Saturday, January 20, 2024

On Light, Sound and the Experimental - with Anne Katrine Senstad and Jerry Therio

Good Children Gallery is pleased to present a conversation on Light, Sound, and the Experimental, with artist Anne Katrine Senstad and Jerry Therio of New Orleans Neon and the New Orleans Neon Art Museum, on the occasion of Senstad's solo exhibition Mal Educación, curated by Christopher Saucedo.




New Orleans native Jerry Therio is a legendary neon artist, innovator and neon collector who has collected, restored and designed neon since 1978. He uses neon, new and vintage, as a medium for fine art, in full scale art installations and gallery exhibitions that have earned critical acclaim. Therio has produced neon for theatre, performance, and numerous movie sets filmed in New Orleans. He has created neon for New Orleans Carnival Krewes’ floats, such as Endymion, Bacchus, and Orpheus, as well as improvisational site specific neon installations for public art, and “Neon Sound Performances” in collaboration with jazz musicians and groups such as Sun Ra Arkestra and Kool and the Gang.

Anne Katrine Senstad is a Norwegian interdisciplinary artist based between New York and Oslo. Her practice includes installation art, spatial light sculpture and site specificity, photography, video and film, and text based art, with a focus on the phenomena of perception and the cognitive system in response to the properties of light, sound, and color. She is concerned with sensorial aesthetics and ethics - the transformative and transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practice. Mal Educación is the second solo exhibition by Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad at Good Children Gallery as part of her ongoing research project, Capitalism in the Public Realm. The exhibition explores the intersection between light and text to address critical subjects of ethics, agency, citizenry, and allegory.


Supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway

Special thanks to Ty Provosty, Ali Duffey and Generic Art Solutions


GOOD CHILDREN GALLERY
LA 70117
4037 St Claude Avenue
New Orleans
,www.goodchildrengallery.com



Tuesday, January 16, 2024

NEON GUIDES ME news 2024

We are pleased to announce that NEON GUIDES ME is now represented in the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt, and Bodleian Libraries at Oxford in the UK


Order NEON GUIDES ME here: BOOK Order form link 


















Special thanks to Norwegian Ambassador to Cairo Hilde Klemetsdahl for presenting NEON GUIDES ME to the Library of Alexandria's permanent collection

KONSTELLASJONER

BUER GALLERY

Oslo, Norway


KONSTELLASJONER

November 30 - December 22, 2023


Årets siste utstilling, Konstellasjoner (Noël), er en kollektiv presentasjon av en gruppe kunstnere som på hver sin måte evner å berøre, og begeistre. Gjennom ulike medier som maleri, fotografi og neon, evner de å male med lys, slippe det inn på gløtt og i strimer på forunderlig, og forlokkende vis. De forvandler sorg og ensomhet til poesi og skjønnhet. Lyset som kraft, energi og kjærtegn, profant og kanskje litt sakralt, er en gylden tråd som binder utstillingen sammen i en dialog mellom verk og mellom verk og visningsrom. På samme måte er fargen et vakkert fundamet; i usynlige overganger, todelte kontraster, stablet på hverandre, i lag på lag, eller i biter av mosaikk. 

Den tradisjonellle julefeiringen handler gjerne om å ta frem det gildeste av alt; duker, dekktøy, levende lys, klær og gaver. Konstellasjoner (Noël) er feiring av lys og varme, med rom for refleksjon og ettertanke, et møte mellom kunst og publikum, der de fineste verk henger på vegg og skulpturer er varsom plassert på sokler.

Mørketiden vekker lengsler om lys, hvor lyset blir et symbol på bedre tider. Snart snur solen, la oss håpe på mer lys på den andre siden av vår lille verden også


Jo Bentdal -  Nils Olav Bøe - Anja Carr -Crispin Gurholt - Katinka Goldberg - Mattias Härenstam - Per Hess - Christian Houge - Hennie Ann Isdahl - Julius Karoubi - Turid Mathiesen Kvålsvoll - Per Maning - Marit Roland - Anne Katrine Senstad - Edith Spira - Ingeborg Stana - Johan Söderström - KC Tidemand - Geir Yttervik - Morten Viskum










SKOG ART SPACE - NORWAY


SKOG Art Space is not a gallery, not a studio, 

not a collection, but something unique in between. 

SKOG means FOREST in Norwegian.



The Winter Exhibition 2023

December 8 2023 - January 13, 2024


The Winter Exhibition at SKOG, presents 

six artists, each with a distinct and clear 

sense of expression. The artists are in different 

phases of their artistic practice, ranging 

from an art student to established artists. 

However, they all have in common a clear

sense of composition with a unified thematic 

concern with the human form, cognition 

and expression. Through media such as 

sculpture, painting, collage, photography 

and printmaking, the exhibition shows 

a narrative exploration of themes as 

body, memory, materiality and perception.


