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BETTINA FORGET
catalogueWE ARE STARDUST SERIES
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Bettina Forget‘s work is based on ideas rather than on a specific visual styles or medium. Much of her work focuses on astronomy, inspired by her avid engagement with amateur astronomy. Examples of her astro-nomically themed works are her current Somnium Project, a series of prints and paintings based on Johannes Kepler’s text “Somnium, The Dream,” the first ever science fiction book written about 400 years ago. For her installation The Naked Eye Bettina painted large-scale, heavily textured, accurate star maps and created an immersive environment reminiscent of a warm summer night by including lawn chairs, a sound track of frogs and crickets, dimmed lights, and flashlights. Visitors to the exhibition were provided with paper star charts and encouraged to explore the (painted) night sky.
Other astronomically themed projects include the We Are Stardust Series, which explores Carl Sagan’s famous quote “We are all made of star stuff,” and the Moon Series, which illustrates the many moons of the planets of the solar system.
Bettina’s work is playful, didactic, and immersive, and aims to create a connection between the viewer and the cosmos.
Bettina Forget is a visual artist living and working in Montreal, Quebec. Born in Germany, she has studied at Central St-Martins School of Art in London, England and at Curtin University in Perth, Australia and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. She has exhibited in the USA, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Singapore, and Nicaragua. Forget is the director of Visual Voice Art Gallery, Visual Voice Lab, and VisualVoiceCollections.com. She also produces and edits online art magazine The Belgo Report.
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We Are Stardust
We are children of the stars - literally.All the molecules that make up humans - in fact, the entire planet and everything on it - were created by an ancient exploding star, billions of
years ago. This is expressed in astronomer Carl Sagan’s famous quote “We are all made of star stuff”, which is the inspiration for artist Bettina
Forget’s latest series of works.
A mysterious silhouette appears over and over in the “We are Stardust” series - sometimes a shadowy tint, sometimes an outline filled with
stars, and sometimes a silhouette-shaped hole cut right into the stretched canvas! It is the silouette of the (in)famous female aviator
Amelia Earhart, who mysteriously disappeared during her attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937. Speculations abound regarding this
“lost woman”, and Earhart has attained an iconic status in the worlds of aviation, science fiction and general pop culture. Bettina Forget uses her silhouette as a symbol for all humankind, for our impermanence,
and our connection to the stars.
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Amelia - Milky Way2007
acrylic on canvas48” x 48”
CAN$ 1,600
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Amelia - Open Skies2007
acrylic on canvas48” x 48”
CAN$ 1,600
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Amelia - Spectrum2007
acrylic on canvas48” x 48”
CAN$ 1,600
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We Are Stardust - Pleiades2006
acrylic on canvas24” x 30”
CAN$ 800
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We Are Stardust - Particles2006
acrylic on canvas24” x 30”
CAN$ 600
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We Are Stardust - Spectrum2006
acrylic on canvas24” x 30”
CAN$ 600
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We Are Stardust - Star Trails2007
acrylic on canvas24” x 30”
CAN$ 600
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Discovering Tuc 472007
acrylic on canvas30” x 40“”
CAN$ 950
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Messier #12006
acrylic on canvasgroup of 10 canvases: 5x 10” x 10”, 5x 8” x 8” (total 52” x 44”)
CAN$ 800
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Perspectives2006
acrylic on canvasgroup of 8 canvases: 4x 8” x 8”, 5x 6” x 6” (total 32” x 32”)
CAN$ 550