Viking Cruises - Viking Star Art Catalog by Sverre ICArt

VIKING STAR速 ART COLLECTION

VIKING CRUISES® OFFERS A UNIQUE LOOK INTO THE WORLD OF ART In every port of call, Viking Cruises ensures that a variety of art and culture is offered to their guests; whether it is through museum visits, guided tours of cultural sights or live performances of classical music and ballet – and now, aboard their premier ocean ship, Viking Star.

Showcasing a diverse group of international artists, many of whom are Norwegian, and a variety of mediums and approaches, International Corporate Art, on behalf of Viking Cruises, has curated a broad collection based on the idea that the traveler is a collector, just as the Vikings once were and other explorers have been.

The Viking Cruises collection presents a feeling of enrichment, exquisite quality and an exploration of the mind and beauty. In other words, art that reflects the highest quality materials, skills and creative execution – every piece of art reflecting the Viking Cruises brand and image: unique, original and memorable.

Displayed in all of the shared areas of the ship, the carefully curated artwork and photographs offer the Viking guest the opportunity to see a collection as profound as any offered in a well-known museum – without having to go ashore.

VIKING STAR速 ART COLLECTION

CONTENTS

06 EXPLORERS´ LOUNGE 16 WINTERGARDEN 20 OWNER´S SUITE 24 MAIN STAIRS 28 CORRIDORS 30 THE RESTAURANT 46

THE CHEF´S TABLE

50 PRIVATE DINING ROOM: THE CHEF´S TABLE 51 PRIVATE DINING ROOM: MANFREDI´S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 52 MANFREDI´S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 54 THE SPA 56 FITNESS CENTER 60 STATEROOMS

EXPLORERS’ LOUNGE | DECK 7–8

MARIAN HEYERDAHL 1957 x NORWAY x PHOTO ON ALUMINUM

EXPLORERS´ LOUNGE Probably as a result of its geographical location on the cold shoulder of Europe, Norway’s population is characterized by wanderlust, and has always fostered great explorers. Our knowledge of the Vikings’ daring and extensive routes is still not complete, but Leif Erikson’s discovery of America is now acknowledged, having taken place nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus’s famous trip.

Throughout her career, Marian Heyerdahl has focused her research on the connection between life and art, traveling the world to find inspiration for her artistic research. Her work often concerns issues of femininity, birth and fertility, life and death, and draws inspiration from sarcophagi and devotional figures of ancient civilizations. She expresses herself through a variety of materials, such as cement, glass, bronze and clay. Heyerdahl is well-known for her Terracotta Women, where she interpreted the famous Terracotta Warriors from Xian as women, drawing our attention to the often overlooked female participation in history, and the suffering of the innocent and forgotten victims of war.

On board Viking Star, we feature the anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, a famous modern-day explorer characterized by the restless Viking spirit.

As the daughter of world-famous explorer Thor Heyerdahl, Marian Heyerdahl has also dealt with the relationship to her father in her art, as is the case here. Modern Art and Link are tributes to her father, and illustrate how Marian as a young girl tries to comprehend the dreams and visions of her father.

The Kon-Tiki, Ra and Tigris expeditions are well-known through numerous books and films, a selection of which you can find in the Explorers´ Lounge, together with models of the vessels. The talents of Heyerdahl´s family are also represented on board, as the model of Kon-Tiki is built by his grandson, Olav Heyerdahl. Marian Heyerdahl, Heyerdahl´s daughter, and a highly acclaimed international artist in her own right, is responsible for the two magnificent photos in memory of her father, created to mark the 100-year anniversary of his birth last summer. The models of Tigris and Ra have been made by the same craftsmen who built the actual expedition vessels for Thor Heyerdahl, at Lake Titicaca in South America.

LINK | 2014

EXPLORERS’ LOUNGE | DECK 7–8

THOR HEYERDAHL Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) was a Norwegian ethnographer and explorer with a background in zoology, botany and geography. He gained worldwide fame for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km across the Pacific Ocean on a hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. After the Kon-Tiki success, Heyerdahl conducted similar expeditions with reed boats Ra I and II and Tigris. The expeditions were designed to demonstrate that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between separate cultures. With his spectacular expeditions and original theories, Heyerdahl was a controversial figure and an active participant in the debate about prehistoric culture contact and diffusion. His recreations of prehistoric voyages showed that early man had mastered sailing before the saddle and wheel were invented. His reputation as a scientist was consolidated through his archaeological excavations on the fabled, mysterious Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean. Curiosity was Thor Heyerdahl’s driving force.

