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Norway
Collage, Photo on Paper
Size: 126 W x 102.4 H x 0.4 D in
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Dark Drawn aims at being a powerful statement through the medium of drawing. Through recent decades drawing has fortified its position as a challenging opponent to other media, capable of astounding audiences with untraditional and unexpected manoeuvres. In order to present this to a wider audience, we have attempted to compile a drawing exhibition that combines traditions with contemporaneity. These art works show drawing as neither an academic exercise nor a sketch, but as a complete and definitive artistic statement. In this exhibition, we are introducing six artists from different countries: Australia, Great Britain/Norway, Lithuania, Holland, and Sweden. It presents artists who are loosely connected through their approach to drawing and observation. The works in Dark Drawn are diverse both in their goal and method. However, what characterises Dark Drawn is a connection through a sensuality achieved from the elusive medium of drawing, the spare intimacy of the technique itself, coupled to drawing’s immediacy when reinterpreting the observed. All around us, we find drawing performing vital roles in our everyday life. Christian Rattemeyer wrote in Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013): ‘… we afford drawing a place in the continuum of activities that go almost unnoticed from telephone scribbles… to the ubiquitous children’s drawings…’ This activity extends itself from graffiti to architectural diagrams etc. Yet, fulfilling drawing’s true potential within the realm of contemporary visual art has been a relatively recent achievement. Historically, masterworks or iconic works in drawing have been rare in comparison to painting. Dark Drawn is loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s iconic novel Heart of Darkness (1899; in 1979 Francis Ford Coppola adapted its story for his film Apocalypse Now). Here, surrounding nature that destabilises Marlow’s contact Kurtz, acts as a metaphor for darkness, the potential for melancholia and madness, latent in each of us, ready to reveal itself when circumstance forces itself upon us. Thus, the concept of darkness in the Dark Drawn exhibition relates to a metaphoric and transformative dimension, where the observed world acts as a trigger for artworks to be drawn out from the observer herself rather than as a source for resemblance. This exhibition will be supervised by our guides, who will gladly present the works and the church in which the latter are exhibited.
Collage:Photo on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:126 W x 102.4 H x 0.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Ships From:Norway.
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My artistic practice encompasses myths, science and hearsays, and how humans reflect themselves in relation to nature and animals. I use associative, illogical and alluring narratives and their correlations with control, slump and ephemerality. I primarily work with drawing, pyrography, prints, installation and sculpture. Together with Jan Hakon Erichsen I had exhibitions in Svolvær (NO), Tromsø (NO), Copenhagen (DK), Molde (NO) and Trondheim (NO). These shows are part of a series of installations made up by site-specific works, sculptures, photos and videos. The dream of returning to primary values and the frustration in the impossibility within that wish, will set the backdrop for the aggressive works. The large wall piece Inaugura was made in October 2011 at HarborArts Boston Shipyard Gallery. The artwork, wooden reliefs, connects the 19th century scientific drawings of Ernst Haeckel with a composition referring to the structure of a cross section of the human eye. In 2010 I took part in the group show Taking Down Heaven at the fantastic Alma Löv Museum in the Swedish countryside. My work there had its starting point in a bastardous offbreed from the Norse mythological horse Sleipnir. Since the installation was in a glass house, plants and flowers grew up there during the summer. Previous shows include Nordnorsk kunstnersenter (NO), Värmlands museum (SE), SP Gallery, Stockholm (SE), 3rd Beijing International Art Biennale (CH), Sweet Punch: Recent Nordic Video (NZ) and ARS 06 at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (FI).
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