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Ann-Sofi Sidén is a contemporarty Swedish artist.〔(Press release ) for Sidén's solo show at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden〕 She had a traditional education and started out as a painter. She expanded into other mediums, including video, film, performance and sculpture.〔Lind, I: "Ann-Sofi Sidén" page 23. "Distant Lighthouses", Tango – edicão e design, Ida, 1998, ISBN 972-96966-2-4〕 Sidén's styles and themes do not fit easy categorization.〔Lind, M.: "Ann-Sofi Sidén, Peeping on the Chambermaid" page 121. Flash Art, Summer 1999〕 == The Queen of Mud == Sidén's early works center around a fictional character of her own creation, the "Queen of Mud", or QM. The creature is played by Sidén herself, and is the subject of numerous videos and films made in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The most notable aspects of the character are that she is naked, and covered in mud. In 1989, she walked into NK, an exclusive department store in central Stockholm. The character went to the perfume counter and tested a Chanel perfume before being escorted out of the building by security guards〔Allerholm, M: 1994, "The Violence of Everyday Life", Index nr 3-4/94, page 78〕 The visit made headlines in the Stockholm evening press,〔Larsson, A: "Ann-Sofi stormar naken in på NK" ''Aftonbladet'' 1989, page 22-23〕 and led to an appearance by Sidén on a Swedish TV talk show, ''Ikväll'', hosted by Robert Aschberg.〔Arrhenius, S: 1996, "A Mud Queen as TV Star", Index 1.96, page 75-76〕 QM's public appearances continued in 1992 when she walked through the Stockholm Art Fair. Under the guise of looking for art to take with her on her imminent space travel, she engaged several gallerists in conversation, one of whom assisted in reapplying mud on her body. The QM character played a lead-role in Sidén's 1997 film, QM, I Think I Call Her QM. The QM character has her own museum, ''The QM Museum'' (2004), Sidén's 17-channel mixed media installation. The digital archive that is part of the museum contains over 4,000 articles, consisting of drawings, poems, videos, films, and sculptures that Sidén made about QM during her career.〔Glueck, G: "The Line Between Species Shifts, and a Show Explores the Move", Art Review for 'Becoming Animal' at MASS Moca, ''The New York Times'', August 26, 2005, Arts section〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ann-Sofi Sidén」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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