EXPLORERS’ LOUNGE | DECK 7–8

KON-TIKI Kon-Tiki was launched in 1947, by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002). The Kon-Tiki expedition was inspired by old reports and drawings made by the Spanish conquistadors of Inca rafts, and by native legends and archaeological evidence suggesting contact between South America and Polynesia. The raft was hand built in Peru, constructed from balsa wood and other native materials. Together with five fellow adventurers, Heyerdahl set sail from Peru April 28, 1947, toward the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia. On August 7, 1947, after 101 days at sea, covering 4,300 nautical miles (4,948 miles or 7,964 km), the journey across the Pacific Ocean came to an end when the Kon-Tiki smashed into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands. Model scale, 1:20

EXPLORERS’ LOUNGE | DECK 7–8

RA II

TIGRIS

Ra II was launched in 1970 by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002). Heyerdahl’s ambition was to link the South American Indians with the ancient civilizations of Africa and the Middle East. The goal was to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco in a reed boat built according to ancient Egyptian paintings and models. The boat was named after the Egyptian sun god Ra.

The Tigris was launched November 24, 1977, by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002). Using the reed boat Tigris, Heyerdahl intended to demonstrate that trade and migration could have linked Mesopotamia with the Indus Valley Civilization, in today’s Pakistan. Tigris was built in Iraq, and sailed through the Persian Gulf to Pakistan, making its way into the Red Sea. After about five months at sea and still seaworthy, Tigris was deliberately burnt in Djibouti, on April 3, 1978, as a protest against the wars raging on every side in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.

Ra II sailed from Safi in Morocco May 17, 1970. The crew consisted of eight men. On July 12, 1970, Ra II reached Bridgetown in Barbados, having covered 6,100 km in 57 days. Model scale, 1:20

Tigris was named after the river it was launched in, the Tigris River, running through Turkey and Syria. When the vessel was burnt, it had traversed 6,800 km through the Arabian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. Model scale, 1:20

EXPLORERS’ LOUNGE | DECK 7–8

STELLA POLARIS Stella Polaris was a motor yacht built for Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskap BDS. She was launched September 11, 1926, and handed over in February 1927. The ship was 127 feet long and had capacity for 200 passengers. Stella Polaris sailed as a cruise ship around the world and became not only the company’s most famous ship, but also one of the most famous cruise ships in the world. During World War II, Stella Polaris was requisitioned by the German occupying forces and used as accommodation for German soldiers. In 1951 the ship was sold to the Swedish company Clipper Line, but continued to cruise until 1969 when she was sold to Japan and anchored as a restaurant and hotel ship. In August 2006, the ship sank outside Japan under tow to China. BDS had a tradition of naming their ships after phenomena and objects in the night sky. Stella Polaris is the Latin name for the North Star, a star in the Little Bear constellation.

EXPLORERS’ LOUNGE | DECK 7–8

JUSTINE SMITH 1971 x UK x INKJET PRINT

In her recent work, Justine Smith is concerned with the concept of money and how it is a part of almost every aspect of our lives. She is interested in money as a conduit of power and also in the value systems with which we surround it. On a physical level, a banknote is just a piece of paper, but it is what a banknote actually represents that is central to Smith’s work. Paper has always been a primary material in the work of Justine Smith, and through her collages, prints and sculptures she examines our relationship with money in a political, moral and social sense, while also exploiting the physical beauty of the notes.

