑ Pia Arke er død at knr.gl
- ↑ En pioner i dansk samtidskunst in the Kristeligt Dagblad
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ârĸê, Pia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arke, Pia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greenland-Danish artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uunarteq |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2007 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |