I am an art critic, which means I spend a lot of time looking — Breidablikk, Stavanger — seeing, watching, gazing, staring, squinting ….; trying to take in what’s really there, in front of my eyes. 30 years ago I went to study architecture for a few years. I drew a lot at this time,…
Tag: architecture
Leaving home
As some of you might remember, I am very interested in the work of the Korean artist Do Ho Suh. Not only is it very beautiful, it also explores themes which I myself spend a lot of time thinking about; it has to do with house & home, space & place – what does it mean…
Enhancing nature
I have to share this wonderful project with you, my friends! In 2002, world-renowned architect Peter Zumthor was commissioned by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration to design a tourist installation in Allmannajuvet, north of Sauda. The construction started in 2009, and just a few days ago the art/architecture installation opened. Allmannajuvet was the site of a…
lost in a field of near copies
individual, and yet each lost in a field of near copies … Ai Weiwei, Stools (2014) © Ai Weiwei individual, and yet each lost in a field of near copies — it could have been a definition of us, mankind, but is in fact a description used about…
entering
As already mentioned, I’m writing a piece on art and motherhood, it’s planned to go into a series of essays, together with a (maybe several) texts on all kinds of aspects connected to the concept of home. Motherhood and home are very connected concepts in my experience of life (maybe they are the same?). (ok,…
the in-between place
There are some rather annoying things going on in the art-world. They have to do with the power of definition. With who is to say what is good and what is bad, what is great and what is minor, who is in and who is out. For a long time we have been told that…
Beautiful Steps
Beautiful steps #4, by the artist duo L/B, belongs to a series featuring different sets of stairs in unusual locations and positions. In Beautiful steps #4 a wide spiral stair case is suspended from the ceiling so that is floats in the air, L/B: Beautiful Steps #4, Exhibition view “Mon île de Montmajour” Abbaye de Montmajour,…
accidental art – sunday research
As roughly sketched elsewhere, I’m interested in trying to understand what it means to feel at home in ones own life. And I am especially interested in studying how the feeling of being at home, feeling home-sick, homeless etc. is voiced in art. Today it dawned on me that the concept of the vernacular might be…
don’t knock down trees!
SPACE HAS A SPIRITUAL EQUIVALENT AND CAN HEAL WHAT IS DIVIDED AND BURDENSOME IN US … SPACE REPRESENT SANITY, NOT A LIFE PURIFIED, DULL, OR “SPACED OUT” BUT ONE THAT MIGHT ACCOMMODATE INTELLIGENTLY ANY IDEA OR SITUATION Gretel Ehrlich nature writing nature art nature architecture: have a look at this
Meandering Narratives
I call his books novels, partly, I think, because I want to claim him for fiction, and partly because that seems the most inclusive term for their mélange of fictionalized memoir, travel journals, inventories of natural and man-made curiosities, impressionistic musings on painting, entomology, architecture, military fortifications, riffs on the lives of Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova,…
sub rosa 