OLD EUROPE | 2007

EXPLORERS’ LOUNGE | DECK 7–8

THE OSEBERG SHIP The Oseberg ship, built 820 AD, was discovered in a large burial mound near Tønsberg in Vestfold, Norway, on August 10, 1903. The mound was excavated during the summer of 1904 under the leadership of Professor Gabriel Gustafson, assisted by Haakon Shetelig. The ship was rebuilt in Oslo, and in 1926 it was transported on rail lines to Bygdøy in Oslo, where it was placed at the centre of a bespoke museum building. The ship is widely renowned and has been called one of the finest finds to survive from the Viking Age. The Oseberg ship is a clinker-built “karv” ship built almost entirely of oak. It is 21.58 m long and 5.10 m broad, with a mast of approximately 9-10 m. With a sail of approx. 90 m², the ship could achieve a speed of up to 10 knots. The ship has 15 pairs of oar holes, which means that a crew of ten could row the ship.

EXPLORERS’ LOUNGE | DECK 7–8

TOMMY HØVIK 1980 x NORWAY x COLLAGE

Norwegian artist Tommy Høvik works with installations and imagery where the personal and the spiritual, the modern and the sacred are expressed. Høvik explores the poetic potential of the discarded material that surrounds us. Old photographs and postcards, pages from an old book, a timeworn pair of shoes, a shirt or vase of flowers; all are objects that make up his pieces. By deconstructing and assembling these found materials, Høvik’s work often moves in time, from past to present, from the post-apocalypse to the metaphysical afterlife.

UNTITLED | 2013

WINTERGARDEN | DECK 7

NICOLAUS WIDERBERG 1960 x NORWAY x GLASS

Nicolaus Widerberg is a Norwegian artist working with lithography, painting and sculpture in stone, bronze and casted glass. Of his intentions, he once remarked, “My goal is to produce strength, communicate energy: There is something about creating something living out of an inanimate material. I try to give life to something dead, which comes to life – it’s a sort of cycle.” It has been described as “beings in a state of suspended animation; hence their timelessness. As in fairy tales, if you kissed them they would wake, breathe, move and talk.” Widerberg has participated in a large number of group shows both in Norway and abroad and since 1984 has held numerous one-man exhibitions at both public and private galleries. His works are held in public and private collections in Norway, USA and Britain.

SØKENDE KVINNE | 2008

WINTERGARDEN | DECK 7

DAG ALVENG 1953 x NORWAY x PHOTOGRAPHY

Dag Alveng is a contemporary Norwegian photographer who, during his career, has had great impact on the Norwegian photo community. Alveng is known for his exquisite technical quality, his rich details, his complex scale of gray nuances and the radiant, intense light that permeates his photography. Common to his projects are motifs derived from Alveng’s immediate surroundings, and the everyday thus constitutes an essential aspect of his work. The photographs represented on Viking Star are from Alveng’s Summer Light series, a series created over the course of twenty years in the coastal villages of Hvasser and Koster in South Norway and Sweden. The images are all about the Nordic summer light, and the serenity of these idyllic places. Dag Alveng is represented in MOMA’s art collection.

WRECKAGE LOOKING NORTH, KOSTER | 1996

WINTERGARDEN | DECK 7

ROCK AND OCEAN, KOSTER | 1996

LOOKING AT THE OCEAN, KOSTER | 1996

OWNERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SUITE | DECK 7

ODD NERDRUM 1944 x NORWAY x OIL ON CANVAS

Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum describes himself as a figurative kitsch painter, but he can also be characterized as a modern classicist, finding his role models in Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Caravaggio, in a protest against modernism. With his artistic approach, Nerdrum has often created public debate about art in Norway, advocating art that exists completely outside the definition of modern art. Nerdrum has held numerous exhibitions in Norway and abroad, and received widespread commercial success. In later years, he has withdrawn from the public eye, but is just as dedicated to his own artistic style. Nerdrum is the Norwegian artist whose works have been priced the highest at auction in his lifetime.

CITADELLET FRA SYDĂ&#x2DC;ST | 1976

OWNER’S SUITE | DECK 7

KÅRE TVETER 1922–2012 x NORWAY x OIL ON CANVAS

Norwegian painter Kåre Tveter is known for his landscape paintings of winter and autumn scenery in pale white and soft pastel colors. With this minimal use of color, and nuances of white, Tveter has become known as “the painter of light.” Tveter himself was particularly concerned with what he called “the inner light,” the light of the mind’s inner landscape. Tveter found his motifs from Svalbard in the high North and the woodlands of Finnskogen in the South of Norway and Sweden.