Mari Eriksen

Sofie Brønner

Iver Lennartson Noem

Eirik Stensrud

Anne Katrine Senstad

Vanessa Valero





SKOG ART SPACE

Schweigaardsgate 94,  

0656 Oslo, Norway

SKOGART.ORG 

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

MAL EDUCACIÓN - Good Children Gallery, New Orleans

 






















Mal Educación illustration by Carlos Baragli and Anne Katrine Senstad after Albert Holenstein, 2023







GOOD CHILDREN GALLERY

4037 St Claude Avenue

New Orleans, LA 70117

www.goodchildrengallery.com




MAL

EDUCACIÓN

Anne Katrine Senstad

 

 

 

Curated by Christopher Saucedo

 

 

 

November 11 – December 3, 2023

 

Opening reception November 11, 6-9 pm








Annihilation of the question compels praxis

Theodor Adorno, 1931

 

 

Capitalism is a religion that recognizes neither truce nor redemption

Walter Benjamin, 1921







Mal Educación is the second solo exhibition by Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad at Good Children Gallery as part of her ongoing research project, Capitalism in the Public Realm. The exhibition explores the intersection between light and text to address critical subjects of ethics, agency, citizenry, and allegory. 

 

Playing on the novelty of language, Mal Educación presents a sublime critique of capitalism and our contemporary crises through text-based works in Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Russian and Spanish. Here, Senstad invokes the aesthetic value systems of various languages in deconstructing the expression La Mala Educación. In effect Senstad interprets Wittgenstein’s language game and word-meaning, whereby language is defined by the actions into which it is woven. The exhibition title is drawn from Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar's 2004 film, Bad Education, which portrays how institutions of power oppress the disenfranchised and marginalized.

 

Inspired by Almodóvar's acuity, Senstad’s text works are intended to motivate ethical considerations of the moral zeitgeist. They examine the alterations of our value systems wrought by financial greed and corporate power. Senstad’s work compels place in a consumerist society – as well as how to resuscitate a shared humanity in the spectre of war and posthumanism. Through light and color, art can open the discourse on the hidden value systems underlying society and the culture at large.

 

For the center-piece of the exhibition, Senstad returns to a poetic evocation of ethics that her work has explored in the past, Gold Guides Me — a neon text work in Arabic calligraphy transliterated in the artist's handwriting. Those familiar with Senstad’s oeuvre will identify the reference to her monumental work commissioned by the Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale in Belgium in 2015 where said phrase was presented in latin alphabet letters scaled after the Hollywood sign. Gold Guides Me capitalizes on the phrase, Hope Guides Me from the 6th century poet and statesman Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy — a valediction for Lady Philosophy of life’s vagaries and vicissitudes as conjured by the author while imprisoned and awaiting execution. In exchanging “Hope” with “Gold” Senstad’s wordplay invokes the ontological forces underlying institutions of power, oppression, and greed.


Consistent with this narrative, Senstad’s text-based video installation, Money Above All – Russian Version (2022) by the artist’s holding company-as-art-work, GGM Holdings, is part of her activistic web project issuing not-for-sale NFTs of corporate-military aesthetics and text-based art that critique the current era’s war climate and the arms industry. With the diptych text piece Liquid Assets in Chinese and English (2020-2023) in dialogue with the static neon sculpture Ascension/Descension Graph X, (2023), Senstad addresses the notion of a human being’s intrinsic value in the context of financial and corporate scaling systems. Further, the sculptural abstraction Portal for Perpetuity VII, (2023) intimates nature's perpetual cycle of regeneration and how mankind’s present grappling with notions of scarcity and of infinity through scientific progress and technological innovations continue to advance the human enterprise.

 

And as the ideological debates of said human enterprise continue into the twenty-first century, as alternative value systems are posited in response to class divisions wrought by an acceleration of the Anthropocene, Senstad returns to Marx with IST-MARX MARX-IST, (2023), a play on the German word “ist” invoking Shakespeare’s famous line from Hamlet, (Act 3, Scene 1) — ”To be or not to be” —to elucidate the famous ideologues’ impact on today’s existential struggle between freedom, human rights and civil rights.


Senstad’s ongoing research project Capitalism in the Public Realm is presented in depth on the platform Capitalism in the Public Realm in dialogue with the exhibition.














The exhibition is supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway







Anne Katrine Senstad is a Norwegian interdisciplinary artist based between New York and Oslo. Her practice includes installation art, spatial light sculpture and site specificity, photography, video and film, - and text based art, with a focus on the phenomena of perception and the cognitive system in response to the properties of light, sound, and color. She is concerned with sensorial aesthetics and ethics - the transformative and transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practice. Senstad has exhibited widely internationally, including Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Denmark (2023), Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland (2021), S12 Gallery, Norway (2021), Kai Art Center, Estonia (2020), Freight & Volume Gallery, New York (2020), He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2019), Good Children Gallery, New Orleans (2017, 2023), Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, Belgium, (2015), 55th and 56th Venice Biennales (Collaterali Eventi), (respectively 2013 and 2015). She is the recipient of numerous artist grants including The Norwegian Governmental Grant for Artists, Arts Council Norway, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Association of Visual Artists, Norway, Fritt Ord, Norway, Rauschenberg Foundation Emergency Grant, New York, Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, New York. A monograph on her monumental light sculpture practice, Neon Guides Me was published by Praun & Guermouche in 2022, marking her third artist book. Senstad is a member of Association of Visual Artists, Norway and The Film-makers Cooperative, New York.
























