Cathrine Gilje: «Konstellasjoner»
Ruth Elisiv Ekeland : «Wild Flowers, Coastlines and Kisses»
Trond Hugo Haugen: «Det er fritt frem å forkaste det og erstatte det med noe annet»
18.10.-18.12.12
Galleri Gann, Sandnes
Drawings, paintings and collage in a triple exhibition
Galleri Gann offers the possibility to see the works of three quite different artists at the same time. They all are based on memories, some are very concrete, some are starting to fade, and some are abstract.
Cathrine Gilje: «Konstellasjoner»
Cathrine Gilje uses old family photographs and draws on the basis of these. The poses, the hairstyles and the setting is there, but crucial elements are fading. The persons have no faces. This is like some kind of visualisation of amnesia, you remember unimportant details but forget the important ones, the faces. This is compensated by adding other features that you remember, like patterns, animals, objects. But this only strenghten the feeling that something is missing.
Ruth Elisiv Ekeland : «Wild Flowers, Coastlines and Kisses»
Abstract paintings of both strict geometrical and more freefloating shapes. The paintings are absolutely abstract, but the titles add meaning and content to the paintings. Titles like "coastal landscape", "some flowers", "kiss", "summer in Oslo", change the way we look at the paintings.
Trond Hugo Haugen: «Det er fritt frem å forkaste det og erstatte det med noe annet»
Selvransakende samtale
On a long line of collages, including all prime ministers during the
lifespan of the artist and some graphical visualisations of more or less
explained phenomenons. Could a life be summed up by a list of prime
ministers and graphs? How much impact have these had on the life of the
artist? Or are these merely tags used to systemize a long period of time
containing so many impressions?
This is the World Wide Well Economic Annual Closing Conference on
Development + Det er fritt fram å forkaste det og erstatte det med noe
annet
The colorful painting is teeming with elements from cartoons, a surfing
pig, a dead bird and cloned horseheads in a yellow polluted sea among
industrial mountaintop. Are these the contributors or the victims of
the conference in the title?
Det er fritt fram å forkaste det og erstatte det med noe annet
Strong symbols of Norwegian culture and economy are painted in black on grey. Is it really that easy to remove those symbols and replace them with something else, as the title proposes? If you take away the oil based economy, the nature, the Norwegian culture, what will you replace it with? You can choose to replace these features for yourself, though, by moving to another country.
