SMEUÏG / FYLDIG TØRR / DROOG

Jenny Wilson's (1982, GB) and Erlend Larsen's (1975, NO) duo exhibition "SMEUÏG / FYLDIG TØRR / DROOG" (RICH / DRY) gives a chance to see how contrasts give dynamism. Seeing one after the other Wilson's dense, rich, liquidlike abstractions (make us as we could almost go inside a colourful calchedony) and Larsen's sensitive lines and writing-drawing pictures on dry surfaces can give us a sensation of moving inside-outside same as life pulses. If not enough dynamism Larsen shows an other side of his art. His Playmate broideries give a special piquantery to the exhibition.

Jenny Wilson

Erlend Larsen

Ready for the opening

Explaining dynamic

Conversations DRY/RICH

Feeling good

More conversations

Erlend Larsen with his Playmate broderies

J.W.: 'Painting is a way seeking a Liquid Visual Order'

 E.L.: 'Start from nothing, continue and do it good'

See you at arteriet!

MYE=MER 

Group exhibition

opening 14.02.2014

Anne Kathrine Solbakken, Claire Smith, Irene Myran, Johan Otto Weisser, Machteld van Buren

Michael Rieu, Nar Jensen, TheMoen. 

Eight very different artists but still have something in common.

They do not take themselves severely serious although they are seeking after answers for essential questions in life. Playfulness, gags, exaggeration, the importance of patterns, striking colours but used in very personal ways. 

MUCH(MANY) is MORE.

Encounter in front of Machteld van Buren’s Lassie. 

MANY curious visitors.

TheMoen was staying at the back the whole time but his work stands out.

Conversation with Nar Jensen at one is his works.

Detail of Nar Jensen’s painting.

MUCH to say about the MANY.

Anne Kathrine Solbakken’s complex drawing claims a closer look.

Impressed by Irene Myran’s textil work.

Detail of Johan Otto Weisser's work.

Johan Otto Weisser interpreting his flowers.

Michael Rieu’s figures.

MUCH to talk, MUCH to share. 

Detail of Claire Smith's painting.

Something is happening at Claire Smith’s painting.

Beautiful detail of Machteld van Buren’s painting.

The exhibition is open til 12th April 2014.

Michael Rieu Solo

Michael Rieu Solo

Sculptor and painter. Rarely talented in both. An artist from the Netherlands who loves hard stones but treates them with soft senses. 

A voyager who workes in different countries and is always on the move.

His heads always make you reflect.

Playfulness, curiosity, bodies and heads in harmony with nature, moving, playing, interacting.

 A nice opening, many curious guests, good atmosphere.

Close to nature. Wood sculpture and poetic, organic bodies.

                           The well-known and unique "Rieu-head" on sculpture and painting.

 Heads on table. Marble, granite, larvikitt, quartzite.

Sigrid Thorbjørnsen Solo

First serie of Washi prints is being scrutinised by the visitors. These prints are from a one month stay in Vadsø by the artist. She consecutively left for Tokyo to make the first serie of Washi prints. These came out, after several days of testdriving the poor printer.

Being dependant on  own printingmaterial, the size does matter. Beginning with small prints on heavier Washi paper prepares one for other greater challenges later.

These prints are from the Setesdal serie on Washi paper. Photographed in traditional style family portrait photography, they refer to our typical ideas of national romantic identity.

Artist and gallerist, flower moment.

Meeting an ol' printing-colleague at the opening brings back fond memories. Bit busy in different departments, and both passionate about printing.

Another Washi moment. The thin layers almost make the photographs live their own lives.

Browsing through the Sasakawa foundation material. This foundation made a substantial subsidy towards the artist and her project to explore the Washi paper possibilities combined with the exploration of her relationship with Norwegian culture.

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