Liquid Assets - Chinese Version, 2023 by Anne Katrine Senstad























Portal for Perpetuity VII, 2023 by Anne Katrine Senstad



Wednesday, August 9, 2023

KYSTEN Troms Fylkeskultursenter Artist Residency Norway

RADICAL LIGHT performance in the Arctic





Artist Residency production 2023 

Performance/Video Production in the Arctic - A Re-Engagement of RADICAL LIGHT within its origin: 

A new collaborative work was created during my artist residency at KYSTEN - Troms Fylkeskultursenter in Tromsø, Norway, 2023 located in the arctic north, over 300 kilometres (190 mi) north of the Arctic Circle at 69°40′58″N 18°56′34″E  - The reinterpretation of the original performance with Marita Isobel Solbergon the nature of infinite light in the northern hemisphere, its essence and resonance on the human system that also served as an inclusion for my experimental documentary film project Radical Light Film. Solberg's performance is also a revisit to our intertwining paths since 2007, and resurrection of Solberg's performance Joiking Light, in my monumental light sculpture installation RADICAL LIGHT, at Kai Art Center, on the perceptual and cognitive processes of space, light, sound and our relationship with the interconnected being, where presence within an artwork and through the performative transmission of art is a dedication of ones energy to the human and universal organism.  









RADICAL LIGHT Film is an experimental documentary film on my light and space practice in collaboration with film makers Jean Sonderand and Nick Tyson, and includes artistic collaborations with acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell, Sami elder dr Ande Somby, and performance artist Marita Isobel Solberg.

Marita Isobel Solberg has previously created performance work for my monumental spatial neon sculpture installation Radical Light at Kai Art Center in Tallinn, Estonia, January 20 - April 20, 2020 9extended to July due to the pandemic), with sound by acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell entitled Joiking Light. We were both part of Nordic Delights festival in Soho, London in 2018, curated by Vassiliki Tzanakou. Marita is also included in my book The Norwegians Volume II, published in 2010, with texts by Kjetil Røed and Malin Barth. Special thanks to Trond Ansten of Bar du Nord for technical film support (Sol & Sten).   


 






Tuesday, April 18, 2023

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall - Jamestown Arts Center

 



























Following views: Tower of Babel no 20, 2023
by Anne Katrine Senstad
Medum: Plexiglas, transparent mirrors, Brass-hinges
Located on the exterior of Jamestown Art Center in dialogue with Towers of Babel no 01, 02, 07, 2020, located within the exhibition. 



























































Tower of Babel no 20, 2023 - as part of the exhibition A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall - An Intersection of Art and Science - Curated by Lara Pan - Jamestown Art Center- April 21 - June 15, 2023. Sculpture as time indicator and color interaction in the public realm.
Babel no 20 is a new piece in the Tower of Babel series, started in 2020 - as part of my project How We Live Together started in 2018 consisting of a 4 film series in collaboration with acclaimed actor Bill Sage (Utpia, Monosis, Marginalities and , Xeniteia), the Towers of Babel sculpture series, sculpture-text works on capitalism and societal theory by French philosopher Roland Barthes on societal criticism, oppression and contemplations on ideorrhythmic living formats, as well as drawing on symbolism and psychology of The Tower of Babel narration, and Vladimir Tatlin's never-realized utopic-futuristic tower: Project for the Monument to the Third International, 1919-20. 

This work is larger scale, almost double size, than the first multichromatic semi transparent fluorescent towers in the Babel series, and placed on the exterior platform space of Jamestown Art Center, in dialogue with the sun acting as sundial, or vessel harnessing natural light, the public sphere, weather, time and environment.
Medium: acrylics, utilitarian brass doorhinges, brass screws, washers, nuts and bolts.
As part of the exhibition A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall, curated by Lara Pan at Jamestown Art Center with exhibiting artists: Rafael Attias (Rhode Island), Mathew Emmett (United Kingdom), Carla Gannis (New York), Anita Glesta (Australia, New York), David Nez (Oregon), Olivier Perriquet (France), Anne Katrine Senstad (Norway, New York), Otavio Schipper (Brazil) Saša Spačal (Slovenia), Hana Usui (Japan, Austria), and Vargas-Suarez Universal (Kyrgyzstan, New York)


Towers of Babel no 01, 02, 07, 2020. Installation view, Jamestown Art Center. As part of the exhibition A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, curated by Lara Pan.