Monday, June 27, 2011

Installation views from Is Her Name Red? at Stiftelsen 3,14






From the exhibition Is Her Name Red? at Stiftelsen 3,14 in Bergen, Norway
June 25th - August 14th 2011. 
Curated by Malin Barth, Director Stiftelsen 3,14.

Gallery view 1 of the video trilogy installation Colour Kinesthesia and Colour Synesthesia Variation I and II, 2010-2011. 

Music by J G Thirlwell. Technical support Benny Mouthon and Manuel Sander.






Gallery Installation view 3 of slide show of The Norwegians - Women, 2009  (no sound) and Gallery entrance showing 2 photographic pieces from The Norwegians - Women







Gallery installation view 3 : From the lens based series The Pink Project, 2004-07









Thursday, June 16, 2011

Is Her Name Red? Opening Reception June 24th - Stiftelsen 3,14 Bergen, Norway





Exhibition Catalogue Essay by Malin Barth, Director 3,14

It is very exiting to present the world of artist Anne Katrine Senstad. Her exhibition provides an extensively glimpse into her visual universe and all it has to offer. She represent the very new generation of self exiled Norwegian artists who is settled in New York - for this group of artists it has become true nature to work internationally. Only within the last couple of years alone she has exhibited in numerous institutions and galleries across 3 continents. She still keeps Norway close at heart in her artistic exploration and as a starting point from where to draw inspiration for investigation of contemporary notions of identity. The motives are endorsed with expectations and contradictions, as well as contrasts and transitions. The work introduces ambiguity on one hand, and intrigue on the other.

Senstad holds a unique ability to work across artistic styles and media. She moves freely between photography, video, and installation. For her solo exhibition at 3,14 we present three distinct strains of work that share a concern with the photographic portrait as well as abstract light and color recordings. Each work provides viewers with clues about an expansive scenario, but reveals nothing conclusively. The combination and placing of works making us study the impact of both the figurative as well as the abstract language. She has explored minimalist aesthetic and the possibility of abstract minimalism in photography alongside her other more resonant figurative images which richly drawn from the history of photography. Cross genre collaboration introducing sound as an important aspect also become significant in her recent work.

What creates the link between Senstad´s diverse works in this exhibition might not be apparent. By giving it some time to contemplate the work one might want to unite characteristic elements that add up and summarize markers of individual and cultural identity. Portraiture is recognized and established as revelatory of identity.  A portrait can set forth to articulate an experience of our existence in time and space. What determines us as individuals, at a profound level, is the visible. It is the gaze that is from outside ourselves, and it is through the gaze we enter light and it is from the gaze that we receive our realization. From within we experience light and color as both objective and subjective. Color and light is fundamental visual element and part of defining the human experience. It influences us physically, psychologically, and socially; aspects of determining identity.

For the exhibition at 3,14 - consider Senstad`s work in a context of the force of globalization.

Globalization frequently leads to disorientation for both national and individual identity. Norway has a longstanding tradition characterized by the quest in the historic period of 1814 to 1905 to locate and promote something purely Norwegian--something which Norwegians would like to identify with in order to legitimize an independent Norway. Skiing, combined with healthy sportsmanship and polar re-search became significant and pivotal then, and are still at the core of the identity in the present day as well. Senstad has included facets of this in her photographic portrait series. In The Norwegians, Volume Two,  we are presented with Grete Waitz, the legendary marathon runner and advocate for woman athletes,  Bente Erichsen, The Director of the Nobel Peace Center is featured in her training attire and hiking boots and the Musician Cecilie Hafstad Richards with her daughter in traditional cross country skiing jacket. Portrayed in a typical red anorak is also the explorer Liv Arnesen, who looks like she “is going on a hike”, a deep cultural obsession in Norway. Due to renewed interest and focus on media debates about immigration and national identity as a whole and “what is typically Norwegian” , here locally the codified national traits and activities are receiving increased analytical distance. Norwegians have in the last couple of decades been more frequently brought into contact with people whom they define as different through their own travels, influx in tourism, and entry of immigrants, and are thus brought to reflect on their own identity. They must be able to reflect why they describe themselves as Norwegians. Furthermore, the “shrinking” of the world imposed by globalization seems to lay pressure on their identity as something distinctive. The old and rather familiar is successively being replaced by the new and somewhat alien. It seems to threaten one´s uniqueness. On the other hand, the force from cultural complexity and globalization can play a major part of a modern identity crisis, that simultaneously should be understood as resolutions to dissolution of rigid borders. In Senstad´s abstract minimalist video and photography projects of color and light, she works with one of the most fundamental and essential elements in art. There are several universal meanings and collective unconscious reactions to colors, as well as biological reactions; for example to ensure survival like recognizing the color of ripe food. Today´s multicultural society shares global color significance on a number of things such traffic lighting where red means “stop” and green means “go” etc., but individuals from various cultures assign diverse meanings to color still, despite rapid globalization. Colors obtain symbolism through cultural references in the culture one grew up in, shaping human thought, emotions, and conduct. By looking closer at the color yellow one discovers it signify qualities such as hazards and coward in the West; reliability and strength in Saudi Arabia; royalty in China, while courage and love in Japan; commerce in India; mourning in Mexico and Egypt. Gender, age, class also play a major role in how people react to color on a visceral level, and with which color they associate themselves with. Pink is thought to have a calming effect in Western culture and should be “the” symbolic color of Norwegians, who like to identify themselves with “peace and quiet”. But her name is red.