VINTERLANDSKAP (ISFISKER PÅ ØYERN) | YEAR UNKNOWN

OWNER’S SUITE | DECK 7

JAKOB WEIDEMANN 1923–2001 x NORWAY x OIL ON CANVAS

Norwegian painter Jakob Weidemann is considered one of the most influential artists in Norwegian modernism from the 1950s until his death in 2001, and he was a pioneer of abstract painting in Norway in the decades after World War II. Weidemann is known for his abstract expressionist paintings with nature as inspiration. After some experimentation with different artistic ideas in the ´40s and ´50s, he eventually found his signature style in an expressive, lyrical-abstract art with nature as inspiration and starting point. These paintings are characterized by light hues of blue, pink, yellow, green and violet. In the Owner´s Suite, Weidemann is represented with the painting Et Lite Epletre (A Small Apple Tree) from 1966. The painting displays Weidemann’s characteristics, with its light palette and nature as subject. The painting was given in direct provenance to Ole Henrik Moe, director at Henie Onstad Art Center in Oslo from 1966 to 1989.

KOMPOSISJON | 1972

OWNER’S SUITE | DECK 7

EDVARD MUNCH 1863–1944 x NORWAY x LITHOGRAPHY

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian expressionist painter and printmaker, and is recognized today as perhaps one of the world’s most famous artists. Munch began to paint already at the age of 12 and lived a life devoted to art. His artistic oeuvre extends over a period of more than 60 years, and during these years he painted over 2,000 paintings and made tens of thousands of prints. Munch can be said to be almost as famous for his biography as he is for his art. In periods he lived a nomadic and turbulent life, a so-called bohemian, together with Kristiania Bohemians in the Norwegian capital and in the environment around the wine bar Zum schwarzen Ferkel in Berlin. During his long life as an artist, Munch experimented with the different painterly directions of his time, but it is first and foremost as a symbolist and expressionist he has become famous. Paintings such as The Scream, Madonna, Death in the Sickroom and The Dance of Life are highly praised icons in art history.

TITLE UNKNOWN | YEAR UNKNOWN

MAIN STAIRS | DECK 1–8

THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY Dating back to the 11th century, the Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most famous works of art in the Western world from medieval times, and one of the supreme achievements of the Norman Romanesque. It is a historic monument that documents and retraces a series of events that took place in Normandy and in England in the second half of the 11th century. The origins of the Bayeux Tapestry are uncertain. The first written record of the tapestry is from 1476, when it was recorded in the cathedral treasury at Bayeux, as “a very long and narrow hanging on which are embroidered figures and inscriptions comprising a representation of the conquest of England.” The Bayeux Tapestry was most likely commissioned in the 1070s by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, half-brother of William the Conqueror. The original Tapestry is over 70 meters long and depicts

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BAYEUX TAPESTRY RENDITION | 2014

MAIN STAIRS | DECK 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8

626 human figures, 190 horses, 35 dogs, 506 other birds and animals, 33 buildings, 37 ships and 37 trees or groups of trees, with 57 Latin inscriptions. Although it is called a tapestry it is in fact embroidered, stitched not woven, in woolen yarns on linen. Some historians argue that it was embroidered in Kent, England. The Bayeux Tapestry has survived almost intact for over nine centuries, and the original is today preserved and displayed in Bayeux, Normandy, France. Its exceptional length, the harmony and brilliance of its colors, its exquisite workmanship and the fascinating history it recounts, makes the Bayeux Tapestry endlessly captivating.

MAIN STAIRS | DECK 1–8

STUDIO SEM SCULTORI ASSOCIATI SRL 2014 x ITALY x DARK TRAVERTINE

Studio Sem was established in the 1950s by Sem Ghelardini, and is today recognized as one of the most important sculpture studios in the Tuscany region. The studio has collaborated with artists and sculptors for more than 60 years, to produce marble and granite sculpture of all dimensions. These artists include Henry Moore, Helaine Blumenfeld and many more. When founding Studio Sem, Ghelardini’s vision was to create a studio where young artists could learn and work alongside celebrated modern masters. With Ghelardini’s passion for modern art and abstract forms, Studio Sem has become known as a pioneering and unique sculptor studio.

