"Rimbaud", a fitting name

Vi have brought the young french 19th century poet Arthur Rimbaud to light and used his name for our society.

Rimbaud was a pioneer of poetry and ahead of his time. He dared be who he was and tried to live a life free of formalities and superficial conventions.

A society with themes

We have chosen to work in-depth with certain problems and have therefore decided that each exhibition shal deal with a new theme in common for the exhibiting artists. This way we aim at creating coherence throughout out each exhibition, but we also want a dynamic process of realization by offering new angles and themes whenever we manifest ourselves.

Process & cooperation

As a result of the themes, we hope visitors will experience new constellations between the various represented media. The themes are intended to lift the shows of the society to a fluid organic process, where experiments and play can become art with content and presence.

Our goal

Since we live in a world where traditional comprehension and epistemology is linguistic, we as modern people can not avoid “expounding the text” so to speak. However, as we are visual artists, we find it compelling to stress arts inherent visual repertoire of cognition as an alternative epistemology.

Thus our goal is to create present and relevant art that can not be reduced to intellectual or verbal conceptualizations. We want to show the many facets of visual art and offer our notion of what this generation’s art is about.

We want to step ahead of our time and show art that is free of formalities and superficial conventions, just like Arthur Rimbaud did over 120 years ago.

The founders

The idea of a different society

The artists' society Rimbaud was founded by the visual artist Martin Oluf Thaulow, the ceramicist Jakob Stig Isaksen and glas artist Maj-Britt Zelmer. All currently located in Bornholm.

Arthur Rimbaud

French poet born 1854 in Charleville. Dead 1891.

Arthur Rimbaud's influence on modern poetry can not be overestimated. His poetry has inspired poets like the surrealists, Patti Smith, Jim Morrison,Michael Strunge and Tome Lundén. He was anarchistical and amused himself with drinking, taking opium and provoking the bourgeousie. He only published three collections of poetry, but they have had enormous influence.

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