2010 May

Toril Johannessen at LAUTOM Contemporary

Written on May 20, 2010 at 15:37, by maya

LAUTOM invites you to the opening of its new exhibition with
Chris Cornish, Kristin Nordhøy and Toril Johannessen.
Thursday 20th of May at 7 PM. The exhibition ends on the 13th of June.

LAUTOM is proud to present an exhibition with Chris Cornish, Kristin Nordhøy and Toril Johannessen, three artists who through detailed process, each in their own way insist on small elements in order to tell a larger story.

Chris Cornish often works with virtual spaces or sites that exist by virtue of its function or exclusively for the activities taking place there, and is considered to have little or no intrinsic value. Cornish has 3D scanned the walls of the gallery and from this material made photographs, which, instead of reproducing color and surface, depicts irregularities in the walls, traces of past screw holes and polyfilled and sanded areas. The images are then digitally given color and light, so that they appear to be photographs of the walls. But if you look closer you can see that the images have a digital quality over them, unlike normal photographs. In the sculpture The Zone, 2008-10, Cornish has reproduced parts of the landscape through which the characters navigate in the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker. Computer software is used to analyze a clip from the film resulting in a form that is an accurate but digitally simplified representation of the landscape.

Kristin Nordhøy has meticulously covered one end wall with a dense grid of fine masking tape before painting over it and removing the masking tape. The result is a wall painting that changes character depending on the distance from the work one stands. Nordhøy has made a series of wall works with masking tape, or foil on window. In this work, she removes the masking tape and lets the white shadows of the tape explain the process that is at the heart of the work.

Toril Johannessen is interested in how science, art and academia relate to the broader public and our understanding of what’s going on in these specific and somewhat inaccessible fields. In this show at Lautom she addresses the quantitative use of selected words throughout the history of various academic journals. Johannessen attempts with this study in a dry but humorous way to see how, or if, history is reflected in language and in the use of particular words like logic, love, expansion, hope and reality.

Chris Cornish (1979, UK) has an MA in fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He works with video, photography and sculpture. In 2007, Cornish participated in the I Am Future Melancholic at Tate Modern in London and the fall of 2009 he took part in the exhibition Projection at Musée Carré d’Art in Nimes, France. Cornish lives and works in London, UK.

Kristin Nordhøy (1977, NO) has her Master from the Arts and Crafts School in Oslo. In 2009 she participated in the group shows Drawing Consequences at Akershus Kunstnersenter, Tempo Skien, curated by Jan Christensen and in Norwegian Summer at Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam. In the upcoming year, she will have two solo exhibitions in Oslo, at Tegneforbundet and LAUTOM. Nordhøy lives and works in Oslo.

Toril Johannessen (1978, NO) holds a Masters degree from Bergen National Academy of the Arts. In January this year she had a solo exhibition at No5 in Bergen Kunsthall. Toril Johannessen recently returned from a residency in Vancouver, Canada. She lives and works in Bergen.

LAUTOM Contemporary
Collettsgate 6
0169 Oslo

Opening hours:
Wednesday-Friday: 12-17
Saturday-Sunday: 12-16
Or by appointment
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays and between exhibitions

Flaggfabrikken Presenterer in Greenland!!

Written on May 12, 2010 at 17:22, by maya

Flaggfabrikken Presenterer is currently arranging a study trip in Ilulissat, Greenland that will result in an one-night art event in the Kulturhuset Sermermiut on Saturday May 15th, 20:00. Participating artists are: Heidi Mortenson (DK), Maiju Salmenkivi (FIN), Ingrid Askeland (NO), Georg Olsen (GL), and Doris Frohnapfel (DE).

The event is part of the series Nordic Art Express with support from Kulturkontakt Nord, Norsk Kulturråd and Bergen Kommune.

Flaggfabrikken´s Artist in Residency May – June 2010: Lindsay Foster (Seattle/US)

Written on May 6, 2010 at 07:38, by maya

We are happy to welcome Lindsay Foster for the next two months!

Lindsay Foster was born in Seattle, Washington in 1980 and is currently based in Seattle and Los Angeles.

Learn more at www.lindsayfoster.com

A Downward Ascension (Ode to the Flâneur) _ from lindsay foster on Vimeo.