BAYEUX TAPESTRY RENDITION | 2014

MAIN STAIRS | DECK 1–8

CORRIDORS

FIN SERCK-HANSSEN 1958 x NORWAY x PHOTO ON ALUMINUM

Fin Serck-Hanssen is a well-recognized Norwegian photographer. He is represented in a number of key art institutions, among others in the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in England and in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo. For Viking Cruises, Serck-Hanssen has traveled to every destination on the Viking routes to photograph the shores and cities. Presented in large-scale black-and-white photography throughout the corridors, passengers can enjoy scenes from the different ports, with their street life, characteristic architecture and natural surroundings.

PORTS OF CALL | 2014

CORRIDORS

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

H.M. QUEEN SONJA OF NORWAY 1937 x NORWAY x ETCHING

THE RESTAURANT In The Restaurant, Viking Cruises has been inspired by the private art collection of H.M. Queen Sonja of Norway, and has interpreted the spirit of the collection by compiling a selection of works by represented artists. Highly acclaimed, well-known Norwegian artists, who have exhibited extensively both in Norway and abroad, are represented on board. These works of art exemplify the different trends in Norwegian painting from the 1960s up to today. This is contemporary art that fascinates the viewer, and brings us into contact with each new generation of Norwegian artists. In recent years, H.M. Queen Sonja has herself experimented with different graphic techniques and produced works of art, some of which are also presented on board. The Queen’s own art as well as her art collection have been presented in books and exhibitions, and were most recently shown at The Henie-Onstad Art Center outside Oslo in 2012.

H.M. Queen Sonja of Norway has retained a keen interest in art all her life. She studied art history at the University of Oslo, and has collected art for many years, building an impressive collection of contemporary art. Over the last several years, the Queen has discretely received instruction from two outstanding teachers, artists’ Ørnulf Opdahl and Kjell Nupen, who have taught her different artistic techniques such as watercolor, lithography, etching and intaglio. Working in modest formats, and trying out various techniques, the Queen’s work is inspired by her own interest in nature and photography, as well as Nupen’s colors and Opdahl’s dark mountains. There is a balanced quietness in her natural forms, where the abstract meets figuration and decoration.

STAUPER II | YEAR UNKNOWN

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

HEDEVIG ANKER 1969 x NORWAY x PHOTOGRAPHY

Hedevig Anker is a well-recognized Norwegian photographer, mostly known for her quiet, beautiful and poetic images of empty rooms. Characteristic of Ankerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photography is the way in which she sees the spaces that she photographs; the dark corner under a staircase, a crack in the floor, a living room through a key hole or the small gap between the back of a cabinet and the wall. Characterized by the juxtaposition of crystal clear light and a painterly blur, her images are at once abstract compositions and intimate photographic studies of our everyday life surroundings.

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

EIDSVOLL | 2014

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

ULF NILSEN 1950 x NORWAY x OIL ON CANVAS

Ulf Nilsen is a recognized Norwegian painter, educated at The Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. He has exhibited in several of the most important art institutions in Norway, and is represented in both private and public collections. Ulf Nilsen’s paintings are composed of different stories, deconstructed and reassembled. They are fragments of dreams, incoherent, abstract and real at the same time. He is concerned about the lack of coherence and seeks to create a fragmented reality where the arbitrary and the deliberate exist side by side. Still, Nilsen wants to give us keys to understand his imagery; abstract signs, pictures from media, figurative scenes and recognizable everyday objects – like a wheelbarrow or a clock, a chair, trees and flowers – all comprise his visual iconography.

NORDIC SUNSET | 2014

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

ASTRID NONDAL 1958 x NORWAY x OIL ON CANVAS

Astrid Nondalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s green and lush landscape paintings are both surreal and romantic. They do not depict any specific location, but are often the same type of landscape, a forest in early summer at most intense green. Freed from the rules of traditional landscape painting, Nondalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s images are like windows into a strange and different realm, its where a hidden, secret story is about to unfold. Behind the leafy branches making up the foreground of her pictures, small human figures appear in the distance, giving the image a harmonious yet ambiguous feel.

