“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson In the coming week I’m off to Denmark to see several exhibitions, and review a few of them. I will go to Louisiana at Sjælland (Zealand) (a favorite museum of mine) to see Peter Doig. There is also…
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Pictures Like Poems
I have this ongoing project of picturing my everyday at AN IMAGE A DAY. If I was a genius my pictures might have looked a bit more like the once Jeff Wall are making. Watch this: Jeff Wall | Louisiana Channel. Jeff Wall A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993
in print
Ved å la det grusomme og det vakre gå hånd i hånd, setter Richard Mosse betrakterens etikk og moral på prøve. REVIEW – IN NORWEGIAN
In situ
It is impossible to give a precise recollection of Richard Mosse’s work The Enclave, it is a 6 channel video installation with a brilliant sound track by Ben Frost. Here are just some quick snapshots to give you an impression: Such a strange universe; due to his choice of film & filter the chlorophyll green gets…
Heart of Darkness – the Pink Version
My first ekphrastic text will be on Richard Mosse’s The Enclave. I went to see the exhibition in Amsterdam a year ago, tomorrow I will go to Copenhagen to see it again – The Enclave is now on show at Louisiana in Humlebæk. I will start my journey into Mosse’s work by first writing a review…
if I was an artist –
– I would definitively go to the Arctic: Swirling winds of diamond dust, rainbow refractions everywhere, deep sounds emanating from under the ice, the physical presence of light … Still from Guido van der Werve’s film work Nummer Acht: Everything is going to be alright (2007). A first step in the right direction might be to…
HALF-A-WIND SHOW
Yesterday I went to Denmark to see Yoko Ono’s: HALF-A-WIND SHOW at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition was great, but Ono isn’t really about exhibited things and objects, her art is about relations, about the meeting between you – the viewer & her ideas and instructions. So in many ways the exhibition could be understood as…
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