Pictures Reframed

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We aim to deliver long-term growth and continue to develop technologies and manage projects that will meet the world’s energy and climate challenges in a sustainable way. Statoil is listed on NYSE.

Statoil has a long tradition of supporting musical talent and presented Leif Ove Andsnes with the Statoil Award for musical excellence in 1990. This was the starting point for an ongoing cooperation, and, as part of this relationship, Statoil is proud to be the commissioning sponsor of Pictures Reframed. For more information about Statoil's sponsorships please visit:
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is one of the world’s leading performing arts centers. As one of the 12 resident arts organizations that comprise the Lincoln Center in New York City, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts offers more than 400 performances of music, opera, theater, dance, and multi-media events each year, ranging from authentic kabuki theater and dance premieres from world-renowned choreographers to groundbreaking outdoor video installations; outdoor dancing to live music on Josie Robertson Plaza; opera performed with life-size puppets; and free performances of Korean drumming and African dance. Last season alone, these events brought some 5,000 performances by more than 3,000 artists from every corner of the globe to Lincoln Center. In addition, Emmy Award-winning Live From Lincoln Center telecasts, the only series of live broadcast performances on American television today, extend the reach of Lincoln Center to millions of Americans nationwide.

The project Pictures Reframed will have its World Premiere at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on November 13th. As commissioners for the work, the event is part of the Lincoln Center 50 years celebration

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CD & DVD partner
EMI Classics is one of the top global classical music recording companies. Its two labels, the London-based EMI Classics and Paris-based Virgin Classics, record exclusively with the finest musicians around the world, including Sir Simon Rattle, Nigel Kennedy, Angela Gheorghiu and Natalie Dessay amongst others, and with distinguished organisations including the Berliner Philharmoniker. The company has an unrivalled catalogue of recordings with international superstars, including Placido Domingo, Kiri te Kanawa, Itzhak Perlman, André Previn, Daniel Barenboim and Riccardo Muti, and the historic recordings of Mstislav Rostropovich, Maria Callas, Victoria de los Angeles, Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jacqueline du Pré, Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Sir Adrian Boult and Sir John Barbirolli, as well as the longest-serving artist in the history of the record industry, the violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin.

Artistic Curator of Pictures Reframed
Laurence Dreyfus is an independent curator based in Paris, specialized in contemporary art and particularly in video art. She originated the project Pictures Reframed by introducing Robin Rhode’s work to Leif Ove Andsnes, which she selected to be part of collective exhibitions since 2004.

Since 1998, she curates exhibitions in several European museums and institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Lyon Biennale, La Maison Rouge (Paris), Museum La Caixa (Barcelona), Parasol Unit Foundation (London). Since 2007, she collaborates to the French magazine L’Officiel de la Mode. www.laurencedreyfus.com

Laurence H Dreyfus, commissaire de Pictures Reframed

Laurence Dreyfus est commissaire d'exposition indépendante basée à Paris, spécialisée en art contemporain et particulièrement en art vidéo. Elle est à l’origine du projet Pictures Reframed en faisant découvrir les oeuvres de Robin Rhode à Leif Ove Andsnes qu’elle programme au sein d’expositions collectives dès 2004.

Depuis 1998, elle organise des expositions dans différents musées et institutions européens tels que le Palais de Tokyo (Paris), la Biennale de Lyon, La Maison Rouge (Paris), le Musée La Caixa (Barcelone), la fondation Parasol Unit (Londres). Elle collabore depuis 2007 au magazine L’Officiel de la Mode. www.laurencedreyfus.com