UTFLUKT MED RYTTERE | 2014

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

JAKOB WEIDEMANN 1923–2001 x NORWAY x OIL ON CANVAS

AKELEIE | 1971

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

ØRNULF OPDAHL 1944 x NORWAY x LITHOGRAPHY

Ørnulf Opdahl’s interpretation of the dramatic landscape of Western Norway has been popular with a large audience for decades, and Opdahl is often referred to as the great romantic in Norwegian contemporary art, renewing the Norwegian landscape painting in the tradition of Old Masters such as J. C. Dahl and Peder Balke. A mixture of concrete experiences and abstract impressions converge in his quest to capture this majestic landscape and its changing atmospheres, outside his studio on the rugged west coast of Norway, in a language most Norwegians understand and recognize. Opdahl was a professor at The Academy of Fine Art in Oslo for several years, and his paintings are acquired in most public art collections in Norway.

SKRED | YEAR UNKNOWN

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

IDA LORENTZEN 1951 x NORWAY x PASTEL ON PAPER

Ida Lorentzen has dedicated her career to painting rooms. Walls, floors, ceilings, doors and windows, Lorentzenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rooms are quiet, sensitive and full of light. Empty of persons, they still give a distinct feeling of lived life. The marking on the floor reflects the passing of time, and the light piercing through the windows pulls the narrative together and creates a sense of wonder. They are rooms that reveal yet conceal, as if they were holding a hidden secret.

ARTIST STUDIO | 2014

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

MAGNE FURUHOLMEN 1962 x NORWAY x LITHOGRAPHY

Magne Furuholmen is a well-known Norwegian artist, musician and composer, perhaps best known as the keyboardist of the pop band A-ha. In recent years he has dedicated much of his time to his artistic practice. As a visual artist, Furuholmen works with paint, etching, woodcut, glass and ceramics, and his work has been exhibited around the world. In his artistic expression Furuholmen experiments with the visual qualities of linguistic structures, text and letters, and seeks to recreate language as art. His idiom is modern, aesthetically and visually captivating.

BORDERLESS | YEAR UNKNOWN

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

INGER SITTER 1929 x NORWAY x OIL ON CANVAS

Inger Sitter is one of Norway’s most famous and significant living artists. At the age of thirteen, she made her debut at the Trondheim Art Association. At eighteen she exhibited at the prestigious Autumn Exhibition in Oslo, and the following year she had her first solo exhibition in the capital. Sitter is known for her passionate engagement in the Norwegian art scene, and she stood on the barricades for both artists’ rights and the fight for non-figurative painting in a national conservative, figurative and romantic Norwegian post-war art scene. Sitter’s work is characterized by its raw and immediate expression, with connections to a lyrical, nature-based abstract expressionism. Her fascination with rocks and stones form a continuous backdrop in her subject matter. Sitter became the country’s first female Head professor at The Art Academy in 1981, and was one of the driving forces for the creation of the Arts Council and the Council for art in public spaces.

UNTITLED | 1985

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

OLAV CHRISTOPHER JENSSEN 1954 x NORWAY x ETCHING

Olav Christopher Jenssen is considered one of the most important living artists in Norway, and has a significant international career. He lives and works in Berlin, and has been a professor of painting since 1996, first at the Hochschule of Fine Arts in Hamburg, and since 2007, at the Hochschule of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. His artistic development can be described as complex, moving back and forth between figurative compositions and moodcharged landscapes, surreal imagery and abstract paintings. Jenssen works with drawing, monotype, dry point and painting, and alternates between heavy, expressive gestures performed on large canvases, almost invisible scribblings, and smeared, cracked wooden panels. His expression is strong and simple, and his work has a delicate, almost weightless character.

U.T | YEAR UNKNOWN

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

KJELL NUPEN 1955–2013 x NORWAY x OIL ON CANVAS

Kjell Nupen was a famous and popular Norwegian artist, known for his versatile artistic practice, ranging from painting, graphics, sculpture and glass to ceramics. During his career, he developed a special, intense blue color that would come to be called “Nupen-blue,” and became one of his trademarks. Nupen’s work is both poetic and expressive. He used abstract-derived symbols and ritual objects, giving his images a meditative character. Recurring themes are a pyramid, a temple, boats, animal skulls and hieroglyphs. These are inserted into an aesthetic context of rich texture, expressive use of color and heavy black frames that are part of the artwork. Throughout his career, Nupen was a frequent exhibitor and his work is purchased by a number of collectors and public institutions.

