2010 January

Hilde Jørgensen @ Visningsrommet USF

Written on January 20, 2010 at 14:51, by maya

Hunter’s Game is an exhibition at Visningsrommet USF until January 24th.
Artist Hilde Jørgensen has also published Hunter´s Game as a book on STYX förlag. To buy it email hiljorg@hotmail.com

Excerpt:

A reality show

Starring
Innocence, SleepingGuilty, MyFather,
GoldenStallion, SilentSavior, Lulu,
NightCleaner, Protec, Captain Puma, Stupid,
SweetAnger, PurplePain, BillBitch, SweetAss
Candy, DreamAngel, Glossy, Lost&Found, the
Greek Coke God, GipsyKing, Sailor,

Most people look like a guy from
NordicFuckingReality with bleached hair. I
hate duplicates, even my own, but sit down at
the Bar. Fake tits, fake dicks. The river is
flowing cursed straight through. Classical
fake tan with blusher. I catch a glimpse of
BillBitch on the other side of the room.
BillBitch owes me money and I am losing myself.
Whispering as I pass you; through the corner of
my mouth; slantingly; Cunt. You are the only
one to hear it, and you give me a bambi blue
look that does not impress me.

Toril Johannessen in NO5 @ Bergen Kunsthall

Written on January 11, 2010 at 18:14, by maya

Transcendental Physics

15. JAN 2010 – 21. FEB 2010

Toril Johannessen opens the spring season in NO.5. In her fascination with nature and the history of science she creates her visual works by way of methodical testing and an analytical attitude to the empirical and theoretical. The aesthetic grows up in a personal interpretation of the documentary where she also draws on metaphorical and mytholo¬gizing elements that are latent in the source material.

The exhibition in NO.5 consists of two works. One is a sculpture, which is absolutely the largest object one can possibly get into the gallery space in one piece, and thus circumscribes the volume and architectural framework of the exhibition. Unlike a ship in a bottle it is not hidden tricks that make the arrangement possible, but primarily a mapping of the physical conditions.

The second work is concerned with hypothetical points of contact between the German scientist Johan Zöllner (1834-1882) and the Canadian/US visual artist Agnes Martin (1912-2004). Inspired by the latter’s geometrical motifs, Johannessen plays on Zöllner’s discovery that parallel lines appear to be tilted when they are intersected by shorter lines at a particular angle (“Zöllner’s illusion”). A further meaning of the work can be read out of the fact that both Zöllner and Martin, through their methodical, scientific investigations, have explored various spiritual dimensions