{"id":14956,"date":"2017-01-17T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=14956"},"modified":"2017-01-17T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:15:14","slug":"new-york-city-ballet-collaborates-with-visual-artist-santtu-mustonen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/new-york-city-ballet-collaborates-with-visual-artist-santtu-mustonen\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Ballet Collaborates with Visual Artist Santtu Mustonen"},"content":{"rendered":"
New York City Ballet<\/a> (NYCB) has announced its fifth annual \u201cart series\u201d collaboration: Santtu Mustonen. This series launched in 2013 as a way to cross pollinate visual and performance arts and invite new audiences to explore different disciplines. The large-scale installation, created for the promenade of the David H. Koch Theater, will be on display from January 17-February 26.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Brooklyn-based Finnish artist typically pairs visual imagery with movement and digital technologies in innovative ways that create new challenging perspectives. He constructs and assembles but also breaks down, layers and textures his work to create new abstract ideas. According to his website, Mustonen \u201cis interested in visualizing the emotions of suspense, excitement, distortion and the surreal.\u201d This commission, which explores the palatial scale of the promenade, features a video installation that was created from a series of original, digitally altered paintings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI see a lot of connections to dance in my work,\u201d says Mustonen. \u201cBy using digital tools to animate paintings, I can make a work move almost like a dancer.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n