REKONSTRUKSJON | YEAR UNKNOWN

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

THE CHEFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TABLE | DECK 1

JARLE TEIGEN OLSEN 1969 x NORWAY x ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

In his paintings, Jarle Teigen Olsen balances the figurative and the abstract in a rich tapestry of shapes and colors. With a repetition of figures and forms, his works can be reminiscent of wallpaper or textile patterns. Olsen finds his inspiration in Eastern aesthetics, Japanese woodcuts and kimono textiles, Arabic architecture and decor and, last but not least, nature. The basis of his motives is nature in all its diversity â&#x20AC;&#x201C; trees, branches, flowers and birds. The pictures are made up of numerous layers, which create an illusion of depth, while decorative shapes and forms hold the image surface.

30 BY 30 | 2014

THE CHEF’S TABLE | DECK 1

“30 BY 30” | 2014

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EELCO BRAND 1969 x THE NETHERLANDS x VIDEO

Dutch video artist Eelco Brand uses both paint and digital techniques to create images that reflect his conception of nature. His works are not so much the depiction of an actual place or event, but the way he imagines and models it in the calculated space of digital art. His subjects are modeled to the utmost detail to create a kind of hyper-real cosmos, a simulacrum of nature. Still, we experience these models of forests, cars and mountains as pure conveyers of meaning. These static images speak the language of scale, light, repetition, infinite detail and the deeper meaning of a simple gesture.

THE CHEF’S TABLE | DECK 1

U. MOVI | YEAR UNKNOWN

PRIVATE DINING ROOM: THE CHEFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TABLE | DECK 1

EMMA WRIGHT 1979 x NORWAY x PRINT ON ACOUSTIC PANEL

Emma Wright works with a variety of mediums and materials, from drawing, aquarelle and oil painting to using cotton fabrics, chicken wire and wall string. She concentrates on geometric shapes, grids and lines, which are composed into stringent systems. Her compositions are strict, yet playful, soft and bold, and often with traces of tiny imperfections left behind.

AQUARELLE GEOMETRICS BLUE | 2014

PRIVATE DINING ROOM: MANFREDIÂ´S ITALIAN RESTAURANT | DECK 1

JANET STAYTON 1939 x USA x MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER PRINTED ON FOIL

Janet Stayton is an American artist living and working in Italy, a country that has deeply influenced her work. Inspired by the landscapes, villages, sites and art masterpieces of Italy, Stayton has found her own artistic expression. Her paintings are complex compositions, built up as multiple frames and pictures within pictures, creating different perspectives and dialogues inside the image.

STILL LIFE WITH CUP | 2009/2014

MANFREDIÂ´S ITALIAN RESTAURANT | DECK 1

CHRISTOPHER COGNONATO 1983 x ITALY x PHOTOGRAPHY

Christopher Cognonato is a freelance photographer, working in different fields of photography. Traveling his native country, Cognonato photographs the buildings, people and streets of different cities, capturing the atmosphere of each person and place.

ESCAPE, FLORENCE | 2009

MANFREDIÂ´S ITALIAN RESTAURANT | DECK 1

FINN GRAFF 1938 x NORWAY x DRAWING

Finn Graff is a celebrated Norwegian illustrator and newspaper cartoonist. He has contributed daily cartoons and satirical commentary in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet since 1988, and is known for his quality craftsmanship, brilliant caricature portraits, biting comments and burlesque humor. With an inventive, confident line, he illustrates present-day events and people in the mediaÂ´s spotlight. Graff also illustrates literary texts, and has illustrated a number of books by famous Norwegian authors. He also has a considerable international career as a newspaper cartoonist, and has contributed to several international newspapers.

