A Dream of Community
KODE Art Museums and Foreningen Trykkeriet looks forward to marking the centenary of Norske grafikere (the Association of Norwegian Printmakers) with an new exhibition opening on Friday 22 November.
With the title Dr酶mmen om fellesskapet (A Dream of Community), the exhibition will feature works from the collection's of both KODE and Foreningen Trykkeriet (center for contemporary printmaking). Also on show will be three entirely new works by three internationally active artists with close ties to Bergen: Azar Alsharif, Heli Rekula and Thomas Kilpper.
With this presentation we wish to reaffirm the collective aspect of many forms of printmaking and to highlight important social and political currents associated with the medium.
Using the techniques of collage, printmaking and assemblage, Azar Alsharif presents alternatives and new possible readings of the torrent of images that surrounds us, in works that hover between dream landscapes and hyperrealism. Her manipulations often involve removing the text from advertising images so as to leave only the visual element, ambiguous and strange. What emerges is a deeper, more immediate symbolism. At the same time, she breaks down the structures of the representational industry, prompting questions about authenticity, value and subconscious.
In recent years, Heli Rekula has turned to photography, embracing its materiality and its distributive and reproductive potential. In 2014, her book In Hemingway鈥檚 Garden won the Literature Prize of the Finnish Art Society, which described the work as 鈥渃hamber music of fine-art literature鈥�. At KODE she will continue her poetic exploration of the relationship between photography as matrix and materialisation in graphic art.
In a number of projects, Thomas Kilpper has transformed large expanses of floor in public buildings into print matrices. The images are often linked to the political history of the place, and the prints that are pulled, often in the form of banners, have been displayed both within and on the outsides of the buildings. One example is The Ring, created in London in 2000. At KODE, Kilpper presents the wall installation What We Can Learn From You, What You Can Learn From Us, a work that highlights the dynamic between politics and education.
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KODE Art Museums and Foreningen Trykkeriet looks forward to marking the centenary of Norske grafikere (the Association of Norwegian Printmakers) with an new exhibition opening on Friday 22 November.
With the title Dr酶mmen om fellesskapet (A Dream of Community), the exhibition will feature works from the collection's of both KODE and Foreningen Trykkeriet (center for contemporary printmaking). Also on show will be three entirely new works by three internationally active artists with close ties to Bergen: Azar Alsharif, Heli Rekula and Thomas Kilpper.
With this presentation we wish to reaffirm the collective aspect of many forms of printmaking and to highlight important social and political currents associated with the medium.
Using the techniques of collage, printmaking and assemblage, Azar Alsharif presents alternatives and new possible readings of the torrent of images that surrounds us, in works that hover between dream landscapes and hyperrealism. Her manipulations often involve removing the text from advertising images so as to leave only the visual element, ambiguous and strange. What emerges is a deeper, more immediate symbolism. At the same time, she breaks down the structures of the representational industry, prompting questions about authenticity, value and subconscious.
In recent years, Heli Rekula has turned to photography, embracing its materiality and its distributive and reproductive potential. In 2014, her book In Hemingway鈥檚 Garden won the Literature Prize of the Finnish Art Society, which described the work as 鈥渃hamber music of fine-art literature鈥�. At KODE she will continue her poetic exploration of the relationship between photography as matrix and materialisation in graphic art.
In a number of projects, Thomas Kilpper has transformed large expanses of floor in public buildings into print matrices. The images are often linked to the political history of the place, and the prints that are pulled, often in the form of banners, have been displayed both within and on the outsides of the buildings. One example is The Ring, created in London in 2000. At KODE, Kilpper presents the wall installation What We Can Learn From You, What You Can Learn From Us, a work that highlights the dynamic between politics and education.
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