AFA 22nd Anniversary

2021 Antiques & Fine Art 61 The light-filled Media Room is a comfortable, casual space designed for family-style lounging. A cloud-like custom contemporary sofa by Italian architect Paola Navone floats over a rug that calls to mind the tones and patterns of Irish Aran sweaters. On the wall behind the sofa, a photograph by Danish artist Thomas Bangsted (Sopnes, 2017) recreates a moment from the past with present-day photography. He presents a fascinating hide-and-seek historical narrative from World War II – the British’s obsession with sinking the colossal German battleship, Tirpitz, versus the German’s attempts to distract and preoccupy the Allied forces with locating it. Bangsted returned to the peaks of the adjacent Norwegian cliffs twice to capture the Fjord and its landscape, compiling aggregates of numerous elements to create an image of pure invention based upon 3-D reconstructions and meticulous research.