BERLUSCONI

THE SPA | DECK 1

HALIMA CASSELL 1975 x UK x CERAMIC RELIEF

The carved sculptural works of Halima Cassell are inspired by geometry and the Islamic art of North Africa and the Middle East. Using mixtures of traditional high-firing clays, molded and pressed into conventional shapes such as bowls and cylinders, Cassell transforms the clay into objects with relief surfaces made up of interlacing patterns and designs, derived from the geometry central to Islamic art. Her ceramic forms are carved with extraordinary precision and spatial imagination, resonating with profound cultural references. She discloses that most of her ideas materialize from her dreams, which are subsequently rapidly sketched into her sketchbook of detailed drawings, adding to the hundreds of illustrations waiting to be produced.

SHIP & CROSS | 2014

THE SPA | DECK 1

THOMAS WIDERBERG 1964 x NORWAY x PHOTO

Thomas Widerberg is a Norwegian composer and photographer. Since the late 1980s, he has sought out remote places, from Svalbard in the Arctic Sea to Lhasa in Tibet to the Gobi Dessert, to capture a feeling of deliberating loneliness. Widerbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photographs of the northern lights show the dramatic and magical light against the dark night sky. The photographs are sustained with multiple layers of oil paint varnish, protecting the images and creating tension and dynamics in the surface.

NORTHERN LIGHTS | YEAR UNKNOWN

FITNESS CENTER | DECK 1

VALERIA NASCIMENTO 1962 x BRAZIL x CERAMIC FLOWERS

Brazilian artist Valeria Nascimento has a deep affection for and fascination with natural forms, which inspires her delicate, whisper-thin, white ceramics. Her pieces are made from dozens or hundreds of hand-formed ceramic shapes, which are combined into small or large wall-spanning works that take months to assemble. Nascimento has a background as an architect, something that reappears through her repetitive sequences and structures, where tiny individual hand-rolled cones are repeated for many meters, resembling coral reefs, sea anemones, tiny poppy flowers, leaves, petals or pods. Almost as thin as paper, their sharp edges and cool whiteness give the impression of hardness at first, but the creamy offwhite shadows cast inside the ceramic hollows instead give off a soft, comforting warmth.

BLOSSOMING | 2014

FITNESS CENTER | DECK 1

CATHRINE MASKE 1966 x NORWAY x GLASS

Norwegian artist Cathrine Maske has created a unique expression that combines glass and photography, and is the result of a long and complex process. With her use of compact glass, Maske creates an optic illusion, and the image inside the glass changes, depending on which angle you look at. Maskeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work reflects a high technical standard, and includes large-scale installations in public buildings, art objects for exhibition purposes and functional tableware for everyday use.

OPTIC FACE | 2014

FITNESS CENTER | DECK 1

HENRYK HETFLAISZ 1978 x UK x PHOTO

Polish born, British artist Henryk Hetflaisz is a self-taught photographer, who has acquired deeply proficient photographic techniques purely on his own and not through any formal training. The pictures on board Viking Star are from his series Arcadia, taken on travels around the world over the past four years, with an emphasis on the process of capturing the material qualities of landscapes and the seductive elements of nature. Hetflaisz’s photographs enhance the viewer’s perception of reality; the colors and shades of a glacier, scenery portrayed from a bird’s-eye perspective, the immediacy of a movement or the texture of a water surface are significantly enriched for the viewer through an effective command of techniques and skillful perceptions of empirical personal realms.

IN THE FJORDS | 2014

FITNESS CENTER | DECK 1

STATEROOMS | DECK 3–7

STATEROOMS: CHILDREN’S DRAWINGS In the staterooms, the walls are decorated with children’s drawings made by schoolchildren in China. The children attend schools in rural China, that have been financially supported by Viking. The children have drawn their images after photographs depicting scenes from Venice, Bergen, Lisbon and London – ports on the Viking routes. Hanging next to the children’s drawings you see the photographs they were inspired by. This initiative is the personal idea of Torstein Hagen, Chairman of Viking Ocean Cruises.

BERGEN

www.icart.net | Oslo Miami London | February 2015 All artwork on board Viking Star is commissioned and purchased by International Corporate Art. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means without permission in writing from International Corporate Art or the artists and their representatives. Produced and edited by International Corporate Art. Design: Anette Mohn