Please join Galleri Balder in celebrating the publication of NEON GUIDES ME with multi disciplinary artist Anne Katrine Senstad in conversation with artist and curator Per Hess.
Thursday February 16, 7-8 pm
Galleri Balder
Riddervoldsgt 9
0258 Oslo
Photo by Stella Saarts
Neon is at the core of Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad’s wide ranging work across light and space, sound and synesthesia, aesthetics, form, and perception. Through advanced in-depth research, she has examined spatial, topological, and scientific phenomena of light, sound, and color since the 1990s, a foundation for her explorations in the experiential, the participatory, and the experimental. In the monumental neon sculpture series Elements I-VI (2018-2021) with sound environments composed by JG Thirlwell (Elements IV, V,VI) and Catherine Christer Hennix (Elements III), the artist has transformed space and challenged our awareness of spatial limits, our presence within the infinitesimal and empyrean experience.
Senstad’s neon practice is now presented in book form: NEON GUIDES ME with texts by JG Thirlwell in conversation with Patrick Rolandelli, Catherine Christer Hennix, Andres Kurg. Erik Meling, Dr Aura Seikkula, Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen, Sarah Walko, and Marianne Solberg.
Illustration for ELEMENTS by Anne Katrine Senstad
Book photo by Archive Culture
Anne Katrine Senstad’s multi-disciplinary practice lies at the intersection of installation art, photography, video, neon sculpture, land art, and site specificity, 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 the transformative—the transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practice. Senstad has exhibited widely internationally, including at Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Denmark, Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland (2021), S12 Gallery, Norway (2021), He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2019), Kai Art Center, Tallin (2020), Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, Belgium, (2015), 55th and 56th Venice Biennales (Collaterali Eventi), (respectively 2013 and 2015), Good Children Gallery, New Orleans (2017), and Trafo Kunsthall, Norway (2018).
Per Hess is a Norwegian artist, curator and writer. His neon practice centers on sculpture and performance. His neon installations have been exhibited at the 56th and 57th Venice biennales (collaterali eventi) at Palazzo Bembo, 2013 and Palazzo Mora, 2017. In 2020 his performance work, Neonmeditasjoner, was presented at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Hess curated the first neon exhibition in Norway, Neon, Argon, Krypton, at Bærum Kunsthall, 2018 and the commissioned neon sculpture by Lars Ramber, Brainstorm, for the new Deichman Library in Oslo, 2021. His forthcoming exhibition, In the Light of Neon, opens September 29th, 2023 at the Georgian National Gallery, Tbilisi.
NEON GUIDES ME will be available for purchase at the book launch, and is also available at Tronsmo Bokhandel in Oslo, Palais de Tokyo bookshop in Paris, and Dashwood Books in New York.
Supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Fritt Ord, Arts Council Norway Governmental Artist Grant, Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (BKV) and Fritt Ord.
NEON GUIDES ME – Anne Katrine Senstad
Published by Praun & Guermouche
Printing and Binding: Rotolito S.p.A. / Nava Press S.r.l., Milan, Italy
ISBN 978-91-527-1427-0
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