Sand storm; Artist Vebjorn Sand has made heat in Norway with sharp words, outrageous plans and fascinating paintings of Antarctica that arrive in Minneapolis today.(VARIETY)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | January 22, 1999| | Copyright

1/3 When Norwegian artist Vebjorn Sand, 32, declared on a television talk show that professors at Norway's national academy of art "can't draw a hand," he set off a furious public debate in his homeland. The academy, a bastion of modernist abstraction, was overhauled and new professors hired to teach traditional techniques.

Sand's own landscape paintings of Antarctica - and his plans to build the "Golden Horn bridge," an unrealized 1502 design by Leonardo da Vinci - have further enhanced his Norwegian notoriety.

Today Sand's ambitious and unconventional ...

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