I wish to express my gratitude and special thanks to the artist, Anne Katrine Senstad, for her enthusiasm in exhibiting with us at 3,14. Thanks to all the effort she has put into making this exhibition a success and supporting the curatorial take on her work. The works in this exhibition represent an in-depth view of her artistic production and the artist´s development in recent years. This exhibition can be seen in relation to a string of recent shows at 3,14 with focus the individual person in our globalized world.

Malin Barth, Director Stiftelsen 3,14


Friday, May 27, 2011

The Colour Kinesthesia Soundtrack





Video Soundtrack: 
Colour Kinesthesia and Colour Synesthesia I and II 

JG Thirlwell's new Manorexia CD entitled Dinoflagellate Blooms, features a remix of the composition Kinesthesia Thirlwell made for my video installation Colour Kinesthesia and Colour Synesthesia Variation I and II, just released on Entopic Ent. The video installation premiered at The Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine in April as part of the exhibition Neurodiversity curated by KJ Baysa and will also be shown at Stiftelsen 3,14 in Bergen, Norway opening June 23 2011 as part of my one person exhibition Is Her name Red? curated by Malin Barth, in Buenos Aires at ThisIsNotAGallery opening Sept 16 2011, a one person exhibition entitled The Infinity of Colour curated by Carlos Baragali, and at Utsikten Kunstsenter, Norway opening Oct 9th 2011 in a one person exhibition entitled Kinesthesia.
Supported by Art Council Norway and Royal Norwegian Embassy Argentina.


http://www.thisisnotagallery.com
http://www.stiftelsen314.com
http://utsiktenkunstsenter.no


Manorexia: Dinoflagellate Blooms
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Listen
Stereo CD and 5.1 DVD
 Dinoflagellate Blooms features eleven compositions composed, produced and performed by JG Thirlwell. The package includes a CD of the album in stereo, and a DVD with the album in glorious, immersive 5.1 surround sound.
The album careens between soft plucked interludes to full blown symphonic frenzy, from musiq concrete nightmares to cinematic mindfields, with a meticulous marriage of samples and live instruments, distressed sounds and mysterious unknown quantities.





Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Locker Plant Projections





The Locker Plant Projections 


A Video by Anne Katrine Senstad

Music by J G Thirlwell
4 Channel surround sound
8.20 min

This video piece part of a site specific projection series of my video-installation piece Colour Kinesthesia. It can be thought of as an auto referential documentation piece.

The Locker Plant is a former butcher and meat packing plant, one of a group of buildings Donald Judd acquired in Marfa, TX - it is now part of The Chinati foundation.



Still images from the video:






Thursday, April 21, 2011

Is Her Name Red? at Stiftelsen 3,14 in Bergen, Norway




Is Her Name Red? at Stiftelsen 3,14  
A One person exhibition - 06/24/11 – 08/14/11 
Curated by Malin Barth - Director, Stiftelsen 3,14
Opening reception June 24


Stiftelsen 3,14
Vaagsallmenningen 12
5014 Bergen, Norway
www.stiftelsen314.com


I will be showing the video installations Colour Kinesthesia and Colour Synesthesia I and II with a 4 channel surround sound composed piece by JG Thirlwell,  Photographic works from The Pink Project and The Norwegians - Women, an installation.




Wednesday, April 20, 2011

PINK GALLERY - PAST AND PRESENT



Pink Gallery 
서울시 서초구 서초동 1460-21, 2층 
Seoul, SuChoKu SuChoDong 1460-21, 2nd Fl, South, Korea 
82-70-8887-6388 

Past and Present - 17~20c Master's drawing and 21c 3 Women Arists 
과거와 현재 - 17~20세기 마스터의 드로잉/판화 와 함께 보는 21세기 여성3인전. 

Artists : 
피카소 Pablo Picasso
샤갈 Marc Chagall
마티스 Henri Matisse
클림트 Gustav Klimt
마네 Édouard Manet
램브란트 Rembrandt
아나 샌스타드 Anne Senstad
그래이스 림 J. Grace Rim
김혜연Hey-Youn Kim

Pink Gallery Hours: 7 days a week (월요일 부터 일요일) 11am - 6pm
infopinkgallery@gmail.com
Phone 82.70. 8887.638

Dates : 05/24 – 07/24 2011